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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 4d

You are right, your not wrong 😁 as my Dad used to say ❤️ ours are called Jack and Stella and hit the spot everytime ☺️ hugs back at you xxcx

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 4d

It is #worldmentalhealthday today (we'd argue that's every day).

We love you all very much so this is for you...

a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug

Alt: a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug

media.tenor.com

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely need hugs and a big one for @portlandmuseum.bsky.social where we have had to have many closed days due to our one staff member and a lot of volunteers succumb to Covid 😥 we have deployed our secret weapons We will be back!

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 6d

As the once manager of a historic former flour mill, I’m always drawn to places where the tradition still thrives. One such gem is Worsbrough Mill near Barnsley, a working watermill on the River Dove producing premium organic flours. Milling here goes back to Norman times. The

The Worsbrough historic flour Mill complex of buildings.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 17d

The Dentalux toothbrush shown here and found last week is from the cargo ship Wec Van Eyck, which lost a container of Lidl goods bound for Spain in Feb 22. Many years ago, a friend found 100s of unused toothbrushes washed up. He told us he had a lifetime's supply for his family.

Unused dentalux toothbrush from a cargo spill pictured among an array of brightly coloured plastic objects picked up from the beach

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 11d

Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 13d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 16d

Used to be called Shedworth untill 2012 😉

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 17d

Escaping back into the Iron Age @butserancientfarm.co.uk

A day spent investigating roundhouses and pondering mosaics with @curious-bronwen.bsky.social @tessmachling.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social @experimentalkearns.bsky.social 😊👍

#Archaeology

Archaeologists Assemble (in the doorway of an Iron Age house)

A recreation of an thatched roof, daub wall Iron Age roundhouse

Two archaeologists ponder a recreation Roman mosaic

Archaeologists Assemble outside a Roman villa

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 17d

Snap 😊

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 19d

...aaaand Richard Tice, from a party with five MPs, is on BBC Question Time for the fourth time in less than 18 months. The Greens? Don't be silly...

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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 21d

Here's happy team shot with carved stone. #Priorwood Garden @n-t-s.bsky.social

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 25d

"The IEA estimates that datacentres’ total electricity consumption could double from 2022 levels to 1K TWh in 2026, approximately Japan’s level of electricity demand"

What little progress we make to stem the tide of climate change is being squandered on AI. The whole enterprise should be dismantled

Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 25d

Apropos of universities jumping on the AI bandwagon. Are we not supposed to be, you know, trying to come back from the brink of extinction? Rather than increasing emissions by 50%? FIFTY per cent? Delusional.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green

Increase influenced by datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan’s

www.theguardian.com

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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 25d

Find of the dig so far! Fantastic medieval carved boss from ribbed vaulting of Melrose Abbey. What a cracker! #Priorwood Garden @n-t-s.bsky.social

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · Sep 12

The meanest two archaeologists in Norwich tonight.
If anyone comes into this pub shouting about reused ship’s timbers or what the Romans did for us, they’re going to GET SOME.
@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social
#NotHavingIt

Duncan Mackay and James Wright sitting in a pub looking hard.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Sep 13

Start your day the Iron Age way*

(*In a pit full of animal body parts)

History Makers @historymakers.bsky.social · Jul 23

At www.history-makers.com we share our research chats as we think members should have access to all the fascinating stuff we find out. Here’s Dr Miles Russell talking about some deeply mysterious Iron Age animal burials. Join us! #ironagebritain #ironage #archaeology

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · Sep 13

Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.

Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · Sep 12

🚨 IOF plans to bomb the archaeological magasins of @ebafjerusalem.bsky.social!
Huge respect for + immense solidarity w all the 🇵🇸 colleagues risking their lives on the daily to save what remains of their archaeological heritage from 🇮🇱 rampage & theft www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Archaeologists scramble to evacuate Gaza artefacts threatened by Israeli strike

Officials hurriedly remove nearly three decades of finds in ‘high-risk operation’

www.theguardian.com

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah 🥳

Here's Hollingbury Camp, a wonderful univallate Early Iron Age subsquare hillfort at the NE edge of Brighton East #Sussex

Aerial 📷 © 1948 K-D100 from the excellent CUCAP archive @camdiglib.bsky.social

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...

The rampart and ditch of an Iron Age hillfort, rampart worn down to the chalk by visitors, from the air. The interior of the hillfort is partially covered with gorse, the exterior by trees to the lower left and the bunkers and green of a golf course

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · Sep 9

Went down with covid last week I got tests and did one as soon as I felt unwell. I have stayed off work and as I am feeling a bit better am working from home. I have colleagues who have health issues so didnt want to spread it. Mad that gov site says to go into work if you feel OK!

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Aug 26

Glass furnace alert! 🔥🍷

We did it! We finished building our glass furnace @butserancientfarm.co.uk!! And what a handsome creature it is too. 😍 We can't wait to fire it...

In other news, if anyone has a *normal* curator and would like to swap, please DM us.

A big clay Roman style glass furnace, viewed form the side. You can see a stoke hole on the left, chimney on top and glory hole and shelf in the side.

A big clay Roman style glass furnace. on the left is an annealing oven. The chmney is on topand in the side is a gathering hole and tool-warming port. On the right you can see the stoke hole

A clay Roman style glass furnace, viewed looking down the stoke hole. Some boots are arranged in the stoke hole so that it appears that someones legs are sticking out of it. An itiot is crouched behind the furnace so that it looks like his head is poking out of the chimney.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · Aug 22

I remember when I were a lad, the Neolithic was peopled by peaceful hippies who grew crops, erected stones, and were generally nice to each other. Well not any more, sunshine 😁

Archaeologists Discover 6,000 Year Old "Victory Pits" That Featured Mass Graves, Severed Limbs, and Torture

Ancient times weren't peaceful by any means.

www.zmescience.com

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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · Aug 23

Busy day on site for our open day at Crarae Gardens. Lots of enthusiastic helpers big and small. @n-t-s.bsky.social

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · Aug 23

"Years of NFU lobbying" to increase the area of arable land used to grow bioethanol crops (a completely fake approach to tackling climate change) shows how much it really cares about food security. www.farminguk.com/news/nfu-pus...

NFU pushes ministers to scrap biofuel crop cap

The government has agreed to review key biofuel policies after years of NFU lobbying, opening the door to scrapping the cap on crop-based fuels.

www.farminguk.com

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Aug 21

While researching my novel 1983, which is based on the Nottinghamshire mining village where I grew up, I had a weird memory of a man who used to take his cow for a walk around the village, like it was a dog.

"Have I made that up?" I wondered.

So I checked my mum and dad's old photos.

I hadn't.

An old man walking his cow through the Nottinghamshire countryside on rope during the early 1980s.

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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · Aug 21

Some nice flakes of Arran pitchstone out of Test pit 2 this morning @n-t-s.bsky.social in front of chambered cairn.

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