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Charnwood Forest Geopark @charnwoodforest.bsky.social · 13h

🔎 The Geopark and our partners are looking for two researchers to join exciting and innovative projects, funded by the Collaboratory Research Hub:

🌳 PhD on nature & wellbeing
🦖 Research Placement on public understanding of fossils

🌐 More info on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves #13 Skeleton
The monument for Elizabeth Benson, obit 1710, in St Leonard, Shoreditch. Carved by Francis Bird, it shows two gleeful skeletons holding a shroud, vigorously ripping apart the tree of life.
www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/stl...

Carving of two skeletons holding a shroud and tearing a tree in half

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 1d

It looks more like gypsum (selenite)

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 2d

I’d wear this as a badge of honour!

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Jelle Reumer 🟥 @jellereumer.bsky.social · 2d

Some enormous Siphonophyllia (Rugose corals) and a handful of crinoid fragments, at the Parvis in Saint-Gilles (B). Carboniferous.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 2d

You know, I think I like his stones better!

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 3d

Nice one.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 3d

Hoptonwood Stone?

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 3d

DUTCH AUCTION in support of salivaryglandcancer.uk

In my shop, this piece is priced at £165. At noon every day (BST) the price drops by £10, until it sells.

First DM gets it. UK shipping only.

Half of what you pay will go to SGC UK.

Please repost for widest coverage. Thank you :)

Hand carved #lettering on Hopton Wood limestone. I AM WHAT I AM.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 3d

Not weird at all!

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 3d

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 4d

Only in Brighton are there ‘real gemstone’ heart vending machines … #urbangeology #brighton

A photo of a cylinder-shaped vending machine on a street which sells heart-shaped polished stones made from agate, jaspers, lapis lazuli etc.

A close up of the vending machine merchandise described in the previous image. Heart shaped polished stones in shades of red, blue, green etc.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 4d

I do have a marble arse and I’m very proud of it. Thoroughly recommended.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 7d

That’s cheap but these stones are not worth much. Only buy it if you like it

Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 7d

There are plenty of better examples out there! Save your money and wait to find one you like

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 8d

Huge congratulations, Brenna! Well done! X

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 9d

There's something about the subtle abstraction in Rose Ferraby's landscapes that always draws me in. I have a similar response to Paul Nash's work on the same subject almost a century earlier.

Downland: Art & the Archaeological Imagination: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape

Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 11d

Just the edge of it passing over today, supposed to clear overnight

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 11d

Tomorrow! My final #urbangeology walk for this year - And it looks like it’s going to be a sunny day! All info in the post below.

Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 21d

My final #urbangeology walk for this year will take place on 4 October. Reservations and more information on #LondonWalks website at www.walks.com/our-walks/th.... Hope to see you there, this is my favourite walk!

Poster for the walk. The text reads ‘discover fossils, stone and astronomy in the city of London! The Monument, the Moon and Malta: urban geology on Eastcheap. Meet at 14.30, Monument Station, Fish Street Hill.’ The background image shows a photo of the Malta War Memorial, a block of squared stone with attached black plaques with maps of the Mediterranean and a description of the siege of Malta during World War II.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 14d

And one of my favourite things is when stone is carved into the form of a book! Thanks for sharing!

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 14d

And a chance to repost this for followers of @stoneclub.bsky.social and @pavementgeology.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/hele...

Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Apr 28

A library of stone in Alex Wenham's studio. I really can't explain how much I love stone - and the people who work it.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks for sharing this - we’ve found azurite pigment in the Neolithic, but this pushes it right back - a nevertheless rare use. The really lost pigments are those created from dyes which would have faded away long ago.

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 15d

Really interesting article (and fab video) - rewrites the history of colour pigments and use and raises the question of what other colour pigments may have been used but not preserved? @pavementgeology.bsky.social

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 15d

Europe's oldest blue pigment

Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 15d

Europe's oldest blue pigment

Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 17d

That does sound like a plan

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