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Leon 🏺
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Archaeologist🏺/ Funerary Arch MSc, Uni of York/ Knaresborough Museum🏰/SASA🏛️/Human and Animal 💀🦴

Currently researching Elmet and Early Medieval West Yorkshire
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A Whole Lot of History - Friday edition!

AWLOH for Friday 5th Dec. is out NOW, history and archaeology fans!

It features:

⚫️ Roman sun hats ☀️👒

⚫️ Henry VIII 🤴

⚫️ Viking decapitation 🪓

⚫️ Prohibition 🍺🚫

...and more!

open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
On the way to London
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Manuscript submitted 🙏🏻
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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*Archaeological find of national significance broken up and dispersed overseas*

There, fixed that headline for you

www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2562811...
Roman coin find in Dorset field sells for over £16,000
A hoard of 97 Roman coins found in Dorset by metal detectorist Trenton Oliver sold for £16,625 at Noonans Mayfair auction, exceeding estimates.
www.dorsetecho.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
On the wall of a soon to be demolished Iceland, is this what they call contemporary archaeology
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
My copy of Little Kingdoms by @alexharvv.bsky.social arrived!
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’

Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Today is the day! Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination is now widely available. I will be giving my first book talk at the University of Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on domestic violence. press.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Indiana Jones and the Unstrat Flint that may or may not be worked
October 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
At the weekend I spoke on Elmet at the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #Yorkshire student showcase
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Millet and wheat grains from Neolithic Xinjiang #NationalBakingWeek
When millet was introduced to Central Asia from China, people didn't adopt the Chinese practice of boiling and steaming it, instead baking it into bread as they did with other grains.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
My colleagues sang me happy birthday in the accommodation
October 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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A quick look at the latest issue of our journal, Post-Medieval Archaeology, published under @tandfresearch.bsky.social. To publish your research with us, please check our website for more info and contact [email protected]

#archaeology #postmedievalarchaeology #newresearch
October 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Submitted my revised manuscript, fingers crossed
October 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4

sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
October 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life
October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky
October 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Just seen a stag run through the morning mist like some forgotten dirty or forest spirit
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
What’s the Uk minimum wage? Just seen a museum advertising for a role with a salary of £22,500, Surely this js below the minimum
October 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Sadly, Jane Goodall has died. But her legacy - in conservation and chimp studies - will live on. 🧪
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist who discovered chimpanzee tool use, dies at 91
Dame Jane Goodall, the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert, died of natural causes.
www.livescience.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Someone today found a mushroom on site and took it home and made dinner with it

🏺 #archaeology
September 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Had the pleasure of presenting my poster at @babao2025meeting.bsky.social

My research focused on #climate and maxillary sinusitis in #roman and early medieval populations

#BABAO2025 #Archaeology #paleopathology #climateheritage
September 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.
September 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM