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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis

www.cambridge.org

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 11d

The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this?

(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)

#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺

bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...

The system is broken, so why are we not more concerned?

by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) – the detectorist-facing branch of archaeology – whic…

bigbookoftorcs.com

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 12d

Early, early dog walk because someone doesn't understand daylight saving. Can hesitantly say it was worth it.

Beautiful autumn morning on a quiet lane

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 13d

Everyone’s tidying up for winter — but your “mess” might be saving wildlife.

Leaf piles + log piles = shelter for hedgehogs, frogs, insects. More on the website. 👇
Https://gardeningwell.ie/gardens-as-biodiversity-engines

#WildlifeGardening #Biodiversity #QuietActivism #GardeningWell

Sunset at the community garden. the sun sets over the wildlife pond!

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 16d

Official release of Northamptonshire's HER website. A fantastic resource for exploring the heritage of the county!

New online hub brings Northamptonshire’s rich heritage to life | West Northamptonshire Council

A new website has been launched to give people access to Northamptonshire’s Historic Environment Record (HER).

www.westnorthants.gov.uk

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 17d

A medieval floor tile depicting a lion from St. Andrew’s Priory in Northampton. Now part of the collections at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #NorthamptonMuseum

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 17d

A key from the Priory is currently part of the Histories of Northamptonshire exhibition at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
timeline.northamptonmuseums.com/timeline/mon...

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 18d

St. Patrick's, Patrington, Yorks: "Flying buttresses scarcely suffice to tether the needle-sharp...most tapering of all these spires to its tower, and the designer has invented a ravishing cusped and pinnacled corona of arcading to steady it." Olive Cook #thread

A dramatic aerial view of St. Patrick’s Church, Patrington, with its tall spire rising from medieval stonework, surrounded by gravestones and rooftops under a clear blue sky.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 18d

Not for everybody, but If you ❤️ history, architecture and heritage like here at Patrington, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - an architectural photographer’s camper-van-camino through the British Isles - posted weekly. Subscribe for free here: www.digest.andymarshall.co

Sunlight projects a tracery window’s silhouette onto a stone wall and arched wooden door in St. Patrick’s chancel, illuminating sculpted details and memorials.

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 23d

This friendly double-headed dragon popped up in a medieval cartulary today

Sketch of a double-headed medieval dragon

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 25d

Check out the map which has all our records plus lidar, aerial photography and First Edition Ordnance Survey

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to say that Northamptonshire's Historic Environment Record website is live and ready to explore. A new way to lose a few hours 🙃
her.northamptonshire.gov.uk

Home

Northamptonshire’s Historic Environment Record

her.northamptonshire.gov.uk

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 26d

Getting quite autumn-y around here

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · Oct 2

*superfluity

Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · Oct 2

A reporter wrote of #northampton in 1869: in 'the lowest parts of London I have never heard such a general superfluous of obscene naughtiness...as I heard during my stay in Northampton'. Proud 😁

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · Sep 23

#Mackerelsky over Northampton on the early morning dog walk.

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · Sep 20

A new exhibition has just opened at Northampton's museum, showcasing a hundred objects from Northamptonshire chosen by 51 guest curators. Some amazing objects and well- worth seeing
www.northamptonmuseums.com/homepage/73/...

Sign with the text 'A History of Northamptonshire in 100 Objects'. Entrance to the exhibition

My contribution to the exhibition. An Iron Age reaping hook

A fragment of Roman painted wall plaster with part of a face

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · Sep 19

Spider Ballad has been on repeat for a few weeks now

Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sometimes archaeology is so dull. Data entry day as part of the Northampton deposit modelling project. On my second listen of this fine episode for my sanity!

Fire Draw Near @firedrawnear.bsky.social · Sep 10

Episode LXII is live as of yesterday evening! I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. campsite.bio/firedrawnear X

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Sep 2

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.

A scarecrow who has just watched Monty Python's The Holy Grail for the first time

A scarecrow who is feeling pleased with himself after forming a 1950s sci-fi themed surf rock band, of which he is the sole member

A scarecrow who is dolled up and ready for a night out in the fanciest part of Newcastle

A very pleasant and well-meaning scarecrow who will paint your house for a competitive rate while rhapsodising about the beauty of the land

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · Aug 22

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · Aug 15

A collared urn from St. Peter's Street in Northampton and two Bronze Age cups from Hunsbury Hill in Northampton. In the Northampton Museum. #FindsFriday

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · Aug 1

Can't decide what to get though...(probably more drone)

Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · Jul 28

This Friday is Bandcamp Friday.

This Friday is Bandcamp Friday

daily.bandcamp.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Jul 27

If there's one thing you watch today, make it this

Bob Geldof criticises Israel for what they're doing in Gaza

Then criticises Trevor Philips for making excuses for what Israel is doing in Gaza

Part 1/3

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 26

If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.

A photo of me holding a placard stating:
Palestine Action
Are
Protesters
Not
Terrorists

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