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Duncan Mackay
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Writer, archaeologist, wild swimmer, wild gardener. New book Echolands, A Journey in Search of Boudica out now from @Hodderbooks.bsky.social https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/duncan-mackay/echolands/9781399714143/ Rep. Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · Nov 29
#Echolands #BoudicaFriday
Front cover of Echolands - A Journey in Search of Boudica by Duncan Mackay
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 2h
Heartwood #BogOak #Fenland #FlagFenBasin
Cross section through preserved oak branch - black heartwood, tree-rings
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 1d
A Roman helmet? There’s another contender for the Battle of Watling Street then…
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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 1d
Thinking about the Roman Empire on the commute home.
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A road sign for Watling Street EC4 A pub sign for Ye Olde Watling featuring a Roman helmet A glass signed display of Mithras sacrificing the bull
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 2d
Ugh, tell me about it…
Playmobil Roman with a motorbike
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 2d
Enjoying Echolands by
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Every time it makes me think of something, that's where he goes next. And then something I hadn't thought of or worse, something I had thought about and not realised and now I have to believe, like the meaning of "Ken" Hill even though it can't be?
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you, so pleased you’re enjoying it…the Ken thing really got me too…
a man is wearing a fur coat and a necklace with a pendant that says ' a ' on it
Alt: Ken from Barbie saying “I know”
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 3d
😱
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 3d
As you wish…
Boadicea statue passed by a Sherman tank in 1944
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3d
Given she's a *valiant English queen*, surely it can only be Æthelflæd of Mercia? 🤔
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d
Ooh! Ooh! I know this! I know this! It’s err
it’s err, Boudoo…
it’s err, Bondi….
it’s err, Boaconstric….
it’s err, Baobab….
Nah, it’s no good, it’s gone now…

Valiant testing essential general knowledge February 1974.
Strap on your spinning scythes of death, people, it’s #BoudicaFriday!
#Echolands
Valiant comic cover with a colourful depiction of Boudica in her chariot with the title Who is It?
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 3d
I bet kitchen tables across Britain were pebble-dashed with half chewed cornflakes as thousands of children vied to shout, ÆTHELFLÆD OF MERCIA!” before their siblings on 23rd February 1974.
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 3d
Awed and bewildered…
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 3d
Gazing in awe & wonder 😮

Inside the spectacular Little Woodbury house at @butserancientfarm.co.uk where the great soot-blackened roof stands without central posts

An incredible family house from Late Iron Age Britain

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📷 My own, Sept
Duncan & Miles inside a roundhouse gazing up at the roof
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d
Ooh! Ooh! I know this! I know this! It’s err
it’s err, Boudoo…
it’s err, Bondi….
it’s err, Boaconstric….
it’s err, Baobab….
Nah, it’s no good, it’s gone now…

Valiant testing essential general knowledge February 1974.
Strap on your spinning scythes of death, people, it’s #BoudicaFriday!
#Echolands
Valiant comic cover with a colourful depiction of Boudica in her chariot with the title Who is It?
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d
If you click on #PlaymobilInfestation they are sometimes to be found…
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d
They do it all themselves! But, yes, I believe they stole a chamois and loom bands to make them.
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d
A little researching and writing about Roman York today, so have a bit of 3rd/4th century Multangular tower Playmobil action.
#PlaymobilInfestation
A group of Playmobil Roman legionaries standing in front of a Roman tower in York.
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d
Occasionally they cross over and get a double hashtag…
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d
a man with a beard and a hat says blasphemer while holding a chess piece
Alt: John Cleese in Life of Brian shouting Blasphemer!
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d
Ooh! Ooh! I know this! I know this! It’s err
it’s err, Boudoo…
it’s err, Bondi….
it’s err, Boaconstric….
it’s err, Baobab….
Nah, it’s no good, it’s gone now…

Valiant testing essential general knowledge February 1974.
Strap on your spinning scythes of death, people, it’s #BoudicaFriday!
#Echolands
Valiant comic cover with a colourful depiction of Boudica in her chariot with the title Who is It?
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 5d
Carrawburgh Mithraeum, Hadrian’s Wall; the shyest member of the contu-baaa-nium
#RomanFortThursday
A sheep pokes its head out around a Roman altar in the ruins of a Roman temple.
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 5d
I was impressed.
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 5d
Interestingly that’s where the word barbarian came from…
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 5d
a man in a knight 's costume is running in a field with another man
Alt: Monty Python King Arthur galloping an imaginary horse.
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 5d
Good lord!
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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 5d
Always nice to bump into some of your favourite people in Waterstones Piccadilly
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A photo of a bookshelf with books about British Roman history A photo of a bookshelf with a large array of hardback books
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