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Andrew Burn
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Archaeologist, Development Advice Team Leader for Yorkshire Region at Historic England. Committee Member @landscapesurvey.bsky.com Views here my own.
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Time for a reminder!

Your research may be super interesting and I may really enjoy reading your latest paper, thank you for posting.

But if you post with a genAI image or no Alt Text to your photos/illustrations, I won’t be re-posting.

Pay an artist, take 30 minutes to prep Alt Text. It’s easy.
Colour photo of the view from inside a grotto at Stourhead, looking out over the lake to a swathe of autumnal trees and a little of the grey sky above. The dark, rocky grotto opening frames the scene.
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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More sun, snow and earthworks
Banks and ditches of a Roman Camp, in low winter sun with a light covering if snow, under blue skies with winter grass showing green through the white snow. Earthworks of a Roman Camp, in low winter sun with a light covering if snow, under blue skies with winter grass showing green through the white snow. Banks and ditches of a Roman Camp, in low winter sun with a light covering if snow, under blue skies with winter grass showing green through the white snow. Banks and ditches of a Roman Camp, in low winter sun with a light covering if snow, under blue skies with winter grass showing green through the white snow.
January 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Time for a break from emails
Snow covered earthworks in low winter sun at Cawthorn Roman Camps. Grass shows through as the melt begins under clear blue skies.
January 7, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Perfect start to 2026
A snow covered path winding through green undergrowth and sparsley covered trees under blue sky. A low winter sun casts long shadows.
January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Persistence of place does not equal 600 houses at the same time.
January 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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An afternoon stroll across Cropton Castle in the winter Murk.
A view through sparse trees, across a green valley to a distant village. Gloomy grey winter skies overhead. A wider shot of a view across a green valley, through sparse trees under grey skies. The earthworks of cropton castle, undulating under brown/green winter grass, with a back drop of trees and under grey winter skies
December 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The Yorkshire Dales Access Hub is a one‑stop online resource designed to make the outdoors more accessible - helping people with a wide range of disabilities plan their perfect visit to the National Park.

👉 https://accesshub.yorkshiredales.org.uk/

📷 Andy Kay | #YorkshireDales #Accessibility
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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My traditional Christmas morning dog walk. Today exploring Cawthorne Camps.
Toddler for scale (yes @earthworkbec.bsky.social I forgot a ranging pole 😂)

Hope everyone has a lovely break, however they spend it.
A small boy exploring grass and Heather covered earthworks, with a back drop of windblown trees ans cloudy skies Grass and Heather covered bank and ditch on the corner of a Roman camp. Under cloudy skies Three banks covered wirh grass and Bilberry under bluey clouds and with a back drop of trees.
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Just realised that its 20 years to the day since a sloe gin fuelled winter solstice finds washing and processing session, at the National Museums Liverpool excavations at Lathom Lancashire.

Where has that time gone!??
December 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The Yorkshire Dales Access Hub is a one‑stop online resource designed to make the outdoors more accessible - helping people with a wide range of disabilities plan their perfect visit to the National Park.

👉 Explore more: https://accesshub.yorkshiredales.org.uk/
Disability campaigner Debbie North sits on a sturdy, all‑terrain mobility scooter positioned in front of a wooden gate designed for wheelchair‑friendly access. The scooter has a large, contoured seat, a wide handlebar, and a TGA logo on the front panel. Beside the gate stands another person wearing outdoor clothing, including a dark jacket embroidered with a National Park logo. The gate itself is part of a well‑maintained access point, with metal latches and a blue accessibility marker fixed to the adjacent wooden post. To the right, an old dry‑stone wall covered in patches of green moss runs alongside the path. Beyond the gate, rolling green fields stretch into the distance, with gentle hills rising under a pale sky. The scene conveys outdoor accessibility, inclusive countryside infrastructure, and a welcoming rural landscape.
December 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Some post TAG thoughts on public benefits in archaeology and the results of the Trowel and Error project.

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Archaeology Isn’t Failing the Public But It Is Underserving Them
A brief exploration of the findings of the Trowel and Error Project
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December 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Continuing the long held tradition of waking up to an Ashes series defeat with a stinking cold. Its definitely Christmas time...
December 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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20/12/25 - nocturn
small hours big time a night with fog after a day with fog headtorch full beam on a parish boundary original murk stepper - giving it some Grendel Lincolnshire - cloaked - a little light in the marshes
December 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Today's (large!) piece from my studio sale: A Way Through, oil on linen, 100 x 100cm www.artachart.com/available-wo... 20% off until the 25th (+ free shipping in Europe; all others contact me for a quote. Payment plans on request.) 🙂
A dramatic, cloudy landscape of rolling hills & winding paths. Limited palette of browns, olive green, greys & warm white to highlight the route through the valley, touches of light in the otherwise grey-blue sky & reflected off rocks & boggy ground.
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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A day when work is to be enjoyed and remembered
A double rainbow set against light grey skies and above brown ans yellow moorland. The photographers shadow can be seen in the foreground
December 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Enjoying petrifying London folk with a hearty unsolicited northern hello on my dog walk today
December 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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There's still time to order from us for Christmas delivery to Sheffield addresses (postcodes S1-S17), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered - by hand, on foot - on or before 24 December.
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'To the End of the Land', a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, in pamphlet and CD editions.
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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A busy couple of months, withnlittle tome to post, so here are some autumn/winter highlights of my work wanderings.
Autumnal trees in low winter sun with orange and yellow leaves Medieval banks and ditches with green grass covering seen through the glassless stone window of a castle A grey stoneslab with prehistoric cup and ring rock art in brown brushed Heather moorland under blue cloudy skies A brick and glass post modern chrich with a curved roof and detached Bell tower under blue cloud filled skies with bare winter trees and green laws surrounding it.
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A really useful few days at @tag2025york.bsky.social

Interesting and creative sessions, useful conversations with old friends and new, all resulting in a whirring brain today!
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Fantastic couple of days visiting 50 Scheduled Sites in the Yorkshire Wolds last week. Covered alot of ground and alot of Barrows!
Low earthworks of a Bronze Age barrows with serval trees on top, set in a large green pasture field, with blue skies above A prehistoric cross dyke at the edge of a stubble field, with a hawthorn hedge along the bank. Rolling green fields and trees stretch into the distance, with clear blue skies above
October 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Some more scribblings. This time in advance of a talk im goving tonight on the landscape history of the area around Cropton, North Yorkshire.

open.substack.com/pub/andrewbu...
Cropton: Brief History of a Landscape
Exploration of a well trod North Yorkshire landscape
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October 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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What a soul we have lost.
God bless her
kojamf.bsky.social KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Oct 5
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I stumbled over this railway embankment, for sidings serving mine works in Murk Esk, and now I can't thinking about the archaeology of railways.
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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*FUNGI APPRECIATION POST*

Are we all in agreement that fungi are the best thing about autumn? These incredible specimens were snapped by Siân Lloyd in Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons). You can find fungi in damp, shady areas, particularly in woodlands.

Have you spotted any yet?
A shiny, red-topped mushroom on the mossy base of a tree. A ginormous, brown mushroom with a flat top is nestled in green grass and moss. A tiny, bright red topped mushroom perches on the twig-laden floor of a forest. A cascade of flat beige mushrooms slopes down the twig-laden woodland floor.
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Ive been scribbling my thoughts about the landscape around Cropton and had to share this lovely Peter Dunn reconstruction of the Motte and Bailey Castle just outside the modern village.

(Found on the Woodland Trust Interpretation Panel for the site)
Fantastic Peter Dunn reconstruction painting of the medieval village of Cropton with crofts reaching. Ack to a stone and wood motte and bailey castle on the edge of a green wooded ridge.
October 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM