@millyallen.bsky.social
Buildings Archaeologist based in south-west England. 🕵🏼
Ceramicist, illustrator, relief carver, allotment holder, and building enthusiast! 🏠🧱 Expect to see photos of my Goberian dog! 🐕
Photos my own!
Ceramicist, illustrator, relief carver, allotment holder, and building enthusiast! 🏠🧱 Expect to see photos of my Goberian dog! 🐕
Photos my own!
Pinned
#fridayfinds
On Wednesday I was united with chairs made by my gdad and dad. My family were part of the 19thc furniture and chair making boom in High Wycombe, built up by my great grandfather! This is a later 20thc type when they branched into hospital, pub and hotel furniture.
#tangiblehistory
On Wednesday I was united with chairs made by my gdad and dad. My family were part of the 19thc furniture and chair making boom in High Wycombe, built up by my great grandfather! This is a later 20thc type when they branched into hospital, pub and hotel furniture.
#tangiblehistory
Tis about that time of year.
Eucalyptus from the garden, foraged and dried honestly, dried orange and cinnamon. Smells delish!
#xmas #wreathmaking #floral #art
Eucalyptus from the garden, foraged and dried honestly, dried orange and cinnamon. Smells delish!
#xmas #wreathmaking #floral #art
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Tis about that time of year.
Eucalyptus from the garden, foraged and dried honestly, dried orange and cinnamon. Smells delish!
#xmas #wreathmaking #floral #art
Eucalyptus from the garden, foraged and dried honestly, dried orange and cinnamon. Smells delish!
#xmas #wreathmaking #floral #art
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My talk for the #LFG tomorrow evening which challenges the archaeological community to better consider surface finishes.
If you would like to join the conversation, and join the LFG please get in touch with @limefinishes.bsky.social
#archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #history
If you would like to join the conversation, and join the LFG please get in touch with @limefinishes.bsky.social
#archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #history
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My talk for the #LFG tomorrow evening which challenges the archaeological community to better consider surface finishes.
If you would like to join the conversation, and join the LFG please get in touch with @limefinishes.bsky.social
#archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #history
If you would like to join the conversation, and join the LFG please get in touch with @limefinishes.bsky.social
#archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #history
Think girl with the pearl earring, but a stormtrooper with a Xmas hat… new Xmas card print just dropped 🤌🏼
#StarWars #historyofart #printing
#xmas #Christmas #xmascard #history #linoprint #art
#StarWars #historyofart #printing
#xmas #Christmas #xmascard #history #linoprint #art
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Think girl with the pearl earring, but a stormtrooper with a Xmas hat… new Xmas card print just dropped 🤌🏼
#StarWars #historyofart #printing
#xmas #Christmas #xmascard #history #linoprint #art
#StarWars #historyofart #printing
#xmas #Christmas #xmascard #history #linoprint #art
Sunday morning print sesh!
#printmaking
#printmaking
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Sunday morning print sesh!
#printmaking
#printmaking
#stratigraphysaturday
Layers of crucial evidence for the continued maintenance of our buildings, with hints of colour…
#archaeology #historicbuildings #buildingsarchaeology #stratigraphy
Layers of crucial evidence for the continued maintenance of our buildings, with hints of colour…
#archaeology #historicbuildings #buildingsarchaeology #stratigraphy
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#stratigraphysaturday
Layers of crucial evidence for the continued maintenance of our buildings, with hints of colour…
#archaeology #historicbuildings #buildingsarchaeology #stratigraphy
Layers of crucial evidence for the continued maintenance of our buildings, with hints of colour…
#archaeology #historicbuildings #buildingsarchaeology #stratigraphy
Stack inserted into a former agricultural range, providing separate services for the adjacent house, c1860s. The stack has been reworked to fit a later stove & likely still active into mid-20thc. Small copper was added later to left; brick built it was separately heated below #buildingsarchaeology
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Stack inserted into a former agricultural range, providing separate services for the adjacent house, c1860s. The stack has been reworked to fit a later stove & likely still active into mid-20thc. Small copper was added later to left; brick built it was separately heated below #buildingsarchaeology
#stratigraphysunday
2x recruitment posters 1 dated 1906 for militia recruitment boosting numbers post-Boer War (right). The other is likely earlier going by uniform & styles. Slapped onto cut & reset panelling, within an altered space to FF of a market house. This was used a war office through WWI
2x recruitment posters 1 dated 1906 for militia recruitment boosting numbers post-Boer War (right). The other is likely earlier going by uniform & styles. Slapped onto cut & reset panelling, within an altered space to FF of a market house. This was used a war office through WWI
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
#stratigraphysunday
2x recruitment posters 1 dated 1906 for militia recruitment boosting numbers post-Boer War (right). The other is likely earlier going by uniform & styles. Slapped onto cut & reset panelling, within an altered space to FF of a market house. This was used a war office through WWI
2x recruitment posters 1 dated 1906 for militia recruitment boosting numbers post-Boer War (right). The other is likely earlier going by uniform & styles. Slapped onto cut & reset panelling, within an altered space to FF of a market house. This was used a war office through WWI
This is when I enjoy my job the most. Revelling at the most exposed features, which would normally be well hidden. The former owner supposedly went to bed with an umbrella ☂️…
#buildingsarchaeology #thatch #historicbuildings
#buildingsarchaeology #thatch #historicbuildings
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This is when I enjoy my job the most. Revelling at the most exposed features, which would normally be well hidden. The former owner supposedly went to bed with an umbrella ☂️…
#buildingsarchaeology #thatch #historicbuildings
#buildingsarchaeology #thatch #historicbuildings
October 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
How much historic colour are we missing colour from our streets?
#history #colour #paint #LFG #archaeology
#history #colour #paint #LFG #archaeology
August 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
How much historic colour are we missing colour from our streets?
#history #colour #paint #LFG #archaeology
#history #colour #paint #LFG #archaeology
Fresh out the kiln!
Mousey butter/ cheese dishes.
Am taking orders for Xmas (🫣), DM if you’d like one!
#clay #claydesign #ceramics #pottery #christmas2025
Mousey butter/ cheese dishes.
Am taking orders for Xmas (🫣), DM if you’d like one!
#clay #claydesign #ceramics #pottery #christmas2025
August 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Fresh out the kiln!
Mousey butter/ cheese dishes.
Am taking orders for Xmas (🫣), DM if you’d like one!
#clay #claydesign #ceramics #pottery #christmas2025
Mousey butter/ cheese dishes.
Am taking orders for Xmas (🫣), DM if you’d like one!
#clay #claydesign #ceramics #pottery #christmas2025
My fave feature from today & a nice follow on from last night LFG talk by Joe Thompson. This is an inserted/altered stack with 17thc repurposed beam, flipped & incised in the 18thc to mimic a brick segmental lintel. Love spotting cheap, resourceful upgrades #buildingsarchaeology #archaeology #LFG
August 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My fave feature from today & a nice follow on from last night LFG talk by Joe Thompson. This is an inserted/altered stack with 17thc repurposed beam, flipped & incised in the 18thc to mimic a brick segmental lintel. Love spotting cheap, resourceful upgrades #buildingsarchaeology #archaeology #LFG
Historic graffiti recording yesterday, out of all of it, this I found most stirring. Couple of youngsters up the tower scratched their names into the lead of church roof, alongside their evacuation year. One of them I found is a new find #archaeology #history #WWII #graffiti #church #London #Devon
August 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted
At a time when we are losing hand skills, I can’t figure out why the uptake for this course is so poor. Robbie is a world class class cutter, great teacher and lovely man and of course Cromarty is the best place in Scotland. Contact the Cromarty Arts Trust and book your place 👌👍
August 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
At a time when we are losing hand skills, I can’t figure out why the uptake for this course is so poor. Robbie is a world class class cutter, great teacher and lovely man and of course Cromarty is the best place in Scotland. Contact the Cromarty Arts Trust and book your place 👌👍
Reposted
These wall paintings in the church of San Martín de Arbulo were under 4 layers of paint and are believed to be from around the 12th & 13th centuries.
The article links to another from 2018 on the website for Álava Medieval/Erdi Aroko Araba with more images, here: alavamedieval.com/las-misterio...
The article links to another from 2018 on the website for Álava Medieval/Erdi Aroko Araba with more images, here: alavamedieval.com/las-misterio...
August 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
These wall paintings in the church of San Martín de Arbulo were under 4 layers of paint and are believed to be from around the 12th & 13th centuries.
The article links to another from 2018 on the website for Álava Medieval/Erdi Aroko Araba with more images, here: alavamedieval.com/las-misterio...
The article links to another from 2018 on the website for Álava Medieval/Erdi Aroko Araba with more images, here: alavamedieval.com/las-misterio...
Image of a luggage porter St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly. I found lots of evidence of limewashed granite buildings when I was last there a couple of summers ago. At this point the wash is fading (c.1900), with a more prominent pointing standing proud. #archaeology #LFG
August 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Image of a luggage porter St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly. I found lots of evidence of limewashed granite buildings when I was last there a couple of summers ago. At this point the wash is fading (c.1900), with a more prominent pointing standing proud. #archaeology #LFG
Archaeology meets ecology!
Drawing up a section at Stowey Castle and this little fella kept zooming through my grid, tumbling in & out of the stone courses. He is a common shrew, a species protected by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981! 🦉 🐭
#archaeology #ecology #castle #historicbuildings
Drawing up a section at Stowey Castle and this little fella kept zooming through my grid, tumbling in & out of the stone courses. He is a common shrew, a species protected by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981! 🦉 🐭
#archaeology #ecology #castle #historicbuildings
August 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Archaeology meets ecology!
Drawing up a section at Stowey Castle and this little fella kept zooming through my grid, tumbling in & out of the stone courses. He is a common shrew, a species protected by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981! 🦉 🐭
#archaeology #ecology #castle #historicbuildings
Drawing up a section at Stowey Castle and this little fella kept zooming through my grid, tumbling in & out of the stone courses. He is a common shrew, a species protected by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981! 🦉 🐭
#archaeology #ecology #castle #historicbuildings
Hacked 17thc panelling with grooved detailing, partially reset within an altered 19thc partition.
Resourcefulness or brutality?
#archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #historicbuildings
Resourcefulness or brutality?
#archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #historicbuildings
August 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Hacked 17thc panelling with grooved detailing, partially reset within an altered 19thc partition.
Resourcefulness or brutality?
#archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #historicbuildings
Resourcefulness or brutality?
#archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #historicbuildings
August 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Made some paint using foraged ochre. After processing the material, this batch was mixed with gum arabic, though keen to experiment with other oils.
#geology #ochre #earthtones #archaeology #art
#geology #ochre #earthtones #archaeology #art
August 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Made some paint using foraged ochre. After processing the material, this batch was mixed with gum arabic, though keen to experiment with other oils.
#geology #ochre #earthtones #archaeology #art
#geology #ochre #earthtones #archaeology #art
August 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
You’re a funny looking squash!
Just been up to water and found the friendly allotment cat Chase snoozin in the squash patch!
#allotment #cat #squash #gyo
Just been up to water and found the friendly allotment cat Chase snoozin in the squash patch!
#allotment #cat #squash #gyo
August 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
You’re a funny looking squash!
Just been up to water and found the friendly allotment cat Chase snoozin in the squash patch!
#allotment #cat #squash #gyo
Just been up to water and found the friendly allotment cat Chase snoozin in the squash patch!
#allotment #cat #squash #gyo