@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!
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
Quite popular it seems in Cornwall around this time!
August 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Quite popular it seems in Cornwall around this time!
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
Super find - c.18thc vertical timber panelling left in situ, which has actually been painted to mimic marbling with blue, red, white, gold & black pigment! Very vernacular take on worldly inspiration from places like Pompeii, which during this period was really starting to be realised #archaeology
July 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Super find - c.18thc vertical timber panelling left in situ, which has actually been painted to mimic marbling with blue, red, white, gold & black pigment! Very vernacular take on worldly inspiration from places like Pompeii, which during this period was really starting to be realised #archaeology