Some thought Dr. K Brophy was a fictional character. He isn’t and he truly is Keeper of Hookland’s Stones.
What is it with men and Stonehenge 🙄 All relates to it (or Pompeii depending on the dating). At least morning TV had Jennifer Wexler on...
New First Aid for Finds: www.firstaidforfinds.org
We’re deep into Stonehenge silly season. A few comments from me here.
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The Museum of Cultural History @uio.no is hiring a PhD candidate in Nordic #Archaeology, linked to the museum’s research on the #VikingAge. As icing on the cake, you’ll be working in the environment of the new Museum of the Viking Age, part of MCH, opening in 2027!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
"Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing."
Staff expenditure: Count every last penny or you may lose your job.
Their expenditure: Meh.
From the acknowledgments in my forthcoming book on The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World (Bloomsbury)
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Bigger and better than ever - the Annual Day of the Picts at Burghead will be on the 22nd of August this year. Get it in your diaries!
Pre-order my new book here!
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Advice on First Aid actions for the excavation, lifting, cleaning, identification and post-excavation storage and transport of archaeological finds.
Martin Shipton Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing. Academic sources have ...
From the acknowledgments in my forthcoming book on The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World (Bloomsbury)
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Two wooden posts sunk into a hillside three miles east of Stonehenge may have been the earliest known solar alignment on that landscape, scientists say.
This book offers a timely roadmap for navigating the material and intangible legacies of prehistory with which we live today. Drawing on a series of global case…
While I'm doing billhook posting here is a pattern book from William Hunt & Sons, well kent by many archaeologists as WHS; historically the makers of the best 3½" pointing trowel for digging up old stuff.