For #FindsFriday, I'm gifting you this fantastic Bronze Age felled tree we’ve just excavated from #Skipsea in Holderness. The marks of the socketed bronze axe are clearly visible, and the thud of the axe is almost audible. Used - we think - as a post, perhaps for a trackway.
Well, this is a wonderful find from the ancient lake edge at #Skipsea - a 1.3m worked wooden pole. A digging stick, possibly Mesolithic, is our best on-site guess, but we’ll know more when it’s back at the labs and reviewed by our wood expert.
#WoodenWednesday #Prehistory #Peat
What have we found at #Skipsea this week? Well, on the edge of a small pond fed by springs and streams, we found this Iron Age horse’s head and neck. There is no body with it, and I can’t help thinking of it lying there with its large eyes closed and mane gently washed by water.
For #FindsFriday, I'm gifting you this fantastic Bronze Age felled tree we’ve just excavated from #Skipsea in Holderness. The marks of the socketed bronze axe are clearly visible, and the thud of the axe is almost audible. Used - we think - as a post, perhaps for a trackway.
What is it about the Ridgeway that makes people ignore the dating of archaeologists and describe it as ‘Britain’s oldest road’? And the date of 5,000 years old is so strangely random. Every stretch of Roman road is older than the Ridgeway.
What have we found at #Skipsea this week? Well, on the edge of a small pond fed by springs and streams, we found this Iron Age horse’s head and neck. There is no body with it, and I can’t help thinking of it lying there with its large eyes closed and mane gently washed by water.
Well, this is a wonderful find from the ancient lake edge at #Skipsea - a 1.3m worked wooden pole. A digging stick, possibly Mesolithic, is our best on-site guess, but we’ll know more when it’s back at the labs and reviewed by our wood expert.
#WoodenWednesday #Prehistory #Peat
What is it about the Ridgeway that makes people ignore the dating of archaeologists and describe it as ‘Britain’s oldest road’? And the date of 5,000 years old is so strangely random. Every stretch of Roman road is older than the Ridgeway.
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Chop, Chop! Axe-Marked Bronze Age Timber Found in Yorkshire 🪵🪓
Archaeologists excavating at Skipsea in Yorkshire have discovered a Bronze Age timber that has preserved the marks of the sockered axe used to fell the tree!
Thanks, @jimleary.bsky.social!
📰 AWLOH: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
