Thursday, 2 May 2019

An archaeologist visits a zoo

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  My son is fascinated by animals and wildlife so over recent years we’ve visited a lot of zoos, and this week we visited Chester ...
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Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Fish trap on Holy Island?

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Photo of the structure looking north from the south end I’ve spent a lot of time visiting Holy Island – Lindisfarne over recent years, ...
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Friday, 29 March 2019

Maypoles and "Burying Peter"

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Today I stumbled a nice example of the intersection of landscape and archaeology and folk tradition. We visited Nun Monkton, a village a...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Knickers in a rag tree: contemporary votive deposition at a prehistoric monument

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Today we took a visit to the Rollright Stones in Warwickshire. With my archaeology head on I should probably have been more interested...
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Saturday, 1 December 2018

Soul Cake Challenge

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Today Issy (no 1 Daughter) and myself did a  little experiment in historical baking. We've been doing some Christmas cooking, but as w...
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Thursday, 15 November 2018

From the Pacific to the North Sea: the ‘Melanesification' of the past

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Yesterday I was reading Frederik Fahlander’s recent review of Oli Harris and Craig Cipolla’s Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium...
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Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Reflections on Remembrance Sunday 2018

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Last weekend I went to the Remembrance Sunday memorial events in the centre of York, marking the 100 th anniversary of the Armistice at t...
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