Archaeologist specializing in prehistory and human-animal relationships. Currently a post-doc researcher on AHRC funded project TIME.
Joined February 2021
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🎉 👏 #Footmarks is published in the US today! For those that don’t know, it is a book about archaeology and movement, footprints, paths, roads, crossing lands and seas. A celebration of pilgrims and travellers and migrants.
Here is a bit more info 👇
youtu.be/hHo4fA01W0Q
Our new paper on the #Neolithic #Archaeology of Dorstone Hill, including new Bayesian chronology, has now been made #OpenAccess . Come one, come all, and give it a read! cambridge.org/core/journals/… @UoMCAHAE @UoMSALC @UoMNews @CUHistArchRel
One last thanks to everyone involved, staff, students, volunteers, visitors, and everyone in the local community-these excavations could not succeed without all of you. Only 11 more months until we can be back digging in Herefordshire once again!
Over at the other excavation running as part of this project, Tim Hoverd and team continued to investigate the Norman Snodhill Castle; have a listen to this to find out more: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g2yxk…
During the season we were visited by @howardmrw, who produced a great 7 video series on TikTok, which provides a nice summary of our excavations, which you can check out here: tiktok.com/@archaeodeath/vid…
We had hundreds of visitors-thanks to everyone who came to see us and chat to us, and to Kate Potter-Farrant and all the @EnglishHeritage volunteers for their incredible guided tours! We also got some BBC coverage: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-he…
We were treated to some spectacular #Neolithic #Archaeology, including amazingly well preserved Cotswold-Severn long cairn architecture and a prehistoric quarry, which likely was used to construct it!
A huge thanks to our staff @t_elliot @johnpiprani, Louie, Catherine, @NatB_S, Max, Anna and Kate, all of the @UoMSALC @UoMCAHAE and @CUHistArchRel students past and present, and our wonderful team of volunteers for all your hard work.
The sun has set on another season of excavation at #ArthursStone #Herefordshire, and it has been a truly wonderful and memorable month...🧵@DigitalSelf4 @UoMCAHAE @UoMNews @UoMSALC @HistoricEngland @EnglishHeritage @Archaeology_ws @CUHistArchRel
Final day of excavations at #ArthursStone, with the glorious passage entrance, and in the other field, an amazing prehistoric quarry! It's been a truly epic four weeks. @HistoricEngland @EnglishHeritage @UoMCAHAE @UoMNews
Yesterday I had the pleasure of planning the wall and passage entrance of #ArthursStone. It's not every day you get to work with such spectacular #Neolithic #Archaeology @UoMNews @UoMCAHAE @EnglishHeritage @HistoricEngland
Nick Overton retweeted
@ArchaeOverton interviewed by the @BBCNews on very exciting discoveries being made at Arthur's Stone, involving staff and students from the Department and @CUHistArchRel. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-he…
Nick Overton retweeted
An important milestone today here at #ArthursStone, #Herefordshire: a 4 hour meeting with my inspector colleagues from @HistoricEngland to decide whether we can investigate the entrance of the passageway to reveal potentially priceless in-situ #Neolithic #Archaeology – at Dorstone, England
End of week three at #ArthursStone, and the inclement weather brings some magical moments! #Neolithic #Archaeology @UoMNews @UoMCAHAE
Final day of week 3 at #ArthursStone, and the inclement weather treats us to some magic! #Neolithic #Archaeology @UoMNews @UoMCAHAE
A self-assembly Neolithic long mound? Huge amounts of stone in a possible #Neolithic quarry at #ArthursStone, potentially dug for constructing the mound. And our lovely revetted spoilheap! @UoMNews @UoMCAHAE @HistoricEngland #diggingforbritain
Spectacular archaeology at #ArthursStone this season so far-it's not often you get to dig something like this! @UoMNews @UoMCAHAE @HistoricEngland
Nick Overton retweeted
NEW despite being incredibly far west, #Neolithic monuments at Herefordshire (🇬🇧) could be some of the oldest in Britain!
#AntiquityThread 🧵 on how Dorstone Hill may have been instrumental in the local adoption of the Neolithic way of life. 1/7
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ALT Map showing Dorstone Hill in its landscape. Inlay: Map of Britain, showing Dorstone Hilll's location on the Welsh border
This was a huge collaborative effort; thanks to everyone who contributed, and to all the volunteers, local community and students from @UoMArchaeology @UoMCAHAE and @CUHistArchRel who have dug with us and helped us through the years!
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You can read about the rock crystal from the site here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…