@jimleary.bsky.social
Archaeologist & writer. Senior lecturer at Uni of York. Books: The Story of Silbury Hill; The Remembered Land; Footmarks, a journey into our restless past. Agent: JP Marshall.
@jimleary.bsky.socialReposted by @jimleary.bsky.socialIt’s wonderful to see our research finally out. It shows that the amazing Devil’s Arrows in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire were transported 18km from Brimham Rocks (not Plumpton!) to the site.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/article/4…
@uoyopenres.bsky.socialReposted by @jimleary.bsky.socialResearchers @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social and Curtin University have shed new light on a series of prehistoric stones in Yorkshire, revealing the 25-tonne structures were hauled 11 miles across land by Neolithic builders 🪨
Open access paper in @royalsociety.org Proc. A doi.org/10.1098/rspa... 🔓 📄
@jimleary.bsky.socialOne of mine too!
@jimleary.bsky.socialThanks Adam. Appreciate your photos.
@jimleary.bsky.socialThanks Mike.
@jimleary.bsky.socialWe’re working on that at the moment.
@jimleary.bsky.socialThank you!
@jimleary.bsky.socialCheers Susan.
@jimleary.bsky.socialThanks Alice!
@jimleary.bsky.socialTry the link in the last post.
@jimleary.bsky.socialTime for a revisit?
@jimleary.bsky.socialThank you 🙏
@jimleary.bsky.socialThank you!
@jimleary.bsky.socialThanks Dan!
@jimleary.bsky.socialIn case the Royal Society link didn’t work:
@jimleary.bsky.socialHere’s an article in The Conversation
@jimleary.bsky.socialAs important, I think, is that we can reveal that the 15th-century Battle Cross in Aldborough is another ‘missing’ Arrow, hiding in plain sight.
@jimleary.bsky.socialIt’s wonderful to see our research finally out. It shows that the amazing Devil’s Arrows in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire were transported 18km from Brimham Rocks (not Plumpton!) to the site.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/article/4…
@jimleary.bsky.socialFor #StandingStoneSunday, I present the High and Low Bridestones on the exposed limestone pavement of Sleight's Moor, North York Moors, near the village of Grosmont. Neolithic or Bronze Age, they are a highly complex set of megalithic alignments and circles but poorly understood.
@jimleary.bsky.socialHa - good point! There is a chance the buildings might float away.
