Mark Knight 🍉

@markknight63.bsky.social

Archaeologist with a Fenland tendency. Happiest in the black, buttery depths seeking old land surfaces. You got them big dreams....

@jonasholmjaeger.bsky.socialReposted by @markknight63.bsky.social

Check it, nerds. Recent find of late stage Maglemosian (8400 BP) antler axe with preserved wooden handle from Egholm, Northern Jutland. Fantastic to see that we still have conditions in Denmark for such fantastic organic preservation. Because it probably won’t be long before we don’t.

@wildlifebcn.orgReposted by @markknight63.bsky.social

🥳We are very excited to see work starting on one of our biggest ever wetland restoration sites.

Now, after lots of planning and preparation, the diggers have arrived to turn an area almost the size of Hyde Park into a thriving wetland.

Read more here www.wildlifebcn.org/news/work-st...

@lesleymcf.bsky.socialReposted by @markknight63.bsky.social

What a way to end the first week at the start of first year in archaeology at Birkbeck! The dynamics of hoarding with Eleanor Ghey, and handling and coin stories with Elina Screen! Archaeology, it’s important! Many thanks to such incredible colleagues at the British Museum. @eleanorghey.bsky.social

Looking at the Snettisham Jeweller’s Hoard in the British Museum. The pot surrounded by the rings, gems and clippings.Elina passing around a coin with Harold one way, and a coin with William the other, and telling us that Pax was stamped on the Harold coin.
@cambridgearch.bsky.socialReposted by @markknight63.bsky.social

The model created from the Flag Fen auger survey shows that the basin around the post-alignment has a gentle gradient across its western half, beside a deeper 250-300m wide “valley” across the eastern half. This eastern deeper, wetter zone corresponds to the location of the Flag Fen platform.

The deposit model created during the Flag Fen auger survey, with differing colours indicating the variations in depth across the Flag Fen basin.
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