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#inktober2022 30) gear. All the best left behind in Aldbourne by paratroopers of the 101st airborne. Bullets, chargers, spoons, buttons, hooks, grenades & a parachute handle, DDay clicker and the ID tags including that of Carl Fenstermaker- one of the famous #bandofbrothers
#inktober2022 28) Camping. In the 18th century thousands of Hessian mercenaries camped in Winchester. Some in tents & some in holes cut down into the chalk which even had brick chimneys like this one! We managed to join @PCAarchaeology & @OctaviusImp to dig one - Ex Sleepy Hollow
#inktober2022 27) Snack. I always annoyed going to Gough’s Cave, Cheddar as a kid. And recent research suggests cannibalism of bones from that rise - perhaps even so far as using skull caps as drinking vessel! Charming (worst snack ever). newatlas.com/science/britai…
#inktober2022 26)ego. A coin of king Cnut minted in York. Most are familiar with the apocryphal tale of Cnut demanding the waves turn back (hubris and ego) - hes buried in a chest in Winchester Cathedral & the coin was minted by the first ‘Osgod’ I can find. How’s that for ego!
#inktober2022 24) Fairy. The curious fairy shrimp! An animal whose eggs lie dormant in temporary pools which were, in times past, moved about by cattle hooves. On Salisbury Plain,tank tracks perform this task so we have the biggest UK population alongside the New Forest! @mod_dio
#inktober2022 23)Booger. a silly word so I’m doing the #archink alternative, ‘Burial’. A sketch of a grave from Avon camp on the Plain this year. FOUR people in the grave with the final burial having a skull over their chest. other sketches from field notebook for good measure!
#inktober2022 22) Heist. If this is about a mission pinching lots of valuables, I can think of no better than the. Viking-age Galloway - a quite astonishing collection of items now in Edinburgh. This Saxon pectoral cross being just one of the items. More #vikings soon!
#inktober2022 21)Bad Dog. REALLY harsh- should just be ‘dog’ but i wanted to draw something from #Pompeii ! This is one of the famous plaster casts. I think I first saw it on Siouxsie’s ‘cities of dust’ single! If ever an object encapsulated a tragic moment.
#inktober2022 20) Bluff. The ‘false’ entrance to the magnificent Belas Knap longbarrow. Cotswold Severn tombs are gorgeous things and this is a cracker. Real vaults to the side and a bluff at the northern end!
#inktober2022 18) scrape. An animal that doesn’t insist on living IN my monuments on the Plain - a hare. Instead it scrapes the ground to make a small indentation called a ‘form’. These are wondrous creatures small wonder they are so often depicted in art (see @HannahWillowArt !)
#inktober2022 17) Salty. This shoe - some 2700 years old - was found in the ancient salt mines of Hallstatt in Austria. Not only was the person mining salt, they were probably walking on salt and sweating whilst working. Possibly the saltiest thing ever! Hallstatt is fab btw
#inktober2022 16) Fowl. A Roman ‘sitting chicken brooch’ in the city Museum in Winchester. I am guessing it would once have had enamel decoration.
#inktober2022 15) Armadillo. The mighty glyptodon - looked like an ancient armadillo- this creature lived c2.5 million years ago in South America. Same size as a VW Beetle! The video to Rock the Casbah would have been very different…
#inktober2022 14) Empty. The back door to the now empty Imber Court on Salisbury Plain. Now an incredibly busy training area for the army, the house still holds ghosts of past villagers, the door closed with corrugated iron. The archaeology of this village would be fascinating….
#inktober2022 12)Forgot. Actually the opposite to forgot: the headstone of Private Alan Mather. Listed as Missing in Action in June 1917 and found again by archaeologists in 2008 being identified in 2010. They made it clear they did not forget.
#inktober2022 13) Kind. An.act of kindness from my daughter this year as she worked to help the release of turtles into the wild - I love her passion for animals and the strength she draws from this.
#inktober2022 11) Eagle. There are lots of these in Winchester Cathedral - carved on tombs and depicted on tiles. At a pinch you could also include the best of peregrines… this is, however, the wooden lectern
#inktober2022 10) Crabby. The mind-blowing remains of a crab 100 million years old (!) encased in amber - found last year in Myanmar. Jurassic Park!
#inktober2022 8 ) Match. The 1st C tombstone of Roman cavalryman Longinus was found in Colchester in 1928. Minus his head - a gesture from the Boudiccan uprising? Further excavations 70 years later found more sculpture including a face with a helmet - & this was a complete Match!
#inktober2022 6)Trip. Doesn’t get trippier than the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland! My old tutor, Prof Andrew Sherratt made a tv series called ‘sacred weeds’ administering fly agaric to people to see what art they came up with - prehistoric? Genius! Different Alice too obvs!
#inktober2022 5) Flame - sorry couldn’t resist a good wicker man scene. Replicated every year at @butserfarm but not for the faint hearted. Or indeed policemen with flying boats! SING CUCKOO!
#inktober2022 4)Scallop. Archaeologists at the @_UoW found this scallop shell amulet in the medieval grave of a man at St Mary Magdalen hospital perhaps indicating that he had been on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela #Archaeology
#inktober2022 3) Bat. One of my ecology colleagues showed me this skeleton of a greater horseshoe bat. So delicate. I think it looked like the remains of a little imp!
