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
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
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…
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
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@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
Have a look at our new paper detailed excavations at the #Neolithic complex at Dorstone Hill has come out today in @AntiquityJ! For the first time it presents a full overview of the site, and new #Bayesian chronological modelling #Archaeology #Prehistory
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
You can read about the rock crystal from the site here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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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