Associate Professor of Heritage Management, Buildings Archaeologist, Oldthingologist, Anthropospelæologist All opinions my ownhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3mm7r7otndk2yA lecture I did a couple of weeks ago, on rock-cut things, as ever! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUSlv_yTBk&ra=m19 May 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7r7otndk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lqzpzi4tus2sEasy LB description to AI any guesses?07 Jun 2025 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqzpzi4tus2shttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lqzprqc2ps2sEnjoying putting listed building descriptions into AI. It’s not bad, but can’t get phasing or weathering, everything looks 19th c (too much American data?). Easy one, what building is this?07 Jun 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqzprqc2ps2shttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lonlbv2it22wBeautiful, early 16thc linenfold doors, falling apart and being eaten by beasties! I won’t say where to save the blushes of the parishioners…. But really! #AdoorableThursday08 May 2025 09:16 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lonlbv2it22whttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lokxqhrsps2mNordy Bank hillfort, Clee Hill, Shropshire, you can see about a billion other hillforts from here #HillfortsWednesday07 May 2025 08:21 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lokxqhrsps2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lojw3xp2us27Wise words from behind the organ06 May 2025 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojw3xp2us27https://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3llrnld7ja22kI’m slightly obsessed with decaying medieval churches, but sometimes the scale and rate of loss becomes all too apparent.01 Apr 2025 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3llrnld7ja22khttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3ll2guxrztc2zIndeed! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Mar 2025 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll2guxrztc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3ljute6mjnc2xThis is a VERY exciting photo! Beavers! After a gap of 800 years08 Mar 2025 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljute6mjnc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3ljk7zzynuc26Now a Wetherspoons, so still providing bizarre entertainments [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2025 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljk7zzynuc26https://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3ljd7lrjmnc2vSaint Non’s Bay, next to the birthplace of David, monastic pioneer and a link between the Christian Roman world and the Middle Ages. Happy Saint David’s Day01 Mar 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljd7lrjmnc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lieumw7sxk26A site I haven’t been to in ages, but which retains its appeal. Bit modern, (18thc) but with some amazing literary associations (not the one you would think).17 Feb 2025 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lieumw7sxk26https://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lfyuctc3ak2shelmet, with eyebrow ridges and nasal, but Iron Age and from Britain…. Ermmm… not Late Roman or vendel, Sassanid or even bloody Saxon! This is superbly, beautifully weird. Funny ear vent too, like Late Roman, is the dating right? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2n2vj7neyo18 Jan 2025 08:11 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfyuctc3ak2shttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lful7atymc2rTenbury Wells wonderful 19th century round market hall for #Adoorable Thursday16 Jan 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lful7atymc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lfi7ayqyxc2gA beautifully creepy weird frost day.11 Jan 2025 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfi7ayqyxc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3ldsmq3mfh227What’s the origin of this idea that people believed that the sun might not come back, so had they had to have fires at midwinter? It seems awfully condescending. Is the origin of the story the horrors of 536? Or is it some classical author sneering at barbarians, or some 19th century conceit?21 Dec 2024 09:48 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldsmq3mfh227https://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lcxwvosxyc2fI have the pleasure of working on the beautiful round market at Tenbury Wells. A glorious example of Victorian practicality.10 Dec 2024 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcxwvosxyc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lci4kiofnk2zUnderground places that have possible associations with Early Medieval saints are irresistible, so looking forward to exploring this enigmatic, eremitic probable souterrain in central Birmingham.04 Dec 2024 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lci4kiofnk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lcftgkpsck2phe is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy, and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave’s mouth grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them.03 Dec 2024 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcftgkpsck2phttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lbzotzqssk2fA wonderful resource, finally freely available [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Nov 2024 18:25 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbzotzqssk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/tunky-pig.bsky.social/post/3lbuknip6lc2kSt Cassian’s (I know) Chaddesley Corbet (Worcs). An emergency churching trip, I needed an easy local fix of Medieval26 Nov 2024 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:fg7ess7mpeclc7pm2e7ko2uq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbuknip6lc2k