Jim Leary

Archaeologist & writer. Senior Lecturer @UniOfYork. Prehistory. Books: The Story of Silbury Hill. The Remembered Land. New book #Footmarks. Agent: J.P. Marshall

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Announcement 📣:
This is very exciting! #Footmarks will be out this June! It is a book about tracks and trackways, holloways and roads. A book about feet and shoes, wheels and boats. A book about putting one foot in front of the other, about crossing seas, pilgrims and migrants.

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** NEW ON NETGALLEY **

#Footmarks @Jim_Leary : https://t.co/7asL0Yl35E

Coming 1 June 2023:https://t.co/cRJXrg3Lx7

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For #FindsFriday, I'm gifting you this fantastic Bronze Age felled tree we’ve just excavated from #Skipsea in Holderness. The marks of the socketed bronze axe are clearly visible, and the thud of the axe is almost audible. Used - we think - as a post, perhaps for a trackway.

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What have we found at #Skipsea this week? Well, on the edge of a small pond fed by springs and streams, we found this Iron Age horse’s head and neck. There is no body with it, and I can’t help thinking of it lying there with its large eyes closed and mane gently washed by water.

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@jamestutt I think alder.

[Jim Leary @Jim_Leary]

For #FindsFriday, I'm gifting you this fantastic Bronze Age felled tree we’ve just excavated from #Skipsea in Holderness. The marks of the socketed bronze axe are clearly visible, and the thud of the axe is almost audible. Used - we think - as a post, perhaps for a trackway.

[Jim Leary @Jim_Leary]

What have we found at #Skipsea this week? Well, on the edge of a small pond fed by springs and streams, we found this Iron Age horse’s head and neck. There is no body with it, and I can’t help thinking of it lying there with its large eyes closed and mane gently washed by water.

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Well, this is a wonderful find from the ancient lake edge at #Skipsea - a 1.3m worked wooden pole. A digging stick, possibly Mesolithic, is our best on-site guess, but we’ll know more when it’s back at the labs and reviewed by our wood expert.

#WoodenWednesday #Prehistory #Peat

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@charbhardy Amazing isn’t it!

[Jim Leary @Jim_Leary]

Well, this is a wonderful find from the ancient lake edge at #Skipsea - a 1.3m worked wooden pole. A digging stick, possibly Mesolithic, is our best on-site guess, but we’ll know more when it’s back at the labs and reviewed by our wood expert.

#WoodenWednesday #Prehistory #Peat

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@urbanprehisto @JohnTierney_ Congratulations! 🙌

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For #FindsFriday, we have this wonderful piece of worked wood from our trench on the edge of the palaeolake at #Skipsea. Our student, Lydia, found it in an area that was once alder carr. At the moment, we don’t know its date, but it is likely prehistoric.

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@SarahLouisaColl Thank you! Many years of work led us to Skipsea, a lot of luck led us to the finds, and many generations of researchers led us to the conclusions.

[Jim Leary @Jim_Leary]

For #FindsFriday, we have this wonderful piece of worked wood from our trench on the edge of the palaeolake at #Skipsea. Our student, Lydia, found it in an area that was once alder carr. At the moment, we don’t know its date, but it is likely prehistoric.

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@charbhardy The algorithm on this site makes it so difficult for my posts to appear on people’s timelines and be seen. I’ve toyed with stopping altogether, but limping on for now.
The book is almost ready for submission!

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And continuing the diminutive finds theme - here is a small early medieval gaming counter from the site.

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For #FindsFriday I have the smallest of Small Finds for you - a titchy but beautiful Mesolithic shale bead. One of many that would have been strung on a necklace. Found out of context but not far from the edge of a lake at Skipsea in Holderness.

[Jim Leary @Jim_Leary]

And continuing the diminutive finds theme - here is a small early medieval gaming counter from the site.

[Jim Leary @Jim_Leary]

For #FindsFriday I have the smallest of Small Finds for you - a titchy but beautiful Mesolithic shale bead. One of many that would have been strung on a necklace. Found out of context but not far from the edge of a lake at Skipsea in Holderness.

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@msjanebond007 Sounds perfection!

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I love digging prehistoric peat - the way the ground bounces with every movement, the soft, sucking nature of it, and the anticipation of what we’ll find in it. Skipsea, Holderness, preparing trenches for the student field school.

[Jim Leary @Jim_Leary]

I love digging prehistoric peat - the way the ground bounces with every movement, the soft, sucking nature of it, and the anticipation of what we’ll find in it. Skipsea, Holderness, preparing trenches for the student field school.