Interesting five minutes worths

[MaC]

I'm (well I was) an archaeologist. I find evidences of the past quite fascinating. I can happily lose hours, and days, restoring textiles, etc., or researching whatever.
There are several groups of people who either restore, create anew, or curate artefacts. Their work is always of interest.....well, to folks like me, and maybe some folks like yourselves too.
One group has rather old fashioned youtube videos (they weren't originally meant for youtube. The Esme Fairbairn foundation supports a huge variety of educational research and publication). I've been quite enjoying them. From tool use to leather working, it's all of quiet interest.

Thought we could do with a thread where we post links to such things that interest us. Needn't just be my archaeology, it could be bird watching/identification, dog training, shed building, (on that note, the fellow who build a medieval style barn roofed with traditionally hand made shingles would fit in here), rope work.......you get the idea.

Anyway, I didn't know about Oyster forks, but I know where two of them are still doing sterling duty opening bean tins in a workshop's crampt galley

M

 

[BorderReiver]

I attended a conference on Seahenge yesterday, and one of the speakers was the chap who discovered Holme one.
He found the ring one spring tide and contacted the Norfolk Museum to report it. He kept a watch and more of the site was exposed, so he kept 'phoning the museum service and telling them that this was obviously of some importance, and could disappear overnight. They eventually took notice and the ring was added to the record after what Prof Prior called the most detailed, extensive excavation of a bronze age site ever done anywhere in Europe.
John Lorimer also has several very good photographs of Holme two, which has long since been washed away.

 

[MaC]

I suspect I'd have enjoyed that Mike

 

[BorderReiver]

I suspect I'd have enjoyed that Mike

You would have, Mary.
The other speakers were Francis Pryor, David Robertson, Peter Bray and Nick Thorpe.

 

[MaC]

You lucky man, that would have been worth the journey