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Another shout out to ‘past me’ and poor decision making: finally had a big lump on my knee looked at, diagnosed as prepatellar bursitis, largely caused by repetitive kneeling (aka housemaid’s knee). ‘Past me’ thought kneeling pads on digs were pointless. ‘Past me’ was an idiot

Congratulations to Alastair who won the Faculty Academic Excellence Award. Having served in the Royal Marines for 15yrs, Al discovered a passion for archaeology with Waterloo Uncovered and was offered one of our unique veteran studentships in archaeology University of Winchester in 2020 1/2

Al completed his professional placement year and continues to work part-time for his hosts, and took part in the AGEN dig, training 1st yr students. Al was nominated by Dr Paul Everill and the award was presented by fellow former Marine, Dickie Bennett Breaking Ground Heritage 2/2

Great to see our article out today Bulletin of the History of Archaeology on the first excavation AGEN Schneider’s Tower: An Extraordinary Archaeological Collaboration Between the Soviet Narkompros and the Notgemeinschaft Der Deutschen Wissenschaft, Nokalakevi 1930–31 archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.53…

this is just section 76 of the Venice Commission's trashing of the GD's law on "transparency of foreign influence". Line by line, they take it apart. You could do dozens of tweets with their finding. It is not surprising, but entirely stark.

German Ambassador to #Georgia Peter Fischer said that if the Foreign Agents law is adopted in its current form, #Germany will not vote in favor of opening #EU accession negotiations with Georgia. civil.ge/archives/608712

A soggy Rishi Sunak announcing a general election while "Things Can Only Get Better" blares out feels quite on the nose..

AMPHORA and the Heritage for Heroes initiative - projects pioneered University of Winchester - are featured at Using Archaeology for Recovery, a one-day seminar at Bournemouth University on 5 July. To book a place visit shorturl.at/Nmmes

The international team for NOK24 has landed at Tbilisi. Now to navigate passport control and baggage reclaim and meet our friends!

On our way to Nokalakevi ❤️

Day 1 of NOK24: Having settled in over the weekend it’s time to start work. The first task for the team is to clear all the vegetation from around the trenches!

This morning the team enjoyed a visit to the nearby Shkhepi fortress - contemporary with the early Byzantine fortifications at Nokalakevi

Wonderful opportunity to talk about University of Winchester veteran studentships in archaeology, and my work with UK, Georgian, and Ukrainian veterans AGEN at today’s symposium on “Using Archaeology for Recovery” organised by Richard Osgood & Mark Brisbane Bournemouth Arch & Anth AMPHORA

It is clear that gorklon rust needs to stay out of British politics. RT if you agree.

2004> 2014> 2024… This year marked 22 years working in Samegrelo, west Georgia, since I started out there in 2002 before starting my PhD, so I wanted to add to the series of photos this summer

On this day in 1989 - my first ever archaeological experience! Slightly shocked to realise that the first day of the Wroxeter training school was 35 years ago, which makes me feel very old indeed, but it set me on my way to a career I’ve (mostly) loved

Great news that ⁦British Airways⁩ will start direct flights on the London 🇬🇧 Tbilisi 🇬🇪 route from next year! Hope to see lots more business and tourist travel in both directions… mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/d…

Delightful event to host as British Airways reopens direct flights between London and Tbilisi from next Spring🇬🇧🇬🇪 Our objective now is to triple the number of visitors and tourists to Georgia and support more trade and economic links✈️

Have just realised, having found some old files, that it was almost exactly 20 years ago that Chris, Jez and I held the first meeting of the CIfA Digger's Forum (16th Oct 2004). To be honest I didn’t expect that UK #archaeology would still need this voice in 2024, but it does

If you’re looking for me on here, I’m over on Bluesky mostly now - and continue to post infrequently