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Two days to see Simon Callery show

In Archaeology on October 30, 2009 at 3:02 pm

Simon Callery with a Cut Pit painting

Oh dear, over a month since my last post. One & Other (the original impetus for my starting this blog) has gone, a new British Archaeology has been out for three weeks and I’ve been to several interesting places – including an exhibition by Simon Callery, which is why I’m writing this now: it’s well worth seeing, and it closes on Sunday (November 1).

John Prescott and Tony Blair launched the

Where Digging Deeper leads…

In Stonehenge on September 12, 2009 at 10:08 am

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… the Architects’ Journal and Building Design follow. Sort of. While I reported that Denton Corker Marshall’s proposal for the new Stonehenge visitor centre was “difficult to fault… within the severe limitations of the commission”, the pros tell of a less

Do you have ancestors who went to Patagonia?

In Archaeology, Writing on September 10, 2009 at 10:33 am

Routledge Patagonia

Looking at some evocative photos of the Patagonian coast (I seem to know a lot of people who’ve recently been out there), I was reminded of a boat that went through the Straits of Magellan in 1913. This was the auxiliary schooner Mana, registered in Whitstable in 1912, captained by William Scoresby Routledge, stewarded by his wife Katherine Routledge (nee Pease) and crewed by a curious collection of seamen, fishermen, scientists and the odd Royal