Jim Leary

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Jim Leary

@Jim_Leary

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

North Yorkshire Katılım Nisan 2010
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@HouseChambers I think as they work through the data, hopefully these are exactly the questions that can be answered.
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@Jim_Leary Ooh, is there a standard axle width, and also, can you tell if they were passing on the left or the right from the depth of the ruts?
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The cart tracks of the North York Moors. Last year’s devastating fire on Fylingdales Moor has revealed archaeology in graphic detail. Medieval holloways and seventeenth and eighteenth-century cart tracks are visible for the first time and look as fresh as the day they were made.
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@Jim_Leary Also the remains of transporting heather cuttings and peat down to the valleys.
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@msjanebond007 No - entirely unrecognised. I wonder how many were off the books and related to smuggling.
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None of these would have been revealed without the fire. But the devastation is shocking - ecosystems, whole woodlands even, gone. It looks apocalyptic and will take decades to recover.
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In places, Second World War tank tracks overwrite the cart tracks. Lying in one is even the rusted remains of a tank fire extinguisher. And in places, actual tank tracks have been reused as bollards.
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I was back doing some fieldwork at one of my favourite Neolithic monuments yesterday. The neck-craning, almost 8m Rudston Monolith, a great, grey Yorkshire leviathan. The warden of the Wolds. No other standing stone in the UK beats it in sheer stature. #StandingStoneSunday
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Iain Cameron@theiaincameron·
@Jim_Leary Another bit of poor marksmanship by the devil, missing the church when throwing the stone. Or so the story goes.
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@pjacksonmusic I don’t know! I assumed my thumbprint on the lens. Although it looks like the moon blowing smoke.
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@FireOpal88 @CarolynHailston No, it’s not open. We went inside as part of an archaeological and conservation project to prevent internal collapses.
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The heart-quickening sight of an old friend. #SilburyHill - the largest prehistoric mound in Europe. A Neolithic monument I once spent a year inside. It is a mass of ancient matter, and quicksilver - substantial, heavy, brilliant, yet can’t be pinned down. #Neolithic
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Ann Miles
Ann Miles@AnnMile71721158·
@Jim_Leary Thank you for writing such a wonderful book. I remember seeing it a long time ago and being amazed.
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Ann Miles@AnnMile71721158·
@Jim_Leary I have your Silbury Hill book and very fascinating it is.
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manila@katipoonyero·
@Jim_Leary i do love me some Neolithicness ... any snaps of inside 🧐 [or is that a daft kwestchin 😵‍💫]
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