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@carolemadge

🧵 With New Year approaching, I thought I'd share some of my favourite moments and photos from my 2022 archaeological travels, which have seen me travel to Egypt, Turkey, Hadrian's Wall and Algeria.
#Throwback2022 #archaeologytravel #FollowingHadrian

Sailing on Lake Nasser in Egypt between Aswan and Abu Simbel and visiting the temples that used to lie on the banks of the Nile but were moved when the Aswan High Dam flooded the region in the 1960s.
#Throwback2022 #archaeologytravel #Egypt

Visiting the relocated Wadi es-Sebua temple with its beautiful avenue of sphinxes. The temple was built during the reign of Ramesses II and was dedicated to the deified pharaoh, Amun-Ra, and Ra-Harakhty.
#Throwback2022 #archaeologytravel #Egypt

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🅰ntiquity Journal

@AntiquityJ

Archaeologists found over 100 previously unknown settlements north of Hadrian's Wall from around the time of Roman occupation.

A #FestivalOfArchaeology thread 1/6 🧵

Thes settlements were found between #HadriansWall, built in AD 122, and the Antonine Wall, built around 20 years later when the Empire expanded further north for a brief period. 2/6

📷: The walls by NormanEinstein / CC BY-SA 3.0

Recently, an analysis of lidar from the region around Burnswark hillfort revealed 134 new indigenous Iron Age settlements in the region, even though it had been extensively studied in the past. 3/6

📷: Known and newly identified sites

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Pete Savin

@pete_savin

Wellcome to our virtual walk from Ambleside to Howtown on Lake Ullswater. I’ve based the route on #HadriansHighWay by @fellranger1 which he uses a variant to the main route. Books can be bought direct or through @VindolandaTrust

A view of #Ambleside from Wansfell our starting point in the heart of the #LakeDistrict @CumbriaMagazine

We can start at the roman fort at the edge of #Windermere. The Romans stated to push into the lakes in the early 90’s AD, this fort dates to the rebuild in Hadrian’s Reign possibly after warfare which brought about #HadriansWall #Ambleside

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Guy Opperman

@GuyOpperman

It's #BackBritishFarming day!🇬🇧

#Northumberland’s farmers are so important to our local community, and have worked hard during the Covid pandemic to fill our plates, and keep us fed so I, and many others, want to say thank you 1/: 🥳🎉🧑‍🌾

And it is also about managing our iconic landscapes like the farms who are part of the #NorthernHillFarmingPanel and higher level stewardship areas of South Northumberland that I visited with the @Natures_Voice a few years back 2/

And landscapes have to be managed to ensure #HadriansWall survives through farmers fields

And the curlew and plovers on our uplands and moorlands survive and thrive 3/

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David K Smith

@professor_dave

Sycamore Gap.
#HadriansWall

Sycamore Gap 2
#HadriansWall

The 7yo did very well coping with the cross country yomp required to get those two photos!

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Guy Opperman

@GuyOpperman

20 mile views to #Scotland from #HadriansWall as early start for a rural home visit Saturday in #Northumberland - heading to #Bellingham + beyond #RuralMP

Surgery + chat with Kate from #Bellingham @PostOffice who (along with local community) will be seriously affected by proposed @Barclays decision. Signed her petition + meeting #Barclays on Tuesday in @HouseofCommons to protest proposal, which affects rural communities v badly 2/

Honoured to chat to Graham Batey, who is a #veteran, a #Bellingham legend, 90 years young + telling me stories of his RAF service in 1949 in Hong Kong / China #proud

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Guy Opperman

@GuyOpperman