Clemency Cooper

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Landscape Archaeologist, Engagement Practitioner | PhD @york.ac.uk @anthropocenebio.bsky.social‬ | Trustee @archaeologyuk.bsky.social | Palaeoecology and perceptions of natural and cultural heritage in the North York Moors | Views own

A hilltop landscape view with lines of stone through heather in the foreground, a patchwork of fields in the mid ground and the sea and cloud-covered mountains in the background.
A rabbit skull on top of a bracken frond.
Stone engine base covered in weeds in front of a stone and brick chimney stack.
An original paper invitation to the B.W.S.F. mass trespass onto Kinder Scout.
A red ceramic plate with a white goose print and text reading "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose."
A white sheet with large black text reading 'No owner of mountains' hangs in an art gallery.
Poster about Right to Roam exhibition
Two women holding paper collages in front of a whiteboard with post it notes.
A collage with Victorian and theatrical images.
Pink and yellow post it notes with words associated with the past - creativity, experience, memory, heirlooms, craftwork
A selection of paper collages on a table.
A close up of a magazine page titled 'My Archaeology'.
A collage on pink paper with the word 'place' at the centre surrounded by associated words and images cut from magazines. A haiku reads 'Past beneath my feet, Anchored in the present place, The future in reach.'
A poster reads 'Failure to include everyone diminishes us all'.
Graffiti on a red stone building reads 'Look left'.
A glass window pane reads 'The Glasgow School of Art - Window on Heritage'.
Bright pink box sign saying 'People make Glasgow' in front of a tree and line of buildings.
A white woman with curly shoulder-length hair wearing a cream anorak and backpack stands in front of railings on a bridge over a river lined with trees, and a tower in the background.
A staked sycamore tree sapling, planted in a lawn in front of a line of stone buildings.
A field in late spring with cow parsley and long grass in the foreground and trees and blossoming hawthorn bushes in the background.
A heron stands in the distance by the edge of a large algae-covered pond in the spring sunshine. The pond is surrounded by trees and reeds.
A black and white cat sits on the grey carpeted floor of a library in front of a bookcase.
A large gorse bush fully stripped off the bark, leaving bare pale stems. There is some dark green foliage at the very top of the bush, above head height.
A group of half a dozen golden-haired goats stand on and beside a footpath with a bench in the foreground and yes in the background.
A woman wearing black waterproofs stands in front of a leafless ancient tree on a grassy slope with a drystone wall in the background.
A woman wears a blue t-shirt with a University of Cambridge Museums logo, and holds up her hand in front of a display of drawn hands on paper, hanging up in front of the window of a shopping centre.
A footpath across a flat moor landscape with a grey cloudy sky. The text reads 'A new path #moorviews'
A hand holds a cup of tea in a cream mug on the left, with a laptop showing the opening slide of a 'This is Archaeology' talk on the right. In the middle is an open chocolate bar on a lap and in the distance is a lit candle in front of a log burner.
Brown horned sheep, with self-moulting fleece graze dried grass under willow trees, with a reconstructed Bronze Age turfed wooden roundhouse in the far distance, the inner side of a walkway across a lush vegetated drainage dyke.
A window onto 'the biggest archaeological chiller unit in the country' showing yellow tanks with scaffolding poles holding Bronze Age log boats submerged in polyethylene glycol. To the right is an interpretation board titled 'Discovery' with an image of a boat being lifted onto a truck.
A museum display case in the corner of a room titled 'The Flag Fen Wheel' displays fragments of wood. A black interpretation board with white writing to the right is riddled 'A Watery Mystery'. It sets out three hypotheses about the missing transom boards of the Must Farm log boats, a set of clues to inform these ideas and concludes with the answer: 'We will never know all of the facts and any hypothesis could be correct.'
A walkway of rough hewn upright timber posts starting to the left of the image leads to a long brick-built building with a mural of the prehistoric Fenland landscape. The building and walkway are set in a flat area with dried trodden grass, and a cloudy overcast sky.
A lined sunken tank of water with fragments of timber posts poking out. There is an overhead sprinkler system and the tank is surrounded by a fenced off walkway and enclosed in a building. The walls around the tank are painted with a reconstruction of the prehistoric Fenland landscape and the Bronze Age timber causeway preserved in the tank.
A wall of graffiti on the right side of a pedestrian underpass. In the background is the word 'PAST' in large pink letters, which have been graffitied over by other tags and messages in different colours and directions on top of each other.
To the right is a well worn set of three stone steps, surrounded by bare stony ground. It is set back a couple of metres away from a paved footpath to the right, in amongst a wooded area.
An interpretation panel at Wickes Fen titled 'Bog oaks' in front of an ancient oak log partially hidden by long grass cordoned off from a café area in the background.
A round black timber windmill with white sails stands in an area of long grass, with a wooden boardwalk with benches in front, a wooden bridge behind and a building in the distance. The sky is grey and cloudy.
A cream stone headstone is on the left, partially hidden by lush green spring vegetation. It reads 'Horace Darwin Born 1851 Died 1928 Son of Charles Darwin And in memory of his only son Erasmus Born Dec 1881 who fell near Ypres April 1915. Ida Darwin Wife of Horace Darwin Born 1854 Died 1946'. Other headstones are in the background on the right.
A path through an overgrown graveyard with a stone cross memorial on the right under a yew tree and a line of headstones on the left.
A road name reads 'Chariot Way' in front black railings and a block of flats and next to a tree lined pavement.
A free standing road sign reading 'Ring Fort Road' next to a tarmacked pavement and parched grass verge, with buildings beyond a fence in the background.
A closely mown green grassy park area with dried yellow lines in a rectangular outline. There is a path and tree in the background.
A large hexagonal stone monument with carvings at the top and a pointed lead roof, surrounded by fencing.
An side-on view of an interpretation board about Olaudah Equiano attached to metal railings alongside a river with a modern metal arched bridge in the background.
A tall narrow brick chimney towers above the nearby trees and buildings, and is reflected on the surface of a river in the foreground.
A tall cylindrical bronze sculpture cast from a wood carved mould depicting layers of archaeological finds. The picture shows a close up of a crouched inhumation burial. In the background is a road, with pedestrian crossing to the left and a brick wall to the right.
A view of a grazed common with cattle in the far distance among a line of trees. There's a footpath along a river to the left.
A woman wearing a cycle helmet stands to the left of a stone built chapel with a path leading to the door.
A stone built church with round Norman crenellated tower at the far end, and nave, chancel and north transept at the near end. There is a cemetery with gravestones in the foreground.
A view looking down into the cutting of a former rail line with brick-lined walls and an arched bridge across. There are iron railings in the foreground.
Two tall conical grass-covered mounds, one to the right in the foreground and one to the right in the distance with wooden steps to the top. There is a tree to the left in the foreground.
A newly tarmacked footpath lined with shrubs and hedges on a sunny summer evening with a bright blue sky. On the left is a woman walking along the path, wearing a black rucksack and cream coloured bucket hat.
A rounded vegetated hill with a stepped paved path rounding to the left and a worn desire line path in a direct line to the top in the centre. There is a blue sign on the right saying 'Erosion damage. Please keep off. Use designated pathway.'
A small stone-built Norman church with arched doorway to the nave and a tower. It is a sunny day and there are spring flowers by the door.
A white woman with shoulder-length brown hair stands on the left, in front of a panoramic view of the city of Cambridge. Distant church spires and rooftops stand out above vegetation in the foreground. The sky is a clear blue with some white clouds. The woman is wearing a purple fleece jacket and has sunglasses on her head.
A hardback book with a bright blue and green meandering river design titled 'Is a River Alive?' by Robert MacFarlane. The book is tied with a pale blue ribbon with a Bert's Books bookmark and a metal pin badge matching the book cover design.
A flat digital screen shows an archaeological finds tray with two items. One of these is identified as a Bamburgh Ware pottery fragment dating to 1000-1200AD. The item is given a score of one out of three stars.
A large flat digital screen shows a digital recreation of an archaeological trench. A trowel digs down through blocks of soil and a counter in the top left corner shows how many items are left to find.
The image is a collage of six photos, each showing a different page of a handmade fabric sensory baby book inspired by the University of Cambridge Museums. Starting in the top left and going clockwise, there are pages representing the Botanic Garden, the Polar Museum, Sedgwick Museum, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Whipple Museum and Kettle's Yard.
Half pint tankard beer glass with pale ale. The glass reads '15th Elysian Winter Beer Festival 2025'.