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@daniellemilbank.bsky.social

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Archaeology (esp buildings archaeology and piles of old bricks), music, miscellaneous

A right-angled triangle shaped piece of flat glass, 8cm along the longest side. The surface has irregular wiggly lines in the metallic looking layer of decay, and under the decay it has a light green colour
Scale card with 1cm black and white squares, on top of a brick laid underside up. The left hand side has a deep oval thumbprint a few mm deep in the rough surface, from the maker picking up the brick before it was fired
Hand holding out a small nondescript scrap of dry, slightly porous, rough fired clay with a fingerprint in the upper surface
Piece of dense, creamy-coloured fired clay with a flat surface. Within this is the recessed shape which was infilled with molten bronze to cast a sword blade and tang
The upper surface of the tile, with a scale showing it’s about a fifth of a complete square tile. The decoration is inlaid with white clay infilling the roughly 5mm wide grooves left by a stamp. The motif has diagonal lines and darts, and has a pale greenish glaze making the parts of the red tile appear brownish
Background is a table with pen, ruler etc. Hand holding a palm-sized piece of fired ceramic tile in an orange grey colour with a slightly rough finish. It’s got a pattern in relief, with repeating chevrons below a field of lozenges within circles. The relief lines are a few millimetres wide and 2mm deep, and here and there the grooves have retained a small amount of whitish plaster
A hand holding the small, slightly broken bowl of a clay pipe. It’s made of smooth kaolin clay which has taken a few knocks and abrasions so it’s not quite smooth, and the colour is mottled grey rather than its former white
Plain black, slightly faded text on grey-white background, which says ‘sluicemaster plus operating instructions’ and nothing else
90’s ink eraser pen which my friend found in a box of old stuff. Silver plastic cylindrical barrel, white ridged lid (slightly chewed) on one end, blue ridged lid (slightly chewed) on the other. Held in the hand of someone who last wielded one at secondary school
Rough piece of fired clay, greyish and dusty looking, with an uneven surface. Holding my thumb next to a little, shallow, concave hollow in the surface, which is about the same size as my thumb
The edge of a ceramic roof tile, fairly rough but knife-trimmed in a series of parallel chop marks to remove excess clay and make the cutaway part neat so that, when placed on a roof, it can fit over the tile below
A beautiful flawless Ford Capri in the sunshine
An extract from the piece
Unnecessarily bolshy shower gel packaging promising a ‘wake up effect’
Text from Amazon listing, specifically the safety advice saying this book should not be used near overhead power lines. Presumably the book can fly, or has a 20ft metal pole extending up from the cover that the don’t mention elsewhere
A screen grab of the photogrammetry scan I took of the rock before I donated it. The rock is light grey fine grained sandstone, with a more or less flat top. The two footprints are within the upper surface, and represent the infill of the prints, so they’re raised up bumps. Each has four forward facing toes and a long narrow heel. They’re fairly well-preserved but don’t precisely match each other in form. The prints are aligned in the same direction and are just over 100mm apart, evoking the stride length of something perhaps chicken-sized
A broken chunk of the curved base of a glass wine bottle, with a deep blue green metallic-looking surface coating. This results from acids in the burial environment attacking the glass. Early 18th century and found in the upper fill of an earlier well, excavated on a site in Oxfordshire
A lump of brick fired repeatedly at crazy high temperatures to give a thick, almost oozy looking layer of glassy coating, which has swirls of dark blue, light milky blue, and blue green.
A very goofy looking model of an early amphibian called a Temnospondyli, looking happy and mildly idiotic, in the Cole museum of zoology in Reading
A close up photo of the relatively smooth upper surface of an old ceramic roof tile, with an orange red body and grey surface. There’s a shallow imprint of a woven or crosshatched pattern which is likely to be the result of fabric pressing the clay while it was still a little soft. The textured imprinted bit covers a couple of square centimetres and although it peters out at the right hand side and top and bottom of the pic, the edge at the left is well defined, suggesting to me that was the edge of the woven fabric
Brightly painted yellow and blue laundrette. The entrance was on the corner of Ladywell Rd and a side street, and has pilasters on either side. The side facing the street has a rendered plinth wall, above which are rectangular panels and a large rectangular window. The shop sign reads ‘fenerbahçe’ above and ‘laundrette’ below, in blocky text. It looks a bit shabby but is part of a well loved street scene
Daft child aged about 4, shouting with delight, wearing a highly flammable thin plastic Batman outfit
Very faint shallow print, possibly a dog’s paw, on the face of a rough reddish ceramic roof tile, found in an archaeological context of 16th to 19th century date