Sadie Watson

@drsadiewatson.bsky.social

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Archaeologist, social value, fieldwork, developer-funded, Roman London. SE London and Dorset. she/her. 🏺🏛️👷‍♀️My views. Cyclist. Cats and daughters.

Gloriously chubby baby contentedly lying on sofa surrounded by cushion hedge, she’s drinking her bottle. Her face isn’t shown.
Dear Parent/Carer Due to the Government's inability to complete the EU withdrawal/ Brexit process on March 29th 2019, along with the inability of members of parliament to agree an acceptable deal, Great Britain remains within the European Union and will participate in the European elections. This means that on Thursday May 23rd 2019, Jessop Primary will be closed to children due to the that the school will be used as a polling station. We express regret for any difficulties that families may experience on this day as a result of the closure. Yours sincerely, K. Baffoe Head of School
Photo of cliff at West Bay, Dorset with some probable AI editing showing scaffolding up the cliff face in an attempt to make it safe against rock falls. Text reads ‘work has begun on strengthening East Cliff. Safe to say they’re taking it seriously’. The date is April 1st.
Tabby cat sitting squarely on GCSE revision book with claws ready to pierce any hands that come near.
Brick building, bright blue sky overhead. Free Luigi Mangione written along roofline in white paint. Camberwell, south east London.
However, the future of other items is less clear. A spokesperson for HS2 explained that under English property law, archaeological and historical objects found during the works will either belong to the government or landowners. "Occasionally landowners may wish to retain title to objects, in which case they will be returned to their care," said the spokesperson. Charlotte Self, archive manager for the project said she and her team were asking landowners to donate them where possible, so people around the route could enjoy them. "I would love to see the majority of these items deposited with the local museums from near where they were found," she said.
Reconstruction drawing of archaeological evidence from London Guildhall, showing 9th century occupation (timber buildings) within and around the old banks of the Roman amphitheatre.
Three men at a stage lectern, one sitting and two standing. The man in the centre is speaking while the others listen intently.
Three women on stage with a lectern, all smiling and the woman in the centre is speaking into a microphone. They are all dressed in bright, cheering colours.
Two women at the start of a lecture, one sitting and the other standing to introduce her. The first slide says: Networks of Sociability in Portuguese Late Prehistory.
Photo of two bearded white guys in their 70s doing a Boomer selfie, at the Women’s Rugby World Cup Final 2025
Tabby cat stretched out on my bed having a glorious snooze
Photo of woman picking sustainably grown flowers on a small holding in Abbotsbury, Dorset
Photo of school pupils playing cricket and rounders in an inner London park, green grass in foreground, a tower block under construction in the distance. The pupils are too far away to see their faces but I heard them shouting and laughing.
Photo shows Tower Bridge lifting to allow a sail boat with tall masts through. Blue sky, a lovely May evening.
Two new books arrived for me, one is 50 archaeological finds from childhood by Kayt Hawkins, the other is 50 LGBTQ+ archaeological finds by Ben Paites.
Map of the northeastern corner of the City of London in around 1300, showing Austin Friars under construction. The new Pope is an Augustinian Friar.
Poster with Prospect Archaeologist logo and heading: Sexual Safety Charter. There are 8 aims detailed below, ways in which employers can protect staff from sexual harassment at work.
Sign with two red circles both crossed diagonally by a red line: No Digging at top, enclosing a person using a shovel, No Metal Detectors below, enclosing a metal detector. This sign is in Abbotsbury, a village in Dorset. UK where there is a lot of buried archaeology.
Photo of bus with bike rack on the front
Black and white photograph of a donkey walking away from us down a country path, a little girl sits on its wide back. A woman wearing a white blouse and black skirt leads the donkey from its left.
Text is from Guardian newspaper corrections: ‘A review of Peggy Seeger's memoir quotes her description of her early impressions of Ewan MacColl and how they fell in love, saying he had a "hairy, fat, naked belly poking out, and was clad in ill-fitting trousers, suspenders, no shirt, a ragged jacket and a filthy lid of stovepipe hat aslant like a garbage can". The context we omitted was that MacColl was appearing in a production of The Threepenny Opera (First Time Ever, 30 December, page 5, Review).’
Photo shows a metal staircase going down into an archaeological trench with metal shoring behind against the trench edge. A woman archaeologist wearing a red hard hat carries a plank down the stairs on her shoulder, she is smiling.
Photo of a tabby cat with its head on my knee, its eyes are open but snoozy.
Poster from Prospect Union Archaeologists Branch with a trowel sticking out of the earth and yellow writing saying Get Sexual Harassment out of my Site. It’s a pun, archaeologists work on sites and we’re fed up with being sexually harassed at work.
Front cover of British Archaeology magazine. Photo shows a pile of silver coins from a hoard, dating from the mid 11th century AD.
Black and white photo of excavation of marble sculptures from the Temple of Mithras, London 1954. Audrey Williams is supervising with a cigarette in her mouth, wearing a wool cap and looking every inch the absolute boss (which she was).
Graph from Prospect Union showing Gross Value Added contribution in billion of GB pounds in 2019. Motor vehicles manufacture is largest at £16bn, heritage is at over £14bn, manufacture of pharmaceuticals is lower at below £14bn and agriculture, forestry and fishing is at £13bn.
A land use diagram, used by archaeologists to illustrate spatial and chronological information on a simplified matrix. This is from Newgate Street, City of London, highlighting the Boudican Fire layer of AD60, or 61! The buildings have been completely destroyed. There is a short period of external activity before more buildings are constructed.
Small but beautiful strip of silver fir used as writing tablet address label. Addressed to Londinio Mogontio or To Mogontius in London, in cursive Latin script.