Kayt Hawkins

@kayth.bsky.social

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Archaeologist #roman #pottery #childhood. Ex NCT #childbirth educator. Join a union. UCL. My own musings. She/Her. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Current obession: these pots⬇️ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17585716.2025.2478734#abstract

Image shows upper face of a replica roman oil lamp. In the central circle is a depication of roman glass blowers around a glass furnace. The lamp is a terra sigillata copy and covered in an orange coloured slip, with slight sooting at the nozzle edge.
Photograph showing the poster for the archaeosexism exhibition. A blue background with the exhibition title in the top left corner. The rght and centre of the poster is filled with a line drawing of black and yellow lines with a white infill of a woman, side on, holding her hand up in which she hold a trowel. Across the bottom of the poster are the logos of the organisations supporting the exhibition.
Image of the front cover of Volume 21 of the Journal of Roman Pottery Studies. The cover is a pale green colour with black line illustrations of different roman pottery vessel types of jar, flagon, lid and bowls.
The front cover of the book has a cream backgroumd colour with the words All My Worldly Joy written in black, underneath which is an image of a woman in black and lined in gold with gold stars in her body and her hands cradling a line drawing of a baby in utero. The womans head is like a round pink planet with gold planetary rings. Plants and flowers also in line drawn gold are growing behind and around her.
A short video of a hand holding a fragment of roman period pottery. The fragment has a dark grey and black surface and as it is tilted in the light the mica within the clay that is visible on the surface sparkles.
Image shows white background with the words Boycott EAA Athens in black letters above a red circle with a red line through the 2026 conference logo.
On open laptop placed on a table with a rather large tabby cat who has sat on the keyboard with his back to the camera.
Image shows me looking very happy in front of a selection of Roman ceramic vessels, including flagons, bowls, a spouted vessel and a lamp from one of burials at St Pancras, Chichester.
Joining sherds of a grog-tempered late Iron Age pedestal jar base, known as a trumpet base due its hollow high foot. This base has two decorative cordons.
Discount book flyer for Documenting Activism, Creating Change, Archaeology and the legacy of MeToo. Code 006120.
Image of a minature roman cermic pot, held between my finger and thumb. The pot is incomplete but does show the complete profile from rim to base. The pot is grey in colour, with an oxidised core, and there is a possible trace of the makers finger print just above the base on the outside vessel wall.
Garden made of interlocking stone planters, reminiscent of the Giants Causeway, filled with alpine plants.
Large screen showing the tittle slide of Prof Liv Nilsson Stutz's presentation, a black and white photograph of archaeologists sitting on the ground in a group chatting, next to black writting on a white background which says 'Piercing Together Past Human Encounters with Death: a theory and practice of archaeology'
Front cover of Ben Paite's book which has a black background with the title 50 LGBTQ+ Finds in white and gold lettering, and underneath an image of a copper alloy bust of Antinous.
Auditorium stage with 7 panel members and large display screen showing the opening slide of the Study Group for Roman Pottery presentation with the title, Crossing the Divide: not just empty vessels but the glue that binds a fragmented profession?
Baby bell cheeses still in wax wrappers, assembled in a dodechahedron shape, with inverted iced-gem biscuits for decoration.
Collapased pile of unwrapped babybell cheeses, each with a hole through the centre and many protruding cocktail sticks
Twelve unwrapped baby bell cheeses laid out in a flat dodechahedron pattern
Two books are shown, the first is Eating and drinking in roman Britain by Hilary Cool and the second book is Milk, an intimate bistory of humanity's first food by Joanna Wolfarth.
Image is of woodfire in a hearth
Image shows a fragment of fired clay used in a roman kiln. The fragment has small round dimple impressions on one surface.
Framents of fired clay used to line a roman pottery kiln in Britain, dated to AD270 to 300. The fragments show deep smoothed grooves on one surface where someone pulled their fingers through the wet clay when lining the kiln.
Image shows a small box containing a number of replic arrow heads, painted in a variety of bright metallic colours, with matching ribbons attached so they can be hung up as decorations.
Slide image of four roman pottery sherds that have each been repaired in antiquity using birch bark glue. The glue is seen adhering to the broken edge of the sherds. The slide is from a presentation by Kayt Brown (now Hawkins) and Rachael Seager Smith given at the Theoretical Archaeology Conferene in 2010
Photograph of bookshop window display of three books, How Westminster Works by Ian Dunt, 50 Finds of Childhood by Kayt Hawkins, and Republic by Alice Hunt.
Photo of the Study Group for Roman Pottery president welcoming all the delegates to Mikton Keynes, UK
Photo of tabby cat lying in an empty archaeological finds cardboard box lid
Film advertising photo for A Haunting in Venice. Image has black background with the five main characters each holding a single candle to illuminate their faces.