Lesley McFadyen

@lesleymcf.bsky.social

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archaeology, art, heritage ecologies, drumadoon, ardeer

Horse box converted into coffee place in the car park of the Machrie Moor standing stones.
An image in purple - the colour of the Birkbeck owl and its banner - stating that archaeology at Birkbeck had been ranked 1st for teaching in England.
Red engineering brick with the name Acorington stamped on it, on the gravels of the foreshore.
Painted black S with arrow on brick wall.
Purple tulips thrown into the river to commemorate a loved one that died on this day a year ago.
Butchered bone from cattle are scattered amongst fragmented brick and tile on sand and gravel.
Cristina speaking in front of a vivid red image with people holding their hands high holding the red carnations of the revolution.
Title slide to Ed's talk on archaeology consultancy and large infrastructure projects.
Claire Harris in orange hat and waterproof smiling to camera.
A B&W photograph of Portuguese archaeologists excavating the past in the present for the future.
Repurposed art work from the Glasgow Garden Festival - red painted metal tree that looks pollarded with log-type stools, now in a shopping precinct.
Muna in the sunshine in front of her title slide for Wadi Gaze with the textures and histories of a river map.
Photo showing the facade of the Museum of the Home. Big red lettering, blue sky and cloud behind.
The importance of a river's life.
A band of iced over pond and a band of concrete, outside Churchill College, Cambridge.
Poster with the titles and speakers of the five seminars that are coming up at Birkbeck in 2026. Click on the link for more details and booking - https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1200
BA students from the archaeology programmes at Birkbeck on the fancy staircase at Senate House in their fancy graduation gowns!
Happy Birkbeck students at The Cove in the weak Autumn sunshine.
Poster display on how to approach the question of kinship through a study of care and attention to the details of context.
Birkbeck students in gallery 51, hearing (and seeing in materials) stories of deposition and things with Neil Wilkin.
Screen showing archaeology of the Thames for our BA archaeology programmes at Birkbeck. It’s a clear evening outside the window with a great view of the London skyline.
Christopher showing his title slide ‘Tarpaulin and Sail Cloth’ at Birkbeck, and standing behind all of his models of ships and dockyards on the Thames. These are laid out on a blue cloth to mark the river itself.
The Thames at high tide from Deptford with the renovation of a jetty in the foreground and the city in the background.
Scale model of The Admiralty Dockyard and the ships it built.
Scale model of historic ships on the Thames, a working foreshore with slipways and their associated dockyard.
Photogrammetry of extension wall to the Royal Dockyard at Deptford, depicting the C18th brick work and contemporary graffiti.
Historical maps of the Thames.
Office buildings and canal boat homes reflected on the water in the afternoon sunshine.
Thames river wall drying in the sun in various shades of green, yellow and grey.
From the river wall in the sunshine, looking down on the Thames at high tide.
Fragment of china tea cup with a pink pattern embedded in rolled building materials and gravels on the foreshore.
Thames foreshore in the sunshine with a series of old, and in the process of being renovated, piers.
Drone shot of the affects of bomb practice at Cape Wrath in the North West of Scotland, photograph by Alex Boyd
Tasting hedge garlic growing at the edges of the farm buildings.
Siggy explaining to the volunteers about plant families using flowers they had picked from around the farm.
David standing on the edge of the field next to the chambered monument.
Botanical keys to identify British and local flora.
Old rusted weather vane at Drumadoon Farm.
A beautiful serrated blade made from Cinglais flint being held up in the April sunshine on the edge of a working quarry.
Two pit assemblages of Late Neolithic pottery, worked flint and animal bone arranged on the ground in the shape of the feature that they have just been excavated from.
Sunshine in Russell Square.
Christmas tree baubles of Stonehenge in all shapes and sizes but all depicting a trilithon.
Coffee and a wrapped bun on the steps of the Birkbeck offices.
Delicious caramel tart in a box.
Good coffee and a very fine empire biscuit.