Mark Knight 🍉

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Archaeologist with a Fenland tendency. Happiest in the black, buttery depths seeking old land surfaces. You got them big dreams....

Charcoal stained hand after excavating a Bronze Age burnt mound
Train window dotted with the greyish white stains of dried out rain drops
Blue glass block window, tightly framed
Tray of chips, a blob of ketchup and a can of lemon Fanta
Dappled light on a gravestone - trunk of a Yew tree and the cemetery wall.
Shadow selfie holding a hoe in a north-south evaluation trench
Montage of machine excavated archaeological evaluation trenches in a flat arable landscape..
Massive sky filled with cotton wool clouds above the flat horizon of the Lincolnshire fens
Flat field with young wheat - tree line on the horizon and a hot blue cloudless sky
Snow covered archaeological excavation - pits and baulks
Pencil shaving mohican on pencil drawn punk
Preserved wood from Bronze Age peat held between finger and thumb
A splash in a swimming pool
Pebble beach, flat sea, silver sky with thin morning cloud. Centre of picture an abandoned small wooden boat, blue gunwales, faded white hull and black bilge. Sea kale growing around it's base
A square yard of beach pebbles: top half wet, lower half dry
Man balancing on a vertically held wheelbarrow to gain height for an archaeological photograph
A splash in the sea as a pebble lands in the water
A single stone, thrown, about to hit the sea - blue sky horizon
Blue sky/North sea horizon and waves lapping a sandy pebble beach - white foam dividing the image
Steve Bell's cartoon satire showing George Bush and Tony Blair - Tony Blair shown as a lapdog with 'medal' pinned to his hanging tongue
Bowl of porridge with a Tunnock's teacake dropped in the middle (all in soft focus)
Cinnamon bun and a double espresso in a small glass tumbler
Small lead figurine of an Iron Age warrior blowing his Carnyx horn. In the background is blurred computer screen
Three plastic tool trays, one on top the other: black, green and orange. In black marker the green tray is claimed by A. CHALLANDS (underlined)
Sign saying polling station
Maple tree canopy below spring blue sky
Archaeological trench across the Flag Fen Post-alignment. Preserved wooden piles, a mass of horizontal timbers sealed beneath oxidised peaty silts
Colour photo of an excavated, preserved tree stump of an oak that grew in the Early Bronze Age
Colour photo of a white tea towel printed with pale green coloured drawings of items from the Lare Bronze Age Havering Hoard. Items include socketed axes, socketed spears, sickle and sword fragments
Glass tankard with black text: FLAG FEN Bronze Age Excavation 1000 B.C.
Photo of clear glass ashtray with the base labelled in bold black letters: FLAG FEN Bronze Age Excavation 1000 B.C.
Railway tracks, reed-filled dyke and parallel conveyor belts with light bluey grey wriggly-tin coverings. Jurassic clays in background
Stone surrounded gallery entrance at Tate Britain - framing opening image of Cornelia Parker exhibition
Castle wall - Lochranza, Arran. Pink & blue stone and corbelled openings
Approach to Isle of Arran in shadow
Holocene stratigraphy: buried soil, woody peat, marine silt and peat. Preserved trees stump at interface between woody peat and marine silt. Measured scale and chalk board: WD7939
Detail of a collage by Rose Ferraby: The ends of bog oaks and shell rich sediments depicted in paper & paint
View out of the shed window - spade handles and sieve in the foreground
Flyer advertising the Rose Ferraby exhibition (abstract artwork and date of exhibition - 14th March - 30th May 2026).
Interior of reconstructed prehistoric roundhouse mid construction...roofing material waiting to be added
Bundles of willow rods tied with yellow & light blue baler twine
photograph of a Early Neolithic potsherd next to a Hobnob biscuit - both looking remarkably similar
Balding man in a blue T-shirt in an archaeological test-pit beside a grass covered round barrow
Jenny Holzer - Truism: Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise ...
Small red & white boat on a gravel beach
North Norfolk coast, mid February sea and a single figure standing forthright against the incoming tide
Rippled sand exposed at low tide (in black and white).
Washed up log on the edge of a loch. Eroded & weathered tree-rings
Pile of long, same length Ash poles - green bark, pale pink wood