Dr Matt Pope
Archaeologist & Associate Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology at UCL, where we run the PaPa MSc programme.
Researching Neanderthal archaeology in La Mancheland & Western Doggerland, from Boxgrove to La Cotte.
Provide Geoarch expertise to ASE.
He/Him 🏺
- Bomb damage from The Second World War on the west side of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The brickwork and Portland limestone cratered from shrapnel. The museum still stands and bares it's unrepaired scars.
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- Follow along for three weeks of training excavations at the Wonderful Greenwich park.
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- Great to join our @uclarchaeology.bsky.social students for their graduation today at The Royal Festival Hall. I got to my annual chance to go Tudor in @archsoton50.bsky.social colours. So good to see our MSc PaPa students celebrating and to meet their families!
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- A round barrow, just on the flank of Perching Hill. Not on the highest part dominating the landscape, but rather there for anyone taking the old trackway connecting the Weald to the sea. We stick activate its primary function everytime we pay it attention. #TombTuesday🏺
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- I am fairly certain that the overseas healthcare professionals staffing so much of our NHS and care organisations are not the problem. The Labour Party diminishes itself today.
- For #MosaicMonday, the fine Victorian entrance mosaic of the Wenlock Arms, Hoxton, London. Known well to many a London archaeologist. 🏺🍻
- If you like gardening then stop using whatever it is you are using and invest in a Niwaki Hori Hori knife. Its really a gardening trowe, it's so useful for weeding and planting I can't imagine not having one again. 🌻🌺🌷🪻🌸🌽🍅🥕🫑 www.sotogardens.com/products/niw...
- I'm starting a band called Celtic Field System. Because no one has yet. Who's in?
- Sun rising on Mile Oak Valley. The Hum is strong
- Out running through very arid chalk Downland. Seeing soil and crop marks everywhere due to the dry conditions. I wonder how much areas this is putting on wildlife and agriculture right now.
- Driveway moment, can't leave the car while it's playing.
- A little fluffy cloud adrift out west. It looks very precarious but seems to know where they are going.
- Reposted by Dr Matt PopeThe two pictures are 11 years apart. On 10 May 1933 the Nazi party staged ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books. 2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944. #Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.
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- Bouanne Libéthâtion! to all Jersey and Guernsey friends and colleagues. 80 years ago today, and one day later than the declaration of victory in Europe, the German forces surrendered control of the islands.
- A beautiful, though asymmetric, handaxe. It was made half a million years ago by a person from an early Neanderthal population at Boxgrove, England. While sediment stained, it is still extremely sharp and would have made a very effective butchery knife. #FlintFriday 🦣🏺
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- A curse on anyone who voted the UK out of the Union and anyone who keeps us out. You betrayed the peace the western allies fought and died for.
- Big excitement at @archsoutheast.bsky.social as we took delivery of a bunch of shiny new @quaternaryra.bsky.social field and technical guides. Get yours here: www.qra.org.uk/product-cate...
- The fact this wasnt the UK Gov response to tarrifs chaos shows how scared it is of Reform. All other party's ,(including the Tories) should be building a social democratic consensus to isolate the cultists.
- Reposted by Dr Matt PopeI had a productive call with Ursula von der Leyen this morning. We’re ready to build on our free trade relationship, bolster economic security, and work side-by-side on shared defence and security challenges. When Canada and the European Union build together, our futures are stronger.
- With you, the 4th of May, be.
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- Another still, sunny morning. Feeling I should have put sunblock on as I cross into Brighton, landscape of utilised, mothballed and derelict seaside engineering. #SeenOnMyRun
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- Reposted by Dr Matt PopeFirst visit for me last week to the incredible tidal Sully Island in south Wales last week, for #RCAHMW survey ☀️ Two #wrecks & a large promontory fort jutting into the Bristol Channel - with a round barrow at its tip 😮. An incredible liminal place 👌 #archaeology coflein.gov.uk/en/site/300996
- Paddling 💙
- Reposted by Dr Matt PopeWe need EVERYONE to see this advert for a Head of Operations at the Palace (£40-45k). Otherwise we might get some kind of numpty in charge. Please share. If we get 50 shares we'll post a video of #CuratorRob playing a hoover like a didgeridoo. hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/...
- Read more about the current funding threats to French rescue archaeology and expertise in La Figaro. www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/l-a... 🏺
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- If I play my cards right I could be starting the weekend with something similar in less than five hours.
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- The important work of our French archaeological colleagues is at risk. Their expert-led, progressive national & regional approach to archaeology, typified by @inrap.fr, is threatened by funding cuts. Everyone, please stand in solidarity & sign this petition & please share!🏺 chng.it/jzFsMpXw8h
- For #FlintFriday 300,000 year old handaxes from Etricourt-Manancourt, France. Expertly recovered from 7m of sediment by @inrap.fr Palaeolithic specialists. The same broad age as early Levallois & giant handaxes in Britain, the site show wider Neanderthal cultural complexity at this time. 🏺🦣
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- Head of Operations/ Deputy Director FT, permanent Salary £40,000- £45,000 per annum at @romanpalace.bsky.social We are seeking a Director who has a proven track record of managing a challenging and varied operational environment hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/... 🏺
- More accursed heritage thieves. Licence metal detectors now and help save our past! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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