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Really lovely to have a short version of mine and Trix Randerson's 'Nicked & Nicked' paper published in the YAHS magazine! 😊

If you didn't see the original paper, you can read it here.

#Archaeology ⚱️ #Torcs #Gold #Vikings

https://www.yas.org.uk/Portals/0/adam/Document%20Display/dP7XFNaYF0GeOl1AMxeObA/Link/Briefing%2016%20May%202025%20compressed.pdf

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/04/16/nicked-and-nicked-the-knaresborough-gold-ring-and-a-possible-viking-redeposited-iron-age-hoard-from-eastern-england/

Although the 'Iron Age Dialogues' conf will be published, I will be hit with the usual image rights issues, so will have to adapt it.

I wrote this for anyone who wasn't there (...or for anyone who was & didn't get a chance to take it all in! 😂)

#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs ⚱️

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/05/12/iron-age-gold-time-for-a-shake-up/

Another great race on #Torcs... :)

Para nuestra sorpresa, y después de casi 9 años, hay una nueva versión de #TORCS

Para quien no lo conozca, TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator), es un simulador de carreras que empezó en 1997, y del que salieron varios forks, como Speed Dreams.

La lista de cambios es larga: muchas correcciones, actualización de varias dependencias, soporte para mandos actuales, etc.

Descargar:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/torcs/files/

Lista de cambios: https://sourceforge.net/p/torcs/code/ci/eced44c3a98798c22e1c1da26d2d32cba29a2436/tree/torcs/torcs/README

#linuxgaming #floss #sim #racing

Some bedtime reading for you all: why access to artefacts and the free ability to research, publish - and replicate - matters.

#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Dodecahedron

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/04/22/private-finds-and-image-rights-and-wrongs/

I wrote a thing...

#Archaeology #Torcs #Treasure #Dodecahedron

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/04/09/my-precious-some-thoughts-on-access-and-ownership-of-artefacts/

#Snettisham Hoard F has some very strange stuff going on, but I think I'm starting to understand it.

This paper leads on from one I wrote about the Grotesque torc & lays down evidence for the next paper I'm currently writing...

Enjoy! 😊

#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/02/24/fused-melted-and-dripped-on-snettisham-hoard-f/

A read for the weekend. Related to something - well, two things really - that I'm writing at the mo.

More to come soon, but in the meantime, here's the prequel!! 🤣🤣

#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Snettisham #IronAge ⚱️

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/09/22/thoughts-on-the-grotesque-torc/

Decided to write a thing about something else I've spotted in the #Snettisham volumes...

#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Trapdoor

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/02/04/a-tale-of-two-snettisham-patches/

The Big Book of Torcs is 5 years old!! 🎉🎉

A HUGE thank you to everyone who's read, liked, shared and supported me and the site. I really do appreciate it! ❤️

It's good to torc! 😂

www.bigbookoftorcs.com

#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #IronAge

The Big Book of Torcs is 5 years old!

In total, since January 2020, it's had 42,473 views from 24,667 individual people in 123 countries (only c.50% are from the UK)!!!

2020: 7,837 views, 4,531 people

2021: 5,059, 2,035

2022: 5,174, 2,763

2023: 10,975, 6,630

2024: 13,428, 7908 and still going up!

Most popular papers/blogs: Harry by a long way: 4223 reads (2218 PDF downloads), then the Grotesque torc paper (3301 reads), Near Stowmarket 2197, Torc finders 2087, Knaresborough 1099 etc. Every page has had over 1500 views, and most blog posts get over 1000 reads.

Referrers: Mostly Twitter and Facebook: around 7000 each. 6559 found the site from search engines. Plus various reshares, links from university sites, etc.

SO THANK YOU to everyone who's read, liked, shared or supported me and the site: I really, really do appreciate it.

Tidying up some torc admin before Christmas and have added a DOI and download PDF to the 'Detecting and Torcs' blog.

Seems it's a bit popular and I know several folks are using it for teaching etc (thank you! 😊)

#Archaeology #Prehistory #Torcs #Detecting

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/09/11/detecting-and-torcs-a-researchers-view/

I needed to write something to get my mojo back and here it is: a silly blog for the season...

#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Snettisham

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/12/18/chewed-torcs-from-snettisham/

Hi folks. I wanted to share my thoughts on the recently published Snettisham Hoards volumes (link to an online copy of the books is in the blog).

Thank you for reading 😊

#Archaeology #Torcs #Snettisham #BritishMuseum #Gold #IronAge #Prehistory

https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/12/11/the-snettisham-torcs-and-the-british-museum/