Category Archives: Research, hmmm

Fizzy drinks, the Codd patent bottle and some experimental archaeology

Posted on August 27, 2020 by sarthure

When aerated mineral water drinks were first manufactured way back in the eighteenth century, they were stored in stoneware bottles. But the gas often escaped, the fizz disappeared and the drinks became flat. When glass bottles were used, a different … Continue reading →

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Christmas jigsaw puzzle of the ceramic variety

Posted on January 1, 2018 by sarthure

Christmas is an excellent time for jigsaw puzzles. One of my longtime favourite novelists, Margaret Drabble, asserts that ‘jigsaws are a joy at Christmas, the ideal gift, the perfect employment’. Further, she says, they ‘give you an illusion of order and progress when … Continue reading →

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Tales from the trenches – the wee tree

Posted on July 4, 2017 by sarthure

The image below records, from a bird’s eye view, the excavation at Baker’s Flat in April this year. Look to the top left and you can see our four work vehicles lined up. To their right the trench – Trench F … Continue reading →

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A reflective moment on the entangled world of research

Posted on February 12, 2017 by sarthure

‘Take a sharp needle,’ he said, ‘and stick it in under the collar of your coat, and not one of them will be able to have power on you.’ This is from a story that John Millington Synge recorded on … Continue reading →

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