Tooting in fond memory of that time I got trolled by a 1790s dictionary of low slang that utterly refused to define the word "Huffle" or the word "Larking". Huffle was easy, but larking sent me ALL THE WAY down the rabbit hole:
http://www.erosblog.com/2017/10/16/a-huffle-and-a-lark/
#Slang #SexualSlang #Dictionary #Huffle #Larking #Blowjob #Tittyfuck #BreastSex #TitFucking #Tits
Found three treasures while litterpicking, including another Mesolithic worked flint - 7 from the same area so far (2 x blades and 2 x points/barbs were notably close finds). This one is the same grey flint, and it's been worked as a core, but only about a third remains because it broke from intense heating. Archaeologists sometimes record these heated flints as "potboilers" but I'm not convinced that applies to this artifact. It seems to be part of a core with usable flint that was put beyond use either intentionally or in a natural wildfire. I was already beginning to wonder if a tool - spear/harpoon - was mislaid and I've been finding some of the pieces. Now I'm wondering if a campsite was lost or even a human life: landslip, wildfire, hunting accident? Impossible to know but I can't help speculating.
Sunset seen while out litterpicking yesterday evening.
Two tiny worked Mesolithic flints, probably used as barbs on spears. The smallest, which I found yesterday while litterpicking, is 11x6mm. Apart from me, you're the first people to see the one on the left for over 8,000 years.
Guess who just found the teeniest Mesolithic microlith while litterpicking on a sunset walk? Me! Strange to be the first person for over 8,000 years to see this human manufactured tool.
A large, rusty, rear horseshoe with quarter clips and square headed nails. No earlier than 1830s but likely more recent. Found in woodland on a disused and overgrown farm and logging trackway while litterpicking. A lucky find.
I don't usually bother the fossil Friday tag with common Wenlockian marine fossils, but for the second of 30 Days Wild, the Wildlife Trusts' annual event, meet Big Dave the Dawsonoceras who was an orthoceratoid (like a squid in a conical shell) who swam in a warm shallow sea about 430 million years ago. Big Dave was a peak predator in his time. After Dave died and his shell came to rest on the seabed it became home to many smaller encrusting colony animals such as bryozoans. Fossilised Big Dave is about 10x5x4cm and the largest Little Dave bryozoan covers about 5x1.5cm of the surface. You can see the internal structure of one of one colony of encrusting animals in a photo below. I found Big Dave when I was walking and litterpicking in the woods. He was sticking out of a muddy bank of glacial till, which around here is a type of soil-with-rocks deposited by glaciers at least 150 thousand years ago.
#30DaysWild #larking #WenlockWednesday #fossil #fossils #FossilFriday
I need to break my addiction to picking up random fossils now I can't give them away via local educational programmes. I just bent down to look at strata when suddenly a rugose coral appeared in my hand... closely followed by several different species of brachiopods... oops. Although this solitary horn coral does have a colony coral epibiont so maybe I'll use that as an excuse.
Recent litterpicking included a cute plastic elephant who is now in a local charity shop, and a Castrol GTX oil tin that appeared to be 40-50 years old.
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