Jon Kenny - community archaeology

23/09/2026

So I need to hear from the Met Office and the BBC! What happened to the rains that caused the postponment of a Radar survey at Skipwith today. Luckily the intrument does need a service.

21/09/2026

Holiday part two, thinking about where we were staying at Cenarth in Emlyn in west Wales and comparing it to Skipwith in Yorkshire. So I wrote a bit about it in a Substack article.

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16/09/2026

Latest course over in Castleford.

15/09/2026

Looking forward to participating in this conference in November. See you there?

13/09/2026

Pleased that i am able to keep having something to say about the Iron Age landscape between the Ouse and Derwent. Have a read. If you enjoy whybnot subscribe. You dont need to pay, its my way of getting the work we have done together out there!

An Iron Age roundhouse, some unexpectedly hefty loom weights, and three very different moments of discovery. What can a handful of fired-clay objects tell us about weaving, household life and the communities that made cloth — and archaeology?

11/09/2026

All ready for back to work. This morning with the Queens Mill History, Local History and Archaeology Group at Castleford. Finishing our history and archaeology of medicine. Then off with DiGiT to excavate a bit more of the Smithy in Skipwith. Should be a fun day 😄

07/09/2026

The latest article on Lump in the Ground comes from our holiday in Mallorca. Not really community archaeology this week, but I hope you enjoy.

How two eclipses, twenty-seven years apart, turned strangers into communities beneath a darkening sky. In 1999, we stood beneath cloud at Prawle Point as the Moon’s shadow raced towards us across the sea. Twenty-seven years later, a family journey brought us to a dusty motocross circuit in Mallorc...

05/09/2026

Tomorrow: the final story from Mallorca
First came the clearing in the woods. Then the Templars and the making of medieval Pollença. Tomorrow, the journey ends beneath a darkening Mallorcan sky.
Our family’s experience of the 2026 eclipse—and my memories of watching another shadow approach the Devon coast in 1999.
A Community in the Dust, tomorrow on Lump in the Ground.
If you missed parts 1 and 2. Here they are:
🌿 A Clearing in the Mallorcan Woods — https://jkcomarc.substack.com/p/a-clearing-in-the-mallorcan-woods?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=25klt8
⚔️ Why Here? Templars, Conquest and the Making of Medieval Pollença — https://jkcomarc.substack.com/p/why-here-templars-conquest-and-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=25klt8

02/09/2026

Nice borders / marches landscapes.