Mortuary archaeology | Museums | Death | Folklore | she/they | Dr | Folk horror enthusiast | Bit of a goth 💀⚰️🏛️📚
Lurking in a graveyard, UK
Joined July 2009
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🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
Exciting find of a Roman bed burial - extending the funerary use of beds in England back in time by at least three centuries. Different to the 7th cent ones (with a male, for a start). But wooden construction raises questions about what we're missing
theguardian.com/science/2024…
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
Amazing work with the first forensically excavated iron age bog body in northern Ireland and C14 dating with QUB C14 lab
Best info direct from PSNI
Archaeologists within the Police Service of Northern Ireland have uncovered ancient human remains dated over 2,000 years old in Bellaghy.
orlo.uk/XolLe
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
Come along to our next online talk: The History of Halloween by Ronald Hutton 18th July How old & how pagan is Halloween? Was it the ancient pagan feast of the dead? Come and find out! It's never too early to get thinking about Halloween! tinyurl.com/5n7a25av
#folklore #pagan
I had A LOT OF FUN playing this! Anyone with an interest in folklore/history/archaeology will find much to enjoy in this folk horror adventure game, as it draws its inspiration from real people, places, and folk beliefs! ✨ 💀 ⛏️
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
Throughout July, visitors to Arthur’s Stone will be able to witness excavations being undertaken by experts including @juliant1959 of @UoMCAHAE which aim to unearth the mysteries surrounding the site
manchester.ac.uk/discover/ne…
@EnglishHeritage
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
We spoke to @Dazed about paganism, re-enchantment, mysticism, and antidotes to capitalist realism.
dazeddigital.com/life-cultur…
"More than a hundred of the puzzling objects — hollow, 12-sided geometric shells of cast metal about the size of baseballs, with large holes in each face and studs at each corner — have been discovered in Northern Europe over the past 200 years." buff.ly/3HxMMXl
"Gypsum burials have been found [...] in Europe and North Africa but were particularly notable in Britain, with at least 45 recorded in the York area since the late 19th Century." buff.ly/42IzK0g
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
This morning I discovered the little display in the office of material taken from but eventually returned to #Pompeii by guilt-ridden visitors over the years. #sorry
ALT Envelope addressed to Pompeii with fragment of mosaic that it once contained
ALT Note apologising for having taken an assemblage of stone and ceramic having been told it was pumice
ALT An apology note for having taken a small lump of plaster (though they refer to it as rock)
ALT A note with SORRY written in large letters
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
Humans have been scratching names into monuments for many centuries and future historians may appreciate this, but please don't do it.
Still... "only after what regrettably happened did I learn of the antiquity of the monument”?
The colosseum?
What?
WHAT?
theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
Can any of you lovely folk pinpoint this spooky old show? It rings no bells with me, but it sounds fantastic!
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
In case you missed this last Friday, I've got a new book coming out this October about hands-on ritual year #folklore called Everyday Folklore! 🥳 and if you want to try some ritual year folklore tonight 1/2 #EverydayFolklore #WyrdWednesday liza-frank.com/the-cats-out-…
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
Come along to our next talk by Dr Helen Frisby: A Brief History of Burial Grounds! 4th July, 6pmGMT online!
We’ll explore how people have expressed relationships with their dead through body disposal practices💀 tinyurl.com/355pp979
#burial #folklorethursday
It's #MidsummersEve and almost time to rattle those bones again! 💀 🌳 ✨
Each year at midnight on Midsummer’s Eve, skeletons are said to rise from the roots of an old oak tree near Broadwater Green in Worthing, Sussex. They dance to the rattling of their own bones around the tree until sunrise, before sinking back into the soil 💀🌳 #SuperstitionSat
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
My regular reminder that to have the ‘mubble fubbles’ (16th century) is to experience a bout of melancholy such as the Sunday evening blues, combined with a vague sense of impending doom.
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
Episode 133
DEATH FOLKLORE IN 19th CENTURY ENGLAND
Listen free on your podcast app or at thefolklorepodcast.com/episo…
Podcast host Mark Norman is joined by @NonFictioness to discuss her research into 19th century British death customs and rituals.
#folklore #Death
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
The Satanic Temple: Think you know about Satanists? Maybe you don't bbc.in/3MjRppe
🎃💀Katherine Crouch💀🎃 retweeted
#MuseumsHeritageDeath, edited by @DrTrishBiers & @DrMaryClary will be released July 26, 2023!
The book includes 35 chapters: a comprehensive examination of death, dying, & human remains in museums & heritage sites around the world from 60+ contributors.
tinyurl.com/MHDBook2023
