This is the grant application that I spent most of last summer working on! Yes, I know - Romans! - but a great opportunity for us to work with local partners and rescue this important site.

From the contribution of the Global South to the development of human rights to making history: writing Scotland’s post-reformation, the Trust Board awards twenty-seven fellowships for research in the humanities and social sciences. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/major-r...

Are you in Year 10-12? Interested in history? We’re offering two students the chance to spend a week away from the classroom (29 June - 3 July) helping catalogue objects, curate displays + write blogs for our popular newsletter. Apply by 20 January: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/library-and-...

Come work with us! 🧬 We're hiring a part-time Biomolecular Lab Tech @cam-archaeology.bsky.social .Join our team in the Henry Wellcome Building working on DNA & proteins. Apply by Feb 2: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole... #ScienceJobs #Cambridge #Archaeology #STEM

Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research? Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections. collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...

Thrilled to have been part of this Digging for Britain series, led by a great team. Met fun colleagues, chatted about their cool research, over-enthused at the cameras and did my first ever voice over work (talking slowly is hard!) Tune in tonight, and over the next few weeks, on BBC2 and iplayer!

We may regret it, but we're allowing #CuratorRob out in public. We've hosed him down and locked his cider shed, so it'll be fine, right?🙏😬 For ONE NIGHT ONLY (15 Jan, 8pm) he's giving an online talk about the recent discoveries at Palace. Huxley may feature. £5 plus booking fee. bit.ly/flaevents

Join our PGTs for their annual conference! 📢 Researching the past 📅 Thursday 11 December 9.30-4.30 📍 Talks in Streatham Court LTC and posters displayed in Marchant Syndicate Room A in Building One Do come along to support our students and socialise ❤️

Great news! Our AHRC-funded Warhorse book has been nominated as Book of the Year in the 2026 Current Archaeology Awards. Prof Oliver Creighton's 'From Bayeux to Bosham' project is also up for Project of the Year! Voting is open at www.archaeology.co.uk/vote

A warning from the past: if there is anything you would like to preserve long-term in good condition, please don't stick tape on it! As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain. Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻

🎉Exciting news! 🏆Together with our research partner the University of Exeter, we have won in the Strategic Partnership category at the #KnowledgeExchangeUK Awards! Read more about the work researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea...

From artefacts and materials class, Exeter University Archaeology, sending kind regards for the weekend

What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs? Can I interest you in some cats? Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia? As you wish! Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S

There was a great turnout yesterday to Prof Alex Pryor's (birthday) talk on 'Hunters of Giants: How to kill an Upper Palaeolithic mammoth, revealed by stable isotopes and DNA'. This was part of our Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology (HumAnE) series of events, to which all welcome!

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the walruses, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Walrus Day, here is an illustration of a walrus from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #WorldWalrusDay #WalrusDay #RareBooks

Head on over to our project website to read all about the recent conference and data collection trip which had me zigzagging across northwestern Europe via train all the way from Copenhagen to Exeter! #researchupdate #archaeology #datacollection sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

Our Masters students taking a module in Experimental Archaeology visited Stonehenge yesterday to learn about reconstructed Neolithic houses and a new project to build a large Neolithic education building, based on timber structure Durrington 68 😍 Also starring Ed's Late Neolithic decorated hard hat👷

We did a Telly! 🤩🎬 Four in a Bed.... www.channel4.com/programmes/f... (had to take a photo of our computer because stupid Channel 4 wouldn't let us screen snip)

Are you considering a PhD? 🤔 Join our 'Masterclass - PhD proposal and funding 101' 📅Wednesday 3 December 🕰️ 10am or 4pm 📍ZOOM All welcome! 🎫 Book your *free* ticket: • 10am: fixr.co/event/master... • 4pm: fixr.co/event/master...

Yesterday, Prof. Stephen Rippon was invited to London to be presented the prestigious British Academy Landscape Archaeology Medal, awarded for distinguished achievement in that field of archaeology. Many congratulations on this much deserved honour!

📢 Announcing three(!) new opportunities for aspiring archaeologists to join our Archaeological Fieldwork Technician apprenticeship program! Apply now (closes Friday 24 October): www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/VAC1000345576

Step back to 1086 and explore the fascinating world behind the oldest surviving Domesday manuscript!📜 Dr Chris Lewis speaks on the mysteries, gaps and stories of Exon Domesday. 👉 When: 30 October 7:30pm 👉 Where: Exeter Cathedral and online 👉 Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Has Halloween come early? No, last week some of our 3rd year archaeology and forensics students carried out a crime scene recovery exercise in our woodland on campus.

Increase your knowledge of Exon Domesday on 30 October with researcher Chris Lewis! Book your tickets to learn all about the oldest of the three original manuscripts surviving from William the Conqueror’s Domesday Survey of 1086: bit.ly/2025-library-lecture #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

This September we are hosting a Special Tour of the Bishop's Garden and Cathedral. Learn about the historic home of Devon’s bishops, who have lived here since the 13th century. 🌳 24 September | 10:30am 🌳 £20 (adults), £10 (under 18s) 🌳 Accessible tour Tickets: bit.ly/special-tours

Can’t wait to welcome you to the Department! Especially with such a glowing reference from Curator Rob!

Glass furnace update! 🔥🍷 We've been building a glass furnace @butserancientfarm.co.uk. We've removed the PhD student from the hole and replaced her with Roman tile and (less Roman) brick. Looks like a Goldfish. #CuratorRob has been helping make daub bricks and has in no way lost his mind.

I'm fundraising for LauraLynn - Irelands Childrens Hospice fundraise.lauralynn.ie/s/859/858/s I’m taking part in “Run 100K in September” challenge to raise funds for LauraLynn, Ireland’s only Children’s Hospice, for children with life-limiting conditions, be grateful for your support

You want hillforts? We got hillforts! The AHRC-funded project 'An atlas of the hillforts of Britain and Ireland' was an HCA project with the University of Oxford, edin.ac/411eXYa #HillfortsWednesday #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Edinburghuniversity

Such a lovely story this 😍 Jan Oke is an Exeter Archaeology alumnus and Fairlynch Museum’s Curator of Archaeology. She is a former recipient of the Angela and Tony Colmer prize 🏆 herself and was part of the team who awarded it to Phoebe Holland today ♻️ for outstanding Fieldwork in Local Archaeology👇

Very proud of Alisha and Jess who are that the launch of their co-authored book: Tails and Roots - a creative exploration of biodiversity in research @uoearchhist.bsky.social @frankieboyd.bsky.social

Some great finds fresh out of the ground today! In trench 6, we've been finding lots of animal bone and what some staff on site believe to be a key! We will need to x-ray to find out. Then in trench 3 we have found the remains of a wall, and also some beautiful Beauvais pottery from France!

A lot of cobbled surfaces being revealed at Columbjohn! Trench 3 is also revealing some features such as a drainage system and a slumped wall! @nattrustarch.bsky.social

Funded PhD on natural and cultural heritage on islands! www.mic.ul.ie/sites/defaul...

Halfway through our fieldschool at Columbjohn! In terms of finds it's a tale of two halves - prehistoric (likely Iron Age) pottery and flints from one trench, masses of post-med pot and Elizabethan ceiling plaster from another!

First day on site at Columbjohn for Fieldschool! A feature in Trench 3 and some new finds have already been discovered as the rubble layer is being revealed. Finds include a Victorian coin and 17th century pin! Follow this page to keep updated and visit the site at Killerton when you get a chance!

We're hosting Alisha from @uoearchhist.bsky.social all week this week. Alisha is bothering our pig teeth for her PhD to find out wonderful things about the history of wold board at Fishbourne (and elsewhere, but who cares about all that?).

Were cats domesticated in the Neolithic? New research by Sean Doherty and Naomi Sykes suggests it was far more recent, and the result of religion, not rodents

Finally President Linda Hurcombe is bringing together multiple strands - Anthropocene, future periods of time, public engagement through experimental archaeology, and the future of @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

All welcome at dr Semih Celik's talk on the 15th of April 10:30 😊 'Exploring and Digitising the First Ottoman Natural History Museum and its Eco-Heritage' Join us on in the Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1 (Streatham campus) or online! More info and tickets👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-projec...

Joy!

Brilliant way to end the term with some of our brilliant @exeter.ac.uk 3rd years and colleagues across the faculty showing off how Dead Important the humanities really are!!

Our Department is kicking off the first Dead Important Festival - students and staff showcasing how their humanities work is making positive changes for people, places and policy. And there are stickers!