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!