Today is the Antiquarian John Aubrey's 400th Birthday! Born in 1626, John Aubrey has been described at Britain's First "Archaeologist" Read about his story and his connection to Wiltshire here at: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/john-aubrey-...

So close!! Can we get it across the line and into the safety of Leicester Museums Service, where it can be researched, studied... and looked after in perpetuity! #Archaeology 🏺 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...

So many springs in the Avebury landscape at present! Water table is super high. Nodded to my old friend Silbury Hill!

Dear friends, I am very rarely here so I apologise if I don't pick up DMs or comment much. Please contact me by other means. Thanks!

Delighted to see this @vch-home.bsky.social partnership publication on Chippenham is to be launched next month. The third partnership book developed from @wiltshistory.bsky.social research on the town and the surrounding area, created in collaboration with local communities.

Next week: join us for our next online talk: Niamh Lawlor, 'How Early Twentieth-Century Modernity Gave Avebury Its Folklore'. Tuesday 10 February, 19:00-20:30 GMT on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-early-...

Excited about our upcoming exhibition ! www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/rel...

Woodhenge was discovered in Dec 1925. Delighted to see my article about this in @CurrentArchaeo’s December issue - fittingly for the 100th anniversary of this state monument. 🏺https://the-past.com/feature/100-years-of-woodhenge-tracing-an-archaeological-icon-from-discovery-to-new-dating-evidence/

This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.

Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍 These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895 © Trustees of the British Museum #Roman #Archaeology

8. Chronicle of Georgia, Tbilisi (1987) Zurab Tsereteli’s brutalist Stonehenge: massive basalt pillars engraved with saints & Soviet heroes.

Behold... the 2025 face pumpkin! Inspired by many things, but first and foremost I went back to my jack o' lantern roots with an archaeology reference. The Undine / Vodena Vila sculpture from Lepensk Vir, from 6300 - 5900 BCE.

Sighting the sun in Bristol Cathedral. #helios #heritage

“we have established in court that The Lost King is a misleading, defamatory, untrue portrayal of what happened in Leicester back in 2012." 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is wonderful Pete - many thanks for sharing! 🏺

Breaking news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remembering the English Heritage Stonehenge Dahlia Shows 2023-2024,which revisited the Great Stonehenge Dahlia Exhibitions 1842-1845.

Paintings of Stonehenge by Victorian women are rare, and these details are tantalising: could this be Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1818-1897) and her daughter Lady Ermyntrude Russell (1856-1927)? Such precious women's artwork needs to be in the Wiltshire Museum collection.

Dogwalk to the mighty Southmead round barrow yesterday. Difficult to get a sense of its scale but it’s BIG. 🏺

Watched this again last night with hubby. The day Marty goes back in time is 40 years ago today!! 26 Oct 1985. Brilliant film!

Avebury by William Colt-Hoare. Note the old toll house at the start of the Kennet avenue. #StandingStoneSunday

#WeekQForQuiet #AlphabetChallenge Also #StandingStoneSunday There’s something about a stone circle that invites you to experience it in peace. This one, the smallest in Cornwall, is in Duloe 🙂

What a charming #Egyptian bronze figure of a shrew! Since shrews are animals that find their way in the dark they were connected to the descending phase of the sun’s nocturnal journey. Late Period (746-332 B.C). On display at Museum Hohentübingen. 🏺 📷 me

Demolishing 1 Silk Street would waste carbon and damage local character. A retrofit could save both. We’ve objected to the plans, now it’s time to rethink how we treat our existing buildings. Why demolish when we can refurbish? Reuse saves heritage, carbon, & character. 👉 shorturl.at/VjnpU

A treasure find becomes the property of the Crown at the immediate point of discovery. The finder is the bailee - entirely responsible for its safe keeping and deposition. It could be argued that the archaeological context is also protected & any damage considered to be prosecutable criminal damage

#EpigraphyTuesday - A stunning piece discovered in 2014 in the Galloway Hoard. A Roman rock-crystal column-head, repurposed and mounted in gold, ca. 8-9th Century, to serve as a small container for liquids. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 (1/2) Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).

News | National Trust cuts 500 full-time posts Charity says a third of job losses will come from compulsory redundancies.

Shell poster promoting travel to Stonehenge by Edward McKnight Kauffer.

#HeritageCrime News Devon and Cornwall Police have stated there are "No viable lines of enquiry" in the case of metal detector users who raided the scheduled Lydford Castle and Saxon Town. However, if further information becomes available the incident could be re-visited, the Police said.

‘The West Tofts handaxe is a small British Acheulean biface well known for its cortical preservation of a fossilised bivalve shell’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The story of the Durotriges just got a little more intriguing www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2518005...

In the Middle Neolithic of Ireland's Boyne Valley, passage graves were superseded by more open circular enclosures. Circular 'proto-henge' monuments developed in southern Britain shortly after. Were they inspired by interaction across the Irish Sea? 🏺 Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Oh no, awful for the patients - and everyone. Hope all are safe; my son was born here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heel Stone and moon, last weekend #StandingStoneSunday

What are you up two weeks from now at 7.30pm on Mon 2 June? Because you could be listening to me talk about how to survive the ritual year! Join me for an online talk ‪@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social for a skip along the seasons! #Folklore #Event www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk?event=online...

#TombTuesday & Bristol Airport isn't usually my jumping off point but when our route there brought us within a of minute of the Priddy Barrows I couldn't resist a quick stop

Moon setting at callanish #StandingStoneSunday

🎉🏛️ ICOM UK wishes a Happy International Museums Day 2025! We acknowledge the vital role of museums and professionals in raising awareness of museums as spaces for cultural exchange, enriching cultures, and fostering mutual understanding #museum #IMD2025 #icom

Anyone notice graffiti on the Cherhill White Horse recently please? From the A4 it appeared that there were two words, but nothing appears obvious when you take a photograph and it isn't distinct when close up. Perhaps it was natural?

This time last week 😍

Interesting paper.

Out of the Shadows: Reestablishing the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins: Part 2 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Tim - some questions: do we 100% know these dumps contain dolerite? Do we know why they have been dumped and who did this?? The article suggests byway repair - but is this definite? And if so by whom? Farmers? Council?

Just awful 😢. ‘Iconic Dolphin Mural Collapses at Knossos Archaeological Site’ 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️ greekreporter.com/2025/05/17/d...

a lovely lunar standstill moon rise by colleagues at Griifith Observatory www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHWQ...

🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to @louisearchaeology.bsky.social @dah-lab.bsky.social for creating No Stone Left Unturned, a game which re-purposes digitised archival materials from the Avebury Papers Project to create public engagement for archaeological research ⛏️

Currently free online: Insularity and Identity Prehistoric Britain and the Archaeology of Europe www.cambridge.org/core/element...

At @museumsandheritage.com Awards @heritagealliance.bsky.social was pleased to support the Partnership of the Year Award. Heritage Open Days, Landmark Trust @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social & Scouts winning. Congratulations to all nominees. Great to sit with @amandachadburn.bsky.social & EH

It’s been an odd day on social media discussing the horns of Moses! And now by complete coincidence - @mappadan.bsky.social and @wittspat.bsky.social - look what I’ve just seen in the National Gallery dating to 1290-95! This is Moses breaking up a fight! 🏺

Thornborough is more a series of liquorice Catherine wheels with a jelly spog at each centre. #HillfortsWednesday