Our Trustees met on site this morning for a tour led by Trustee Sarah Semple, a wander around Maelmin with Trustee Roger Miket, and—in the afternoon—sat down for a proper meeting. The future of #Yeavering is in good hands! Stay tuned for exciting news out of Yeavering in the months to come.

In between the hours excavating, the @arcdurham students at #Yeavering have been enjoying some early medieval games… and donuts 🍩! (Don’t worry - the donuts aren’t 7th-century 😉) Catch our daily site tour tomorrow at 3pm. #Yeavering #GefrinTrust #Northumberland #DUArchaeology

It’s the #Yeavering team’s day off. 😊 What better way to spend it than to head over to Holy Island & check in on the 10th (final) year of the DU/DV dig! Dr David Petts @arcdurham talks the team through the reopened trenches. We’ve been so lucky to have both digs run concurrently for a few years!

It’s raining cats🐱 & dogs 🐶 out there! Archaeologists are hearty folk but trenches this wet mean super slippery surfaces. We’ve cancelled our @gefrintrust site tour for today but will be back at #Yeavering to deliver the usual 3pm tour tomorrow (Thurs, 4 September). Stay dry! ☔️ 💦 Image: @adgefrin

Rain or shine, there’s big smiles all around from the Yeavering crew! #YeaveringExcavation #Northumbria #earlymedieval #GefrinTrust #DUArchaeology

I had the joy of sitting down with Prof Sarah Semple to hear about her 20-year relationship with The Gefrin Trust, her initial memories of Yeavering, and her favourite time to be on site. Follow @gefrintrust.bsky.social over the next month as the team excavates! #Yeavering #GefrinTrust

Professor Sarah Semple (Durham University) and team are readying to lay out the trenches at Yeavering for another fantastic season of fieldwork. We can’t wait to see what they get up to! #Yeavering #DurhamArchaeology #GefrinTrust

The 2025 Yeavering excavation has commenced with the relocation of the grandstand! Stay tuned for lots more from the trenches. We can't wait to see what the team gets up to! #YeaveringExcavation #Northumberland #DUArchaeology #GefrinTrust

On Friday night #TheGefrinTrust, along with our partners #AdGefrin and @arcdurham.bsky.social, lit up the contours of Edwin's palace and grandstand. For the first time in over a millennium, the structures' footprints could be seen against the dramatic backdrop of Yeavering Bell. (Image: A. Jansen)

We’re still buzzing from our 2025 Festival of Archaeology at Yeavering! Hear from Charlotte and Liam, two of our historical reenactors on site. #festivalofarchaeology #yeavering #adgefrin #northumbria www.instagram.com/reel/DM7b5bN...

We’ve had a fantastic 2025 Festival of Archaeology at Yeavering. Thank you to all those who came out to site, to learn and share. Particular thanks to our collaborators @arcdurham @adgefrin @aclereenactment. We’re already planning for next year! #FestivalofArchaeology #Yeavering #Northumbria

We’ll be highlighting the stories of our Trustees, including Roger Miket, over the next few months. Stay tuned! #GefrinTrust #Yeavering #Northumbria

Another well-attended tour of site. We’ve two final tours today — come out and visit us until 4pm! #Yeavering #FestivalofArchaeology #EarlyMedievalNorthumberland

We’ve had a fantastic first day. Join us tomorrow for Day 2 of our Festival of Archaeology at Yeavering, Northumberland. Thanks to our co-organisers Ad Gefrin, Durham Archaeology, and Acle. And most of all—thanks to all who showed up! We had a superb turnout! #Yeavering #EarlyMedievalNorthumbria

Meet Heather & Colin of Acle Reenactment. Heather produces all her own dyed wool & creates gorgeous textiles (like this one, inspired by the design of the Bamburgh stone throne). Colin crafts objects in silver based on Pictish & Anglo-Saxon metalwork. His work has been featured in tv shows & movies!

Walking the outlines of Edwin’s hall. #Yeavering #EarlyMedievalNorthumbria @adgefrin

Our first tour of the day is underway, led by Professor Sarah Semple (Durham), Gefrin Trust trustee and lead site excavator. #Yeavering #EarlyMedievalNorthumberland

Our friends over at Ad Gefrin certainly know how to construct a hall! See you tomorrow at the Festival of Archaeology! 👋 May your dreams be filled with bygone halls 😴 #Yeavering #AdGefrin #Northumberland

We’re on site and preparations are in full swing. See you at 10am! @gefrintrust @arcdurham @adgefrin #Yeavering #FestivalofArchaeology

The tents are up—the evocative landscapes of Northumbria call. 👟 🌳 🐟 ☀️ One more sleep until the Festival of Archaeology at Yeavering, Northumberland! Join us tomorrow from 10am-4pm. @arcdurham @gefrintrust @adgefrin #FestivalOfArchaeology #Yeavering #AdGefrin

Want to learn more about Brian Hope-Taylor's work at #Yeavering? In 2020, the Gefrin Trust digitally restored Episode 5 of the "Lost Centuries" series, which features Hope-Taylor talking about Ad Gefrin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVYb...

Do you already want to get stuck into the archaeology at #Yeavering? Watch our very own Professor Sarah Semple (Durham) @sarahsemple.bsky.social & Trustee Roger Miket talk about the excavation last year at the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhMe...

Heads up! The brilliant @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social’s Kells book is in Waterstones’ upcoming summer sale. I had the pleasure of engaging with the book when it was being written and it’s splendid - evocative, rigorous, step-changing. Get your copy on preorder at an excellent price! Code: SUMMER25

Come participate in the 2025 Festival of Archaeology at Yeavering from 1-2 August! Enjoy guided tours of site, meet Anglo-Saxon reenactors, chat with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, try out geophysical survey, meet the Ad Gefrin Museum team and learn about life in early #Northumbria!

Want to learn more? Join us for the Festival of Archaeology on August 1 & 2. Watch historical reenactors, have your finds identified, go on tours led by the archaeologists themselves, and immerse yourself in a layered landscape.

Interested in learning more about The Trust's work at #Yeavering and how it fits in with the excavations of Brian Hope-Taylor in the 50s & 60s? Our website has plenty more information. Take a look! gefrintrust.org

The Gefrin Trust is now on Bluesky! Follow along as we head back to the field this September, uncovering new finds and charting old trowel-marked features at #Yeavering. #GefrinTrust #Northumberland #DurhamArchaeology

@3dgroovanstones.bsky.social (Glasgow) in her element, digitally modelling an Irish ogham stone in the care of @britishmuseum.bsky.social’s Archaeological Research Collection in Reading. Learn more about the project here: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk

This afternoon, @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and @palaeofuturist.bsky.social discuss how to fix all of life's mistakes with Epidoc (at least how to encode editorial correction of mistakes(?) in inscriptions) #mistake-or-decision @ndefaoite.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

It's the final morning of our Digital Epigraphy workshop, and @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social is leading us through how to encode placenames, people and organisations using Epidoc standards. @ndefaoite.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Time to learn #RTI, an imaging technique that creates an interactable file in which you can change the lighting position to create a different angle of raking light to emphasise features of an inscribed object. @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

Great session with @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social at the Digital Epigraphy workshop @tcddublin.bsky.social participants have successfully exported #RTI images using Relight and have created interactable files that can be manipulated in #RTI Viewer. @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

📢 An exciting workshop happening next week #medievalsky @teiconsortium.bsky.social‼️ 📷💻Digital Epigraphy Workshop: Hands-on training in #Photogrammetry #RTI and #EpiDoc 📅 May 26-28, 2025 🏫 @tcddublin.bsky.social & @maynoothuniversity.ie 📲Programme: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

@palaeofuturist.bsky.social introducing the Digital Epigraphy Workshop participants @maynoothuniversity.ie to #EpiDoc. @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social @researchireland.ie @teiconsortium.bsky.social #epigraphy #digitalhumanities

Day 2 of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop in @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social. The facilitators @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and the crowd of students. Funded by @researchireland.ie... /1

@palaeofuturist.bsky.social guiding Digital Epigraphy Workshop participants through encoding the object description of the Donaghmore ogham stone in #EpiDoc #XML format. @researchireland.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

⏰️ Final keynote of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social 🗣 Pádraic Moran @padraicmoran.bsky.social (University of Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social) 📜 Designing Sustainable Digital Editions 💻 Slides: pmoran.ie/maynooth2025.pdf

Thanks to John Stuart's 'Sculptured Stones of Scotland' (1856), and the digitisation efforts of @internetarchiveca.bsky.social, we have these wonderful mid-C19th drawings of some of the Govan Stones! You can view and download the book here: archive.org/details/scul...

The Church of St Mary's, Whalley #Lancashire has three Viking Age crosses in the churchyard and more early stone fragments in the church. Pictured is the most visually striking/ least worn example which has stylistic affinities with stones at Bolton le Moors and Anderton #medievalsky #churches #art

Lovely blossoms and blue skies at Kew Gardens over the weekend can’t help but bring cheer…

It would be great to find a community of early medieval art historians on Bluesky. There was one once on the other platform. Any ideas @celticist.bsky.social @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social about Irish inspired spiral scroll or early medieval art historians on Bluesky?

Question for the hive mind: If you could only take three objects with you that represent core memories, what would they be? Pets and people are a given. Thinking about this as I just learnt I lost most of my treasured childhood & uni objects - a burglar ransacked my storage unit back home.

Here’s a Chalcolithic pottery ossuary from Azor, Israel. Used to hold the bones of the dead, this 🏠 house-shaped box was originally painted—its gables and windows decorated and delineated with pigment. 🎨 Held @britishmuseum in Rm 59.

Thinking a lot about hand 👋🏼 placement on sculptures (and in other media) recently during weekly visits to the BM. Here’s a moving example at the #BritishMuseum, from 2nd c BC Cyprus.

King Tut! Looking at a statue of the famous pharaoh but paying particular attention to the (recarved) hieroglyphic inscription on the back… Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, Room 4 @britishmuseum #britishmuseum #kingtut #egyptiansculpture #egypt #thebes

This 11th-century tombstone at #BritishMuseum commemorates a young woman named Fatima, daughter of Ali. The Arabic inscription (in elegant Kufic script), set within a recessed frame, tells us she died in Aswan, Egypt in 1029. A verse from the Qur’an requests God’s mercy on Fatima.

And a little introduction to my Instagram page (@sculpturesmith)! Thanks for following along as I share objects I've encountered during the week while volunteering at the #BritishMuseum.