A tad late for #TombTuesday, you may recall I am keen on pix of Minninglow ... This one is for everyone hoping Christmas will be less monsoony. The Neolithic chambered tomb and bowl barrows on the summit showing nicely in the snow. her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR... #Derbyshire #archaeology

Something for #standingstoneSunday This is one of the larger stones at Beeley Warren circle (also known as Park Gate circle) - located on the moors near the Chatsworth estate. @stoneclub.bsky.social @derbyshirearch.bsky.social

It was such a pleasure to have the boys with us for the day! Welcome back any time!

The Anglo-Saxon crypt of St. Wystan’s Church at Repton in Derbyshire. Dating to the 8th century, the crypt served as a royal mausoleum for two Mercian kings, as well as the resting place of St. Wystan. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Repton #Derbyshire

I'm lichen it ... I'm lichen it a lot! These petroglyphs from Shining Cliff Woods are rather beautiful but sadly we don't think they're archaeology 'Concentric boulder lichen' (porpidia/actomelia) might be the answer, but none of the online pix are this spectacular - any lichenologists out there?

Remember this? The pit alignment is almost dug but it proved to link into others with potential to look at relationships and sequence Lovely site plan and beautiful clean sections from PCA The pits stood open and were repeatedly filled with water - no sign of posts! bsky.app/profile/derb...

#RomanFortThursday Little Chester, Derby - Roman fort or something else? "Derventio, the Little City. A small town in the Roman north. Dr Steve Malone, York Archaeology" Derbyshire Archaeology Day - Sat 31 Jan at the Winding Wheel, Chesterfield chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...

#RomanFortThursday A Roman well (down the steps on the left) and the padstones of a colonnaded building, preserved outside 49-51 Marcus Street, Derby. Excavated 1971, the well is in situ but the padstones were moved. Go see it! More info in DAJ here: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/vie...

Day trip to #Eyam in #Derbyshire. So much amazing history from mining to water catchment, to beautiful architecture, and of course the plague story. In the middle of it all a beautiful and pretty complete #Anglo-Saxon cross with figurative decoration and lots of Angels. #archaeology #history

A meaty tome lands on my desk - here's Markham North PXA, weighing in at 328 pages! Great job York Archaeology Iron Age to 350AD - enclosure ditch, roundhouses divided off from 'stuff', pottery production from early 1C. Interesting how the settlement form persists unaltered over maybe 400 years.

#FindsFriday This beautiful small Neolithic edge-ground flint axe - only 10cm long - was found in Sparrowpit, High Peak in 2001, together with flakes, blades and scrapers from both later Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR... #Derbyshire #archaeology #Neolithic

The Green Man is a pagan symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of new growth each spring. Here we have a beautiful architectural depiction on one of Derby’s oldest coaching inns, Mr Jorrocks Public House, taken in 1988. #PhotoFriday #EYAReligion/Spirituality

A lovely bit of Derbyshire pride tonight, hearing Mike Haken of the Roman Roads Research Assoc. (@romanroads.bsky.social) talk about the Derbyshire HER as being "...unquestionably one of the best in the country!" Hats off to Steve & Dana of @derbyshirearch.bsky.social, for our ace HER! 🎉

Standing stone at Gardom's Edge, near Baslow, Derbyshire, taken on a wander yesterday #StandingStoneSunday 🪨❤️

For this week’s offering for #StandingStoneSunday here’s one of Hayman Rooke’s sketches of 9 Stone Close on Harthill Moor in the Peak District. #Derbyshire

I've been collecting photos and drawings of #ArborLow over the past few years - this photo was included in the 'Ramblers Handbook' from 1928 and was taken by A. Holt. @derbyshirearch.bsky.social #stonecircle #PeakDistrict #oldstones

#FindsFriday Some nice community-led archaeology on the site of Glapwell Hall - 17C on the possible site of a medieval chapel. We need some help identifying the decorative mount - is it ormolu (maybe from the hall itself?) or just a later reproduction. Any historic furniture experts out there?

If you have a community archaeology project in the UK, the Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund is still accepting applicants for this year's round of funding, but the deadline is 30th November, so get your applications in asap. To learn about the Fund and to apply: www.cardfund.org

Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026 "In the Shadow of the Crooked Spire: Recent excavations at Rykneld Square, Chesterfield. Graham Murray & John Thomas (ULAS)" Tickets here: chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys... If we're lucky there might even be a site tour ... bsky.app/profile/mart...

A little update on the ongoing digs in #Chesterfield at the moment - www.bbc.com/news/article... #archaeology #Derbyshire @derbyshirearch.bsky.social

#FindsFriday Some lovely Early Bronze Age arrowheads and scrapers from fieldwalking near Aldwark We don't do enough fieldwalking these days (kudos to ARS Ltd for this one) - on an unploughed site topsoil lithics can capture activity patterns on a landscape scale - hunting, settlement, ceremonial

😯 ✨Betjeman described it as 'Holy Air Encased in Stone'. If you've never visited St. Wystan's in Repton before - deep below the surface - that first glimpse of the C9th Saxon crypt is quite something.

Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026 Talks include: "Rowtor Rocks: prehistoric art and ritual in the White Peak" Prof. George Nash and Anna Clark of the Derbyshire Rock Art Group A special one, this - some stunning new rock art finds at Rowtor! Tickets here: chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...

Derbyshire Archaeology Day Saturday 31st January 2026, Winding Wheel Theatre, Chesterfield Tickets here: chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys... Around 150 already sold (we usually sell out) 8 talks on current projects in Derbyshire and the Peak. I'm going to trail the first one shortly ...

Had a little wander near Walton Works, a grade II listed former cotton wick mill built in the late 18th century. It was bought by Robinson and Sons Ltd in 1896. There have been ongoing plans for restoration and conversion of the site over the years but little has happened so far.

Nice walk at Dale Abbeyv Derbyshire yesterday. We actually went for a nearby cafe, but a lot to be interested in, especially the church with 17th century interiors and a surprising gallery. Lots of stories and a very friendly and knowledgeable church warden >

#FindsFriday #Derbyshire #archaeology A beautiful barbed and tanged arrowhead from the Early Bronze Age, produced on translucent, amber-coloured flint. Found in Church Broughton, now in Derby Museum

For #IronworkThursday here’s the iron sign from Bolsover Castle station. The station was demolished and the line closed years ago but this sign remains in the EH stores

Magpie mine, Sheldon, Peak District, Derbyshire. Mining engineer John Taylor took over management in 1839, establishing a complex of new limestone buildings and innovative equipment. The 2 chimneys, agent's house and smithy were built in the 1840s and the Cornish engine house in 1869. #Photography

Just booked my ticket for Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026 Winding Wheel Theatre, Chesterfield Sat 31 Jan 2026 @derbyshirearch.bsky.social #derbyshirearchaeology

Had the pleasure of seeing this incredible digital reconstruction of medieval Barrow-upon-Trent at a heritage event this weekend. It's kinda mesmerising. Love this level of detail. Grab a cuppa and give it a watch! #derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺 Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.

are there any brick experts here on Bluesky... asking for a friend (not really!) Maybe you know someone @derbyshirearch.bsky.social ? Please repost!

On the road looking at interesting archaeology ... Darley Abbey with York Archaeology to see remains of the 1793 Evans Paper Mill - mill leat, engine base and cellar her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR... Then Shardlow Quarry with MOLA for a probable medieval timber mill straddling a paleochannel

A row of yellow flags marks a pit alignment at Boulton Moor Derby, being excavated by PCA. Parcelling up the landscape around the Trent Valley, they mostly date from the Early Iron Age. An example at Swarkestone Quarry has surviving posts made from squared off tree trunks Did they all have posts?

Conservation work at three windmills completed

✨Lunchtime read: Wirksworth changed the way I see things and I'm thankful for that. There, I discovered two artefacts and contrasted their histories. Two things that are perhaps, in my Wirksworth state of mind, just as beautiful as each other. www.digest.andymarshall.co/loci-cultiva...

#FindsFriday A fabulous jet and bone necklace from the Bronze Age, found at Wind Low barrow in Derbyshire, England, from about 1500 BC What kind of person would have worn this? Now held in the Weston Park Museum in Sheffield 📸 Mine #archaeology #ancientbluesky #museums #photooftheday

Archaeology as cubism. Rather than a Miro or a Braque, this is actually a drone shot of 1870s brick clamps in Mickleover, excavated by Wessex Archaeology in 2021. Short-lived structures churning out bricks for the Great Northern Railway as construction moved through. #Derbyshire #archaeology

Part of a cross shaft from St Alkmund's, Derby, now in Derby Museum. This zoomorphic style emerged in South Derbyshire in the late 9th or early 10th century, right on the faultline between Viking and Saxon influence, blending elements of both traditions into something distinct and new.

Happy Derbyshire Day. The flag of Derbyshire is flying in New Palace Yard today to mark this historic county day. Did you know that Derbyshire has featured in the official titles of more than 200 Commons debates?

Quite excited to hear that tickets for Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026 are now available! My archaeology quest/dream/thingy began just after the event this year, so really looking forward to attending my first one next year! #Derbyshire #archaeology chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...

In the Local Transport series of books, Terry Boden’s 1990 'Derbyshire Railways Today' covers the county's main and branch lines and also provides details on railways, quarrying, quarries and coal mining. Find a copy in our #LocalStudies library. #history #trains #LocalHistory

#MosaicMonday Long Eaton Library, funded by the Carnegie Trust for Long Eaton Urban District Council in 1906, and Grade II Listed. The mosaic over the entrance shows the light of learning. her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR...

The ‘Wirksworth Stone’ - a sculptured stone-slab from St. Mary’s Church at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Comprising of biblical scenes and figures, the stone dates from the C7th to C9th and may have originally been used as a coffin lid. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #SundayStonework

Star trails at Nine Stones Close stone circle, Harthill Moor, Peak District, Derbyshire. #Photography

#FindsFriday This lovely piece of medieval floor tile was once part of the medieval priory church at Repton - now beneath the 19th century Pears Building in Repton School. It came to light yesterday as York Archaeology monitor remodelling work in the basement.

#RomanFortThursday On the edge of an East Manchester modern housing estate, on a prominence overlooking the valley below, stands the well defined outline of a Flavian Roman fort. It was on a road out of Mamucium #Roman fort, heading eastwards. (See.Alt) #Archaeology #History

Sidestepping into #HillfortsWednesday with a 'not a hillfort but it should've been'. Coppy Hill, near Ticknall in #Derbyshire. What were those silly Iron Age folks doing ignoring this hill, which is ripe for a spot of hillfortery! Quite tempted to start my own. #archaeology

On #HillfortsWednesday, the Markland Grips promontory fort near Clowne - mostly enclosed by the limestone gorge, with a trivallate rampart cutting off the neck (left of first photo). Excavations by Harry Lane in 1969 identified pottery from Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age and 2nd-3rd century Roman.

Magpie mine, Sheldon, Derbyshire. Five disused lead mines (Magpie Mine, Dirty Red Soil, Great Red Soil, Maypit and Horsesteps) are located within this walled enclosure. The site is a protected Scheduled Monument. #Photography