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Following the end of week one and we've had a fantastic time working with Operation Nightingale at Buckspool Promontory Fort! Things are looking really exciting with lots of Roman pottery, a piece of jet bracelet, and a broach! We think we have two stone built round houses appearing in the trench!

Fantastic to get the opportunity to visit the @henebtwa.bsky.social dig for Operation Nightingale at Buckspool Promontory Fort. Lots of finds - particularly amazing to see preserved animal bone on a West Wales site - Hens teeth in this part of the world. Can't wait to see the results.

Delighted to see our amazing Pendinas featured by CIfA this month. A huge thanks to the wider team!

Fantastic couple of days at the #IronAgeDialogues conference. Great to meet with colleagues from Wales and beyond and hear about all the amazing things going on at the moment! More of this please. I'm just sorry I can't make the last day!

Photo-ception. I'm sure this pose was in the risk assessment.

It's #MedievalMonday! This week the unusual hybrid of Medieval fortification and Georgian splendour: Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire. Built by a Flemish Knight it was later the home of Sir John Wogan, an important figure in the court of Edward I. Stonking garden as well! @henebtwa.bsky.social

Exciting and important stuff!

This fort has been subject to exstensive excavations by @henebtwa.bsky.social We found the most amazing monumental romano-british building just inside the entrance. Certainly not domestic! Hope you had the chance to visit!

That is a Stonker. Added to my list!

On my way home after an interesting day talking Heneb at the Wales Heritage Group in Cardiff. Thanks to @archaeologyuk.bsky.social for hosting! Looking forward to seeing how the group evolves! @henebtwa.bsky.social

Lovely day at the National Botanic Gardens. Great to see the newly restored regency lakes bedding in after our community excavations a few years ago. It was a very special place to work. Its also a cracking greenhouse!

Had a great time chatting with many lovely folks at the Finds Day at Ceredigion Museum yesterday! It was all hands on deck, huge thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social, Jenna and Nicola for all your help! We had some incredible finds brought in for recording that I can’t wait to share with you all 🤩

Thank goodness it's #FindsFriday! This might just be my favourite polished stone axe. The 'Hayscastle Axe' at Tenby Museum is a highly polished flint axe. As we don't have flint of any quality around here, this is a certain import, clearly made for beauty as much as function.

Do you like Hillforts? Come and hear me whiter on about a particularly special one this Thursday!!! #HillfortsWednesday @henebtwa.bsky.social

Thank goodness it's #HillfortsWednesday. This week Carmarthenshire's largest hillfort 'Y Gaer Fawr' the larger of two Hillforts on Garn Goch. The hillfort is roughly oval in shape. It has at least 3 phases and 8 entrances. It has an internal area of 12 ha defended by massive walling.

It's #TombTuesday. This week the Foel Eryr cairn which featured in the background of #StandingStoneSunday. Built entirely of stone, and measuring 17m in diameter, and still standing more than 2m tall, this cairn crowns Foel Eryr, the second highest peak in the Preselis.

A huge thank you from me. A real eye-opener of the possibilities of LiDAR. Even better, I came away from the session with what I believe might be the world's only luminous purple scale model of Foel Drygarn #HillfortsWednesday.

#MedievalMonday - Pembroke Castle. Founded as a Motte and Bailey c.1093 AD. Much of its present form is due to William Marshall c.1189AD. @henebtwa.bsky.social have done lots of work at the castle including this geophys survey with Neil Ludlow in 2016 funded by the @castlestudies.bsky.social

It's #StandingStoneSunday, and what a day it has been. The highest megaliths on the Preseli Ridge?The Cerrig Lladron stone pair sits just beneath the summit of Foel Eryr, the second highest peak on the Preselis. The two stones, one little, one large appear align with the amazing cairn at the top!

It's #FindsFriday. Spot the odd one out! This week, the humble spindle whorl. The hole is for a shaft or 'spindle' and they were used for the spinning of yarn. For those who work on prehistoric Wales, finds are not a common sight. Spindle whorls are therefore a firm favourite amongst most.

It's #hillfortswednesday! This week Garn Fawr, Strumble Head. A complex hillfort of unusual design. Built by connecting large outcrops together with enormous loose boulder walls. It has been surveyed but never excavated. It's a stunner and a good place for a walk!

#TombTuesday. This week the mighty three cairns of Foel Drygarn. I think these may be the most iconic cairns in the west. Despite the awesome proportions of the later Iron Age Hillfort which surrounds these mounds they still manage dominate the landscape.

Its #standingstonesunday. Perhaps Pembrokeshire's finest stone row: Parc y Meirw, built into a hedgebank near Llanycaer. Consisting of at least four uprights and two recumbents, all of the stones are whoppers, the largest is 2.7m tall. We don't have many around here, but this is a corker.

Great start to the @cambriansarch.bsky.social Darganfod-Discovery 2025 conference. Fantastic to see that there is lots of exciting things going on that I know nothing about! We need more of this sort of thing.

Fantastic day representing @henebtwa.bsky.social at the Aberystwyth Archaeology day at the National Library. Great talks and a chance to catch up with old friends. Big thanks to Jenna (Heneb) and Nicola (RCHAMW) for putting on such a good show.

I have a box full of 'real' copies in the car ready for the arch in Aberystwyth tomorrow! I firmly believe a well put-together booklet with lots of pictures and drawings is a hard to beat legacy for any community archaeology project!

It's #Hillfortswednesday. Here is the magnificent Pendinas hillfort. One of the largest in West Wales, it towers over Aberystwyth. Over the last few years it has been at the centre of a community archaeology project led by @henebtwa.bsky.social and the RCAHMW. This Friday I am talking about it!👇👇

🎉🎉The biggest day in the Ceredigion archaeological calendar is coming up 🎉🎉 Heneb and the RCAHMW are hosting an archaeology day at the National Library in Aberystwyth this Friday! There are a few tickets left! The speakers this year look dazzling! I know there are top secret finds to reveal!

Sign up sign up! This day is always super interesting. A fantastic insight into what's going on in Welsh archaeology. @cambriansarch.bsky.social @henebtwa.bsky.social

It's #standingstonesunday! We have been on a bit of an explore around Dinas, Pembrokeshire this weekend. Ty Meini is a whopper and visible from the main road for the eagle eyed. 2.7m tall and the right kind of wonky it is a part of a great density of standing stones as you approach the Preselis.

🐲 A Welsh dragon for this week's #FindsFriday ready for St David's Day tomorrow. This is a military cap badge of the Brecknockshire Regiment dating to the First World War. Unfortunately he's missing a bit of his leg and tail! More information here 👉 buff.ly/4i4OXRL

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus Pawb! Happy St David's day everyone! My hometown is St David's so I take the daffodil wearing and cawl eating quite seriously. Here is St David's Cathedral in all its glory. The present cathedral was consecrated more than 800 ya. Built on a bog, it hasn't fallen over yet!

The finest archaeological organization on the planet has joined Bluesky! Welcome to greener pastures.

@archrefwales.bsky.social welcome to bluesky!

The most important read in the Welsh archaeological year has arrived. Arch Camb appears to have had a bit of a makeover! @cambriansarch.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social

Super exciting stuff. We are all going to have to think about our understanding of IA society. It would be really helpful if Welsh bones could stop dissolving in our acidic souls

Is it Christmas yet? Nadolig Llawen from the windy west of Wales @DyfedArch!

Annual migration to @tag45.bsky.social Excellent fun as always catching up with old friends and having my brain melted by the very best thinkers.

Welcome to bluesky!

I was involved in the brilliant 18 month Pendinas Hillfort Project - a shame to miss out on the top CBA prize but amazing to be Highly Commended. You can download a free copy of our 2024 Pendinas Hillfort booklet here: shop.rcahmw.gov.uk/collections/...

Fun night at the archaeological CBA achievement awards last night. Very pleased to see it come to Wales! To top it all off our fantastic Pendinas project received a highly commended award!