The sale keeps going. I'm going to be adding more original art at LOW PRICES during the weekend, all prints are on sale!! Also $20 prints!

We're Here for Dorset – And We're Helping More People Than Ever. Dorset's Commuity Response exists to make sure anyone in Dorset who needs a hand can get it quickly and easily.

A brand new UK TV #archaeology series starts TONIGHT Tues 4 November 9pm on More4 With #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students of @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social HUZZAH !! 🥳 Available for download after on Channel 4 #4OD 👇

I am always in a weird situation. I make comics, but I don't feel I have any place in the comics world or publishing. My audience is almost completely OUTSIDE comics. People in comedy, film, writing, other disciplines, they're the ones who like my work.

I have been making changes on my patreon. I am determined to make good and funny work & it's pretty clear I can only do that working for myself... so I'm starting a monthly zine & a monthly print. Putting together the first zine now!

Problems with tagging today but #HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday Between 1795-1816 the hillforts of #Dorset were part of a chain of visual shutter relay telegraph stations for the Admiralty connecting Plymouth to London. The chain included the high Hillforts of Lewesdon, Bulbarrow and Hambledon and at the racetrack by Badbury Rings 1/14

A little #HillfortsWednesday quiz for you? Can you name each of the hillforts depicted in these antiquarian illustrations? Some far easier than others Bonus points if you can name the artist or book. Thousands of (non-redeemable) internet points to be won!! Clue: they are all in #Dorset

Our next Autism-Friendly opening will take place from 9-10am on Saturday 18 October, offering the opportunity for families with members on the Autism spectrum to explore Pitt Rivers & @morethanadodo.bsky.social in a quiet environment. Booking is essential. More info at bit.ly/4pJlscQ.

A limestone anchor, found being used as a headrest in a burial at the post-Roman cemetery of Worth Matravers, Dorset #TombTuesday An extremely rare find, it suggests the individual had connections to the sea, perhaps through fishing or trade. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

John Constable's watercolour of Old Sarum: an Iron Age hill fort, taken over by the Romans, before becoming the early medieval Salisbury. The site was abandoned when the city grew too big for the enclosure. #HillfortsWednesday #Constable #landscape #watercolour #medieval #Wiltshire

Neare adjoineing this Badbury is a faire Plaine, nowe ſtored with Conies, haveing on the farther ſide a mounted Hill, environed at the toppe with a treble Trench, and a Rampier, the Worke, #hillfortswednesday #Dorset #Coker 1/

Dementia Friendly Cake Concerts in Dorset with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and @Artsreach. Specifically developed for people living with dementia, but open to all, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's Cake Concerts are relaxed chamber performances in informal, social environments, combining…

I am the lucky recipient of Radiohead tickets. I can not tell you how happy this makes me

On this day 19th August 1642, Hugh Green was put to death in #MaumsburyRings #Dorchester. Green was a Roman Catholic chaplain practicing in Chideock Castle when in March 1942, Charles I issued the order to ban all Roman Catholic priests from the kingdom. #Dorset 1/

Imagine Excel but 5000 years ago… Early tablets like this one were used for administrative purposes to record the storage and distribution of goods, animals and people. This tablet comes from Jemdet Nasr, the remains of an ancient site in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). 📝 AN1926.583

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Helping Dorchester Family Support with their summer holiday food project. Working to make holiday hunger a thing of the past. #HolidayHunger #FoodPoverty

Although the tarmac in the centre is truly jarring

First #Chough chick fledglings of the 2025 season arrived in my garden this morning. Here's Mr & Mrs Pen-las Rock South with their 3 noisy chicks constantly begging for food. @cofnod.org.uk @rspb.bsky.social

"Not farre offe," [from Lambert's Castle] "but on the farthest Angle of this Shire, stands Pilles-den, well knowen by reason of a verie high Hill ariseing there with a Lodge on the toppe, which serveth for a Marke by sea and Lande" -Coker's survey of #Dorset shire #Hillfortswednesday

A fragment of banking at Penbury knoll camp, Pentridge #Dorset for #Hillfortswednesday. A small univallate enclosure partially destroyed by a quarry. The climb to the top is more than rewarded by some of the best views in Dorset

BREAKING: Over 100,000 Protest in The Hague for Gaza. This is one of the largest protests in The Hague in 60 years.

Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all

#Dorset #Smugglers Oct, 1827 "The smugglers had, on the day the conflict took place, landed 120 tubs of spirits in the beach, when they heard the report of a pistol (the signal from the watch of the Preventive Service) amongst the cliffs. The smugglers were armed with swords, pistols, and 1/n

#Dorset #Smugglers "1718, March 4th: the smuggling traders in these parts are grown to such a head that they bidd deffiance to all Law and Government. They come very often in gangs of 60 to 100 men to the shoar in disguise armed with swords, pistolls, blunderbusses, carbines and quarter staffs; 1/n

Tesselated floor found at Dorchester. In autumn 1899, a drain was to be dug through the back garden of a house in Olga road, #Dorchester, #Dorset. About 500 yards SW of the walls of #Durnovaria. A find of tessarae had previously been found close to the back of the house 1/n #MosaicMonday

On the 24th Dec, 1889, as some men were levelling the ground in the garden of Ivel house, Northumberland, they came upon a tesselated pavement. This they at once proceeded to destroy, exhuming about a bushel of tesserae. The [then] occupier "cares for none of these things" #MosaicMonday

It's a dog in a hammock kind of day

I keep thinking this meme has hit every possible iteration. I keep thinking it doesn't get better. I keep being gloriously wrong. Via Facebook, here: www.facebook.com/adam.the.cre...

#Dorset #HillfortsWednesday Camdens Brittania: "_makes to Stourminster, that is, a monaftery or minfter upon the Stoure, a very mean town, and of a low situation ; to which Newton-castle is joyn'd by a ftone bridge, where there is a mole of earth rais’d with no fmall pains,

#StoneHeadSunday does the Medusa stone in the basilica cistern count? A Greek remnant spoila from the city of Byzantion before it became Constantinople? Or a later origin recycling?

Sir Richard Colt Hoare's observations on #Dorset Grey Mare and her Colts a megalithic chambered long barrow. "This Temple, though little now remains except the mere bases of the upright stones, was of greater extent than any hitherto noticed in the county." #StandingStoneSunday

What if it's 'Bring-dependents Day'?

This time of year

From their original defensive purpose, to watchpoints and beacons, to Napoleonic era Admiralty signal stations #Dorset hillforts have served as important strategic points on the landscape Here's my Great Grandad arresting an archaeologist on Eggardon during WW1 for spying #HillfortsWednesday

An Iron Age Settlement at Blandford’s Waste Management Centre www.dorsetmuseum.org/an-iron-age-... #Dorset

I offer up Heywood Sumner's beautiful 1914 sketches of his excavations at Rockborne Down Romano-British enclosures, Hampshire. First attracted to the area by Spring Pond, Sumner took note of the nearby field enclosures and began excavating in 1911. #FindsFriday

For #HillfortsWednesday a picture of Heywood Sumner's Arts and Crafts take of Hambledon Hill, #Dorset. "My daily view extends over Cranborne Chase, and curiosity had often led me to investigate its varied earthworks. In so doing I had felt the want of a complete record of their plans"

Related: the incredible art sale on my website is still going! I will be adding new originals and stuff soon! michaelkupperman.com/shop

When it was excavated in 1882, Clandon Barrow near Dorchester yielded several treasures, including a jet mace head, an amber cup and a bronze dagger. Most spectacular of all was a gold lozenge with incised geometric design. All of these finds are now on show @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social. #FindsFriday

Take a trip… into Iron Age daydreams… Stylised horses, C2nd BC pot decoration, La Grande Borne, Auvergne. 30 years ago I copied them onto a hessian wall hanging, later dumped in the garage until I recently found it disintegrating. Imagine what they painted on roundhouse walls! #HillfortsWednesday

Since it's #HillfortsWednesday and a new book on the early medieval fort at Czerchów has just been published, it seems like the right time to write a word about this amazing site. So let me take you to central Poland, to the completely flat area of the Berlin-Warsaw glacial valley

"If the chariots have perished -if the spears and the axe-heads are doubtful memorials of the warlike genius of the people - not so are the mighty earth-works which still attest that they defended themselves ___ upon a system that bespeaks their skill and valour" #HillfortsWednesday #Beaconhill

Hooray! Our paper detailing new dates for Flagstones enclosure in Dorset has been published in @antiquityj.bsky.social today. It shows that Flagstones is middle Neolithic, built and used for burial around 3200 BC, earlier than expected. Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It wouldn't be #PancakeDay without a recipe from our 15thC cookery book. Nb: we do not recommend 'putting thine hand in the batter & letting thine batter run down by they fingers into the chager' in front of guests but otherwise this recipe is Bodleian approved! #ShroveTuesday #MedievalRecipes

Inspired by a post a quick dust off of Henry Durden's collection. #Dorset #HodHill Henry (b.1807-d.1892)was a grocer and sometime excavator but more commonly purchaser of finds across North Dorset. He formed the upper stories of his shop (then much deeper than the present shop) into a museum.

I’ve made the leap and reached for the sky so looking forward to meeting old friends, followers and followees. More about prehistoric gold and archaeology to come like the Shannongrove gorget from Co. Limerick

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