1/5 "The profile of whole stupendous ruin, as seen at a distance of a mile eastward, is cleanly cut as that of a marble inlay. It is varied with protuberances, which from hereabouts have the animal aspect of warts, wens, knuckles, and hips. #HillfortsWednesday #Dorset #MaidenCastle

Those were the Durotriges- described as living on milk and flesh, and it might be supposed that they covered in the tops of their pits with wattled roofs and there passed their time. ... but used these places in times of war as camps of refuge for their cattle #Dorset #HillfortsWednesday

A difficult day at the coalface...

Easter in Dorset 2026 - Holiday Activities and Food event listings for children in Dorset now live. #HAFDorset #EasterInDorset #DorsetTogether

A special #MosaicMonday announcement – Save the Date - Free ASPROM Symposium, Saturday 7 March 2026, 13.50-17.30 (UK time) to be held on Zoom. Speakers on mosaics in Aquileia and Tunisia, plus Coralie Turpin and Jeremy Deller on the Roman-inspired mosaic on Marine Drive in Scarborough. 1/2

Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"??? www.positive.news/society/yout...

Couldn't agree more. Can't think of any other time in my lifetime when freedom of speech has been so supressed in this country. A truly bizarre few years

This ruling shows that proscribing Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws. Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers' money suppressing civil liberties. Degrading counter-terror powers is a genuine threat to national security.

Ring Of Brodgar Stone circle and henge 4500 years old and still a thing of breathtaking beauty Photo my own Open for the panorama #StandingStoneSunday

Ring Of Brodgar, Orkney #StandingStoneSunday

Seriously fxxk America right now Time to begin the most difficult process of boycotting anything American

@loudribs.bsky.social ah you've turned up here! Missed you on twitter but left too because of the Idiot Owner Just placed an order with you for your wonderful Bournemouth slander. Look forward to receiving it!

Dorset's Pop Larders, a successful year for so many who have developed into Community Food Members alongside FareShare

The Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney a candidate for the oldest in the UK at 3100-2900BC. My own #standingstonesunday

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