Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25 If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand www.channel4.com The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm Enjoy 😊

Breezy walk on Hive Beach Sunday afternoon.

The news is out! On Wednesday I found this unsuspecting looking bone under a nodule. We thought it was a baby mammoth scapula. This morning we realised it was the jaw of a cave lion. An incredible team effort to expose, identify, and conserve this incredibly rare specimen 😍🦣🦁💗 #TuskForce

@scaramucci.bsky.social hopes you enjoyed @chalkefestival.bsky.social your talks were very well received.

Loving the new law that once we reach +28° all archaeological digs must provide ice creams and lollies! 😎🍦 #Archeology #Digs #ValleyofStones #BigDig #Durotriges

In 1944 Otto May (F Co), Richard Blake (A Co) & Carl Fenstermaker (Easy Company) 506thPIR, 101st Airborne were all about to play their part in that Day of Days.They took off on this night in readiness for DDay. Our dig team found the dog tags of all 3 men at Aldbourne, Wiltshire. They all survived

A day amongst prehistoric stones in Cornwall - the remarkable Chun quoit, and Men-al-Tol.

Life's a ditch A lovely Early Iron Age ditch #Durotriges25

Not been for over forty years, they wouldn’t let me climb on them this time!

Ok this is fun! David Willey, former curator of the Tank Museum in the UK, now has back garden chats YouTube channel. In this first episode he talks about a book by Canadian wartime photographer Ken Bell. 🇨🇦🇬🇧 #histbookchat youtu.be/8yWnek9YCmc?...

Historical highlights from our recent tour of Ireland

The Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum then on to Londinium. The Portway uncovered.

I love a good castle. I can thoroughly recommend the @nationaltrust.bsky.social guided tour, which includes the new Kings’ Tower observation platform at Corfe Castle. #Dorset

This small circle of stones in the Valley of Stones is the remnants of a bronze or iron age house. The house itself would have been built out of wood, just using the stones for additional external support. #25sarsensofchristmas #dailysarsen #sarsen #valleyofstones #FarminginProtectedLandscapes

Back in the Office for a few days. Valley of Stones. #Dorset #Sarsen #ValleyofStones

Looking down on the Tower of London from the Walkie Talkie Building, Sky Garden. #London

Glorious sunshine up on the South Dorset Ridgeway this week. Bronkham Hill, Sink Holes and Hardy Monument.

I think someone has pulled the plug out of West Bay Harbour

This Churchill AVRE is still proving to be a tough cookie! 😆 metro.co.uk/2025/02/09/d...

Last night I was sat on a Roman Mosaic listening to top Historian @holland-tom.bsky.social talking about Gladiators and the Colosseum of Rome. Brilliant! #History #Romans #Gladiators @theresthistory.bsky.social

Just down the road from me.

The Tupperware Tank in action. Yes it was a plastic tank.

Despite its many inaccuracies and the fact we were totally wrong to be there in the first place. Still one of my all time favourite films.

Dr. Jones illustrating the most important and rewarding part of being an archaeologist.

Breaking News Iron Age Britons were led by Females Women held keys to land and wealth in Celtic Britain www.bbc.com/news/article...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

An afternoon spent in the Valley of Stones, measuring Sarsens.

Hambledon Hill in Dorset on a fine spring afternoon - #HillfortsWednesday is a perfect way to start any year and a reminder that I need to get out wandering on many more ramparts in 2025.

It’s that time of year again!

#HillfortsWednesday Maiden Castle in England is one of the largest hillforts in Europe. Photograph taken in 1935 by Major George Allen (1891–1940). #Archaeology

Forget heavy expensive armour. Apparently all you need to overthrow an entire country is as many Toyota Land Cruisers as you can get! #Syria

A day out and about in the Ardennes, mostly on the lookout for tanks, tanks and more tanks.

Friends Day and a return to Bovington Tank Museum to meet up with old friends… 1/

Sd Kfz 141/1 Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf L (Panzer lll) at the Tank Museum at Bovington. #Tank #Panzer #Tankmuseum

Not only that, the Bovington Tank Museum has the world's only running Tiger I and they drive it at open days every year: tankmuseum.org/tank-nuts/ta...

At the #Queensland Museum in #Brisbane, there is an excellent #ANZAC exhibit that includes the only existing #German tank from the #FWW. These pictures don’t do it justice. If you’re down there, check it out! #History #WW1

RCD Centurion tank on Ex Certain Trek, South of Wurzburg, Germany, 4-20 Oct 1975. LAC photo 🇨🇦 #TankTuesday #ColdWar

As promised last #TankTuesday, a thread on the British A9 & A10 tanks. These wonderfully quirky-looking tanks were the last of the line of British medium tanks developed from the early 1920s through to the mid-1930s. Both were used by the British Army in the early years of WW2. A very long 🧵 1/

Dangerous work being a farmer on the WW 1 battlefields #WW1 #GreatWar www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1315...

Same spot 80 years apart. 1942/43 photo is of my dad and his mates from 8th Army on R&R in Cairo. The second is from a friend taken this year.