Looking for an archaeological field school this spring? Come join the @cancic.bsky.social excavations in Oxfordshire and/or Northumberland! Full details on our website #aechaeology #ancientsky 🏺

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

It’s day one of CAA-UK 2025! 🎉 Workshops, sessions, posters & digital archaeology kick off today in Cambridge. 📍 AGM at 17:00 today — all members attending are encouraged to join. Agenda, last year’s minutes & more: linktr.ee/caa_uk

🏆Win🏆the perfect Christmas 🎄 gift for a stones enthusiast: STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year) To win a signed (and dedicated if you like) copy of both books… 1/

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Registration is open for #CAAUK2025! Join us in Cambridge, 9–10 Dec, for talks, posters & workshops on digital & quantitative archaeology. 👉 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/caa-uk-202...

The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this? (Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.) #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...

Saw some remains of Traiectum Roman fort in Utrecht. It sits under the Dom Square & was built over by different layers of religious buildings. You can see some of the remains on an underground tour & the line of the walls is marked by metal panels showing the line of the frontiers #RomanFortThursday

Nothing screams "First day back on the job", like urging colleagues everywhere to delete their Academia Dot Edu pages. Which I'm about to do myself as soon as I got coffee in me.

In case you missed it earlier this week, read the lastest @uor-research.bsky.social blog to learn all about how REMADE is tracing rebellion during the Crisis of the 3rd century in the chemistry of Roman radiate coins! 🪙 rdg.ac/4notWE9 #FindsFriday #Archaeology #AncientSky

I've written up some of @remade-uor.bsky.social's latest results for @uor-research.bsky.social! Check out the blog post to learn how the chemistry of the Cunetio Hoard coins is revealing details of the rebellions during the 3rd c. Crisis. #archaeology #AncientSky 🏺

⏳ 2 weeks left to submit for #CAAUK2025! 📝 Abstracts ≤300 words in digital & quantitative archaeology welcome. £100 Masters Award 🏆 for outstanding dissertations! 🗓️ 9–10 Dec | 📍 @Cambridge_Uni Due 15 Sept, 12pm |📧 [email protected] #DigitalArchaeology #ECR

Visited St Catherine's Hill hillfort, outside Winchester, a few weeks ago. The univallate fort encloses about 9ha. It was partially excavated in the 1920s, finding a IA settlement spanning 550-50 BC, Roman occupation & a mid 12th c Norman style chapel & earthworks on the summit. #HillfortsWednesday

@blacktrowel.bsky.social has posted some actions that members of EAA can do in protest of this despicable act, both in-person at #EAA2025 and online.

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

I biked out to Caesar's Camp hillfort a couple weeks ago. It covers about 17.2 acres & is one of the largest in southern England. It isn't the best land for farming, so it's thought to have been more of a marketplace under the Catuvellanuni. I found the bank & ditch in the trees! #HillfortsWednesday

I'll be @romanpalace.bsky.social next week with the @remade-uor.bsky.social team for the Meet the Experts event. We'll be showing off some of the amazing artefacts we've analysed, discussing results & striking some replica #Roman coins! Should be a great #FestivalOfArchaeology event!

Currently on holiday in Scotland and of course I found myself at a hillfort! Here's Craig Phadrig, west of Inverness. 1st photo - worn path is the top of the ramparts, 2nd photo - the outer slope of the ramparts. Parts of it were vitrified! #HillfortsWednesday

A great activity for a Friday!

A very hoppy #FindsFriday - an adorable little crouched hare plate brooch (only 2cm long!). It has a tinned surface with bands of niello inlay and a hinged pin. It was found in the Forum Basilica excavations at Silchester #Roman Town. #Easter #Archaeology

We’re back! Our traditional ‘We Three’ photo at the end of fieldwork. Best. Team. Ever. Jane Harrison @kmurphster.bsky.social @sarahmiles.bsky.social

Not a bad spot for a test pit & lunch break! #Archaeology @cancic.bsky.social

Have you seen our new community archaeology website? cancic.com

Did you know that every fort along Hadrian's Wall has a record (& associated GIS shapefiles) in the WallCAP WallGIS available on @ads-update.bsky.social? Search the database & explore the map here archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/col... for #RomanFortThursday #AncientSky #Archaeology 🏺

New in IA67: WallGIS: A Database and GIS for Hadrian's Wall (Data paper)' doi.org/10.11141/ia.... The WallGIS digital archive hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social is a geodatabase capturing the characteristics of the features of Hadrian's Wall

I'm super excited to let you know that the WallCAP WallGIS is now available on @ads-update.bsky.social! Every feature of Hadrian’s Wall has a record in the WallGIS with detailed info & spatial data, which can all be searched/viewed online! shorturl.at/FSr2z #Archaeology 🏺

Want to know what Jane Harrison, @sarahmiles.bsky.social & I have been up to in Northumberland? Listen to this podcast all about our early medieval site. Highlights include sunken feature buildings, lots of cool small finds, insitu loom weights off a burnt loom & a loom weight production site!

Long Meg and some of her daughters in Little Salkeld, Cumbria from a trip in 2021. Long Meg is 3.7m tall, and there are 66 stones in the 120m wide circle (the 3rd widest in the UK) #StandingStoneSunday

For #FindsFriday, we thought we should introduce Owen Humphreys, the REMADE Artefact Specialist. You can find out more about what Owen has been up to and which artefact assemblages we have analysed so far by reading his recent blog post! research.reading.ac.uk/remade/progr... #Archaeology 🏺

Making my way home after a couple days of excellent talks at the CAA UK conference. I haven't been in a few years, and it was great to be in a room full of archaeology data nerds again! Managed to do a little bit of sightseeing around Canterbury before the conference (and Storm Bert) started too.

On my way to the CAA UK conference in Canterbury! Looking forward to interesting presentations & reconnecting with other folks doing digital #archaeology & data stuff!

The @remade-uor.bsky.social team has been busy brushing up on brooch identification! Follow the project to learn more about the chemical analysis methods we are using, to see some amazing objects & of course hear about our results! #Archaeology

Hi Bluesky friends! If you're interested in digital archaeology, I've put together a list of folks in the field to follow. If you're an archaeologist who posts about digital tools, techniques, or projects and want to be included, just let me know, and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/AHnKjhD

Big stones in a field from a few weeks ago #StandingStoneSunday

Lots of new folks joining the last few days - hi! I'm an archaeologist focused on data & GIS, with some digging too. Mostly Romans, but some early medieval as well. Currently working on @remade-uor.bsky.social - check out what I've been up to: research.reading.ac.uk/remade/progr... 🏺 #archaeology

Super excited to be joining the Archaeology department at Reading as Post Doc Researcher in Data Science on the REMADE project! Looking forward to more heritage databases, data & GIS analysis/research, as well as seeing all the Cu alloy finds from across the UK! 🏺

Absolutely fantastic month of archaeology, and wouldn't want to run it with anyone else!

Not the usual #FindsFriday, but we found this little critter had made themselves quite cosy in the section of our SFB overnight. 🏺

It's the weekend before our final week on site, so @sarahmiles.bsky.social and I are knee deep in checking context sheets and making lists of things to check/record on site before the trenches get backfilled on Friday! 🏺

X marks the spot in trench 15 - getting final overall photos of the SFB earlier this week 🏺