Look who I found!!! Yes, it's the Artist Formerly Known as a Palace!! ❤️

Just checking in on the news coverage... Are they going for the 'how many bald men can we fit into Bloomsbury?' World Record?? 😳🤣

Snettisham finds in Norwich Castle are mainly from the first discoveries from 1948 ploughing - hoards A (the tubular torcs), B and C (which were mixed hoards of broken material). You can read about the torc finders here: bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/07/15/t... 1/2 #Archaeology 🏺

I don't like Starmer, but it would be very funny if he just ignored Streeting and plonked Rayner in as Heath Sec...

🏺 #Archaeology 👇

I have so much respect for Zena & all those in the EAA @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social who tried so hard to make meaningful change in an organisation that has shown itself to be unworthy of its esteemed status. Those who have brought this upon the EAA need to take a long hard look at themselves. Awful.

This made I larf muchly! 🤣🤣

Me, striding purposefully, in Samarkand, 1985.

I've put me torc order in... #Archaeology 🏺 #NotAskingTooMuchSurely

Woooo hoooooo! The brilliance that was @romanpalace.bsky.social in his uncamouflaged self! Give 'im a follow! 😊 #Archaeology 🏺

This!! Where's FRP?? We need you!!! #Archaeology 🏺

Well worth googling 'David Attenborough' today... Happy 100 Sir! 🎉🎉

Phew! 🥰 #Archaeology

Farking hell. Badenoch refusing to condemn Yaxley-Lennon on Kuennesberg. Wow.

While press fail to mention Golders Green attacker was also charged with attempted murder of Muslim man on same day (as well as previously attacking policeman & a dog), The Times decide this is OK for them to print... Honestly, twisting of anti-semitism, & ignoring of other hate crime, has to stop.

Listening to long awaited rain, at the end of a hot day, is up there with the best things in life. ❤️

@bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social short and sweet on the Beeb this morning. Loved it! ❤️

PAST 112 is now online. Some lovely reading for bank holiday weekend: Bronze Age lunula, struck quartz, Bronze Age awls, a reflection from wonderful Tom Björklund & a response to the PAST 111 article on recumbent stone circles. Enjoy! :) #Archaeology 🏺 www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...

Quote 1 is Pope Urban II's speech at the Council of Clermont - which launched the First Crusade and called for a 'holy war' against Muslims. Quote 2 is from Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' anti-immigration speech. Quote 3 is a fake Dostoevsky quote which never appears in his work.

Urghhhhhhh... really disappointed (but sadly not surprised) to see York #archaeology students becoming wrapped up in this vile party. Never ceases to amaze me how you can learn about the past and still believe this crap... ... and to be proud of it??? Urrrghhh

Amazing piece of work. Well worth a read! #Archaeology 🏺

My lovely friend Chloe Duckworth has started a fabulous business refurbishing and selling #vintage and #antique wonders... If you're on Facebook, do give her a follow! ... and please share. Thank you 😊 www.facebook.com/share/1EwdYw...

Water vole training day and I got to play in the river... ❤️🦦 Lots and lots of signs of the little critters.

New discovery: gold jewelry from the Middle Bronze Age (first half of the 2nd millennium BC) uncovered during excavations on the Greek island of Aegina. The finds include gold pendants, gold beads, and carnelian beads. www.sn.at/panorama/wis...

The Torygraph contacted me last week, but I told them their paper didn't align with my world view... Anyway - #Detecting #Treasure #Archaeology 🏺

Alcohol is so baked into British society, that you don't really notice how baked in until you don't drink anymore - I never drank a huge amount, but medication means I stopped last year. I've discovered not drinking really unsettles some. The reaction to HS comments sadly isn't a surprise.

I can't even start to put into words what I think about those unelected ar$eholes in the house of lords who went against democratic process. #AssistedDying 1/3

Absolutely this.

Now I've finished the Iron Age Dialogues proceedings paper, as is traditional, I've bought a new notebook, themed for the next piece of research... Yes, really. Teeeeeheee! 😃 #Archaeology 🏺 #HarryPrice

Paper submitted for conference proceedings... Next! 😂

In more "archaeology isn't political" news... 🤬 BBC News - Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Archaeology 🏺

Some great news - thank you to everyone who contributed their hard earned cash! (Just a reminder that had the finder/ landowner donated the dress fastener, it would have cost £0 instead of £150,000...) #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

This is wonderful. I got to know George over my years in the Prehistoric Society - he was always a kind and lovely person and a fabulous prehistorian. I'm glad his library has been preserved. 😊 #Archaeology 🏺 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

In my happy place looking for water voles!☀️🏞 We're finding so much evidence of these gorgeous furry critters, who were released about 6 miles away and who have slowly but surely made their way down stream... ❤️

Honestly, 2026 is throwing everything it can at me, so I'm going with small wins and lovely things to try and keep me on an even keel. Today it's the teeniest bouquet of miniature violets and a day by the river, in the sunshine, looking for vole poo...

That's nothing to the 'oh, look what I just happened to find at the end of my garden!!' 'Roman' Hercules statue discovery made by a certain Mr Harry Price... Modesty intact on this one though!! #Archaeology #Gef 🏺

The latest blog in the Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: Glascote up close! #Archaeology #Torcs #StaffsTorcOdyssey 🏺 bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/04/15/t...

Big girl pants are well and truly pulled up these last few weeks... 🤣

A new revenue for lead musket ball / shot (from metal detectorists ebay sales) and the potential to undervalue the historic value of battlefield archaeology @tonypollard.bsky.social @tessmachling.bsky.social @andybrockman.bsky.social share.google/geHTnXgo60vc...

Pagans readers may enjoy:

Hill climber’s first to display necklace (4) (by @ecclescrosswords.bsky.social)

Chinese tanker sails through 'blockade' - Quelle surprise, eh? www.lloydslist.com/LL1156893/Sa...

I've been torc taming at Tamworth Castle. Full write up to come soon of the last of the Staffordshire Torc Odyssey torcs: Glascote. In the meantime, catch up with everything here: bigbookoftorcs.com/the-s-t-o/ #Archaeology #Torcs

Detectorist "had a funny feeling this is going in a museum". Good job the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant, the Headley Trust, the Essex Society for History and Archaeology, the Art Fund, the West Essex Archaeological Group ....... 1/2 👇 share.google/XRgYhIMLiSec...

That complex - could only be 2026 - position, where you're an anti-authoritarian atheist, but you still find yourself cheering on Iran and the Pope... 😵‍💫

It's not often you get to piss off Trump AND Putin, whilst strengthening the EU and offering a sliver of hope to many who've been persecuted... 💪🤣🖕

Will be sold to highest bidder - collection broken up, histories lost & disappearing into private collections, some overseas... Issue of legacy collections - where owners or heirs don't want things, will only get more common... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As talks break down, Trump posts this... Oh my.

I'm imagining the televising of the Conquest of Mexico or a fly-on-the-wall documentary of the East India Company, or cheering the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, & thinking: this way lies so much pain. After the excitement about landing comes the battle for control of resources. I hate it.