Recovering the Roman road with a replica Roman spade at the Ancient Technology Centre with @thesanctuary.bsky.social and @lorrainepither.bsky.social 🚶‍♀️🏛️ #roman #experimentalarchaeology #archaeology @buarchanth.bsky.social

The Sanctuary rebuilding the Roman wall at the Ancient Technology Centre 🧱🏛️ #roman #experimentalarchaeology #archaeology @buarchanth.bsky.social

This week we started grouting our mosaics!🏛️ Started back in 2023, the project involves members building their mosaic of donated and beach-combed materials onto a reused garden tile to be laid into our Roman Kitchen Garden later this year!🏛️ #mosaic #mosaicart #sustainableart #beachcombing #roman

Lydia, Maiden Castle. #hillfortswednesday #maidencastle

You would have thought my son would have understood tv a bit better than this (but he’s only 11). We’re watching tonight’s Islands episode together at home while I cook dinner - and he just asked me… “Is this live?”

Over the next few months our Winter Wonderland will be used to grow produce for our Roman feast!🫴🌱 Follow us on TikTok to stay up to date!🫴🌱 vm.tiktok.com/ZGdhXA4Wh/

The Watchstone, Orkney. Where the Loch of Stenness and the Loch of Harray meet. Between the Stones of Stenness and excavations at the Ness of Brodgar. #StandingStoneSunday #orkney #watchstone #nessofbrodgar #stenness #harray

Come see the @thesanctuary.bsky.social stall @tag45.bsky.social #TAG45 where ancient craft and bodily movement theory meet wellbeing 😊👍

Any of you heading to TAG at @bournemouthuni.bsky.social today go say Hi to @megsdigs.bsky.social at the @Sanctuary stall, find out what we’ve been up to 😉

Great to see @megsdigs.bsky.social and The Sanctuary at #TAG45 today #theoreticalarchaeology #archaeology #conference

The Devil's Quoits, Oxfordshire. Henge & stone circle dating from the late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. Levelled as part of a WWII runway construction the Quoits were restored between 2002-8. Stones were re-erected & missing stones replaced & the surrounding earthworks rebuilt. #StandingStoneSunday.

Inside Skara Brae #Neolithic settlement #Orkney Dry-stone house walls originally set inside large midden mounds and connected by covered passageways Cosy warm Stones standing for #StandingStoneSunday 📷 August 2024

We're hiring! Pls RT 🚨 Two Geoarchaeologists needed to join our @uclarchaeology.bsky.social team. 🔸Work for @uclofficial.bsky.social a leading uni 🔸Industry leading pay & conditions. 🔸Diverse projects 🔸Great support Take the next step in your Geoarch career with us Details: shorturl.at/aYDPB 🦣🧪🏺

Ring of Brodgar at sunset for #StandingStoneSunday #ringofbrodgar #nessofbrodgar #orkney

Announcing this #FindsFriday that we discovered the long-interpreted “Iron Age currency bar” from Hengistbury Head is, in fact, an #ironage saw!😍🤯 With colleagues Heather, Will and Hayden, we proved why x-raying as part of #conservation is so vital! www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2475202...

New Jomon artifact of the day. This clay figurine of an orca is from the Kikyo 2 site 桔梗2遺跡 in Hakodate and dates back to apx 4000 years ago. Yet another beautiful piece displayed at the Hakodate Jomon Cultural Center. #Japan #Jomon #Hokkaido

#HillfortsWednesday 🤩👋

For this week’s #TombTuesday here’s a close up of the interior of Unstan Chambered Cairn, #Orkney🦭 The colours of these stones are so magical💚🩷

www.bajrfed.co.uk/bajrpress/ar... Today we release the BAJR Poverty Impact Report 2024, continuing the work begun with the first Report in 2022. Contained within are the voices of 644 colleagues. Read, absorb and act. Discussions on BAJR Facebook [ this time with Image ]

He has GOT to be kidding... 🤨🙄

🌼For #MosaicMonday this week I had to share this beautiful eight-petaled flower from the formal #Roman garden at @butserancientfarm.co.uk🌼 🌼Designed by Rachel Bingham and made from recycled tesserae. Inspired by the mosaic found at the 4th century villa in Sparsholt🌼

How is it Sunday again already?! Stonehenge in September morning light☀️ #StandingStoneSunday

Pottery sherd from @durotrigesdig.bsky.social excavations - I’m coming back to find you and find out more! #FindsFriday #pottery

#FindsFriday a perforated and limescaled BBW sherd from @durotrigesdig.bsky.social DBD24

It's Nutmeg's first snow! You should have seen her frolicking 🥺

They're very strict about that rule too 😠

On this frosty, frozen #HillfortsWednesday, a photo taken on a similarly chilly day back in November 2022 of mighty #Danebury #Hampshire

Everyone else is doing it so we've made a starter pack. The only starter pack you need...

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Happy #HillfortsWednesday from me and my dad on a windy Maiden Castle🤘 thank you @curious-bronwen.bsky.social for sending this🫶

Happy #HillfortsWednesday everyone !! Here's one of our favourite aerial images of the beautifully bivallate Barbury Castle #Wiltshire A stunning image © David R Abram from his 2022 exhibition @salisburymuseum.bsky.social *Ancient Sites from the Air* Proper Iron Age gorgeous 🤩

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Let this tragedy spur us to action, not mire us in defeat. There's still time to save the other 1,600+ endangered species in Europe -- and the 16,300+ worldwide. We must reduce our climate impact and preserve their habitats now, or announcements like this will only become more and more frequent.

A charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 my own #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

For today's #MosaicMonday a representation of a fish-skeleton on a so-called asarotos oikos mosaic found in a private house in Aquileia, dating 1st century BC. Asarotos oikos ("unswept room") mosaics decorated the floors of triclinia, dining rooms. The foor... 🧵 1/2 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

My first #MosaicMonday and it’s a throwback to excavating Frampton Roman Villa in 2019✨

A while back we found a thing Here is the thing that we found A mosaic with one of the Four Winds (and conch shell) from a 4th century floor in the #Roman villa of Frampton #Dorset First recorded by Samuel Lysons in 1796, it was thought to have been destroyed. It isn't Huzzah! #MosaicMonday

So glad that #MosaicMonday is alive and kicking over here. Here's a mosaic of Twitter right now.

My first #StandingStoneSunday of course it’s the big one 😊

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Started up a bioarch starter pack 🤩 Let me know if you want to be added or have suggestions 😊 #archaeology #bioarchaeology go.bsky.app/N5yfURb

Now you can all blame @carolh.bsky.social for making me do this!! Can't believe in all these years of torc puns and lunacy I hadn't thought of this... I give you... The Great Tauk!! 🤣 #Archaeology

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West Kennett Long Barrow #StandingStoneSunday

Avebury #StandingStoneSunday

Avebury #StandingStoneSunday

For #StandingStoneSunday Hand-pecked magical Neolithic art - thought to represent a tomb guardian - engraved on an entrance stone inside Barclodiad y Gawres passage grave, Ynys #Môn/#Angelsey, Cymru/Wales, some 5,500-6,000 yrs ago; echoing the Boyne Valley rock art of #Ireland 📷 My own Jan 2023

#StandingStoneSunday major lunar standstill exhibition at #stonehenge #bournemouthuni @lorrainepither.bsky.social

View from the base of an archaeological trench 📷 Stonehenge April 2008 #StandingStoneSunday