Home is where the hearth is Stepping briefly back into the Iron Age at Hengistbury Head on the #Hampshire (Atrebates) / #Dorset (Durotriges) border #IronAge #Roundhouse #Archaeology #Archeology

Friday afternoon sunlight peeping though the cloud #Poole #Dorset

Using a day off to watch Small Prophets - typical Mackenzie Crook brilliance - wonderful characters, the usual subtle humour, heartwarming touching moments and the cinematography & music as perfect as always. Pearce Quigley & Michael Palin 👌

Holy moly, that’s a big cliff fall near Charmouth #Dorset www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did you know that a new education centre is being built by hand at Stonehenge? It is based on Durrington 68, a late Neolithic square-in-circle timber structure. Watch regular updates from Luke, the project leader, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATY...

A rare terracotta Roman head has been unearthed during excavations by volunteers and archaeologists at a fort in Northumberland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chapman’s Pool on the Purbeck coast near Worth Matravers - a lovely little remote cove that’s well worth a visit (note it’s a bit of a hike down and back) when the weather is nicer. Views from the coast path as you come from St Albans Head are particularly impressive #Dorset

St Martin on the Wall - Wareham - without doubt my favourite Dorset church. Dating from 1020AD, it’s a wonderful little church with its “Saxon”-style nave & chancel, a lovely Norman chancel arch, 12th Century frescos in the chancel and later wall paintings throughout. #Dorset

Enjoying a Sunday evening delve into Roman Dorchester (Durnovaria) with the 2000-01 excavation report from the former County Hospital - the mosaics, decorated wall plaster & metal finds are great, but the bone hairpin really caught my attention - what a great find! #Dorset

Trying to escape the “Blue Monday” gloom - so here’s some photos from nicer warm days on Chesil Beach and Portland #Dorset

Photos from the Iron Age ramparts of Hambledon Hill in Dorset on a sunny March afternoon several years back #HillfortsWednesday

Catching up with more episodes of #DiggingforBritain this evening - I must must must get out in the field and generally be involved in more archaeology (in many different forms) in 2026.

Our @antiquaries.bsky.social Low Ham book (myself, Roger Leech and @thepostexcox.bsky.social ) is now available OA - library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... - the first synthetic publication of one of Britannia's largest villas, with reports on strat, finds, & enviro remains, & fully contextualised. 1/10

A "princely" C6th/7th grave of a horse buried alongside two people has been discovered during the excavation being carried out by Oxford Cotswold Archaeology ahead of the building of the Sizewell C nuclear power plant, near Leiston, Suffolk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Right, a little late, but time to binge watch #DiggingforBritain on iPlayer!

A late entry for #HillfortsWednesday . The southern ramparts of Maiden Castle taken on a New Year walk.

For the last #HillfortsWednesday of 2025, here's the trivallate Iron Age marvel of Badbury Rings #Dorset ✈️ 📷 summer 1947 @camdiglib.bsky.social (CC BY-NC 3.0) with uncontrolled access causing major erosion Now better managed by the @nattrustarch.bsky.social, Badbury is a great place to explore 😍

Maiden Castle in Dorset is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Europe. It dates back over 2,000 years and occupies a prominent position atop a natural chalk hill. Here in snow. Happy new year all 🥳 #HillfortsWednesday

Good Morning from Poole! ☀️ #Dorset

Beautiful afternoon walk along the Quay and along the harbour edge - a golden sky and Corfe Castle just about visible in the distance #Poole #Dorset

Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s old town, still has much of its medieval character, with the tall colourful (later, C17th/18th) buildings with narrow alleys and winding cobbled streets that lead to the large main square (Stortorget) #Stockholm

Vasa, wow! A fantastic museum - the preservation of the ship & artefacts, and their presentation are wonderful. #Stockholm

A great 24 hours in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 - a flying visit but will definitely be visiting again (for longer next time)

Lovely afternoon down by the Old Lifeboat Museum at Fisherman’s Dock, enjoying just sitting watching the gulls, the fishing boats heading in & out and people out for a nice Saturday stroll #Poole #Dorset

A beautiful winters day by the harbour #Poole #Dorset

Really enjoyed our first visit to the rather wonderful freshly re-opened and rejuvenated Poole Museum - particularly love the Shipwreck! maritime archaeology gallery in the medieval town cellars @poolemuseum.bsky.social #Dorset

Enjoyed the autumnal sunset this afternoon at Knowlton church & henge #Dorset

Record number of discoveries at Bremenium Roman Fort dig www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Saturday afternoon’s dose of ramparty goodness at Badbury Rings #Dorset

Sunday shoreline stroll at Sandbanks #Dorset

A nice positive story from a few years back, revisited! Bethan’s Rock: Beloved exhibit returns to revamped Poole Museum www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A lovely Sunday evening walk to finish off a week of annual leave #Dorset

Sherborne Abbey swims in blue

A quite perfect morning for a walk at Hengistbury Head - lovely views of the Isle of Wight & the Needles, as well as west toward Bournemouth, Poole & Purbeck, the Iron Age defensive earthworks “the Double Dykes” and the reconstructed roundhouse #Dorset

Good Morning from the Old Gunpowder House, east of Poole Quay, at Baiter #Dorset

A beautiful afternoon over at Studland #Dorset

Good morning from a chilly but sunny Poole Quay

Rare 2,000-year-old brooch unearthed by detectorist in Puddletown, Dorset www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A pleasant evening walk around Poole Quay & old town to finish off the weekend. 📷 Custom House [1813] (with the Town Cellars and Poole Museum in the background) 📷 Old Lifeboat Station [1882] 📷 St James Church [1819] 📷 The Almshouses [C16th] & the view up Market St towards the Guildhall [1761]

This evening felt like the last throes of Summer in Poole #Dorset

DNA reveals surprise African ancestry of 6th century Worth Matravers man www.swanage.news/dna-reveals-...

'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered on Scottish isle www.bbc.com/news/article...

The country seems angry and full of hatred, the sky is dark and full of rain, so I think I’ll pop on some jazz, have an ale and read about the fascinating archaeology of Cranborne Chase this evening.

The view of the wonderful Priory from Christchurch Castle’s keep (built c.1300)

London's 700-year-old tower on stilts - “In the heart of the City of London, the medieval Tower of All Hallows Staining is now propped up on stilts as work continues beneath it on the 36-storey Fifty Fenchurch development” www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

St Mary’s church at Almer - a typical unassuming parish church sat peacefully just off the A31 but worth a visit. The church has a C13th Purbeck font and some nice Norman features including the south doorway and the three rounded mid-C12th arches of the north arcade #Dorset

The grey bleakness of British motorway service stations is somehow admirable

Friday lunchtime walk at Corfe Castle

Sherborne Abbey, nave vault

#archaeology #history #ancientbluesky #France If anyone has lost a cathedral in France, they found it! thecatholicherald.com/article/anci...