Ruined fortifications at Wall Mile 41, Hadrian's Wall, courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

The remains of the eastern corner tower of the Roman Legionary Fortress at York (Eboracum). 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #York

#RomanFortThursday Reconstruction of a #Roman watch tower near Fectio in the #Netherlands #Archaeology #Military #History

Boppard in Germany began as a Celtic settlement with the name Baudobriga. In the middle of the 4th century, the Romans built a fortification which they named Bodobriga which later became Boppard. The fort was 308 × 154 metres and formed a rectangle of 4,7 hectare. #RomanFortThursday

The impressive northern border of Hadrian's Wall near The Sill, Northumberland, for #RomanFortThursday 📷My own, May 2025

#OnThisDay - 25 September - in AD 66 (or rather between 19 June and 25 September), the Arval Brethren record vows of thanksgiving following the detection of "evil conspiracies" against the emperor Nero. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Nero 59; ANS 1957.191.12. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

For #HillfortsWednesday the Western ramparts of Twmbarlwm Hillfort showing Multivallation consisting of two embankments with a ditch; cpourtesy of fromthevalleys. #Cymru #Archaeology #IronAge

Ringing in the autumn 🍂 in style for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖 The one & only @hillfortian.bsky.social blowing a Gallic-style carnyx war horn 🎷inside Castell Henllys Iron Age hillfort, Pembrokeshire, on a Hillfort Study Group trip in 2022 Hopefully the Romans are quaking in their sandals 😬 📷 My own

Look at us, hobnobbing with the lovely @gregjenner.bsky.social from BBC's You're Dead to Me at Gloucester History Festival on Sunday! 🖤 Even better, our first County Episode of Series 7 came out yesterday, about the historic Welsh county of Cardiganshire! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Studying the Passed The toilet block at Old Sarum hillfort #Wiltshire was built within the remains of a WWII wireless control room It’s the only place (we know of) where you can legally make a deposit whilst encased within the soil of an Iron Age rampart 📷 Sept 2025 Happy #HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday Foel Faner Hillfort. A roughly oval, somewhat polygonal, enclosure, about 70m north-east to slouth-west by 42m. It is defined by a ruinous stone wall, about 2.7-3.0m across. #Archaeology👇 📷 RCAHMW @Toby_Driver1 & P.Davis coflein.gov.uk/en/site/303054

John Constable's watercolour of Old Sarum: an Iron Age hill fort, taken over by the Romans, before becoming the early medieval Salisbury. The site was abandoned when the city grew too big for the enclosure. #HillfortsWednesday #Constable #landscape #watercolour #medieval #Wiltshire

Not often I get to post #HillFortsWednesday but with an EV need a charge what better excuse to nip up Brent Knoll, to walk the ramparts and see across to Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacons 79 miles away on a gorgeous early autumn day.

For #HillfortsWednesday the Western ramparts of Twmbarlwm Hillfort showing Multivallation consisting of two embankments with a ditch; cpourtesy of fromthevalleys. #Cymru #Archaeology #IronAge

#HillfortsWednesday & had just 24hrs for a little micro-adventure to the Brecon Beacons, including a sunrise at Pen-y-Crug 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 also, we have a new Hillforts Episode out! this time exploring Hamphshire & down into Wiltshire >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...

Borgberget hillfort lies 3 kilometres NW from Bollstabruk in Norrland in Sweden. It is dated to the Migration and Merovingian periods AD 400-800. On three sides it has a very well preserved stone wall, 200 metres long and 3 metres wide with an opening in the south. #HillfortsWednesday

I have this from Castell Henllys 😁 #HillfortsWendnesday

Neare adjoineing this Badbury is a faire Plaine, nowe ſtored with Conies, haveing on the farther ſide a mounted Hill, environed at the toppe with a treble Trench, and a Rampier, the Worke, #hillfortswednesday #Dorset #Coker 1/

Walbury Hillfort, looking South into the Combe valley

Neolithic chambered tomb below Tal-y-Fan in the Carneddau mountains courtesy of Hansjoerg Lipp. #Cymru #TombTuesday #Archaeology

#TombTuesday... Ballymacdermot Court Tomb again, this time viewed from the other east side of the court Image 2014, other post 2018 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Photography #Black&White #Monochrome #PhotographersOfBluesky #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono

Dunmail Raise cairn Cumbria. According to tradition, Dunmail was the last king of Cumbria when it was part of Strathclyde, Scotland and is buried beneath the cairn. Dunmail Raise, meaning ‘Dyfnwal’s Cairn’, may well be named after the historical Dyfnwal ab Owain, King of Strathclyde. #TombTuesday

Inside the one of the three dolmens at Mané-Kerioned in Brittany can be found a number of intriguing carvings. They were uncovered, along with many pottery fragments, when the site was excavated in 1866. #TombTuesday

The ‘Whispering Knights’ - the remains of an early Neolithic burial chamber in Oxfordshire. The chamber is part of the Rollright Stones complex, with stone circle and standing stone nearby. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Oxfordshire #RollrightStones

Dionysiac mosaic with dancing Satyrs, Bacchantes and Oceanus masks, dated 2nd century AD, from Hadrumetum, Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia; courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday

#MosaicMonday River #Nile scene, detail of Ducks, a Cobra snake and a Mongoose. The mosaic currently resides in Naples’ National Archaeological Museum, with inventory references connecting it to Pompeii and Casa del Fauno #Italy #romanarchaeology #Art #History #Roman #Archaeology

#MosaicMonday El atleta más rico de la historia era de Mérida: Cayo Apuleyo Diocles. Un auriga de Emerita Augusta (siglo IV d.C.) ya se beneficiaba del ‘merchandising’ hace veinte siglos. 🏛️ Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, Badajoz 🇪🇦 España. #Hispania #Roma #Archaeology #AncientBluesky

#mosaicMonday Saturday I was asked to speak to a brilliant local charity - I don't think they are on here - Restore Hope Latimer. Their buildings and carpark are on top of Latimer Villa, excavated by Keith Branigan in the 60s. They are the proud curators of a fragment of mosaic floor!

Bacchus with a panther and a plethora of Solomon's Knots. Villa del Mitra, Cabra, Córdoba, Spain #MosaicMonday

The central part of the 4th century AD ‘Hare Mosaic’ from Roman Cirencester (Corinium). The mosaic was discovered during 1971 at Beeches Road in Cirencester, and is now on display in the fabulous Corinium Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum

It's not a peacock. It's a rocket-propelled goose. #MosaicMonday

Autumn Equinox today...

The allée couverte of Le Rocher in St-Jacut-du-Méné (Côtes-d’Armor) is estimated to have been 14m long. It was partly destroyed before 1897 when it was excavated. In 1910 it was sold to a stonemason who broke the rest of it up.

#OnThisDay - 22 September - in AD 87 the Arval Brethren carried out sacrifices "on account of the detection of crimes of evil doers". Frustratingly, we lack detail on what is perhaps a conspiracy against Domitian. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC 2.1 Domitian 506. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Happy Autumn Equinox! 🖤 We're heading to @rossiterbooks.bsky.social in Cheltenham, then to @toppingsbath.bsky.social before we hang out this afternoon at @mrbsemporium.bsky.social! Come say hi if you can, and we'll be signing copies of Three Ravens Folk Tales too, of course!

The witch’s broom is more than a tool of flight. In medieval lore it was tied to fertility rituals. Women leapt astride poles or brooms in the fields at planting time, mimicking growth, urging crops to rise with them. #MythologyMonday Art: Robert Ingpen

For this week's #StandingStoneSunday Castlerigg Stone Circle courtesy of Ennor. #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Archaeology

Callanish Lit up by Moonlight #StandingStoneSunday

When is a standing stone not an ancient standing stone? When English Heritage use it to denote the place of origin of the bluestones of Stonehenge in the Preseli mountains! Although this isn’t on top of Carn Menyn or Carn Goeddog even more confusingly. But it is a nice #StandingStoneSunday

Devil's Quoits. Oxfordshire. Christmas Eve from a few years back. 📷 by me. #StandingStoneSunday

Irelands largest stone circle is the Grange Lios embanked stone circle in Lough Gur, County Limerick. It was occupied in the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Early Christian, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern periods. It consists of 113 stone with a diameter of 46 m. #StandingStoneSunday

Somewhere on Salisbury Plain. Winter Solstice morning 🌞 📷 by me. #StandingStoneSunday

One of the stone rows at Ballymeanoch - part of the remarkable prehistoric landscape at Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Argyll

#standingstonesunday The Pipers and Hurlers in the mist. St. Cleer this time apparently turned the hurlers to stone for playing hurling on the sabbath as well as the pipers who played too much music. and of course Trethevy Quoit

Avebury in Winter. 📷by me. #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday A year ago on Ynys Môn / Anglesey, visiting the incredible Penrhosfeilw Standing Stones 😮🤩 These 3m tall stones somehow survive in modern pasture towards the western tip of Holy Island; while legend says they once formed part of a circle, they seem pretty complete as a pair

The Roman theatre at Sparta, originally built in the 1st century AD but rebuilt several times up to the 4th century AD. Picture credit Carole Raddato. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

The Goddess Minerva surveying the scene at the corner of High Petergate and Minster Gates, #York - roughly the corner of the Via Pincipalis and Via Praetoria in the Roman fort. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain 📷 My own

St. Albans near London was the Roman city of Verulamium. It was already in the Iron Age the centre of the Catuvellauni. The main Roman road Watling Street passed through the city. It became a munipicium in AD 50. Its walls were built between AD 265 and 270. #RomanSiteSaturday

The remains of the south-west range of North Leigh Roman Villa in Oxfordshire. The villa went through various stages of construction between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD, and was probably the centre of a large agricultural estate. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain