There are many advantages to having round-the-clock roundhouse access, but smoking your own salmon for Christmas might top the list... 🔥 Fancy enjoying eclectic perks like these? Find out more about our vacancy for an Events & Development Coordinator: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/vacancies

In late July 2025 I received word from a friend of his discovery of Field Eryngo Eryngium campestre on the edge of Winchester, Hampshire. Probably arrived via a car tyre with continental origins, but fab nonetheless. Formerly more widespread but now a true national rarity. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

So today I discovered that @everyheron.bsky.social and @nationaltrust.org.uk Arlington Court is a match made in heaven.... the emblem of the place is a heron holding and eel in its beak.

Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, along with Marcele Oliveira and Alison Tickell, co-authored a series of articles exploring how culture, heritage, and creativity can bridge the gap between climate policy and people’s lived realities. 🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...

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Find out more about how we care for these special places: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/our-cause/hi...

These hillforts are managed in a way that strikes the balance between protecting archaeological features, as well as making space for nature. And they're not only largely Scheduled Monuments, but also Sites of Special Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and National Nature Reserves (NNR).

The layout of hillforts with their steep ramparts and ditches means they’ve never been intensively farmed. These ancient landscapes have, by virtue of their formation and position, evolved into outstanding habitats supporting rare, beautiful wildflowers, butterflies and birds.

It’s #HillfortsWednesday! Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust? They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵

Tess doing doing such good work on mining PAS data for the stories they fail to tell about the impact of unregulated metal detecting. The figures on exports are staggering and hidden in sight. The system is broken and overdue significant reform

OK...I need someone to check my maths here. This really is that 1/3 of the number of finds found in any one year & c.6% of the number of annual Treasure finds were exported in 2023? The data is all from the 2023 PAS report. Seriously, I'm not imagining this, am I? 😮 #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺

"... inviting artists, organisations & creative agencies to submit proposals that breathe life into the wood saved from the felled tree. This extraordinary opportunity will see up to 5 artists receive funding to develop their ideas, with 1 final concept selected in early 2026." tinyurl.com/3pamneuv

I'm at a secondary school for my youngest football game and spotted this on the canteen wall. Such excellent #climate education and leadership. I wish more restaurants would do this.

Come and join us in Brighton for Quaternary science and plenty of Geoarchaeology and the Palaeolithic archaeology too. Including an ECR workshop and a field trip to Birling Gap and Black Rock, all in my home city! 🦣🏺

New fav artefact is either this silk viking bonnet from York, or Alfred's cake fungus from Star Carr used to curate an ember 11,000 yrs ago - something I tried with Explorer Scouts a few weeks ago (it works amazingly well!). #YorkshireMuseum spoiling us with exhibitions at the moment, do go visit!

Travelling north from King's Cross for @archaeologyuk.bsky.social. Something about station war memorials - ordinary men with ordinary jobs so far from conflict who found themselves thrust into the horror of war. Thinking of them & all those currently caught in conflict around the world.

Did you know there's a website dedicated to helping you discover more about the archaeology and heritage cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk? NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵

Chasing the money trail on legally processed treasure cases in England & Wales reveals the eye watering public expense of owning / buying heritage that belongs to the nation from the people who found it. As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions

We're delighted to be working with MJC-Associates to record the graffiti & inscriptions at Stoneacre. The house is a medieval timber-framed building, with many later alterations to the fabric, including those undertaken by Aymer Vallance, who presented the house to the National Trust in 1928.

Amazing figures here that are seldom discussed or looked at wholesale. As always following the money shows the full scale of this with eye watering figures being paid from public funds to private individuals for artefacts that collectively belong to the nation A system under strain morally corrupt

Just finished writing my talk for this on Saturday. Should be a great day!

@chichesterharbour have kept this quiet!

Today I found an Ent

Important context for conversations about nature recovery and #wilding. Humans have always been part of #naturalprocesses, our response to the nature crisis must include people. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Up in Newcastle with the @newcastleuni.bsky.social Centre for Landscape 'jamboree' hearing about the excellent work they have been doing over the past year. They are building a library of policy notes based on their research check them out... www.ncl.ac.uk/landscape/ou...

We've got a little update from the excavations on the lawns of the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire. Angus Wainwright, NT Archaeologist, says: "We teamed up with @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and Cambridge Archaeology Field Group to carry out this dig in front of hundreds of visitors." 🧵

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

A big shout out to the wonderful illustrator Carys Ink. She did the illustrations for the Cherish Project and I'm super impressed by work we are currently commissioning. If you have a project in need of an inspiring, inclusive illustration do check her out. www.carys-ink.com

They've added some more tickets, so do nab yourself one to see myself and @trixranderson.bsky.social talk all things torc and viking tomorrow. Tickets are free and the event is online! #Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Torcs #IronAge #Vikings #Yorkshire www.ticketsource.co.uk/yahs/sl-4-dr...

Our sport obsessed 11 yr old was looking for the sports section of the Church Times yesterday at a relatives house. Now I'm wondering why not, and my mind is convinced there is a Father Ted episode I've missed.

Love this. I actually think there is a bit too much naff augmented reality going on in archaeology at the moment that falls short, but points Colleen makes about world building not needing to be digital, & the importance of the way we present arch info to facilitate world building really resonated

A brief visit to Hamford Water and Beaumont Quay today. Apparently these stones were once part of London Bridge, and now provide a pretty idyllic launch point for paddle boards and crab lines. buildinglondon.blog/2022/02/25/3...

A fab day out helping @rspbscotland.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social #Balmoral rangers survey for rare invertebrates today. Our 10 yr old was chuffed to find the first broken-belted bumblebee recorded on the estate, sadly no small scabious mining bees but several dark bordered beauty moths.

Keen to explore this #climateheritage & #policy grant with potential partners. Historic England on board too. Get in touch if interested! www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

I was trying to work out what tragedy this collection of memorials commemorated, an Internet search later & I now know these are from actual people for a fictional character shot in an episode of Peaky Blinders filmed here in Portsoy c.2021. Which other memorials to fictional people are there?

It’s Norfolk Day, and to celebrate, East of England archaeologist Angus is asking "Did Nelson’s naval ancestors sail from Brancaster?" Just off the coastal path at Brancaster on the north Norfolk Coast is a bumpy field, home to local dog walkers and the odd skylark. 🧵

Let’s celebrate peatland archaeology this international #BogDay! www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/file...

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@bsbibotany.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @askanarchaeologist.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @trisnorton.bsky.social you think we could combine #WildFlowerHour with #AskAnArchaeologist? What is your favourite plant related archaeological find? #Archaeobotany

You guys know what archaeology is, right? 😜

You might #AskAnArchaeologist "How can I get involved with archaeology at National Trust places?" How about the #FestivalofArchaeology? We have so many events happening across England, Wales and Northern Ireland until Sunday 3rd August! Check out our website for more details: bit.ly/40A0e66

For me it was @butserancientfarm.co.uk as a very young child. Still my favourite place!

#AskAnArchaeologist question from my teen 'what first inspired you to become an archaeologist?' @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social

This is my weekend - pop in to say hi if you're in the area. I've made fancy posters and chosen some of our best finds to show you! #FestivalOfArchaeology

Question from my youngest #askanarchaeologist @nattrustarch.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social 'If there wasn't such thing as an archaeologist what would you be instead?'

So ask away! @nattrustarch.bsky.social will be covered all day and use the #AskAnArchaeologist tag to pose your questions.

We'll be answering your questions from 10am, so please feel free to start posting and we'll catch up with you later! #AskAnArchaeologist #FestivalofArchaeology @nationaltrust.org.uk @archaeologyuk.bsky.social

Today is #AskAnArchaeologist Day and our intrepid team @nattrustarch.bsky.social is poised ready to answer. So, what have you always wanted to know about archaeology?