🏺 You want ancient shields? Not only can you gawp close-up at huge Bronze & Iron Age examples, but also see gorgeous mini votive shields from hoards - showing real variety in form - and the simply astonishing Enderby BARK SHIELD, which revealed true diversity in Iron Age materials & artisan skill.

🏺 Top tip for British Museum visitors: go across the court, up rotunda stairs, cross bridge into upper floor, head past crowds aiming for Egypt and Mesopotamia, and go straight to Rooms 50 and 51 where the most stunning array of glories from later prehistory await you!

A magnificent ginkgo biloba showing stunning seasonal colours 🍂 📍 Greenwich Park 📸 Anna M and Mark W

Cast your vote to make the Melsonby Hoard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social's Rescue Project of the Year 2026! Unearthed by our archaeologists, the hoard is one of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @proftommoore.bsky.social

This magnificent sweet chestnut tree has sat proudly for centuries in the Greenwich Park Flower Garden 🌳 As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

Throughout The Green Park you'll find London plane trees standing tall. These urban warriors have an important role to play 🌳 As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲 Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹

Next Monday 1 Dec 25: Sophia Adams will be talking about "The Melsonby hoard" for the Combined Hertfordshire Archaeological Societies. Lecture on zoom, free tickets from Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1777827874... #IronAge #prehistory #archaeology #HorseGear #AmazingFind @ehasarch.bsky.social

The next CHAS lecture is a not-to-miss event! Join us on December 1 to hear British Museum curator Dr. Sophia Adams talk about the amazing Melsonby Hoard - and, as always, it's free! More info and a link for tickets here: ehas.org.uk/ehas.org.uk/... #archaeology #ancientBluesky

Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2 #TilesOnTuesday 🏺

On 13 November, join Prof. Tom Moore FSA and Dr Sophia Adams FSA as they share recent finds in Melsonby, North Yorkshire - one of the largest hoards of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain! www.sal.org.uk/event/melson...

It's Reading Week - but the #archaeology never stops! Dr Kris Lockyear is out in the field this week w/ 2nd & 3rd year students running (with Gareth Rees, 1 of our alum) a surveying course in Hertfordshire... Stay tuned & send good weather vibes! #LocalAndGlobal #ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology

We were lucky enough to work with @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social to scan the #MelsonbyHoard recently! See www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... for more info on this amazing discovery. Help the York Museums Trust keep the hoard in Yorkshire and donate today at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m....

Lovely to see the listing increased to Grade II* by Historic England and the DCMS for this amazing windmill in Margate. Draper's Windmill was constructed in about 1843, by John Holman, millwright of Canterbury. 🧵 📷 Emily Greenaway

The 2,000-year-old secrets that the amazing Melsonby Hoard is slowly revealing

We're excited to be working with Wealden Archaeology Group at Scotney Castle! During October, the team has been undertaking GPR survey to learn more about the lost buildings depicted on 18th-early 19th century plans, to the west of the Old Castle. heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRec...

NEW Handaxes and Levallois cores from Shbicha, Iraq. Lying at the crossroads of Pleistocene hominin dispersals, these lithics show repeated episodes of raw material exploitation, indicating well-developed knowledge of the local environment. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.

And so back to Greenwich by water, and there while something is dressing for our dinner, Sir William and I walked into the Park, where the King hath planted trees and made steps in the hill up to the Castle, which is very magnificent.

Whilst storms 🌪️ rage on the west coast, here's an incredible Samian vessel from Aquae Sulis - Roman Bath - to start the week. It depicts two gladiators locked in combat ⚔️🛡️😮 An incredible survival & on display in the Roman Baths museum 📷 My own

Today I learned something amazingly new to me. Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲 Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo

Tonight is the 85th anniversary of so many WW1 records being destroyed. #otd #ww1 #geneaology See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-1940-fir...

If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...

And just like that, Season 2 of #Bodiam100 is complete! We’ve had an amazing 3 weeks on site with around 140 participants joining us #OutInTheField. We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers & to our property colleagues for making us so welcome at Bodiam. 🏺🧵 @nationaltrust.org.uk

Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain

#RomanSiteSaturday & you really can't go wrong with the spectacular Pharos of Dover 🏺AncientBluesky

This week's #AlphabetChallenge is #WeekGforGlass so please enjoy the only known depiction of Roman glass blowing, on an oil lamp. Three have been found: in Asseria, Ferrara and Spodnje Skofije.

The decorated backplate of a copper alloy Iron Age mirror From a pit with mid-late 1st century AD Roman glassware Possibly part of a very late Durotriges grave assemblage Found at Chettle Park Dorset in 2003 Now in the BM (2009,8006.1) © The Trustees of the British Museum #FindsFriday

The Yorkshire Museum is delighted to announce that it has received £192,096 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund alongside support from public fundraising to acquire the Melsonby Hoard for future generations. www.bajr.org/melsonby-hoa...

News | Yorkshire Museum acquires iron age hoard after fundraising campaign – Melsonby Hoard of over 800 artefacts was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021

🎉 Welcome to #FestivalOfArchaeology Youth Day! 🎉 Today is all about young voices, bold ideas, and the future of archaeology. Here’s what's coming: 🖼️ My Heritage Photography Exhibition! 🎓 Student & Early Careers Conference at 3 PM 🆕 Big News from the Youth Advisory Board 💬 And even more surprises 👀

In Iron Age finds news: The Yorkshire Museum has acquired the Melsonby *hoard* (more properly *assemblage*) a huge collection of material including chariot fittings, equestrian gear and weaponry, thanks to the National Lottery funding and fundraising 👇👇 www.bbc.com/news/article... Huzzah!

This was meant to go out at 10am today. Here's the big announcement! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Read more about the role of our archaeologists in this amazing discovery: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

The Melsonby Hoard Iron Age find – excavated by our Department of Archaeology and our Archaeological Services team – has been saved for the nation after a successful fundraising campaign led by The Yorkshire Museum. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our next question: What are some of the most underrepresented stories in British archaeology today? Where should we be looking? Which untold stories should be the focus for future projects? #AskAnArchaeologist #FestivalofArchaeology

Claire's final question explores whether archaeology is a welcoming field for neurodiverse individuals. What has your experience been? #AskAnArchaeologist

There are useful clues in the shapes of doors and windows, and also in the building materials being used #AskAnArchaeologist

Buildings Archaeologists at the ready? Here's a question from Insta: What are some clear signs you can look out for to tell what period a building is from? #AskAnArchaeologist

It's #findsfriday! This is a Colchester Derivative brooch spanning the 1st to 2nd century CE. We cannot say more than this as unfortunately the head, which would have held the mechanism for the spring is missing! #FindsFriday #History #Heritage #Roman #Romanarchaeology #Collections

Archaeologists assemble - a good question to ponder over lunch, from Reddit: If you could solve just one of archaeology's mysteries, what would it be? #AskAnArchaeologist

Logged on earlier than planned! Let us know your questions for #AskAnArchaeologist If you want to explore the archaeology of your nearest @nationaltrust.org.uk place then take a look at our Heritage Records Online webpage. It has almost 100,000 records! heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk

A TikTok question!!! Do we dare? .... Is Indiana Jones a good archaeologist? #AskAnArchaeologist

Calling all curious minds! Today is #AskAnArchaeologistDay, your chance to ask anything you’ve ever wanted to know about archaeology! 📱 Join the conversation on X, BlueSky, TikTok, and Instagram, just use the hashtag #AskAnArchaeologist or ask your question in the comments to get involved.

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Calling all #Kent #Teachers! The KAS is pleased to announce that the Ian Coulson Bursary is once again open. All information and the application form can be found here: www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/grants/ian-c... Please share far and wide! #Archaeology #History #Heritage #Teaching #Education

Assessment of artefacts found during metal detecting in 2018 at #Stoneacre has recently been completed by finds specialist Luke Barber. Two finds of note were recorded: a mid-late Saxon conical pin & a decorated medieval buckle dating to 1390-1420 AD. #FindsFriday #MetalDetecting #archaeology #Kent

The work Han put in to piecing this all together was incredible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...