Adopted by a Wookiee. #BlackShuck

The revolt has come to an end… Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this one by @theduncanmackay.bsky.social. Check out the full review on Goodreads if you dare navigate away from your current social media app: www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

Getting into the decorated tombstone spirit, this painted replica is to Flavinus, a standard bearer in a Roman cavalry unit. This is in the site museum at #Corbridge Roman Town (the original is in #Hexham Abbey). #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Northumberland 📷 My own, 2024

Tombstones of two #Roman auxilliary cavalrymen who both died in Britain during the 1st century AD Dannicus (from Switzerland) and Genialis (from the Netherlands) Illuminated in colour, to show how they may have originally looked, in the Corinium Museum #Cirencester 📷 Aug 2022 #RomanFortThursday

To be fair, it must have been exhausting causing chaos, weeing on the carpet, chewing the chair leg, harassing the cockapoo, and preventing me getting any writing done all day. Sleep well, little Shuck. Tomorrow is a whole new day!

Well, when you’re passing, and they have delicious Boudicca Spiral Stout newly on, it’d be rude not to have a very swift one.

Walking home through Norwich last night I came upon the legendary fossilised computer keyboard.

The Roos Carr figures just wanted to wish you a happy spring equinox, or else. Obey and be happy, or they might be popping round later. They know where you live. East Yorkshire, c. 600-500BC. Yew & quartzite, Hull & East Riding Museum. #FindsFriday

The Roos Carr figures just wanted to wish you a happy spring equinox, or else. Obey and be happy, or they might be popping round later. They know where you live. East Yorkshire, c. 600-500BC. Yew & quartzite, Hull & East Riding Museum. #FindsFriday

The luminous lorica of #Bridport Museum 🤩 Helping display the bronze hooks, hinges and buckles of 1st century AD legionary armour found at Waddon Hill #Dorset 📷 March 2026 The museum is now open Tues-Sat bridportmuseum.co.uk Go visit 👍 #RomanFortThursday

A Roman saucepan, of a type often used by soldiers for open-fire cooking. It was discovered inside the ruins of Castle Craig Broch, near Auchterarder, Scotland. #FindsFriday

Hmm, I’m finding hashtags aren’t really working here this morning…🤔

Yearning for the Wall country, but unable to go just yet, & my last trip in November feels like years ago. Last stop on the way home was @vindolandatrust.bsky.social & their wonderful wall reconstructions. Looking forward to new trips later in the spring! #RomanFortThursday #PlaymobilInfestation

Urgh, no, I’ve just spotted a horrid, massive tick attached to my leg. Anyone know how to remove them without pulling the head off?

Say cheese, Shuck.

Say cheese, Shuck.

I’m really not sure how he sleeps in that position, but you know…puppies 🙄

#OTD 44BC “Well, the Ides of March are come! Happy Ides, everyone!” “Aye, Caesar, the Ides are come, but they’re not yet gone.” #IdesOfMarch #PlaymobilInfestation

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

Warham Camp.

This new research assistant is rubbish. You ask him to look up one reference in Tacitus and he eats the book and then falls asleep. 1/10.

I don’t understand the world. We could still have timetables that look like this. LCC Trams May 1932. #BoudicaFriday #Echolands

I don’t understand the world. We could still have timetables that look like this. LCC Trams May 1932. #BoudicaFriday #Echolands

1/ The site of Muir O’ Fauld Roman watchtower on the Gask Ridge, Tayside, Scotland. Part of a line of Flavian installations thought to date to Agricola’s occupation late 70s/80s, but some have argued earlier still. 🧵 #RomanFortThursday

“I’m tired now!” Yeah, me too, baby. #BlackShuck

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son, son It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one. #PlaymobilInfestation

Underwater love. Amazing this pond is less than 3 years old.

Super charity shop find - the Norwich Beer Festival 2015 Edith Cavell centenary half pint glass. The most beautiful design they’ve ever done IMO. I’ve already got a couple in each size (pint, half & third) but you can never have too many…

A rather odd sibling for the Newark torc and the Netherurd terminal: Torc H7 from Snettisham. #Archaeology #Torcs #Gold bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/03/09/s...

Happy #HillfortsWednesday! Here's a recreation of the Iron Age double ramparts defining the west end of Hengistbury Head (once #Hampshire then #Dorset now @bcpcouncil.bsky.social) Prehistoric trade centre and gateway to the world A wonderful painting © Judith Dobie for the HH Visitor Centre

Meet Shuck.

The Suffragette Boadicea brooch, produced by the Women’s Social and Political Union WSPU in 1908; Boudica (Boadicea) was the war leader of the Iceni in AD60, leading a rebellion against the Roman occupation. A thread…🧵 #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth

The Suffragette Boadicea brooch, produced by the Women’s Social and Political Union WSPU in 1908; Boudica (Boadicea) was the war leader of the Iceni in AD60, leading a rebellion against the Roman occupation. A thread…🧵 #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth

Not a flying toy. #Icarus #Daedalus #PlaymobilInfestation

#findsfriday the astonishing, enigmatic Hendy Head from Anglesey now in Oriel Môn - found in a ploughed field overlooking the Menai straits and thought to be Late Iron Age. Did this Celtic god oversee the a Roman attack on the Druids and an end of the old ways? #celts #ironage #druids #anglesey

For #FindsFriday this gorgeous depiction of the Deskford carnyx by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s Scotland Before History, 1958. Found c.1816 Near Deskford, just south of the Moray coast, it dates to the later 1stC AD, deposited in a bog c.2/3rdC. Now in the National Museum of Scotland. #CarnyxCrazy

For #FindsFriday this gorgeous depiction of the Deskford carnyx by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s Scotland Before History, 1958. Found c.1816 Near Deskford, just south of the Moray coast, it dates to the later 1stC AD, deposited in a bog c.2/3rdC. Now in the National Museum of Scotland. #CarnyxCrazy

For #FindsFriday one more chance to enjoy the extraordinary newly-discovered Roman lead pig from Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion; one of a pair seemingly abandoned 🤔 Emperor Domitian's name is cast on the top, declaring it to be Imperial property 🧐 👉 @rcahmwales.bsky.social 3D model here: skfb.ly/pG6DJ

Current main reading, on my Kindle as usual, so I can read with the utterly gargantuan font needed now due to my progressive neurological disease. A mix of fiction and non fiction. Full details in the alt text. #Booksky #reading

28th September 1066 An invading army led by William Duke of Normandy make the 780 year old #Roman fort of ANDERITVM (Pevensey) #Sussex a base prior to the Battle of Hastings A vivid recreation © Alan Sorrell 1970 reproduced in 1976 as a Department of the Environment postcard #RomanFortThursday

The late 5th c AD SW gate of Cadbury Castle hillfort #Somerset Based on Leslie Alcock's 1968 excavation Splendidly recreated with elevated platform in a painting © Peter Dennis for *British Forts in the Age of Arthur* by Angus Konstam @ospreypublishing.bsky.social 2008 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday

More medicine and history coming to a small screen near you this evening! Alice Roberts: Our Hospital through Time, 8pm on Channel 5!

So yesterday I went on an adventure to see a torc! A torc I've been wanting to see for some time, which I'm pretty sure is the sibling of Newark and Netherurd, made/finished by the same hand... Say hello to The B52 (AKA Snettisham torc H7)! ❤️ #Archaeology 🏺

This Week! On Age of Stonehenge! All the different ways in which this image is wrong, the development of the Chacolithic Britain, defined not just by metalworking but migrations of Beaker-associated groups and interactions with local people who are in the middle of a massive monument binge.

Argghhh, just spotted a new #PlaymobilInfestation on my office bookshelf!! They're already forming into a testudo 😱 #Playmobil #Roman #SendHelp

Catkin Moon.

For #FindsFriday, a decorated sherd of Iron Age pottery found in the upper fill of a chalk-cut storage pit in a banjo enclosure at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset Photographed at the moment of discovery in June 2022 What will we find when #Durotriges26 starts later in the year? Summer is coming...

#FindsFriday Sharp sunlight strikes across the Ceredigion lead pig during safekeeping in @rcahmwales.bsky.social offices 🌞😮 The lettering makes no doubt about ownership..🧐 IMP DOMIT CAES AVG XIII COS (Property) of the Emperor Domitian Caesar Augustus, consul for the thirteenth time 📷 My own

When a friend comes back from the charity shop and says, “I saw these and thought of you.”🎯 Welcome. Eyes front, you undisciplined little 🤬🤬🤬🤬!! #PlaymobilInfestation

The Iron Age ramparts of Figsbury Ring hillfort #Wiltshire as enjoyed by a herd of inquisitive bovine quadrupeds 📷 March 2022 #HillfortsWednesday