British Camp, with Pinnacle Hill and The Malverns stretching out behind. This was a huge Bronze/Iron Age hillfort.

Waving to Old Sarum 👋 The mighty multivallate Iron Age hillfort, just NE of Salisbury #Wiltshire, reused as Roman town and Medieval motte and bailey, rears up as you come in to land at the nearby airfield 📷 Oct 2016 #HillfortsWednesday

A Roman villa site found in Gloucestershire #Archaeology www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

For #FindsFriday here are some finds in context. Excavations of PERIOD IID, RM.55: GLASS & POTTERY at Verulamium (St. Albans). www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

I was in Carhampton yesterday giving a talk on recent finds from Somerset. What a lovely group of people with loads of interesting finds in their heritage centre that have been found locally - well worth a visit!

For #FindsFriday I wanted to share this silver denarius of Caracalla, dating to 214 AD. The son of Septimus Severus, Caracalla is well know as a ruthless emperor who famously murdered his brother (and 'co emperor') Geta. See the record here: finds.org.uk/database/art...

Here today at Castle Cary Market House spreading the word about The Portable Antiquities Scheme 😁 @findsorguk.bsky.social

I'll be at Castle Cary Museum tomorrow! I won't be taking finds in for recording this time, but will be spreading the word about the PAS and the work we do. My specialism is archaeological finds, so I will be able to comment on anything aged AD 1700 - 500,000 BC. See you there!

Zoomorphic styles are common in the Roman period. Here's a second century, almost complete, brooch in the shape of a chicken for #FindsFriday See the full record here - Record ID: finds.org.uk/database/art...

I've had a few cancellations so there are a couple of spaces left for this finds day, please email asap if you want to nab one!

If you haven't already seen it, check out the new archaeology room at Sidmouth Museum, complete with model hillfort of Blackbury castle! #HillfortsWednesday

This Saturday is my Finds Day in Wells Museum! If you are a finder booked in to see me, please make sure you arrive 5 mins before your appointment, and have all your findspots ready! See you soon!

From last week's Finds Friday... Now we don't see these very often in Somerset! A stunning Iron Age bead is highlighted for today's #FindsFriday The decoration is a classic Iron Age swirling motif, and the bead is a lovely deep blue colour. See the full record here finds.org.uk/database/art...

It's always nice when you find something with a personal connection. This Post Medieval #buckle has a maker's mark for S C (for S Cook), whose buckles have been recorded nationwide. Dated to AD 1650 - 1800. See the full record here - finds.org.uk/database/art... #FindsFriday

The Iron Age hillfort at Battlesbury Camp lies near Warminster in Wiltshire. It is a bivallate hillfort that enclosed an area of 9.5 hectares. The southwest area of the hill fort is built over Bronze Age burial mounds. #HillfortWednesday

A lion, a star, and a name that no longer needs writing. This striking Roman intaglio ring, found at the Union Grounds in Colchester, dates to the 3rd century AD. The deep blue gem is nicolo paste, a dark glass used to imitate more expensive stones, and it’s been engraved with a lion beneath a star.

It’s #HillfortsWednesday ! Here’s the gorgeous bivallate Iron Age hillfort of Flowers Barrow atop a chalk ridge overlooking Worbarrow Bay #Dorset It sits in the @Unesco.org World Heritage #JurassicCoast and MoD Firing Range, close the ghost village of Tyneham 📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

The ramparts at Dolebury Warren hillfort, part of a beautiful walk in the Mendip Hills with incredibly varied landscapes. The views are across the Chew Valley to the Bristol Channel. Some of the huge rubble walls are exposed by weathering. #HillfortsWednesday #IronAge

www.bajr.org/the-lithic-s... The Call for Papers is out for this November 2025 Conference of the Lithics Studies Society. Open to all from specialists to independent researchers, from Early to established careers. so read on. :)

🗣 NEW TALK: The Tower: One year on From grotto excavations and solar panels to peeling paint and exciting new objects, the last few years have seen major changes at Beckford’s Tower! 📆 Tuesday 10 June 2025, 6pm 🎫 £10 www.tickettailor.com/events/bathp...

🏞️ Hillfort of the Week: Bell Hill 🏞️ Overlooking #Lindean Loch near #Selkirk , Bell Hill is a brilliant example of a ridge-top fort. The Borders has one of the highest concentrations of #IronAge hillforts in Europe—evidence of a thriving past in this ancient landscape.

There has been much debate as to whether Burnswark hillfort in S. Scotland was the site of a Roman siege, or was a long abandoned fort re-used by the Romans as a training camp. Excavation in in the 60's recovered lots of Roman ballistics and even a Roman sword! #HillfortsWednesday

Found an archaeological object and want it identifying? Come along to a Finds Day! All the info about my next finds day in Taunton is here on my facebook event - fb.me/e/5LastALAq

A late #FindsFriday but here is this lovely little piece of decorated #medieval coarseware. It dates to the 11th to 15th century, and retains some glaze and decoration on the exterior. See the full record here: finds.org.uk/database/art...

I am on annual leave from today until Wednesday. If you find a hoard insitu please contact myself via DM or the NCMD hoard hotline (see linktree), leave covered in the ground for excavation by archaeologists. If in doubt, don't dig it out! Have a good bank holiday all ☺️

Back here again today for a training day @findsorguk.bsky.social

I just set up a facebook page for PAS Somerset. If you're over there, please like! www.facebook.com/people/Somer...

Have you found something you think might be an archaeological object? Come along to a Finds Day! I can take a look at your finds, give an ID and create a record for the PAS database. (Finds will be borrowed for 4 months.) For upcoming Finds Days in 2025 check the link in bio.

Heading out to Yeovil today! #FindsDay

Head of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, from the Ryedale hoard, North Yorkshire. Interpreted as a possible sceptre head, latter half of 2nd century AD. Yorkshire Museum. #FindsFriday Begging the question…(p.1of2)

A few tens of millions of years ago this nugget of Baltic amber bobbed across the sea to arrive on British shores. Over a thousand years ago someone picked it up and began to turn it into a bead for a necklace, before losing it on our site at Skipsea. #FindsFriday #Skipsea2025 🏺

This week on #findsfriday, we have a bronze pin or hasp with two birds, likely pigeons with a ring on the top. The pin is inscribed 'LVCIANVS' and was found on Honey Street in Woodborough, Wiltshire. Search more of our collections here at: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...

This stunning Neolithic knapped, ground, polished stone axehead was found in a river in Yorkshire. It's likely made of Langdale tuff. Langdale axes have been found throughout England & are evidence for exchange of materials in the Neolithic. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

For #FindsFriday here is a really nice (although incomplete) example of a barbed and tanged arrowhead dating to the Early Bronze Age. The pressure flaking on this example is wonderful, it must have taken such skill to produce. See the full record here - finds.org.uk/database/art...

A reminder that this month I will be holding another #FindsDay at Yeovil Heritage Centre - appointment only! - Wednesday 21st May - 2pm - 4pm - email [email protected] to book!

#HillfortsWednesday View from the spectacular crags of Allt yr Esgair fort in Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons National Park; looking over Talybont-on-Usk Air photos in 2022 revealed a large Roman camp below (arrowed), a grim reminder of C1st AD conflict ⚔️ coflein.gov.uk/en/site/710500 📷 Apr 25

Maughold Head #IsleOfMan An Iron Age hillfort, covered in gorse. Extensive views from the top along the east coast of the island. #HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday with Castle Naze in the Peak District, technically a promontory fort with ditches on the southeastern side

On what would have been her 106th birthday, I'm very excited to share that my biography, The Life of Eva Perón: First Lady, Actress, Activist and Philanthropist will be published by @penandswordbooks.bsky.social in September 2025! #Evita #EvaPerón

#FindsFriday Dartmoor is rich in Bronze Age ceramics as so few people have lived there since. These (2250-1100 BC) are in Plymouth's terrific Box museum: Raddick Hill 'Trevisker' (from Cornwall) vessel Chagford beaker Dewerstone 'Trevisker' vessel Hurston Ridge Collared Urn

Two rare leaf-scroll handled Samian Ware dishes found with a #Roman cremation at Sompting West #Sussex in 1971 In the wonderful Worthing Museum @wtmworthing.bsky.social Made in Rheinzabern #Deutschland in the early 3rd century, they're stamped with the makers names, FAVVO and IVVENIS #FindsFriday

This #findsfriday we have a Viking gold finger-ring, made from six strands of gold plaited together to make a band. This dates back to the 10-11th century AD and was found in the Stockley area, near Heddington, Wiltshire, 2013.

@naomipayne.bsky.social 's Somerset Pottery Fabric Type Series is now online! Such a valuable resource and great to be able to access from anywhere :) congrats Naomi! archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/col...

It's #FindsFriday! Today I wanted to share this beautiful early Medieval brooch with striking enamel. These are rare in the South West and is the first from Somerset recorded on the PAS database! finds.org.uk/database/art...

‘Use happily and live!’ What a great motto inscribed on this Roman silver spoon! The bowl is worn on the left side from years of (hopefully) happy use by its right-handed owner! From Pentrehyling Roman fort, Shropshire. 4th century AD. Shrewsbury Museum 📷 by me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

🌸 May was originally the 3rd month of the #Roman calendar. 🌻Festivals of ancient origins celebrating the beginning of summer take place in various European countries halfway between the spring equinox & summer solstice such as the Gaelic Beltane.Traditions include bonfires, wildflowers & a greenery

A little May Day/Beltane natural miracle this morning: 8 damselflies emerging together from our pond, ready to begin their summer 🌿☀️

In Neolithic Denmark, for example, 'sun stones' were likely buried in the ground like seeds as a kind of fertility ritual. Following a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun, they may have done it as a plea to return the darkened sun. 2/2 Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Happy #MayDay! 🏺🌸 The festival has its origins in ancient festivals such as Roman Floralia, which celebrated the Roman goddess of flowers, Flora. However, the celebration of fertility goes back much further than that. 1/2 📷 Floralia by Antonio María Reyna Manescau (1888)

For #FindsFriday I wanted to highlight a recent find from Somerset: this double looped palstave axe dating to the Bronze Age. We usually see single looped palstaves, so this object is the first of it's kind recorded on the PAS! finds.org.uk/database/art...