Shopping in Waterstones Birmingham this morning. Two excellent purchases from opposite ends of the Iron Age...🤔🧐 I've never properly read the early Irish sagas, & I need to learn more about the Roman military machine which defeated the tribes of Britannia..

🚨New job Alert! We’re looking for a capable and self-motivated Data Assistant to help us keep Wales’s national archaeology, architecture, industrial and maritime history archive accurate and up-to-date with high-quality information. Find out more: zurl.co/6ZZh9 #job #historic#wales #heritage#data

Quizzical rock profiles inside an Iron Age coastal promontory fort to start the month Just some of the extraordinary rock formations which once greeted seaward traders & visitors to Chynalls Point fort near Coverack, Lizard, #Kernow/#Cornwall 📷 My own 2025

A sassy dolphin with flamboyant red feather costume vibe for #MosaicMonday Detail from a 2nd century #Roman floor found in Fordington High Street #Dorchester 1927 Conserved by Cliveden Conservation, the cheeky chappie can today be admired in the excellent @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social 📷 Sept 2023

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

A magnificent specimen! 😍 Weeping Willow, Cambridgeshire.

It wouldn't be #StandingStoneSunday & Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant without a picture of the incredible chambered tomb of Coetan Arthur on St David's Head 🥰 Browse our splendid #RCAHMW 3D model here: skfb.ly/pEKnE 📷 My own, 2023

In honour of #StDavidsDay here are the wonderful Penbryn Spoons, which were found in 1829 beneath a heap of stones inside the Castell Nadolig hillfort, near Penbryn in Ceredigion, Wales. The pair of cast bronze ‘spoons’ date to the Late Iron Age (c. 50 BCE–100 CE).

I'm lobbying for Toby the Trowel investigates Llyn Cerrig Bach or Toby the Trowel and the Lead Pigs. I want both tbh! ❤️ #Archaeology 🏺

It’s been over a decade since we walked around Corndon Hill and Stapeley Hill so I revisited in the sunshine on a 12km circular. Fabulous prehistoric landscape here with stone circles, cairns, standing stones (largely fallen) and barrows #archaeology #prehistoric

It's really fabulous to wake up to 9k followers 😮🥳. Diolch yn Fawr / thank you everyone 🙏 As a thank you - here is my 1994 Toby the Trowel explainer: 'How Sites Get Buried' 🤔 Surely the most common question ever asked of an archaeologist in a trench..🧐🏺 📷 My own, from younger days

The remains of the Roman amphitheater at Cirencester. Built during the 2nd century AD, it is estimated that the amphitheater would have held around 8000 people. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Cirencester

And the picture!!! If you ever needed a great example of how AI lazily reproduces sexual stereotypes (and other stereotypes) then this is IT!!! FFS

I'm delighted to be lecturing at Oriel Môn/Anglesey Gallery in March about the incredible Iron Age remains on the island, including about recent work with @richardosgood.bsky.social at Llyn Cerrig Bach & our #RCAHMW recording of coastal forts. See you there! www.orielmon.org/en/events/dr...

The Gleninsheen Gorget - a stunning late Bronze Age collar which was discovered in 1930 at Gleninsheen in County Clare. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Ireland

#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

Had a blast yesterday recording the Harry Hill podcast alongside Taskmaster Alex Horne. Too many references to ferries at the seaside to count but great fun sharing my love of the #greatbritishseaside Watch previous episodes here harryhill.co.uk/podcast/

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...

The end of Digging for Britain. For me, at least. But I’ll still be making television about archaeology, on other channels. So watch this space…

A heavy and complex #heritage - Amazing example of close connection between #environment, natural resources, #pollution and colonial history in #Wales. #envhist #pb #lead #metal #mining #Romans #geology #AmgueddfaCymru #archaeology #history #Ceredigion #ingot 🐖 press.museum.wales/news/rare-ro...

🏺🗃️📚 Thanks to Emma Southon's ASTONISHING new book #Servus*, when I look at these objects (and pretty much everything else made "by" Romans), what I see are layers upon iayers of enslaved labour *out in May, pre-order it, you will not be disappointed

Old Ladybird Books updated (1976). Oops. When you find out a bit late that their helmets didn’t have horns Artist: Roger Hall

A Roman statuette of Mercury which was found at Throsk, near Stirling in Central Scotland. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #RomanScotland #NationalMuseumScotland

This was the scene when I arrived to collect the lead pigs from the landowner in Oct 24, for safe transfer to the National Museum 😮 It's not often Roman finds are so heavy they're carried on a forklift The pigs are extraordinary..each weighed around 85kg & had to be lifted by two people 💪 📷 TD

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

This evening I will be talking about the development of densely populated Bronze Age hillforts in Ireland and Temperate Europe for @tuatha.ie @neiljackman.bsky.social, a topic which has recieved some press after our @antiquity.ac.uk paper on Brusselstown Ring, a massive 41ha site with 600+ houses!

What’s a Roman lead pig? Two inscribed examples dating to AD 87, were recently found in Ceredigion. They reveal new evidence of Roman-era Wales. Explore the 3D models: zurl.co/cnEq3 zurl.co/AuifU Amgueddfa Cymru press release: zurl.co/Nt9CJ

Proper fancy a chunky KitKat now…

I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding lead 'pigs' for a piece of work I'm doing on silver. Some were marked 'ex arg' ('of the silver mines') which suggests there may have been some de-silvering going on in Britain. A lead thread 🧵 😉 #Archaeology 🏺

Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales. Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Some of the ditches and ramparts of Dunmore Hillfort, near Callander in Perthshire. The fort is probably Iron Age in date. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Dunmore #Callander

#HillfortsWednesday the great scree and earth ramparts of Garn Fawr hillfort, north Pembrokeshire, which link a series of outcrops across an exposed coastal summit. This powerful place was a complex & long lived settlement, overlooking the seaways between Wales & Ireland 📷 My own

The southern earthwork circuit of Figsbury Ring #Wiltshire Once known as Chlorus Camp, the Iron Age hillfort is now looked after by @nationaltrust.org.uk The views to Salisbury and beyond are glorious 📷 March 2022 #HillfortsWednesday

Feeling very spring-like in Norfolk today, & the bulbs are coming up, so my annual reminder to keep a vigilant eye out for these #GardenPests building marching camps, little gravel roads, fortified walls & villas in your borders. A Roman #PlaymobilInfestation can be difficult to control, but…(1of2)

The Pitkelloney armlets, found as a pair at Pitkelloney, Drummond Castle, date to AD 50-200. These beautiful pieces are part of the British Museum collection! photo credit: ©The Trustees of the British Museum, CC #ironage #scotlandlandscape #metalwork #brass #enamel #britishmuseum

Carreg Coetan, Trefdraeth / Newport, Sir Penfro / Pembrokeshire, Wales 📷 05.04.22 #TombTuesday #RockinTuesday #ClassicMono #BlackandWhite #BlancoYNegro #BlackandWhitePhotography

The week hasn't really started without #TombTuesday 🥳💀 Here is the magnificent Arthur's Stone Neolithic tomb above Dorstone in Herefordshire before the more recent excavations began. This important tomb once sat at the heart of a prehistoric monument complex 📷 My own, 2021

Made some friends today… National Museum of Scotland @danherb10.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🙂

Nice to see Pendinas #hillfort making a cheeky appearance (lower right) in this new wall art in Aberystwyth 🌊👌 📷 Yesterday

The fallen giant named Le Grand Menhir Brisé (c. 4,500 BCE) at Locmariaquer, Brittany was likely aligned with both winter and summer solstices. It would have stood c. 20 meters high, making it the largest known European standing stone. #StandingStoneSunday 📷 June, 2023

Desperately wondering where the spring is on this morning's wet & foggy mountain bike ride into the Cambrian Mountains 🌊🌪️ - out around the Nant yr Arian trails #MTB #Trek

#StandingStoneSunday with the beautiful Assycombe stone row, Dartmoor see more from Dartmoor in our new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-6...

For #StandingStoneSunday the magnificent triple stone circles at the Hurlers, Bodmin Moor, #Cornwall, seen here on a frosty January morning in 2024 📷 My own

The interior stairwell at Clickimin Iron Age Broch on the outskirts of Lerwick in Shetland. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Shetland

Really powerful BBC documentary just out about the 1996 Sea Empress disaster in Pembrokeshire. Highly recommended. What a disaster to be reminded of... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Finding and example the part of a Gloster Meteor's jet engine that was used to make IG-88's head at @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social is this afternoon's highlight

Although I disagree with the conclusions, for me, the stand out in this piece is confirmation, from @findsorguk.bsky.social , that disclaimed Treasure *is* being melted down... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺