Hypocaust remains from the Commanding Officer’s House (Praetorium) at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #ChestersRomanFort #HadriansWall

2 high profile Neolithic stories in the media today. Yet again focused on the Stonehenge landscape & Orkney. As usual everything in between receives a fraction of the investment, time & media coverage. Neolithic studies in Britain is no better balanced now than it was 50 yrs ago

Guardian of the gate

Repeat after me: artificial, made by humans, human-made, not natural

Inside the extraordinary Llys Llywelyn medieval court, reconstructed from excavated C13th foundations nr Rhosyr on Ynys Môn/Anglesey at St Fagans National Museum of History. An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey 📷 My own, Tuesday

The beautiful cover art for a tourist booklet, Tynedale and the Roman Wall, produced by British Railways (the Railway Executive N.E. Region) in 1950. It lies on a copy of the 1964 edition of the OS map of Hadrian’s Wall. #RomanFortThursday

I adored this book and its glorious illustrations

Its always nice to see the actual hard copy !

This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯

The irony being that all these publications are owned by the biggest scroungers of them all, tax-dodging billionaires. The shills who scribble in them really are scum of the worst kind.

She stares at the screen, at the little words of green Tries to remember what to do next......

So which story is better, the one where you announce you’re not going to announce anything or the one where you announce that your previous announcement wasn’t wrong? 🤔

Honoured to have contributed to this awesome volume! Well done to @justrena.bsky.social and @saveknockiveagh.bsky.social!

Exciting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very happy to have received confirmation that I've been awarded Associate Fellowship Of Higher Education.

Carved in Stone is a comprehensive setting guide for early medieval Pictish society, and as such my work on it was wide and varied and included illustrating real artifacts, speculative penannular brooch designs, and even the animals that would have inhabited their world.

Reassuring that yesterday's budget has returned the political narrative to its usual theme. Tories and the right wing press have gone back to attacking those on benefits rather than asylum seekers.

#MosaicMonday Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum. #History #art #Archaeology

By Toutatis, fear not everyone. Getafix arrived in the post today. Magic potion production can commence straight away. (@theduncanmackay.bsky.social does this sort of thing far better than me)

The impressive, multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Cadbury Castle encloses a roughly triangular hill above the river Yeo in #Somerset We absolutely love it 😍 📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223 somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105 #HillfortsWednesday

To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩 From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social

For a chilly 🥶 #HillfortsWednesday I thought everyone could warm their toes on this Iron Age fire, crackling & smoking inside the Bryn Eryr roundhouse at St Fagans Museum yesterday 🥰🔥 Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live! 🎥 My own

Thetford Castle just visible through Sunday morning's torrential rain. #HillfortsWednesday

Another hilltop 360 for #HillfortsWednesday, this time from Mither Tap, Bennachie, Aberdeenshire, taken 2 weeks ago. I do declare that each Scottish hillfort I ascend is windier than the last, & this was definitely windier than Eildon Hill, which was pretty windy, tbf.

The famous picturesque Hafod Arch above Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion 🥰 Built by Thomas Johnes of Hafod to celebrate the Jubilee of George III's accession in the early C19th, & now a notable climb for all local #cyclists 📷 My own, Saturday

New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology. Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#UrbanPrehistory #StonehengeAnything

My first online talk for nearly a year will take place tomorrow evening (Tue 25 Nov). It will look at how we can use archives, archaeology and dendrochronology to date ancient buildings. This will be a brand new bespoke talk & I hope you can join us... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...

Portraits on a 4th century #Roman mosaic from Hinton St Mary #Dorset Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds If so, these are possibly: Notus the South wind bringer of autumn Boreas the North wind bringer of winter © The Trustees of the British Museum Happy #MosaicMonday

Recent trip to Boscawen-ûn, that quartz stone was more glittery and gorgeous than ever. Whatever the weather, it picks up the light. #StandingStoneSunday

From Heel to Eternity on #StandingStoneSunday Gazing down the Avenue, past the Heel Stone sarsen, to distant Stonehenge #Wiltshire, as the sun begins to set on a cold November afternoon 📷 2025

After some kick back for posting too many Roman pictures (not naming names @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🙄) I’ve had to post pictures of Carn Liath broch to even out the Iron Age balance. Note to self - no more backlit selfies (🎶oooh-oooh me ears are alight🎶)

Something a lot of people don't realise is that, if something is illegally detected (so detected where finder doesn't have permission from landowner), the landowner still gets the 'reward' money from the find - in fact sometimes 100% of 'reward' money! Cont'd #Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure

I think the Spanish ambassador comes up every year on the anniversary of her death to lay a wreath as part of the Katherine of Aragon festival. I love that she’s honoured now with the courtesy she didn’t receive towards the end of her life.

I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of decorative Roman cavalry horse chamfrons from @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social until people start blocking me. Have some. 1/

A Herbert and a Aragon

The #Romanesque majesty of Peterborough Cathedral

Flag Fen Just such a fantastic site.

Spent the weekend in either Prehistory, the Romanesque or the pub. That's the trinity for me

No words needed #COYG

And tonight's humane destroyer iiiiiiiiis... Kasteel Donker Quadruple, 11%. Put yer big boy's pants on for this one. Overwhelmingly sweet plums with coffee + chocolate. Angels dancing on your tongue + a bit of pepper in the aftertaste. Stupidly easy to drink considering it'll stop a rhino. 9.2/10

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

Been buying books @markknight63.bsky.social

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The beautiful church of St Lawrence, Castle Rising.

Castle Rising. An absolute beast of a castle and a #Romanesque gem

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