45 hilly #cycle miles around Ceredigion this morning including the famous climb up to the Hafod Arch - always worth a photo stop 👌🌞

This is my watercolour of the enigmatic megalith in Oxfordshire known as the Hawk Stone. According to legend, witches were chained to it before being burned at the stake. The original artwork is now available on my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/shop/MySearc... #StandingStoneSunday

Yay it's finally #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 Two magnificent remaining stones of the Cove, Avebury, the functional & sacred heart of the Late Neolithic stone circle complex 🤩 When complete these enormous megaliths provided a private space in which ceremonies were conducted 🧙 📷 My own, September 2023

Just couldn't contain myself til #HillfortsWednesday to squeeeee about all the ringforts! 😭😭 Ireland is the most ridiculous country & what an incredible wealth of ancient places on its south west coast! Heading out for more today

Where the Staffordshire Hoard of 7th/8th century metalwork was actually found on the top of this rather nondescript low hill south of the Watling Steet Roman Road

The Devil’s Den: a lovely and folkloric dolmen that’s quite close to Avebury so doesn’t get visited as often as it otherwise might. #StandingStoneSunday

Just a quick reminder that F*r*ge can't be bought. youtu.be/nfjP79vSqnE?...

Doomsday scenario. Burnham loses the Makerfield by-election to Reform. Reform win the Manchester Mayor election. Starmer wins a leadership election

Goodnight

The entrance to Buckland Rings in the New Forest #Hampshire is protected by the excellent, evocative and (ever so slightly) eerie *Guardians of the Rings* 📷 Sept 2018 Made by artist Katie Surridge for Hampshire County Council Every Iron Age hillfort needs guardians like these #HillfortsWednesday

Quick update from the project at RAF Valley. Lots of excitement within the team and a very successful trip. Suffice it to say it will make a cracking @timeteamofficial prog. Wonderful to see our first two finds of the project on museum display at Oriel Môn too #archaeology #celts #heritage #anglesey

Come to the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social next Tuesday where we are hosting the @cbalondon.bsky.social Spring Forum. Free. but do book a place. Come and take a deep dive in London archaeology. 🏺

Shuck versus wobble board. I think we have a clear winner.

One of the most spectacular coastal limekilns I have visited recently is this splendid example on the estuary of the Afon Braint nr Rhuddgaer, Ynys Môn/Anglesey - surveyed with @rcahmwales.bsky.social colleague Lou Barker for the national survey Note: no public access 3D here: skfb.ly/pJxyT 🤩

Martin Rowson

Extraordinary find; lead coffin, what she was buried with, and her own remains. Roman lead-coffins are quite rare in Britain (a few hundred known) although sea-shell designs are quite frequent on them. Looking forward to seeing the publication of this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Current Status: Dodging the downpours with New Model Army

Take a moment in the woods as the last of the wild garlic blooms. 🌱

Ooh very excited to get a finished copy of the fantastic Stories of the Stones by @pjrobichaud.bsky.social ! In addition to being a brilliant read, it’s just beautiful…

Wes Streeting as Prime Minister? No thanks.

Latest theory: bsky.app/profile/mole...

Currently reading about Lockley's pioneering days on Skokholm Island before the Second World War...😉😮 📷 The Island, Ronald Lockley, 1969 (... another name for Manx Shearwaters if you must know)

Colin gives a more accurate impression than that Computer Rendered Artificial Picture…

So it appears I'm now a published author. Writing the chapter pushed all of my Neurodiverse/imposter syndrome buttons. Chapter 18 is a surefire way to cure insomnia too. bookstore.emerald.com/assessment-t...

I went to an anger management support group last week. Didn't go well, the person running it said "Who wants to kick off?"

Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social on the challenges to Starmer’s premiership #KeirStarmer #LabourLeadership @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Built when Bede was a baby. Light and shade at the Anglo-Saxon church at Escomb in the Wear Valley which was built around 675AD. It is thought to be one of the most complete Anglo-Saxon churches in England.

Buttercups appearing on Port Meadow

The walls in Pompeii are frequently covered with inscriptions: these are electoral propaganda messages that urge the citizens to vote for candidates. They are written in red or in black and mostly in capital letters. There are around 3000 electoral inscriptions in Pompeii. #EpigraphyTuesday

"Keir will always be Keir. You can’t expect him to have a personality transplant just because you think a personality transplant is what’s required. He is never going to be a visionary, someone who can take the country with him in a cute turn of phrase."

Medieval tile fragments from Leominster Priory Church in Herefordshire. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #Leominster #Herefordshire

We have a winner. Well done @mark-walters.bsky.social This is apparently West Kennet Long Barrow. I must have been going to the wrong monument for all these years

Where my marshwiggles at ? A wee dander at Arklow Bay hotel.

An incredible morning in Cambridgeshire today! 😍

Found in 1823, this Roman mosaic from Bramdean Hampshire was recorded by John Lickman in 1828 The centre featured Medusa surrounded by deities Sadly an attempt to lift it in 1873 completely failed and the tesserae were finally shovelled up and used to repair holes in a road 😱 #MosaicMonday

👀 Excellent, funded PhD ... someone's going to be busy! "...combining archaeological excavation of targeted heritage features, palaeoecological studies to establish long-term ecological heritage & investigating intangible heritage of folk customs & traditions [+] Advanced digital visualisation..."

Next in our series of Shit AI Of Ancient Monuments On Facebook is this beauty You win a prize if you can guess what this is supposed to be

A meandering journey home via some of Sussex's fantastic Medieval architecture.

Pett Level sunken forest. A roughly 6,000-year-old prehistoric woodland visible at low tide between Hastings and Rye in East Sussex.

“It’s the little old lady!”

#ArtDD2026 Tree sparrow These once-common sparrows have suffered a 93% !! decline between 1970 & 2008. But there’s a bevvy of them in the hedge here, cheeping merrily. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social

Happy #StandingStoneSunday to all who celebrate 🧙🥳 Great to finally visit this remote, angular stone last week at Ffordd Ddu on the spectacular northern flanks of Cader Idris ⛰️ It is conspicuously sited on a rounded tump; perhaps the builders thought it was an ancient burial mound 📷 Thursday

Publication day! Got some help unboxing my author copies. Roman Life on Hadrian's Wall is now out in the wild (in bookshops at least).

Where's Herbert

A glorious hillside full of bluebells on our mountain bike ride today in the woods above Betws y Coed 🥰

This just popped up on FB. Never seen this one before. What a fantastic picture of the great man

This chap hangs out on my desk, forever blowing his war trumpet - in my mind he's your ambassador Duncan, here to remind me the Iron Age is much much more than just another heavy clay site!

Back on my favourite archaeological project in the world, Llyn Cerrig Bach, RAF Valley on Anglesey. The bard and Druid are displaying this season’s wish list: Carnyx Sword Golden sickle Gold torc 🤞

It's #SurreyDay with a theme of hidden treasures, & #RomanSiteSaturday, so here's Surrey's Roman temple, in an isolated spot on Farley Heath. Its recent history comprises "ill-recorded destruction" & "a series of archaeological excavations for most of which the politest term would be ill-considered"

I think I have a favourite new National Trust property. Sissinghurst Castle was absolutely gorgeous today in the sun.