Prof Aidan O’Sullivan, “I would propose that a way of honouring [Viking Dublin dig] would be to ensure that National Museum is properly resourced in terms of staff & facilities to enable people to truly start to tell the incredible stories that are there in the collections and archives.” Paywall

New Model Army tickets booked! #HappyPlace

I've just discovered The Gutter Twins. Why did no one tell me about this before? youtu.be/yEUmdjgW-r0?...

"Spring comes like a kiss upon the mouth Soft and sweet with all the power of the earth behind....' youtu.be/riuWXxnRTCw?...

Such a great picture this. I particularly like the bloke having a wee in the tower, the really drunk bloke being held up by the gate and the bloke at the bottom with the massive loaves of bread on the back of his horse

And here's an excellent recreation of the Iron Age SW gate of South Cadbury hillfort © John Swogger from the 2020 article: Hillfort gate-mechanisms by Pope, Mason, Hamilton, Rule and Swogger @royalarchinst.bsky.social which is OPEN ACCESS 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HillfortsWednesday

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

This could be a dream job for someone out there. Plus the fact they don't advertise a salary implies you can pretty much name your price, right? 🤔 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

We're doing it again!! ☺️ As part of the work that Tertia Barnett and I are doing with @scarf-scot.bsky.social, we'll be running another event to celebrate rock art research and launch brand-new sections of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework. 1/

Actually yes :) forestjunglecollective.bandcamp.com/album/sel-uk...

Anyone here do Bandcamp? I've just created an account and it's a bit quiet.

Unfiltered stroll

Liberating Iran: How it works

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

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I'm rewatching Travels With Pevsner from 1997, and feeling nostalgic for a time when: a) the BBC still commissioned quality six-part documentaries on architecture; and b) Dan Cruikshank was allowed to quote John Vanbrugh verbatim on primetime telly...

A beautiful thing

Current Status: Out walking

Random acts of senseless beauty #85

Further bone data. Conclusion: yup, bone.

For #StandingStoneSunday today - the tallest menhir from the alignements at St-Pierre-Quiberon (Morbihan) known as The Great Monk from its distinctive outline. Just over 20 menhirs remain from rows which originally stretched out into the Bay of Quiberon. Card by Henri Laurent in Port-Louis 1905.

Current Status: Bread making with Blyth Power

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus i chi gyd

Happy Saint David’s Day to all who celebrate ‘Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd'

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

Are there menhirs in Sweden? This standing stone lies next to the road from Torslunda to Eriksöre on Öland on the right side of the road. It seems to be isolated. #StandingStoneSunday

If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

England’s tallest standing stone, the Rudston monolith, photographed 4 years ago at sunset. #StandingStoneSunday

The Gellidywyll Stone, St Llawddog’s Church, Cenarth Carmarthenshire, Wales coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/304... 📷 20.12.21 #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday #BlackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono #BlancoYNegro #PhotographersofBlueSky

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

Absolutely this

Managed to find the unusual X-shaped medieval artificial rabbit warren (often called pillow mounds because of shape) on Middleton Hill near Corndon. Easily missed and best found with lidar.

Continued signs of Spring at Ham House

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Check out our artefact archive!! 🤩 (serious face...) Archives like ours are filling up fast. Soon there will be no space in Britain to store newly-excavated artefacts and this will be catastrophic for research in archaeology as well as innovation, society, growth and the renewal of nature 😢 1/3 🧵

@danherb10.bsky.social @sjfarrer.bsky.social

Graffiti on publicly accessible outer walls of Drakewell Asylum accessible moves beyond the usual need to validate fragile teenage love or record one's existence. There's also apotropaic scarring; holes gouged to hold appeasing coins and charms. – Sophie Morley, 1982

Not done a meme in a while, so here's a classic...

Yes. Kidneys. Definitely kidneys.

We have a new episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast out today! I was delighted to be joined by Professor John Waddell, who discusses how our understanding of the Celts has developed, Celtoscepticism, the politics of the past and present, and how the story of the Celts is told today #Archaeology 🏺

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...

I'm pretty rubbish at gardening, but after watching Small Prophets I have a real urge to cultivate tiny, bottle conditioned seers

Brilliant news from Jersey as the Government passes their transformative heritage protection bill. A legal framework to protect Jersey's past, including the licensing of all intrusive fieldwork. Bravo!🏺 statesassembly.je/vote-detail?...

As the excitement over the displaying of the Bayeux Tapestry (embroidery) builds I feel the experience will only be worthwhile if the long suppressed section of the work is included. @gingertrevtrev.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social