It's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳 Here's Cadbury Castle #Somerset, one of the most famous of British hillforts thanks to its impressive form, glorious views and extensive folklore associations Today its grass covered ramparts are patrolled by inquisitive bovine quadrupeds 📷 July 2021

So beautiful

For #hillfortwednesday some photos of our fieldwork this summer at #OldSarum @archsoton50.bsky.social an amazing site and landscape with a univallate hillfort adapted through time.

Great night with New Model Army at Chalk. #liveMusic

Thanks to @durotrigesdig.bsky.social realised I used the wrong hashtag #hillfortswednesday. DOH!

Folklore has linked Cadbury Castle #Somerset to King Arthur for centuries The ostensibly sober #OrdnanceSurvey once got in on this with an overtly definitive identification of the hillfort as 'Camelot' So it must be true (Please note, other Camelots are available) #HillfortsWednesday

Yup... security where called!!! The things we do for #HillfortsWednesday

Why do I get the feeling that they're conspiring against me 😬🏺

Random acts of senseless beauty #92

I needed that. Once again the camera on my phone fails to capture how much of a great night that was. @newmodelarmy.bsky.social

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Bit more inktober. Hitting a wall now.

This might be the greenest thing we've ever seen. 💚

To mark the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings here are four Sussex scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry: 1. Bosham Church. 2. The Norman invasion fleet sail into Pevensey. 3. Castle built at Hastings 4. Norman cavalry runs into the 'Malfosse', (yet to be located natural or defensive ditch) 🏺

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Took time out at lunch today to visit the newly restored Bart's Great Hall and Hogarth stairs. Well worth a visit if you are ever in this neck of the woods.

Thinking about the Roman Empire on the commute home. @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social

Fab autumn afternoon in the west for a longer run 🍂🌞. Tapering down now to the #EryriMarathon in Snowdonia in two weeks time 🤞 #running

Current Status: Recovering from a night spent with Milds, Stouts and Porters

We took a timelapse film of Huxley's Friday (9am-5pm). He sure does spend a lot of time snoozing on the sofa! 🥱😴

#inktober2025 11)Sting. Quick one today as I’ve been out at a lovely folklore, art and archaeology session. Everything is about balancing risk and reward - for every sting there is the chance of honey!🍯

Current Status: Beer Festival

Current Status: Stonehenge Mystik #NottinghamBeerFestival

Gazing in awe & wonder 😮 Inside the spectacular Little Woodbury house at @butserancientfarm.co.uk where the great soot-blackened roof stands without central posts An incredible family house from Late Iron Age Britain With @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social 📷 My own, Sept

Ooh! Ooh! I know this! I know this! It’s err it’s err, Boudoo… it’s err, Bondi…. it’s err, Boaconstric…. it’s err, Baobab…. Nah, it’s no good, it’s gone now… Valiant testing essential general knowledge February 1974. Strap on your spinning scythes of death, people, it’s #BoudicaFriday! #Echolands

Went to Woolaton Hall today but it looked like Obelix had been there before me

A slice is nice! #Fenland #FlagFenBasin #Dendrochronology

What a joy to be taken around Pen Dinas by @tobydriver.bsky.social as the first stop on the Society of Antiques Annual Wales field trip

Autumn New Model Army - Today Is A Good Day #newmodelarmy #autumn #nowplaying #bsky.music

#ArtistFave15 day 10 #MusicChallenge New Model Army - Wonderful Way To Go There's been no particular order to my choices so far but after this, the next five are absolutely my top five youtu.be/bwMaTZInxGo?...

Current Status: Nottingham Beer Festival preparation

A 7th century Pictish symbol stone discovered in 1936 during excavations at the Knowe of Burrian - a broch at Netherbrough in the Orkney Isles. Now part of the collections at Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Picts #Orkney

Small things like grids, utility and manhole covers can make a real difference to the feel and character of a place. Just look at the difference between the iron ones and the shitty boring plastic, cheapest value tender version here in Clonmel.

#inktober2025 9)Heavy. Never found one of these but this is a Roman Lead bar called a ‘pig’. This one made by the Deceangli in Flintshire (hence the ‘decea’ on the side) for the Emperor Vespasian (hence the impression on the top). Weighing 6827g & made in AD76. #archaeology

As it's #hillfortswednesday and I've finally managed to retrieve my summer holiday photos from my broken camera, here's Darren Camp in Ceredigion and a (very) distant view of Pen Dinas in Aberystwyth from the same spot

Noticed the other week that there's not nearly enough #HistoricalHotties content here on Bluesky, so am posting one of the OGs, Antinous (amirite @emmasouthon.bsky.social )

Bethan's Rock to be displayed the soon to be reopening @poolemuseum.bsky.social Huzzah 😊🥳 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On Thurs 16 Oct I'm going to be at @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social talking about stones with a special focus on the ancient sites of the southeast. This for example is the sarsen at St Augustine's Canterbury which legend says is a reused prehistoric stone! Hope you can join! www.outsavvy.com/event/30140/

Carrawburgh Mithraeum, Hadrian’s Wall; the shyest member of the contu-baaa-nium #RomanFortThursday

Always nice to bump into some of your favourite people in Waterstones Piccadilly @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @stonelands.bsky.social

Office for the morning

Despite absence of an actual Hillfort, there is link enough I hope for #hillfortsWednesday - Ackling Dyke is the mighty Roman thoroughfare that links Old Sarum and Badbury Rings, and they both count. Just in time for sunset …

St Catherine's Hill iron age fort, with the Saxon city of Winchester behind.

We've finally made it to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖 Here's a reconstruction of Buckspool coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire, a craggy limestone headland defended by a set of intermittent banks & packed with house platforms 😮 Excavations in 2025 revealed a wealth of Roman finds 🏺 📷 My own

No archaeologists.🏺

Life-size rock engravings of camels, gazelles, and other animals, found in Saudi Arabia and dating to between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago, demonstrate human occupation of an arid environment, according to a paper in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4o1ON0p 🏺 🧪

Up the autumnal backlanes of Ceredigion, mid Wales, this afternoon 🍂🌞

Waning but still awesomely beautiful.