And we're off! #Archaeology @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Digging dirt, shipwrecks and dead Romans What's not to like? 😁 Come join us ! @buarchanth.bsky.social

CONGRATULATIONS to Meg @megsdigs.bsky.social and Jon of @buarchanth.bsky.social whose video series #Stratmates has been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Archaeology Achievements Awards 2025 🥳 You can catch up with the #Stratmates backcatalogue over on #Instagram #Archaeology #Dorset

The first in a series of posts listing participants in University Archaeology Day #UAD25 @britishacademy.bsky.social ... Look out for @buarchanth.bsky.social at the event! ... Plenty more to come!

Join Meg and Jon over on #instagram as they discover and discuss a stunning #Roman military incised gemstone (intaglio) found at the fort of Waddon Hill #Dorset ##RomanSiteSaturday #Stratmates #Archaeology 👇👇 www.instagram.com/reel/DOOciQD...

New update on @buarchanth.bsky.social Ukrainian colleagues' work supporting veterans and Ukrainian heritage, including work with @henebtwa.bsky.social ‬ and Operation Nightingale - www.gofundme.com/f/help-sergi...

🎉 Congratulation to everyone on #ALevelResultsDay! If you are considering Archaeology and didn’t get the results you wanted, our clearing phone lines are now open: +44(0)1202 966777 🎥 Watch the BU Archaeology Showcase: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym55...

Last week we were @romanpalace.bsky.social for the #festivalofarchaeology. We carried out a GPR survey with the help of many of the visitors and had an excellent day talking about some of our work!

Interested in pursuing a British Academy Postdoctoral fellowship at @buarchanth.bsky.social? Check us out at www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/our-fa... and drop us a line. If you're not sure who to contact directly, email me!

Week one of our archaeological fieldschool, putting our archaeology students BSAC diving skills to use investigating shipwrecks across Poole Bay @bsacdivers.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Ethan has completed the half section of his Iron Age storage pit at #Durotriges25 Despite there being no finds at the very base of the feature, he is happy 😊

JOB as PT Assistant Curator with our lovely friends at Hengistbury Head. Likely to be of interest to @buarchanth.bsky.social present and past students! jobs.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/jobs/job/Ass...

A big THANK YOU to the @buarchanth.bsky.social volunteer team (some of whom are pictured here) who made the #Durotriges25 big dig open day possible You're all wonderful 😊

Thank you to the 834 people who came to visit us on the @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #Durotriges25 Big Dig open day Great to see you all and do please come and see us again next year on #Durotriges26 👍

Excavation has begun across the long, linear ditch in the southern end of Trench M at #Durotriges25 Really hoping it's Iron Age 🤞

Day one on site with the #Durotriges25 dig team A quick fly-by, courtesy of Jo and Sue Crane, shows the area under investigation this year and the archaeological features prior to cleaning 🤩

Want to hear an archaeologist try and make sense of all the prehistoric features just exposed in the first trench to be excavated at #Durotriges25? Course you do #Archaeology #FindsFriday

Just your average Wednesday morning with students @buarchanth.bsky.social queuing up to meet Medusa 🐍🐍 😱😱 @bignorvilla.bsky.social

Live update Our annual pilgrimage to the magnificent @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the students of @buarchanth.bsky.social A glorious day to be visiting the Iron Age 😎 #HillfortsWednesday

A cheeky little piece of late Iron Age Black Burnished Ware pottery Slightly damaged Photographed in July 2024 at the moment of retrieval, a mere 2,000 years after it was lost Will we find anything similar this year on #Durotriges25? Let's hope so #Archaeology #prehistoric #Dorset #FindsFriday

Siggy Osborne and Emma Jenkins @buarchanth.bsky.social undertaking plant identification and ecological habitat studies in the Drumadoon landscape. @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @fossilbeetle.bsky.social

Meet Kimmeridge Woman - an Iron Age skeleton whose face we've been able to recreate using new technology. As she goes on display at Wareham Museum, find out more about the process of reconstructing her face and what we can learn from her skeleton: bit.ly/42BtGcj @buarchanth.bsky.social

The wreck of an Admiralty mooring lighter, known as the ‘Pin Wreck’, located off St Albans Head, has been added to the National Heritage List for England historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-... #MaritimeArchaeology #MaritimeHistory

Our latest blog is out now - read all about the Grand Old Lady - and here a pair of binoculars from #RMSMedina @buarchanth.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHeritage www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

3,700-year-old stone circle discovered in Derbyshire forest. Archaeologists found a single standing stone is part of a prehistoric complex with a stone circle & ceremonial platform. Excavations by Forestry England, @timeteam.bsky.social & @buarchanth.bsky.social revealed new details bit.ly/4iszb3z

Live #HillfortsWednesday update 2 Exploring the excellent reconstruction Iron Age roundhouse and museum at Hengistbury Head #Dorset with the students of @buarchanth.bsky.social as the sea fog comes rolling in

Really looking forward to representing @buarchanth.bsky.social at the Royal Anthropological Institute's annual London Anthropology Day (londonanthropologyday.co.uk) - at Senate House on the 25th April this year. See you there?!

The Sanctuary rebuilding the Roman wall at the Ancient Technology Centre 🧱🏛️ #roman #experimentalarchaeology #archaeology @buarchanth.bsky.social

Recovering the Roman road with a replica Roman spade at the Ancient Technology Centre with @thesanctuary.bsky.social and @lorrainepither.bsky.social 🚶‍♀️🏛️ #roman #experimentalarchaeology #archaeology @buarchanth.bsky.social

Some of our research on the monumental snake 🐍 engravings of the Orinoco River was recently covered in this video by Fundación Palarq; youtu.be/1VFhZH9iPC0?...

Last week, some of our students visited the Russell Cotes Museum and Art Gallery as part of their Working with Cultural Heritage studies. It was great to see the Artists in Purbeck exhibition too! Well worth a visit!

A facial reconstruction created by our MSc graduate Amber Manning is due to go on public display at Wareham Town Museum. Read more about it here; bbc.in/3F0fTDR

To mark LGBTQIA+ History Month, Rainbow Office Hours have been set up by BU’s PRIDE Network to support LGBTQIA+ students across the University. These are open to all students, regardless of how they identify.

Face to face with the Durotriges Recreation of an Iron Age woman by Amber Manning @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social based on a skull disturbed by cliff fall at Kimmeridge Bay #Dorset Now on display at #Wareham Museum #Archaeology #BUProud www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some of our final year students explored the productive landscapes of Purbeck this week. From the extractive industries at Newton Clayworks and Worth Matravers quarries to some well-earned local fayre😘👌!

📣Reminder to our students: Look out for the departmental Athena SWAN survey in your inbox. Please take the time to complete it and think about nominating any student or students you think deserve this year’s Athena SWAN award for making the department a better place!

While on placement at Dorset Museum and Art Gallery, one of our amazing students has curated a display of the Brynley and Notley archive to coincide with LGBT+ History Month @stonewalluk.bsky.social Read more about it here; bit.ly/4hNWQuu

Great stuff by one of our @buarchanth.bsky.social students who's helped curate a rather lovely exhibition while on placement at dorsetmuseum.bsky.social www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2491097...

📢 Tonight at 7 pm a brand new @timeteam.bsky.social special will be released, bringing Time Team from the field to the studio. This was an amazing challenge made possible by the brilliant staff and students at @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Episode link 📺 youtu.be/KV54I_f9DbE?...

Research in Nature suggests that women were at the centre of social networks in Iron Age British Celtic communities. The analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals evidence for matrilocal Celtic societies, in which married women stayed in their ancestral communities. 🧪 🏺

Ground-breaking @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research from @durotrigesdig.bsky.social and colleagues from @tcddublin.bsky.social and @bristoluni.bsky.social has been published in @nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚠️ Iron Age OPEN ACCESS research klaxon alert⚠️ Our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social article *Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain* published in @nature.com today can be found here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting open access paper on the C13 'Mortar Wreck' by Tom Cousins of @buarchanth.bsky.social #MaritimeArchaeology #MaritimeHistory

It’s was a great pleasure to meet @bournemouthuni.bsky.social vice chancellor Alison Honour and @jessicatoale.bsky.social with whom I look forward to diving with in 2025!

Last Friday our @bournemouthuni.bsky.social maritime archaeologists met with Jessica Toole, MP for Bournemouth West, at the @mastarchaeology.bsky.social site in Poole to talk about their work recovering and preserving finds from shipwrecks from along the south coast: ow.ly/mIFT50UsrRa

A big thank you to all who came to @tag45.bsky.social in Bournemouth and especially to all those who spoke, ran stalls, volunteered, organised and generally helped out over the 3 days (and more) You're all brilliant 🥂 Hope to see you in York next year!

The only thing left for us to say is a huge thanks to our lovely sponsors @antiquityj.bsky.social , our brilliant volunteers and everyone from Bournemouth Arch&Anth, as well as the brilliant catering teams from BU food & Drink and Dylans bar/SUBU and everyone from BU events and research teams!

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🎉 Fantastic news from #TAG45 @buarchanth.bsky.social - Highly Commended in the Don Henson prize for debut paper, @samscomo.bsky.social for his paper "A building lineage? Palimpsests, brochs, and complex identity in the Scottish Iron Age" #EdinArch #Archaeology #IronAge #Scotland Congrats Sam!

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