Start your day the *dad bod* way with this sherd of #Roman Samian Ware (terra sigillata) cup #FindsFriday The naked torso look suggests this is Bacchus, god of wine Found in the top of an Iron Age pit at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in 2025 What will we find at #Durotriges26? Stay tuned....

In the Swash Channel, Dorset, UK lies a 17th century shipwreck. Likely salvaged after it sank, few material remains survive. The researchers' detective work and protection efforts are now published and the book features in our #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Happy Star Wars Day to all those who who celebrate Here's the henge that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs And the Corellian freighter that's been worshipped for millennia #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #Stonehenge #MilleniumFalcon

Shaftesbury Sisyphean Stilton Sprint

Sorry, there currently seems to be a absence of pastry based treats on campus Can't think why...

Remembering the excavations at Stonehenge conducted by staff and students of Bournemouth University in April 2008 Happy days in the sun, rain, hail and snow ☀️🌧⛈️❄️ © BU April 2008 #StandingStoneSunday

Fresh from the kiln today; these beautiful replica, small black burnished Roman cooking jars or cups, based on an original from a childs burial at Godmanchester. Soon to be available in our shop 🏺 potted-history.co.uk #archaeology

Shaftesbury Sisyphean Stilton Sprint

Remembering the excavations at Stonehenge conducted by staff and students of Bournemouth University in April 2008 Happy days in the sun, rain, hail and snow ☀️🌧⛈️❄️ © BU April 2008 #StandingStoneSunday

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☀️ Beautiful Bournemouth ☀️ at Russell-Cotes, a beautiful watercolour, 'The Bay from Durley Chine', by Leslie Moffat

The end of the teaching term can only be marked with an archaeologically themed beverage This is the law

When iron smelting goes wrong…. At least we tried (and Hengistbury Head is cool) youtu.be/sD2Z6Lx5Z7A

Joyous Beltain to you! If you are at @butserancientfarm.co.uk tomorrow come & find me as I talk about the Bronze Age from our ancient roundhouse. And then marvel as we burn the wicker man to ask for the land and crops to be blessed! #archaeology #wickerman #beltaneblessings #heritage

We hope you’ve enjoyed learning a little more about some the projects our archaeologists are helping to deliver as part of @nationaltrust.org.uk's ambitious strategy to restore nature. 🧵

A great morning travelling back to the Iron Age with year 3 archaeology exploring the roundhouses of @butserancientfarm.co.uk with @experimentalkearns.bsky.social and @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Can we please stay here? #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #HillfortsWednesday

You did it! 🦫🎉 Our Bring Beavers Back campaign has closed, and together you raised £25,522 - reaching £50,522 with match funding. 💚 A huge thank you to everyone who liked, shared and donated! Because of you, we’re one step closer to bringing beavers back to Dorset and restoring wetlands! 💧~ Jack

A great morning travelling back to the Iron Age with year 3 archaeology exploring the roundhouses of @butserancientfarm.co.uk with @experimentalkearns.bsky.social and @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Can we please stay here? #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #HillfortsWednesday

A magnetometry survey of the interior of Chilcombe hillfort #Dorset by Dave Stewart @buarchanth.bsky.social in 2013 recorded a large number of features which have survived ploughing These include 13 Iron Age roundhouses and some later linear enclousures 🤩 #Geofiz #HillfortsWednesday #Archaeology

Great to welcome @harbourbirds.bsky.social Young Birders Club into our Zooarchaeology Lab 👍 A chance to look at, and identify, a range of bird bones from archaeological sites with @buosteo.bsky.social @peoplepuffins.bsky.social Even a Great Auk on loan from @portlandmuseum.bsky.social 🐦🐦‍⬛🦢

The new season of archaeological fieldwork gets under way very soon! Summer is coming 🌞

Great to welcome @harbourbirds.bsky.social Young Birders Club into our Zooarchaeology Lab 👍 A chance to look at, and identify, a range of bird bones from archaeological sites with @buosteo.bsky.social @peoplepuffins.bsky.social Even a Great Auk on loan from @portlandmuseum.bsky.social 🐦🐦‍⬛🦢

I recently spotted cropmarks of an unrecorded #Neolithic long barrow at Morestead, near Winchester, #Hampshire. Read details here of the newly discovered 'Honeyman Lane' long barrow: wp.me/pgKiQE-Z or read on ... (1/7)

Marking out the trenches for #Durotriges26 !! The excavation begins soon and we are, as you can probably tell from Harry's expression, very happy to be outdoors again #Archaeology

The new season of archaeological fieldwork gets under way very soon! Summer is coming 🌞

Flatshare available! ✨ Want to embark on an epic archaeological adventure? Only downside is there’s a leaky roof✨ • • • #stratmates #archaeology #archaeological #heritage #2000saesthetics

More underwater excitement coming soon Watch this space !!

More underwater excitement coming soon Watch this space !!

A perfect 1 minute 36 second film summary of why we love #Dorset 😊 👇👇

Fingers crossed for the 2026 dig season All six of them

Check out my chat with Dr Hayden Scott-Pratt at Hengistbury Head. Filmed in a beautifully reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse youtu.be/QhIM22ZqSCo?...

I’m lucky enough to have so many happy memories of Hambledon and this part of Dorset from when I was a student on the HND in Practical Archaeology at Bournemouth. It’s always well worth a visit.

Fingers crossed for the 2026 dig season All six of them

Slightly concerned departmental relations maybe somewhat strained after recent fieldwork at @romanpalace.bsky.social 🤣 #hypocaustgate

Please find a hypocaust 🤞 (please, please, please) We've been very good 😇

Year 2 Archaeology encountering some serious bits of Roman and Medieval military architecture today at Portchester Castle #Hampshire They are happy 🌞

Hello, we're the Durotriges Project 👋 If you're here for archaeology and updates on Iron Age and Roman Dorset / Britain, we hope you'll find something of interest Follow #Durotriges26 for this year's dig ⚠️ warning: may contain random references to #DoctorWho and #HypocaustGate

It has been extensively studied by a team from Bournemouth University led by Tom Cousins, and is now a designated wreck site. The section discovered on Studland is believed to have broken off when the vessel was wrecked and lay hidden under the sands until this year. Read more here: bit.ly/4auvAjW

Yesterday a team from the National Trust had the pleasure in helping students from Bournemouth University excavate and remove the remains of a 17th cargo vessel from the beach at Studland Bay in Dorset. The discovery was made earlier this month by one of our own volunteers, Pam.

The timbers of the Swash Channel wreck, exposed by recent storms, have now been recovered by marine archaeologists from Bournemouth University. It's believed to be a Dutch merchant ship that ran aground in 1631. www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2587763... #maritimehistory

* Warning may contain images of human remains Here are some behind the scenes shots of @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social dig! Big thanks to everyone for being so patient and accommodating!

Oh, is it #HillfortsWednesday? Here's the magnetometer survey for Woodbury Hill Dorset done by Bournemouth student Arias Jordens in 2012 Much activity relates to the annual post medieval September market which inspired *Greenhill Fair* in Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel *Far from the Madding Crowd*

Year 2 Archaeology encountering some serious bits of Roman and Medieval military architecture today at Portchester Castle #Hampshire They are happy 🌞

Two-hour Ancient Wire Work workshop, led by tutor Holly Berkley. 🔥 Sunday 26 April 🍂 £50 per ticket 🔸 10am - 12pm OR 1pm - 3pm During the session, you will create 5 attractive copper rings to take away with you, all based on real archaeological finds!

Gotta love Woodbury hillfort 👍 A much overlooked multivallate multiangular 5.5ha Iron Age #Dorset gem 😍 📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016 #HillfortsWednesday

Oh, is it #HillfortsWednesday? Here's the magnetometer survey for Woodbury Hill Dorset done by Bournemouth student Arias Jordens in 2012 Much activity relates to the annual post medieval September market which inspired *Greenhill Fair* in Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel *Far from the Madding Crowd*

Great talk last evening by Prof Dave Parham @buarchanth.bsky.social about the Swash Channel Wreck/'Fame' of Hoorn (1631) excavation & its place in the story of UK maritime archaeology. Glad to have been part of the project & to have identified the Wreck! Free pdf of report @archaeopress.bsky.social

Now we like hypocausts, and we like pies But which is better ? 🤔

It’s a very long time since I was a student at Bournemouth, but I have brilliant memories of studying archaeology in Dorset. A degree in archaeology gives you so many life and professional skills 👇

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