A tiny (14mm, 0.88g) silver #IronAge coin from western Brittany, found in the 2012 Le Câtillon hoard on Jersey. Helmeted head left/horse right with winged figure below, holding a torc. #FindsFriday #archaeology #numismatics 🏺

For #TombTuesday here's a late 19th century view of La Varde on #Guernsey, constructed c.4100 BC. The capstone at the far left is ridiculously thick and weighs an estimated 30 tonnes... #archaeology 🏺

Beautiful morning light at Pleinmont #Guernsey today #photography

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Quite possibly the most exciting thing to happen in #Guernsey this year

Essential reading on the grim reality behind all those 'we're saving treasure for the nation' stories that the media churn out...

Today's #IronAge #coin for #FindsFriday: a gold quarter stater of the Osismii, max 15mm diameter, with an eagle? gryphon? head on the horse, in place of the usual human head. From Le Câtillon, Jersey. #archaeology #numismatics

Another lovely #IronAge #coin for #FindsFriday - this is a gold stater of the Osismii (western Brittany), with a winged figure beneath the horse holding a torc. Probably early first century BC. Found in the Le Catillon II hoard in #Jersey in 2012 #archaeology #numismatics

A blast from the past - well, 2016 - for #TombTuesday, with my son admiring the face on the capstone in the Dehus dolmen, #Guernsey #archaeology

Can't let #FindsFriday go past without another fine Iron Age coin. This is a base silver stater attributed (probably wrongly) to the Veneti, in southern Brittany. Diameter 22mm. Note the recumbent figure below the horse - what is he holding? #archaeology #numismatics 🏺

St Peter Port #Guernsey skyline just now #photography

For #StandingStoneSunday, a marvellous photo of Callanish, complete with (Victorian?) policeman... #archaeology #Scotland 🏺

Late in the day but struggling to upload images - for #FindsFriday & #FlintFriday, a beautiful flint axe from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, acquired by Frederick Lukis from Mr Talbot, c.1850. Watercolour of other side probably by his daughter Mary-Ann Lukis. #archaeology 🏺

Five go mad on Vazon beach, or, our French/British team sampling peat deposits #archaeology #Guernsey 🏺

We are digging with French colleagues here and the entente cordiale is being strained by their use of the rasette – personally I would confiscate them at the border and replace them with a WHS trowel, but what do you think? #archaeology #Guernsey 🏺

Can't beat an evening swim then chips on the beach at Cobo #Guernsey

A while since I posted a nice Iron Age #coin, so for #FindsFriday here's a silver quarter stater loosely attributed to the Baiocasses in Normandy. From the Le Câtillon hoard, #Jersey. Fine example of the human-headed horse on the reverse which dominates the coinage of this region. #numismatics 🏺

Think it's only fair to say that a) this was the only typo I spotted, and more importantly b) it's another great instalment in the #SloughHouse story...

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

For #TombTuesday, here's the Sandy Hook #Guernsey cist-in-circles, at the time of its first excavation in 1912. Postcard by Thomas Bramley, renowned local photographer #archaeology 🏺

Some exciting Neolithic settlement evidence coming up on Herm in the Channel Islands, but the picture doesn't quite convey the difficulty of standing up on site in the gale blowing this morning... #Guernsey #archaeology

Not off to a great start, says the proofreader in me - paletts?

This arrived today so basically everything else is on hold for the next day or two... #slowhorses @baskervillejmp.bsky.social

A few photos from tonight's spectacular #RedArrows display, #Guernsey #RAF

Scoring highly in the 'there are worse places to be working' category... unfortunately on my way back #Herm #Guernsey #photography

A dismal catch in the moth-trap - just 13 #moths on a clear and windy night - but some recompense in the form of a Sexton or Burying Beetle, the first time we have seen one of these #entomology #Guernsey #teammoth

He should get a moth trap 😉 perhaps he has? #teammoth

It would be nice to think that some of our deputies in #Guernsey could take note of this, and start taxing all these ridiculous vehicles on our narrow roads...

Beautiful afternoon exploring the low tide in St Peter Port harbour #Guernsey

An unexpected visitor in last night's moth-trap - a very beautiful Painted Lady #butterfly #teammoth #Guernsey. And some fine #moths too, including a couple of Striped Hawk-moths and an Orange Swift

Any #numismatists help me identify this? Recent find from Herm, in the Channel Islands. Diameter 13mm, weight 0.67g. Obverse looks fairly typically medieval to my inexpert eye, but the reverse - a running animal? - is odd. Any suggestions much appreciated! #coins #archaeology #numismatics

Interested to see Asian hornets being tracked in one of the green areas in town here #Guernsey

No moth trap last night but just spotted this fine Oak Eggar outside our house #teammoth #Guernsey eight year old hand for scale

Havelet Bay, #Guernsey this morning #photography

Some contrasting antennae on last night's moths: Poplar Hawk-moth and Gypsy Moth #Guernsey #teammoth

A lovely day in #Guernsey #photography

There's a very large piece of driftwood on the west coast of #Guernsey which is going to be a challenge for my bowsaw... #photography

A few fine #moths from this weekend - Pine Hawkmoth, Four-spotted Footman and Maiden's Blush #teammoth #Guernsey

There's a triffid in Castle Cornet #Guernsey 😄

Tidying up loose ends from last weekend's #moths, here are a few more that caught my eye: Orache, True Lover's Knot, Goat Moth and Lesser BBYU #teammoth #Guernsey

Not a bad spot to be digging an archaeological test-pit... 🏺 #Guernsey

Very surprised on opening up the moth-trap at 5.30 this morning to find a Hummingbird Hawk-moth, I don't think I've ever seen one at rest before. Then a Poplar HM, a Privet HM (not pictured) and last but not least a Pine Hawk-moth too... #teammoth #Guernsey

A bumper crop in last night's moth-trap - the rest of the photos will have to wait but here's a stunning Lappet, a new one for us #teammoth #Guernsey

Ticking off #FindsFriday and #FlintFriday here, can anybody identify the source of this illustration? Flints and other stone objects with the initials JWB, annotations in ink giving findspots in Berkshire & Wiltshire. Presumably from a published source but so far unidentified... #archaeology 🏺

The problem with answering enquiries about material in our #archives is that it is almost impossible not to get distracted by other documents along the way - in this case a 19th c. photo of Muiredach's High Cross, Monasterboice, Co Louth. A couple of fine top hats if you look closely... #archaeology

A few of last night's #moths - a very fine Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, the first Box Tree Moth of the year, a Bright Wave - new for us - and what looks to me like a Feathered Ranunculus, but about three months earlier than it should be... #teammoth #Guernsey

Sun just going down now over St Peter Port - from tomorrow it will start moving left again (I know that is not quite scientifically accurate, but you know what I mean) #Guernsey #photography

There were about 200 of these in last night's moth trap, far more than any moths... if I'm right it's a Diplazon (perhaps) laetatorius, the Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp, but happy to be corrected... #insects #Guernsey

A disappointing moth-trap last night after high expectations - just 28 #moths of 19 species - but some compensation with this magnificent Elephant Hawk-moth, a first for us #teammoth #Guernsey

Spectacular sky over St Peter Port, #Guernsey this evening #photography