With the start of the new academic year, a topical way of showing first years the distinction between Terminus Post Quem and Terminus Ante Quem. (Source: Middle England Male, Facebook)

Did anybody else in the Mid Wales - Shropshire area feel an earth tremor last night at about 00:40? Was as if my neighbours were slamming a barn door at the far end of our semi-detached houses!

Haven't done a #HillfortsWednesday for ages got up to Ffridd Faldwyn overlooking the upper Severn Valley by Montgomery yesterday. The views north to Y Gaer, the Breidden, Beacon Ring etc were expected, but not west to Cefn Carnedd further up the Severn by Caersws, really reaching into Wales.

Belated Solsticemas from Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle yesterday morning. Never thought of Mitchell's Fold as having any solar alignments but the way the sun rose perfectly behind the cairn on the southern peak of nearby Stapeley Hill... I'm sold. Shared with curlews, skylarks, people, and dogs.

80 years ago today. And the sun is shining!!

Forgot I had this! Hope Basil and Joan enjoyed many long years together on Mendip

Repost thys to celebrate the Birthedaye of the lovelye Will Shaksper

Remembering sunnier days watching the 2022 Summer Solstice sunset from Hambledon Hill, on my way back from the Prehistoric Society conference in Bournemouth. Still the most incredible hillfort (and causewayed enclosure) I've visited! The scale of the ramparts is just bonkers. #HillfortsWednesday

Liz Truss, our most useless and inept PM, met with Queen Elizabeth II, who promptly popped it two days later. JD Vance, who continues to show himself up for his ineptitude, met Pope Francis only YESTERDAY, and the pontiff has popped it today. Are these people not washing their hands or something?!

#StandingStoneSunday the magnificent entrance stones of the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age Swinside stone circle in the Lake District The great circle occupies a levelled terrace on a hillside & commands spectacular landscape views 📷 My own 2023

Looking up along a prehistoric highway with the Walton Basin #Neolithic landscape tucked just behind the imposing Burfa Bank hillfort, the dark rounded hill right of centre, in last week's glorious sun. #HillfortsWednesday

At a glance, instead of my brain going straight to chocolate as it would any normal person with this week's Guardian insert, mine went to the Porcellanite #Neolithic polished stone axes from Tievebulliagh, Northern Ireland.

Just another average Sunday at the amphitheatre in Dorchester #Dorset 👍 #Gladiators #RomanWeekend

Dotty saying hello to her first stone circle, Mitchell's Fold #StandingStoneSunday

Spotted this interesting looking stone on the far side of the Ogwen Valley from the A5 yesterday - not been able to check Archwilio yet, could be an old gatepost stone given the gap just along from it, but, possible standing stone? #StandingStoneSunday

Bloody foreign birds, comin over ere, eating our... worms... and....... grubs... www.birdguides.com/news/major-h... (Actually I remember seeing one on holiday in Britanny as a kid and being dead excited!)

Oh happy day!! Always a welcome arrival through the post

Managed to check out Tan-y-Coed #Neolithic tomb in the upper Dee valley over the weekend as I happened to be passing by. Smells suspiciously of Cotswold-Severn type... maybe Capel Garmon isn't the only outlier in North Wales... #TombTuesday

One of the two Caebetin round barrows, below the Kerry Ridgeway, Mid Wales. Excavations in the 1930s were led by local antiquarian Noel Jarman and found to have a circle of small stakeholes around its perimeter. Not quite a timber circle, but certainly some sort of embellishment. #TombTuesday

At the National Library of Wales for the #Archaeology open day, with @drtobydriver.bsky.social kicking off with Castell Nadolig #hillfort and the divination spoons

He's getting scared he knows the mass protests are coming.

I have read #GeraldOfWales account of giant trees off the south coast but #StowsSurvey claims there were about 17 feet below London streets. #history #archaeology

Jumping on a #MedievalMonday to ask about this section of wall at Castell Dinas Bran above Llangollen, Denbighshire. Why does this left wall have vertically-laid stones? Is it a bit of collapsed or fallen wall that's stuck? None other like it up there, pretty odd, can't work it out.

#HillfortsMonday Always good to be back in mid Wales, passing local landmarks like the remote Dinas hillfort (centre), Ponterwyd, which once overlooked mountain trade routes in prehistoric metal ores

Hello Archaeologists! Welcome to the official BlueSky page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2025 conference! Watch this space for our website and Call for Sessions! Find us on: Facebook at TAG 2025 at York X at @TAG2025_York Instagram @tag2025_york #tag25 #tagyork #tag2025york

Iron Age tribal names Given that the names are latinised versions, does anyone know of anyone who's had a go at attempting to 'celticise' the names back? Obviously ancient language reconstruction is very tricky, but can we get closer? A cheaty #HillfortsWednesday

Still thinking of submitting an abstract for our next gathering in April? You have until THIS FRIDAY!! nebarss.wordpress.com/2024/10/29/c...

#StandingStoneSunday against fascism… This monolith in Vigo by Francisco Pazos, entitled 'Fiestra á liberdade', stands at the place where barricades were erected in July 1936 to oppose the military uprising against the Spanish republic, in tribute to all who gave their lives in defence of freedom

The lovely Maen Llia, 4m tall, at the end of the world above Ystradfellte in #BannauBrycheiniog. #StandingStoneSunday

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Hint: there's regionally-important archaeological built heritage inspiration here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHv... @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social, maybe one for you too

Hive mind, a word: Sequencing of the Sanctuary, #Avebury, #Wiltshire (Pollard, 1992) suggests that the central stone (represented by the concrete block here) was *contemporary*, or *concurrent* with the outer two, which represent the end of the West Kennet Avenue. Contemporary, or Concurrent?

Remember, it pays to open the drawers under display cabinets in museums. Absolute Unit found at @themerl.bsky.social !

Gwal-y-Filiast chambered tomb, or the She-Wolf's Lair in English, near the Carmarthenshire-Pembrokeshire border, in its wooded setting. So often these monuments are on bare, windswept moors, so it's a great example of how such monuments may have emerged in woodland clearings #StandingStoneSunday

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

Heading down to Essex for a few days' work, are there any #Neolithic or #BronzeAge sites worth checking out? I know of Grimes Graves (pictured) but closer to Chelmsford-Colchester area would be ideal! (Image: English Heritage) @peterreavill.bsky.social not too far from your old stomping ground?

The remaining chamber of the lesser known Penywyrlod long cairn overlooking Hay on Wye, on the Black Mountain range. The better known and better excavated Penywyrlod long cairn is above Talgarth, near Trewalkin, on the cover of Britnell and Whittle's "The First Stones". #StandingStoneSunday

Calling all experimental archaeologists, experimental research orgs like us, and people who whack rocks and set things on fire, we're making an experimental archaeology starter pack! We know a lot of you but just in case chuck us a reply if you want in 😊

A screenshot of one of the updates from the Dakar Rally, where a bivouac has been set up - Roman fort, anyone?!

My only ever visit up to #MitchellsFold, #Shropshire, in the snow, a couple of years ago. The only footprints there were my own. #StandingStoneSunday

When that present you bought for you 6 year old niece wasn't really for your 6 year old niece. To be fair though she was the one who asked me how to build a cathedral!

For #standingstonesunday; a day late solstice trip to Stonehenge

Enough of all this Stonehenge stuff, here's the bigguns at the big site. The Cove, Avebury, last week on my long journey back from TAG. Pretty sure the western stone (right) has been estimated to be the heaviest in Britain at c. 100 tons? #StandingStoneSunday

In other news... Name That Pub

Re: TAG, Hodder. I have something to say which I feel is important from this weekend’s #TAG45. It is not about the event itself – the team did an amazing job and it felt so great to be back at TAG for the first time since Chester in 2018. However…

Loving being at #TAG45 after 6 years since my last one! Touching tributes to two huge losses to our field from Julian Thomas and Win Scutt, and Ian Hodder's riveting keynote on current theoretical approaches to archaeology

We're at #TAG45! Pamphlets are around, if you have any questions or fancy a chat, look out for Jack @archaeorowe.bsky.social who will be around all weekend.

Late night browsing may have just found me my all time favourite Wikipedia page. And no, not just for the picture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangwn...

My 5 year old niece's first visit to The Four Stones in the #WaltonBasin. Responding appropriately. #StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic