Thrilled to launch the 2nd #DartmoorTorsFestival - celebrating Dartmoor’s nature and culture. We’ve got talks, walks, performances and more .. shorturl.at/8ROTt @visitdartmoor.bsky.social @dpadartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorcollective.org @dartmoorac.bsky.social

Hunter’s Tor Iron Age hillfort on Dartmoor. Pretty difficult to see with all the the gorse and bracken (slightly embarrassed that we used to jump up and down the ramparts on ponies) but the views are still magnificent! Plan view by Phil Newman #HillfortsWednesday #Dartmoor

Drizzlecombe Row 1, or Drizzlecombe SE, the south east row of the huge Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic complex on the west side of Dartmoor #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor

Did you know that @arcdurham.bsky.social researchers, together with @ucl.ac.uk and Toraighyrov University, uncovered a large Bronze Age settlement that changes what we know about life on the Eurasian steppe?⚒️ 👉 tinyurl.com/48nesvza @dl-arch.bsky.social @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

Say hello to Alia! This sweet little orphan was rescued in October 2025. She is shy but brave – she survived without her herd for days in the bush before rescuers found her. She's not yet two years old, and her folded-over ears mark her out from the herd: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...

Cornish vs Devonish? 🤔 #WallsOnWednesday

British Camp hillfort in the Malvern hills. What a majestic beast of a hillfort. I’d live there #HillfortsWednesday

Happy #ChineseNewYear of the Fire Horse Here are four horses, not of the apocalypse, but from Durham University Oriental Museum

Have to spend most of today driving so for #StandingStoneSunday here is my pint mug of tea, showing Merrivale stone row 😬🤓

#HillfortsWednesday Darnit

The iconic Brentor on the western edge of Dartmoor. Iron Age ramparts exist but the hillfort my never have been fully completed. The medieval church was begun in the C12th. #HillfortWednesday #Dartmoor

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

One of the passage tombs at Clava Cairns near Inverness. About 4000 years old, the amount of effort that must have gone into making these. An atmospheric place. 📷 from 2023 #TombTuesday

For #FindsFriday, does anyone have an idea what this could be? It’s about 1.8m across, on what would have been a hill farm before it was turned into forestry in the C20th #Archaeology #Dartmoor

Charles Darwin began writing The Descent of Man #OnThisDay in 1868. "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." 🏺🧪

A brave little lion Challacombe, Dartmoor #WallsOnWednesday

For #TombTuesday, the Neolithic passage tomb of Bryn Celli Ddu on Anglesey. The passage is aligned with the winter solstice and the stone with spiral and zig zag decoration would have originally been buried within the mound

Bronze Age hut circles on Shapley Common, Dartmoor. Known as ‘butt circles’ for years in my family 😳 because of the type font on OS maps. (Very funny when you’re seven) #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor

Neolithic entrance and passageway at Skara Brae on Orkney. Occupied from around 3100 to 2500 BC, the prehistoric settlement is one of the best preserved in the British Isles. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #SkaraBrae #Archaeology #Orkney

The Crouching Venus, a Hadrianic copy of a Greek original sculpted by Doidalsas in the mid-3rd century BC. The statue stood in the so-called Heliocaminus Baths at Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa) in Tivoli. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome. followinghadrian.com/2014/03/12/a...

Cosdon Stone Row, also known as the Cemetery. Unusual triple stone row with blocking stones at the top. Bronze Age, #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor

24th Jan is the birthday of both @adrianedmondson.bsky.social and the Emperor Hadrian. Ladies and Gentlemen we give you..... ...Hadrian Edmondson. 😳😐

For #RomanFortThursday, the justifiably famous Vindolanda on Hadrian’s Wall. 📷 June ‘24

In a mad, mad world, with the maddest mad person shouting mad, mad the loudest, I thought this might help. (Chocolate helps too). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghcd...

The glorious contour-hugging ramparts of Penbury Knoll hillfort Pentridge Down, Cranborne Chase, command wide ranging views across #Dorset #Hampshire and #Wiltshire A place to heal The earthworks have not been investigated, but are probably Late Bronze or Early Iron Age #HillfortsWednesday

For #TombTuesday, the St Andrews Sarcophagus. Probably Pictish king Oengus, died 761 CE. Lots going on here in a hunting scene with glum looking hounds (one with wings), surprised ram, and an apologetic lion being treated badly by the big guy

FISH!! #MosaicMonday

Hurston Ridge stone row, Chagford Common. 99 stones in parallel lines pointing almost due North, with a blocking stone. Bronze Age #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor

Study of the head of a bat, 1888 by Beatrix Potter, not only an English writer and illustrator, but also a natural scientist and conservationist #womensart

Tidying up my photos on my mobile phone & found this group of 9. Some of York's best bits. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

Contrasting hypocaust styles at the same site, the Roman Town House in Dorchester. I like the more freeform one #RomanSiteSaturday

For #FindsFriday, looking right back at you, a Roman era Egyptian mummy mask. Durham University’s Oriental Museum

Today’s #FindsFriday is the head of the Norfolk boar standard! Its fierce face was the first sign, on site, of the Iron Age hoard featured this week on Digging for Britain. www.pre-construct.com/news/the-nor... #IronAge #Archaeology #NorfolkCarnyx

Great map 👍

This is the grant application that I spent most of last summer working on! Yes, I know - Romans! - but a great opportunity for us to work with local partners and rescue this important site.

A basket of plums never looked so aesthetically perfect as when painted, in 1629, by Louise Moillon of Paris. Today is her day.

Houndtor Medieval Settlement, Dartmoor. The remains of a small farming community and manor, abandoned in the C14th probably due to crop failures and the Black Death. Photos from last summer. Again, not quite #HillfortWednesday (can’t get the hang of this guys) #Dartmoor

I’m making great progress on my latest #painting: a hand painted #map of the main #megalithic sites in #Oxfordshire. I have literally no idea why I didn’t paint this yeeeears ago. #workinprogress #standingstones #ancientstonebothering #StandingStoneSunday #stonecircles @megalithic.bsky.social

Durham Cathedral. There's almost 1000 years of life in those walls - so glad that they decided to make them look vibrant and full of energy.

Here’s our map of all sites in our database that reference ‘clava’ (so will have some other things) but this should be most of them. Interactive version here: www.megalithic.co.uk/search.php?q... #TombTuesday

The things you see in the Linn of Dee car park when no visitors can get there and it's absolutely quiet 😉

Hidden beneath the #Rome Ring Road (GRA) lies the Ninfeo della Lucchina.Originally constructed in the 3rd century CE as a tomb, it was transformed in the 4th century into a nymphaeum with stunning mosaics and frescoes.It was likely part of a grand villa owned by the Ottavi family #MosaicMonday 📸 MiC

say what you want about Theresa May, at least her geography degree meant she had a basic understanding of how to read a map

Here's the last of the snowy pics (until next time).

#MosaicMonday with the c4 Orpheus mosaic from the wonderful Corinium museum

The Longstone menhir, part of the huge Neolithic and Bronze Age complex at Shoveldown on Dartmoor. For any orienteering nerds out there, the lichen/moss is definitely thicker on the north face! #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor

‘Przewalski’, sorry 🤦‍♀️

For #FindsFriday and #YearOfTheHorse, a stunning little profile of a Prsewalski type ancient horse. Magdalenian era bone plaque found in the C19th in Robin Hood Cave, Creswell Crags. Pretty sure the original is in the BM, this is at Creswell Crags Museum. Beautiful economy of line

The mighty Grimspound on Dartmoor. A late Bronze Age settlement, with a massive circular stone wall and the remains of 24 stone roundhouses Not quite #HillfortsWednesday

The Bronze Age Bone Stone being re-erected by enthusiastic antiquarians in 1893 (photo credit The Megalithic Portal) #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor