#HiillfortsWednesday I WAS to lead a walk around Ravensburgh Castle with @naturalengland.bsky.social But I've been struck down with a stomach bug, which has got me not only disappointed, but also thinking of a gap in my knowledge. Iron Age settlement latrining? Do we know, where did they 'go'?

Handily dating this layer to the mid 1990s, this Esso bag is both a sobering reminder that plastics don't go away, and an alluringly suggestion that there will be a chariot burial in the next scrape back of the machine.

Well, I sound like a heat-addled incoherent babbler... Because it was actually 35°C 😂 But @paulwhitewick.bsky.social has done a video on the Carnyx and I was happy to take mine to a local hillfort and play it for him😎 Until they actually get us a carnyx emoji... 🐗🎺 youtu.be/68Hds0OYrbg?...

Ooh I didn't know you'd done one of these, @paulwhitewick.bsky.social Very nice!

9yo, lovely colleagues gave me a send-off(& the best stratigraphic cake ever, thanks to @livancworlds.bsky.social's Dr P Hommel ❤️)Whilst I was sad then, I'm delighted to be my own boss now, still delivering great archaeology, teaching when & as much as I please,& no one but me can give me the push 😂

Delighted to see, whilst driving an alternative route home from the Dunstable event, that the Black Horse on the Vale Road, Chesham is open again!! All that talking to all those enthusiastic people today means I need a pint!! And they've one of my favourite breweries on! @tringbrewery.bsky.social

it's time to kick off the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Festival of Archaeology at @nationaltrust.org.uk Dunstable Downs! CHAP CIC will be here all today and tomorrow, answering your questions about archaeology! 10-4 18 & 19July, Dunstable Downs Visitor Centre, Dunstable Road LU6 2GY

We are making pots, old school style 😎

Just to be clear, I have no issues with the casting choices in this film of the epic poem. I was just amused that some people think using a Viking ship for the Odyssey is some sort of realism flex, but those same people are throwing their toys out of the pram about the selection of actors. #Odyssey

Been a while since I sat down with a quiet pint, and it's been a long day, so time for an historically themed lovely amber from the fine folk @twicebrewedbrewco.bsky.social

Someone on here recently mentioned cockchafers...might have been @prehistorian.bsky.social Here's a culinary aspect of the beetle I had previously overlooked 🤮

Ah, as Homer foretold... Sailing on the mead-dark sea #Odyssey #FantasyFilmFriday

Well, I've rather lost interest in the Final now, so I guess I'll maybe see how this turned out 😜

The terrible feeling that I'm gonna have stupid tanlines again... #WorkBoots

It's been a good first day Must stretch to proper branding at some point 😜

Today's office... @chapcic.bsky.social's first watching brief #chalk

A couple months ago, Callum kindly gave me a tour of the archives and talked about this incredible set of documents (amongst others) This video is everything I'd hoped for when he said he might do a post on it one day. Enjoy!

The flat next door has a telly dish. Sometime this evening it seems to have rather improbably sprouted a decorative feather! Can anyone identify the bird? (I can't, it might as well be a hoopoe as far as my feather ID skills go!)

Come along to Dunstable Downs, where I'll be celebrating @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Festival of Archaeology for two days (18&19 July)with @nationaltrust.org.uk Ask questions, make pots, look at finds, who knows, I might let you have a go on the carnyx!

Did someone say Festival of Archaeology? @nationaltrust.org.uk Dunstable Downs is teaming up with CHAP CIC to bring 2 days of fun and facts. Make your own prehistoric pot, touch real and replica artefacts Ask a real archaeologist anything!* 10-4 Sat&Sun *no aliens or Atlantis questions, please

Gutted to read today that Sam Neill has died. A brilliant actor, a dedicated farmer and vintner, and all around kind bloke. This dream he had sounds alright to me 🥲 Rest well, Sam. youtu.be/5UILCt9Zi7g?...

#findsfriday A somewhat surprised looking cockerel at the Corinium Museum Recovered from a grave of a young Roman lad. Bronze with enamel inlay 📷 mine 3/7/26

@greenleejw.bsky.social the odds of being hit by an eel whilst reading are probably very low...but not zero! BBC News - Hereford man gets shock as eel 'falls from sky' near River Wye - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thinking of all my friends on Sark as they try to combat this wildfire www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... We've excavated on Little Sark for years and it's a truly special place. Folks, be careful with open flame, BBQs, and ciggys in this dry weather

Great to see this paper come out on the life history of a woman traveller from the #LateIntermediatePeriod in the #Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Well done @fransantanas.bsky.social and a host of colleagues! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Ok #archaeology Bluesky! It's not #FindsFriday yet but could I get some informed opinions on this object sent to me (by image only) by a student. It was on a student handling table in the east Midlands 1962 and has puzzled them ever since. I know pics are not ideal of IDs but any thoughts?

New Ask the Geographer episode out now! 🎙️ Dr Chrystiann Lavarini joins us to talk fluvial geomorphology, exploring river regimes, how river systems and landscapes shape each other, and how people can sustainably manage them 💧 🔗 Listen now: https://ow.ly/uHe050ZjZuA

Thanks for a great visit, @coriniummuseum.bsky.social 15 years ago I wrote my DPhil thesis, heavily leaning on Cotswold MIA-Roman sites. Yet I didn't drive and public transport was dear for a struggling student. So today I saw many old friends for the first time.

Well, well, well. Research and pleasure bring me to @coriniummuseum.bsky.social for the first time! And what a well appointed reading section of the gift shop😎

Our new paper on Haughey’s Fort, N Ireland, is out in @antiquity.ac.uk! This massive 109 hectare site has it all, from a purpose ritual made pool, to gold & bronze production, and a large, possibly ‘proto urban’ settlement @papgleeson.bsky.social #hillfortsWednesday www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#hillfortsWednesday I'm teaming up with @naturalengland.bsky.social and the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Festival of Archaeology to take a look at a special hillfort that is not yet publicly accessible. Also a fragile SSSI, Ravensburgh hillfort is one of the largest in the Chilterns. 22 July,join us?

Forgot how hilarious this man was...Dave Allen on BBC4 just now

@chrismeeson.bsky.social It's always a treat to be working back in Oxford because I get to go to my favourite pub!! And there's a great guest ale on from Buxton! Sharing a post work pint with some hairy friends

Another hot day ends in a riotous bloom of colour. #Chilterns

I'm enjoying how the lightning strikes in the North Sea are mimicking the shape of Greenland.

Please sign this. So many wonderful researchers at risk with these short-sighted type of cuts

Some excellent points made by Mateusz in this thread (which bears reading in it's entirety) The article IS good news, but differently than the spin leads one to believe. (Also, when am I getting my full scrolls of Posidonius' ethnography??? Surely some Herculaneumite had a copy??)

Tesco, may I introduce you to a much-needed comma? Otherwise, your exhortation may lead to unintended consequences

On this swelteringly hot day in the UK, we look back on a similarly hot day over 2000 years ago at Ivinghoe Beacon #Buckinghamshire A dramatically sited univallate Iron Age hillfort 😍 Recreation © Mark Gridley / Chilterns National Landscape 2020 @chilternsnl.bsky.social Happy #HillfortsWednesday!

A fragment of polished granite #Neolithic axe appeared during the cleaning of Trench T Another (joining) fragment then appearied in the top of an Iron Age ditch Huzzah 🤩 #Durotriges26

As my students and anyone who's suffered my lectures will know, my favourite saying is that Prehistoric farming was ard work... 😎

This should be an interesting one to watch develop....

#hillfortsSaturday It's only my favourite hillfort!! Can you guess where?

⚠️ Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY alert ⚠️ Sunday 28 June 10-4.30 Free Parking (on private land) at North West Farm Winterborne Kingston Dorset DT11 9AT The dig is a 20 min walk but minibuses are available Guided tours PLUS the Big Dig Brewhouse, cafe + chips!! Maybe see you there? #Durotriges26

I love fishing near Bulford mill. How nice there's some exciting archaeology there too 😂😉 And this looks like the amazing work of @jennieanderson.bsky.social ?

A good afternoon at Ringstead downs, Norfolk with Comma, Painted Lady, Small Skipper, Common Blue, Brimstone and hundreds of Meadow Browns

Exactly this. A worrying trend. I was recently told a ludicrously accurate (a two year range) date for a prominent earthwork near me. Forgive me for being skeptical when I was told how this proved it's Caesarean connection. And I've yet to see an actual report showing their work

The thing about AI is it’s… just not that good. Like, it’s *fine* at stuff, but never more so than your second-most trustworthy colleague. It’s also a bullshitter. A really plausible fake-it-till-you-make-it bullshitter. It’s like the digital equivalent of a posh 20-year-old boy.

It's been a good year – congrats to #RuairidhMacleod and all the contributors to this great paper, just out in nature.com! A fantastic example of the power of combining ancient DNA and archaeology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Morning reveille at #Durotriges26 Celtic style Courtesy of @hillfortian.bsky.social #Carnyx #Archaeology