Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David's Day to all who mark it.

#FootprintFriday? This didn't get much traction yesterday, so I thought steps should be taken Bless my sole, it's an impressive feet #puns

Some exciting news from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social youtu.be/kf5q7jUjNws?...

What a lot of heavy lifting 17 February has to do today! The start of Chinese Lunar New Year (恭喜發財!), the start of Lent (Happy Pancake Day/ Mardis Gras!) and the beginning of the month of Ramadan (Ramadan Mubarak!) However you spend this day, and the days to come, I wish you joy of it!

Archaeologists study how people lived in the past by digging into the ground and examining the artifacts they left behind. A team of researchers has now applied that same logic to the International Space Station. The results offer a revealing look at how humans adapt to life beyond Earth. 🧪 🏺

From the GOV website The fault seems to be my reading. I assumed that last sentence reads like a list. Who isn't eligible? •archaeologists •volunteers on an excavation or investigation But tbf, even if we don't break that down, an archaeologist with a MD is in fact investigating.

I have a few of these on my patch too... I call them nilforts.

Looking after some canine companions for some dear friends. Can you believe this lil guy...❤️

My ghast is well and truly flabbered. Just got C14 dates back and two features I'd assumed were Iron Age would seem to be Neolithic 😮

Ah, yes! Superb Owl day returns. And as I'm just back from Athene's city, here is one of her owls! 📷 By me, 31/1/26

Why, there you are, @lubbershole.bsky.social! delighted to see you here!! One of my very favourite podcasts - I've circumnavigated the original stuff twice! Looking forward to catching up these new episodes.

Final night in Naxos. Home to grey wintry skies tomorrow. What an amazing place - I may have to return.

#FindsFriday this lovely Late Mycenaean (12th century BC) hydria with images of fishermen hauling full nets. Viewed from the Naxos Archaeological Museum, where I could see the same sea through the window that inspired that art over 3 millennia ago. 📷 By me 5/2/26

Spotted on Grotta Beach on Naxos. Suspecting coincidental quartz vein but would love to be told different. Left it on the beach above the tide line.

Thinking of Homer again as I leave Athens for an early flight to Naxos. rhododáktulos Ēṓs, indeed.* *schoolboy readers of ancient greek, titter ye not...

When I was small, the first book I remember reading was called 'Western Civilisations'. I could talk for days about what's wrong with the title and the concept. But the watercolours of the Acropolis in that book fed my imagination and I dreamt of being there.Today, I achieved what 6yo me imagined

#MosaicMonday Once again spoiled for choice after a few days in Pompei... So many wonderful floors, but one never gets bored. Well, this one is a little boar-ing

My first time ever in Greece. And as I check into the ludicrously discounted room, and throw open the curtain, this is my view. 😮😮😮😮😮

Homer's wine dark sea looking stunning this morning.

Goodbye, Vesuvius!! Goodbye, Pompei

So, the cocktail bar in Pompeii seems cool 🤣

Vesuvius in the rain!! I'm delighted to be back in this special place.

#findsfriday a collection of wonderful things from the Thermopolium of Aselina #pompei 📷By me, 20 min ago!

great to be back! after last year's blue skies and bright sun, I really thought it never rained on Vesuvius! @pompei79.bsky.social it's a privilege to be back on your patch! Hoping to see the other 40% of the Park this year! I bear greetings from a certain denizen of the Purple Turtle. DM for deets

Ciao, Italia!!

Do you know why Calleva Atrebatum is so special? It is one of the best-preserved Roman towns, near Silchester, excavated between since the 1860s. Today, we have secured a Heritage Fund grant to Reimagine Roman Britain for the 21st Century! #Romans #RomanBritain #NationalLottery #HeritageFund

Material Culture, Communities and Identity in Early Medieval Northumbria, 600-867 CE: A Land of Five Languages by Sián Webb www.bloomsbury.com/uk/material-...

#MosaicMonday I'm off to Pompeii midweek and whilst there will be adding a glut of mosaic pics to my collection, so today, here is something a little different from Guildford 📷 by me 24/01/26

Exciting day working with the @notbourneyesterday.bsky.social team and @naturalengland.bsky.social at Hexton Estate. The @wildlifebcn.org Youth Rangers came out to help take samples to see if we can get some ancient pollen. Yes, I told them today would be a truly boring exercise 😜

#FindsFriday with the Llyn Cerrig-Bach hoard, discovered during the dredging of peat on Anglesey by the RAF really enjoyed listening to Toby talk about votive lakes, you can catch that conversation here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...

Six years ago today, this was my view, from a Māori pā (hillfort) I heard my first tūī and marveled at such incredible beauty, both sea and shore. Today's rainy deskbound glories hold no such fascination... 22/01/20 📷 by me

Once again, some of the best content on social media!❤️ I once was invited to consult on the tunnels that ran from a large manor house to a hillfort...OVER A MILE AWAY!! Some were dismayed at my report of cellars and drains. (I gave a conciliatory nod to a speculative and rather dubious priesthole)

Great to see this paper come out! I usually work with teeth and bone fragments – beautiful in their own way of course, but these amazing #Amazonian objects from the Trombetas are on another level. It was a privilege to be involved in their study. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Book before 10 Feb! Britain: The Beginning, a 6-part online lecture series explores archaeology, landscapes, and the people who shaped them 17 Feb- 24 Mar 7.30-930pm BST £90 per person EMAIL TO REGISTER: [email protected] 2-hour sessions includes live discussion and Q&A 📷 mine 16/05/25

Bookings are now open for the @cancic.bsky.social 2026 #archaeology fieldschools. 20-24 April at a #medieval manor site in Oxfordshire and 18-22 May at an early #Anglo-Saxon site in Northumberland. More details via cancic.com

@antronicsltd.bsky.social you are my 2000th follower!! ❤️❤️❤️ Many thanks for pushing my into the heady realms of the 2kers!! I can only thank you, and offer a pretty picture from a sunnier and warmer day than today. Sunset at Saltburn, 16 Aug 24 📷 By me

Roman sites in Scotland dating to the first century - the initial Roman invasion of Scotland

Glad to see @duvalrv.bsky.social getting this out into the press. As this site is on 'my' @chilternsnl.bsky.social patch, I have tried for the last few years to open a dialogue to progress this, but found the 'celebrity firewall' impenetrable. Id be happy to help with communicating to new owners.

I'm getting excited to see that on my horizon again! Two weeks from today!! ✈️🌋🏺

argggghhh I wish I'd known!! I now have unbreakable plans but if you are near Welwyn, GO - they are a great group anyway, but you can't miss a chance to hear THE @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

Yay! I love this railway!!

Some of you may be interested in BALH’s series of online talks in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust. Prof Helen Fulton will be talking about medieval Brecon on Tuesday 31 March at 7.00pm. Click here for further details and registration: www.balh.org.uk/events

www.bbc.com/news/article... 'So rare, so significant' So why is it at auction?

Three really REALLY exciting things happening in the spring... I can't give deets yet but if you hear some awesome stuff from me on 1st April this year, it's probably not an April Fools 😁 NB: pic is mine, but not a clue...just general spring vibes

As a huge fan of #DrWho and #BillBailey (he's not here on bsky, is he? ) and #jazz (although not this style, tbf) I don't know how it took me four years to find this bit of sheer brilliance. youtu.be/Zhv5GVexW2E?...

Blimey! How's this for #FraudFriday? BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay - BBC News

Hive #archaeology mind... I've dug up lots of old sh¥†€ before, but like, not LITERALLY... So I don't know what it's like in reality. Any poop experts out there can help? I don't really want to send it to the lab to be told I don't know my sh!t🤣🤣

Its #HillfortsWednesday, its winter & we've got these long nights So if you want something relaxing and escapist to have running in the background on a tv or whatever this >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcXl...

It's a really interesting idea. With apologies for the blatant horn toot (though I feel it is appropriate in this particular context), see mine and @hillfortian.bsky.social 's 2020 volume Barbaric Splendour www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...