Over 700 people on our open day at Castilly Henge #Cornwall with @cornwallarch.bsky.social and Cornwall Heritage Trust. Starting the long journey home, tired but very pleased

End of week 3 at Castilly henge excavation #cornwall www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/community/ca...

BBC Cornwall article and radio interview about our excavation at Castilly Henge #Cornwall www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The open day at the Castilly Henge excavation is on Saturday 11th October #Neolithic #Cornwall www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castil...

Reposted from @HE_Archaeology Excavation trenches are open, volunteers have arrived, soil is being sieved, and school visits have begun at Castilly Henge #Cornwall. We are excited to be collaborating with @Heritage_Trust & @cornwallarch.bsky.social at this fascinating site. bit.ly/CastillyProject

More on #Castilly #Neolithic henge excavation #Cornwall www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/community/ca...

On Monday after 10 years away I return to excavating #archaeology. Here’s a picture of a younger, hairier me digging in #Exeter in winter 1997/8

Free lecture on recent research at Castilly Henge #Cornwall #Neolithic www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castil...

Deadline extended until 1st Sep! #LandscapeArchaeology job ⬇️ Cambridge + hybrid, UK.

Learning to use a stereoscope #landscapearchaeology #aerialphotography

🚨 JOB ALERT - come work in my team?! Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience. Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...

Sally Taylor (my first DPhil candidate co-supervised from beginning to end) graduated yesterday. Here is a link to Sally’s research on #Neolithic Group VI Cumbrian axes ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid... Congratulations Dr Taylor! @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social

I’m doing at talk in #Roche #Cornwall about our forthcoming excavation at #Castilly #Neolithic #henge www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castil...

Parch marks of past parks

I’ve just got my copy of the excellent new Silchester Environs Project monograph. Here are the 3 sites we surveyed as part of the project. doi.org/10.5284/1049... doi.org/10.5284/1052... doi.org/10.5284/1054... #earthwork #survey #landscapearchaeology #IronAge #Archaeology

Hier nous étions 1 500 archéologues à manifester dans les rues de Paris. Aujourd'hui, l'article 15bis C de la loi de simplification est supprimé. Demain on continue pour les postes, contre la précarité, pour les moyens nécessaires aux diagnostics, pour les prescriptions.

This is the project that I’ve been developing over the last year #Cornwall #Archaeology #Neolithic www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/project-to-u...

Spies, lies and betrayal: my ruinous relationship with an undercover cop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

May at #Castilly #Henge. #Neolithic #Cornwall

ArcGIS Pro you are clearly the future but why are you so ******* counter intuitive #GIS

Back in February @richardosgood.bsky.social and I were interviewed about #Browndown #FirstWorldwar trenches. www.itv.com/watch/news/e...

A great day out and around Bodmin yesterday with the @landscapesurvey.bsky.social group. An extremely dynamic landscape with historic china clay extraction still drastically modifying the landscape today.

The Longstone. A Neolithic or Bronze Age standing stone, formerly of Longstone Downs, now of Harmony Close, Roche

@timhannigan.bsky.social just led a group of landscape archaeologists from the car park to Hensbarrow Beacon. Asked them to work out where natural topography ends and spoil heap begins.

@timhannigan.bsky.social Just starting Granite Kingdom. Loving it. Grew up in NW Devon with family in N Cornwall. I’m an archaeologist currently working on Hensbarrow Beacon & on barrows near Hartland. Really liked your writing on Clay Country & on the ambiguity of Cornwall/Devon north of Lanson

A long but rewarding day looking at #prehistory in #claycountry with @landscapesurvey.bsky.social

Today has been mostly… With @landscapesurvey.bsky.social and thanks to @olafbayer.bsky.social for organisation and guide.

Looking north-east across the interior of #Castilly henge towards Roughtor and Brown Willy. Taken in 1970 before the A30 and A391 cuttings. www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

Charles Woolf’s colour slides of #Cornwall between the 1950s and 1980s are a fantastic resource. Here is #Hensbarrow Beacon in 1963 looking as gnarled and battered as it does today but without the backdrop of massive china clay tips www.jstor.org/stable/commu... #LandscapeArchaeology #BronzeAge

2 of the Early #BronzeAge barrows on top of Brea Hill overlooking the mouth of the Camel Estuary #Cornwall

A project that I’ve been collaborating on in #Torridge north-west Devon looking at two groups of Early #BronzeAge barrows historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in...

Average sunset, #HartlandQuay, #Devon

Chips in the sun before a long drive home #Hartland #Devon

Wind, rain, fallen branches, broken windscreen

Wind, rain and sleeping by the #Atlantic at #HartlandQuay #Devon

End of a long week of wind, rain mud and #BronzeAge barrows in north-west #Devon. #LandscapeArchaeology #Prehistory

Next week at #spycops inquiry, evidence from HN1 (aka 'Matt Rayner') will be remote & audio-only. Is this because he is still in the Met police? Or in another public-facing role? And if so, this is exactly WHY we should know his real name. Who is HN1? #GiveUsTheNames #PaidToLie

This is what my winters look like. My field season starts as soon as vegetation starts to die back. Surveying a #BronzeAge burial mound amidst the China clay quarries and spoil heaps of mid #Cornwall #Archaeology #LandscapeArchaeology @HE_Archaeology

Doing the final check of a report before layout. Listening to MS Word trying to pronounce Cornish place names keeps making me laugh

The trouble with #landscape #archaeology is that you keep finding interesting things next to the thing you’re meant to be focusing on. A #ChinaClay mining palimpsest on the Hensbarrow uplands in mid #Cornwall. An earlier conical sky tip next to the massive Blackpool pit

This week in between the wind and rain, technology failures and too much driving my job looked like this. Surveying a huge #BronzeAge barrow amongst the china clay pits in #Cornwall #Archaeology #Landscape

The new Historic England Research magazine has an article on the work that Fiona Small and I did on Browndown First World War practice trenches near #Gosport #Hampshire historicengland.org.uk/images-books...

120 people turned out on a cold Wednesday evening to hear @davegrifx and I talk about the #Archaeology of East #Oxford Project. Sold out @FloparkCC Project book is a free download at doi.org/10.5284/1081257 @ContEdResearch

Mostly flint, mostly flakes, mostly Neolithic and later. Scatter N12 #UglowCollection @RAMMuseum #Prehistory #Devon #Archaeology clok.uclan.ac.uk/3149/

Mostly #chert, mostly blades, mostly #Mesolithic. Scatter N12. #UglowCollection @RAMMuseum #Prehistory #Devon clok.uclan.ac.uk/3149/

@davegrifx and I will talk about Minchery Priory, the leper hospital at Bartlemas Chapel and the #Prehistory of Iffley Fields and Donnington Rec. #Archaeology of East #Oxford Project. Florence Park Community Centre, Cornwallis Road, OX4 3NH 7:30pm 27/11/2024. Tickets wegottickets.com/event/639119

After a day in the field yesterday, today it is back to hachuring and a return to the zen-like trance of click, click, clicking the little beggers into place.

@davegrifx and I will be giving a talk about the #Archaeology of East #Oxford Project at the Florence Park Community Centre, Cornwallis Road, OX4 3NH 7:30pm 27/11/2024. Tickets wegottickets.com/event/639119

12 years ago we were just finishing our excavation at Minchery Priory as part of the #Archaeology of East #Oxford Project doi.org/10.5284/1081... Photos by AerialCam