A Roman saucepan, of a type often used by soldiers for open-fire cooking. It was discovered inside the ruins of Castle Craig Broch, near Auchterarder, Scotland. #FindsFriday

They're back. And this time it's personal Time Team return to Brancaster #Roman shore fort #RomanFortThursday Catch up on YouTube 👇👇 youtu.be/uWzGPs9wmuU?...

Your hourly reminder that to *militarily decimate* means to destroy one tenth of your own army Thank you #Roman #Archaeology #History

Yay! Roman antiquity IN COLOR!!!!!

Tombstones of two #Roman auxilliary cavalrymen who both died in Britain during the 1st century AD Dannicus (from Switzerland) and Genialis (from the Netherlands) Illuminated in colour, to show how they may have originally looked, in the Corinium Museum #Cirencester 📷 Aug 2022 #RomanFortThursday

1/ The site of Muir O’ Fauld Roman watchtower on the Gask Ridge, Tayside, Scotland. Part of a line of Flavian installations thought to date to Agricola’s occupation late 70s/80s, but some have argued earlier still. 🧵 #RomanFortThursday

Getting into the decorated tombstone spirit, this painted replica is to Flavinus, a standard bearer in a Roman cavalry unit. This is in the site museum at #Corbridge Roman Town (the original is in #Hexham Abbey). #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Northumberland 📷 My own, 2024

They're back. And this time it's personal Time Team return to Brancaster #Roman shore fort #RomanFortThursday Catch up on YouTube 👇👇 youtu.be/uWzGPs9wmuU?...

The remains and outline of the granary at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields on South Tyneside. The fort was probably built in around AD 128 to guard the mouth of the River Tyne. 📸 My own. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #Arbeia #RomanBritain #SouthShields

Tombstones of two #Roman auxilliary cavalrymen who both died in Britain during the 1st century AD Dannicus (from Switzerland) and Genialis (from the Netherlands) Illuminated in colour, to show how they may have originally looked, in the Corinium Museum #Cirencester 📷 Aug 2022 #RomanFortThursday

It's #HillfortsWednesday!! To celebrate the wonder of hillfort-contemporary Iron Age sites, here's a banjo enclosure, appearing as a cropmark at Sixpenny Handley #Dorset 😍 Intriguingly, its ditch seems to divert around an earlier (Bronze Age?) barrow A stunning air photo © Jo and Sue Crane 2017

Out with the master today for #HillfortsWednesday A long-overdue meeting with Mark Bowden of Historic England fame at the enormous Piercefield hillfort, Chepstow. Great to spend the morning with Lynn from Chepstow Arch Soc, Lou RCAHMW & Mark discussing hillforts 🧐👌🍻

Tre'r Ceiri is a hillfort in the distance, which dates back to the Iron Age. The settlement is located 450 metres above sea level on the slopes of Yr Eifl, a mountain on the north coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in #Gwynedd, north-western #Wales. #HillfortsWednesday #Archaeology

Been there, done that.

In the excellent #Novium museum in Chichester, West #Sussex, built directly upon the civic baths of #Roman NOVIOMAGVS I spy, with my little eye, a nice little underfloor heating system 😉 #HypocaustGate

Wittenham Clumps For #HillfortsWednesday taken last September.

I saw #HillfortsWednesday and was reminded of the time me and my dad went up to Finavon hill and spent a good half hour trying to find the hillfort, only to realise we'd been circling around it the whole time. In our defence it was very foggy.

Another not a #HillfortsWednesday (we have few in this region of France). The woods on the small hill beside the River Vilaine hide the ruins of the chateau of Rieux near Redon, Morbihan.

#HillfortsWednesday Uley Bury is an multi-vallate, hill fort dating from around 300 B.C. It uses the Cotswold scarp to enhance its defences. A Romano-British temple was nearby and excavations in the 1970s revealed many wondrous objects such as a head of Mercury & several curse tablets.

For a slightly later #HillfortsWednesday than planned Pictish Symbol Stone at Trustys Hill hillfort in Southern Scotland courtesy of Billy McCrorie.

The Neolithic Dorset Cursus and Long Barrows are at the heart of this vast 'ritual' landscape, perhaps 2000 Bronze Age round barrows are part of the landscape, Martin Green showed a round barrow had posts linking them to the much earlier Neolithic earthwork. The Iron Age people lived amongst this.

Above link image looking at Down Farm, Fir Tree Field, I helped Martin Green on this dig (I lived on the farm at that time). www.digitaldigging.net/cranborne-ch...

Wittenham Clumps #aerial #aerialphotography #BrightwelBarrow #DJIMavic4Pro #drone #dronephotography #EarthTrust #hill #hillfort #landscape #landscapephotography #Oxfordshire #WittenhamClumps

New blog post - Sheffield's vitrified hillfort for #hillfortswednesday www.benaustwick.co.uk/blog/wincoba...

For #HillfortsWednesday a view of Eggardon Hillfort taken from King John’s Castle at Powerstock. A motte and bailey castle which has been robbed out over the years, hence it local name humpy castle

Hillfort heaven at the fading of the day! The view from Moel y Gaer above Rhosesmor, Flintshire, towards Moel Arthur and the hillforts of the Clwydians, Wales. #HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday with Caerfai looking incredible in a burst of March sunshine along the Pembrokeshire Coast See more of this & Pembrokeshire in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1nh...

A splendid afternoon yesterday in south Wales ahead of #HillfortsWednesday at the mighty Llanmelin Wood hillfort discussing the rather unusual earthworks with Cadw and the recent @rcahmwales.bsky.social re-survey 🧐 More info & lovely photos here: coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/301... 😊 Do visit!

Chesters Iron Age hill-fort in East Lothian. The hill-fort probably stood within the territory of the Votadini, as described by Ptolemy. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday

For #HillfortsWednesday looking down on Lordenshaw from the Simonside ridge near Rothbury in Northumberland. Multivallate, 350 BCE. Soooo many hillforts up here you practically trip over them. This one has amazing cup and ring mark stones

#HillfortsWednesday @durotrigesdig.bsky.social - thanks for the heads up - Cashtal, Ballagawne, Garwick, Isle of Man. ://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/details.xhtml?recordId=3125983

Isolated and wooded, D-shaped hillfort on Nesscliffe Hill above the Rivers Severn and Perry. Internal area c. 2.8ha. Small scale excavations by Hume and Jones 1953-56 and lately by Oxford. Several coins and 2nd to 4th century pottery. The top has been cleared and restaured. #HillfortsWednesday

Another beauty this #HillfortsWednesday: Crug Hywel, near Crickhowell It's tear-drop shaped, enclosing an area of about 100 metres northwest-southeast and 50 metres northeast-southwest Inside its walls there's evidence of 2 hut platforms & a hut circle 📸RCAHMW, 2016 zurl.co/MpFjV#HillfortsWednesday#NewlyCatalogued

It's #HillfortsWednesday!! To celebrate the wonder of hillfort-contemporary Iron Age sites, here's a banjo enclosure, appearing as a cropmark at Sixpenny Handley #Dorset 😍 Intriguingly, its ditch seems to divert around an earlier (Bronze Age?) barrow A stunning air photo © Jo and Sue Crane 2017

The remains of a kerb cairn at the Clava Cairns - part of a Bronze Age cemetery near Culloden in the Scottish Highlands. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #ClavaCairns #Prehistory

An Early Bronze Age burial mound, close to the Hengistbury Head visitor centre, on the vernal equinox Now with extra added information board 😊👍 📷 March 2026 #TombTuesday @bcpcouncil.bsky.social

#TombTuesday Feels like cheating because I posted this site yesterday as it's where I was working... Wayland's Smithy on the Ridgeway, a 4th millennium BC long chambered tomb, and still a focus for human ritual behaviour. 📷 by me 23/03/26

This is the headstone of Marcus Cocceius Nonnus, pictured as a charioteer with a whip in one hand and a victory palm in the other. He was only 6. A little boy who liked the races. No different from little boys today with their favourite football teams and favourite players. 🏛️BM 📷me #TombTuesday

#TombTuesday with the wonderful Carreg Coetan, Pembrokeshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Bit of a flex from the huge capstone that its not even touching all of its orthostats See more from Pembrokeshire in the new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1nh...

The dolmen of Garde-Epée in St-Brice (Charente) has 2 capstones on tall (over 2m) orthostats forming a 5x3m chamber. Card by Nouvelles Galeries c.1905. #TombTuesday.

Welcome to TAG 2026, the 47th Annual Meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group! The Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter is thrilled to be hosting the conference this year, 14-16 December. Our call for sessions is now open! tag2026.square.site

#TombTuesday I finally made it back to the incredible Presaddfed chambered tombs in central Ynys Môn/Anglesey last week - I was last here as a teenager 😬 The tombs sit on the edge of an ancient lake & probably represent fragments of a once complex, multiperiod monument 📷 My own

An Early Bronze Age burial mound, close to the Hengistbury Head visitor centre, on the vernal equinox Now with extra added information board 😊👍 📷 March 2026 #TombTuesday @bcpcouncil.bsky.social

Discovered in 2017, less than half of this 4th century mosaic from Bratton Seymour Roman villa survived Lifted for the excellent Museum at The Newt #Somerset, the central panel was partially recreated as depicting Bacchus, god of wine and ecstatic celebration Cheers 🍷 📷 May 2024 #MosaicMonday

Alfred's Castle; a small hillfort beside Ashdown Park in Oxfordshire

A difficult #mosaic to photograph for #MosaicMonday, because every visitor to the #VaticanMuseums walks across it: a C2 CE black and white mosaic from #Palestrina with a central #emblema of a bird of prey with a very dead #rabbit, in the Sala degli Animali. #AncientBluesky 🏺

The wonderful mosaic floor of this octagonal atrium that greets your entry to this villa complex, is just as glorious as the lake view. Almost makes the 5am Salutatio wake-up worth it! 📸 Us, #Roman villa, Desenzano del Garda. #MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientBluesky #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome

Little known fact: Bacchus was also an independent superhero capable of defeating opponents with a single punch.

This mosaic depicts snails in a basket (presumably waiting to be cooked and eaten). This may explain why one has already escaped and another is making a break for it. 🕰️4th century AD 🏛️📷Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia #MosaicMonday

This #WorldBearDay spare a thought for the bears made to fight in the amphitheatres of the #Roman Empire. Often depicted in art such as this, actual physical evidence for fighting bears is rare. (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 Carole Raddato / CC BY-SA 2.0 🏺 #MosaicMonday #Archaeology