#HillfortsWednesday - Moel Arthur ( Bryngaer), Clywd. www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagaz...

Are you sure that “into battle with hi-viz and geophys in Dorset” things is right, @theduncanmackay.bsky.social ?

It's the only #BlueSky day that counts 🧐 #HillfortsWednesday 🍻 Walk with me into the giant (13.6m diameter 😮) excavated roundhouse inside Dinas Dinlle coastal fort, Gwynedd - which is currently being lost to the waves An incredible Roman-period home by the sea 🌊 🎥 My own, yesterday

Not the same as yiyr average hillfort is the Birka castle on The Lake Mälaren. The castle has been dated to the Viking Age and used until the 10th or 11th century. The castle wall is about 350 m long, two to three m high and seven to eight m wide. Björkö, photo: Jan Norrman. #HillfortsWednesday

It's the last #HillfortsWednesday of June (and also the last one of #Durotriges26) so to celebrate / commemorate, here's a mighty Iron Age enclosure from central Dorset: Eggardon Hill, looked after by @nationaltrust.org.uk 📷 February 2020 of the sinuously rampartular multivallate south circuit

A big THANK YOU to all the lovely people who visited the @buarchanth.bsky.social open day at the #Durotriges26 big dig You're all wonderful 😊 Glad you had fun and please do call in again on the last Sunday in June next year on #Durotriges27 👍

Ronnie has found Roman glass in the recut of the main Iron Age ditch at #Durotriges26 This could mean that the linear prehistoric feature remained a boundary well into the 3rd or 4th century AD She is very happy (as are we) 😊

Charlie and Scott joined us on the #Durotriges26 dig yesterday They were very excited to be here and wear our extra fashionable (and highly desirable) hi viz safety vests 👍

Nick, Paul and Georgie, busy recreating Boudicca's geophysical chariot array close to the site of her final battle on the fields above Winterborne Kingston in Dorset #Durotriges26

Paging @durotrigesdig.bsky.social 🙂

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery Apparently 🤣🤣 www.instagram.com/reel/DaLXyAN... #Durotriges26 #Instagram #ArchaeologyByEdie

Matt has found an Iron Age midden deposit in the middle of the ditch he's digging at #Durotriges26 It contains pottery, animal bone and fire cracked flint He is very surprised

Just before the heatwave, our geophysical survey team, lead by Georgie and Nick, were busy scanning the fields around #Durotriges26 What did they find? Join us after the break [cue Time Team drumbeat]

A drone photo looking SE along the big old Middle Iron Age boundary ditch in Trench S at #Durotriges26 The team are excavating alternate sections of fill along its length Today is a much better day out on site !

A big THANK YOU to all the lovely people who visited the @buarchanth.bsky.social open day at the #Durotriges26 big dig You're all wonderful 😊 Glad you had fun and please do call in again on the last Sunday in June next year on #Durotriges27 👍

My goodies have arrived - one T-shirt T and a tote bag 🙂🙂.

Durotriges Dog.

Well, home again, home again, jiggity jig! That was an unnecessarily long 6 hour plus drive home with many periods of static motorway joy, and remarkably my Iron Age Bitter takeout from @durotrigesdig.bsky.social open day got home without exploding (bloody close though, I opened it outside)

Hugely enjoyed #Durotriges26 today! great to get back to the site & see the progress from this year 😊 Huge well done to everyone for their hard work

Doing a tour of Hadrian’s Wall and today it was the Roman fort at Chesters. A beautiful site and a lovely hypocaust to stand in 😀 @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

@durotrigesdig.bsky.social Made it this year. Intergenerational visit with my son and granddaughter. Excellent visit. Thanks to everyone. #bigdig #durotrigesdig #Dorset

Got to thank @durotrigesdig.bsky.social in person for all the fun and interest across bluesky and twitter over the years today. Must have missed you by a few hours but would have said the same to you! Miles comes alive in that roundhouse soon as he crosses the outlined circle!

Listening to Miles Russell give a very entertaining tour of two beautiful Iron Age roundhouses at the @durotrigesdig.bsky.social open day, and two old blokes having a lovely catch up afterwards.

Highlight of the #Durotriges26 Open Day @durotrigesdig.bsky.social? Enjoying Miles's excitement at the two overlapping Iron Age roundhouses in the 'emergency trench'. 😆👏 The later one was built through the remains of the older one. It was occupied around the very time of the Romans' arrival.

A splendid morning at the #Durotriges26 open day @durotrigesdig.bsky.social! Was on the first tour & all the presentations were top-class. 👏 Many thanks to everyone there. 🙌 Nicely finished off with fish & chips and a half-pint* of Duropolis Rising. *I was driving 😇

Another fascinating visit to the @durotrigesdig.bsky.social dig near Winterbourne Kingston. They are discovering so much about late iron age culture and the arrival of Roman people in Dorset. Thank you all for sharing what you are discovering. @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Final spot of Iron Age charioteering before I leave wonderful Chalke. Magical weekend, and can’t emphasise how hard the chariot builders worked in impossible heat to enable this. Next stop @durotrigesdig.bsky.social open day!

And first in the queue (for the 4th year running) is Lee 🏅 30 minutes early 😅 #durotriges26

Don't forget to fill in your visitor questionnaires when leaving the #Durotriges26 open day Hope you envoy your visit!

The finds team are ready for the #Durotriges26 open day They have stickers and colouring sheets too 😊👍

The team are ready and waiting for the #Durotriges26 open day !!

The signs are out, finds prepared, trenches open, toilets cleaned, marquee emptied, team primed and chip shop, ice cream van and brewhouse all good to go We're now ready for the #Durotriges26 Big Dig open day tomorrow Maybe see you there? 👍

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

Can't wait to see you out in your natural habitat

People and their Iron Age ditch sections (an occasional series): Pete and Ash Jake and Mike Both teams have got to midden deposits at the centre of ditch fill and are happy in tne sun #Durotriges26

Just loving seeing the emergence of the fabulous chariot at Chalke History Festival today with lots of super added details. Big plans from this with @timeteam.bsky.social and @butserancientfarm.co.uk . Good to see the team at work! Too hot for celts though… #chariot #celts #ironage #archaeology

Off peak day return, please.

Great Movie Scenes Recreated no 179: Mike and Robin are busy turning their Later Bronze Age / Iron Age feature at #Durotriges26 into the Great Sarlacc Pit of Carkoon 😱 #ReturnoftheJedi

Happiness, thy name is archaeology 😊

Charlie and Scott joined us on the #Durotriges26 dig yesterday They were very excited to be here and wear our extra fashionable (and highly desirable) hi viz safety vests 👍

Ronnie has found Roman glass in the recut of the main Iron Age ditch at #Durotriges26 This could mean that the linear prehistoric feature remained a boundary well into the 3rd or 4th century AD She is very happy (as are we) 😊

The signs are out, finds prepared, trenches open, toilets cleaned, marquee emptied, team primed and chip shop, ice cream van and brewhouse all good to go We're now ready for the #Durotriges26 Big Dig open day tomorrow Maybe see you there? 👍

Mark has found an almost complete Iron Age black burnished ware pot from the pit he's currently excavating at #Durotriges26 It has lain undisturbed in the soil of #Dorset for over 2,000 years He is happy #Archaeology #FindsFriday

The work of the finds cleaning team on Monday this week at Halberton Roman villa. (Pleased to say I've got three more volunteering days there to look forward to.) Painted wall plaster! Tesserae! Hypocaust tiles! Pottery! Nails! #FindsFriday

#OTD in AD 221, Roman emperor Elagabalus adopted his cousin Severus Alexander as his heir and granted him the title of Caesar. A year later, Alexander became emperor at age 13. This denarius was minted during his reign in 227. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

Ali has just found a nice Late Iron Age shale core, residue from the manufacture of an armlet or bracelet The square hole was where the piece was originally held in place on a pole lathe Evidence for making artefacts on site 2,000 years ago 🤩👍 #Durotriges26 #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday hoping for a slightly cooler Friday than the rest of the week... Here is a jolly leaping Roman boar from the incredible Chester's Museum on Hadrian's Wall to see us all into the weekend 😊🐗 📷 My own 2025

#FindsFriday Found at Cataractonium, a carnelian intaglio that would have been set into a ring, depicting Hercules and the lion. This artefact was discovered within the late 2nd-century settlement at Fort Bridge; 📷 Northern Archaeological Associates #Roman #Archaeology #History

COOL THING ALERT: This is a lead coin mould of a radiate of Carausius. An official coin was placed between two sheets of metal & two lead plates then hammered creating an impression. These were then cut & fixed together to make a copy coin. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

This Friday’s #findsfriday we have a bone comb made from a piece of pelvis, with trimmed edges and smooth surfaces. On the lower side a hole has been drilled diagonally through the bone, probably for suspension and the teeth are sharply but irregularly cut, #bonecomb #allcannings #ironage