Anyone fancy designing some guardians for Badbury Rings? #HillfortsWednesday

Months ago, I teased exciting stuff for April: First was starting my own company. The third will be revealed probably early May. But the MOST exciting thing can be revealed now...dunh dunh DUNH!!!! The 2026 CHAP Training Excavation is open for registration! heritagechap.co.uk/page-6 #archaeology

Iron Age bling-blingity-bling on show in York NOW !! 😍 #Chariot #Findsfriday 👇👇👇

I'm working with my ButCH colleagues to support the update of the South West Archaeological Research Framework (UK). If you're interested in being involved, there's a form to complete here forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Fresh from the ground for #FindsFriday A rather nice Late Iron Age shale core 2,000 year old residue from bracelet manfacture (the square hole being from where this centrepiece was originally held in place on a pole lathe) 📷 Winterborne Kingston #Dorset July 2024 #Durotriges24 #FindsFriday

#OTD in AD 392, Roman Emperor Valentinian II was assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. This is a silver siliqua of Valentinian II minted in Constantinople between AD 383-388. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

After visiting Grimes Graves recently I keep thinking about this blue flake of iron age slag. It's blue and slag so it couldn't be more perfect in my book. (No 24 on the info.) #findsfriday

#FindsFriday Found at Usk (Brynbuga) on display at Caerleon Legionary Museum Bronze cooking pan (trulleus) Of Italian or Gaulish manufacture Mid-1st century AD. Padell goginio efydd (trulleus) Cynhyrchwyd yn yr Eidal neu Gâl Canol y ganrif 1af OC #Archaeology #RomanBritain

I recently had cause to do a bit of digging around on Bronze Age art. Here, for #FindsFriday is an article on the unspeakably beautiful #Shropshire Bulla featuring @peterreavill.bsky.social I never tire of gazing at it ❤️

Stuff from previous job at Rockbourne Roman Villa #findsfriday

On #findsfriday today we have a Saxon necklace of 1 bugle bead of blue glass, 6 tiny green glass beads, 7 irregular amber beads, 1 tiny shell bead, 2 segmented faience-like beads... #collections #wiltshire #saxons

For #FindsFriday here are pieces of painted Roman wall plaster from the 2024 excavations at Wroxeter. My 📷s, objects in care of EH

This Roman limestone sculpture of a hunter was discovered in 1977 during excavations near Southwark Cathedral in London. Thought to have been carved locally, it features attributes of Mithras (the cap), Apollo (the arrows) and Diana (the stag). #FindsFriday

This Early-Medieval brooch is decorated with Borre Style interlaced knot motifs. Such brooches combine 'an Anglo-Saxon brooch form with a Scandinavian art style’ making them ‘true cultural hybrids reflecting a fusion of Scandinavian & Anglo-Saxon styles’ #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

#FindsFriday! We have a Roman flue tile with evidence of key combing on its surface, which helped mortar or plaster adhere to it. Flue tiles such as this were often used in Roman hypocaust systems which were, essentially, an early form of underfloor heating.

In 1836 some labourers found these 2,600 year-old wooden figures whilst cleaning a ditch at Roos Carr, near Withernsea, East Yorkshire. One of the men is said to have given one of the ancient ‘dolls’ to his daughter to play with! 😱 Hull and East Riding Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Iron Age bling-blingity-bling on show in York NOW !! 😍 #Chariot #Findsfriday 👇👇👇

Fresh from the ground for #FindsFriday A rather nice Late Iron Age shale core 2,000 year old residue from bracelet manfacture (the square hole being from where this centrepiece was originally held in place on a pole lathe) 📷 Winterborne Kingston #Dorset July 2024 #Durotriges24 #FindsFriday

The entrance to Buckland Rings in the New Forest #Hampshire is protected by the excellent, evocative and (ever so slightly) eerie *Guardians of the Rings* 📷 Sept 2018 Made by artist Katie Surridge for Hampshire County Council Every Iron Age hillfort needs guardians like these #HillfortsWednesday

It's #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah 🥳 Here's the tree-covered ramparts of mighty Buckland Rings near Lymington #Hampshire at the southern margins of the New Forest Bought by a forward-thinking Hampshire County Council in 1988 A glorious if sometimes overlooked Iron Age enclosure 📷 Sept 2018

The eastern entrance to Barbury Castle hillfort in Wiltshire, built first in the 6th century BC #HillfortsWednesday It once had much steeper banks, a wooden pallisade, and even sarsen stones as defences 📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology #photooftheday #ancientbluesky

For another later than planned #HillfortsWednesday another magnificent shot of the defensive ramparts of the Herefordshire Beacon courtesy of James.Stringer. #IronAge #Archaeology

Combining #HillfortsWednesday with the 100th birthday of one of our greatest Britons. Took Sir David #Attenborough to see Liddington Castle at the weekend!

Absolutely love this

Innerwick Castle, East Lothian (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up with ditches. Likely prehistoric. However I believed the outer ditches were re-used in medieval times like those at Dunnideer Castle (Aberdeenshire) built on an Iron Age ring ditched Hillfort. #InnerwickCastle

The Wrekin hillfort, not the greatest photo but it was difficult to get a good one #hillfortswednesday

If you cannot visit in person, the trail can also be enjoyed virtually via the National Trust’s London & South East YouTube channel: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Find out more about Cissbury Ring here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex... #NationalWalkingMonth #HillfortsWednesday

The magnificent Cissbury Ring for #HillfortsWednesday 👇👇

Cissbury Ring is one of the National Trust’s jewels in the South Downs. From the summit on a clear day, there are far reaching views across the chalk cliffs beyond Brighton and out to the Isle of Wight. It is this striking location and its dramatic views that have drawn people here for generations.

A 1975 aerial view of #OldOswestry - note the training trenches dug during the First World War. Protecting the archaeology wasn't high on the list of priorities at the time. #HillfortsWednesday #Shropshire #FWW 📷 Cambridge Air Photos, CUCAP BVQ9.

Old gods protecting prehistory

A stone-walled passage at the incredible Tre'r Ceiri hillfort in north wales. The scale of it is truly breathtaking. 📷 mine from this week. #HillfortsWednesday #Wales

Liddington Castle univalate hillfort; the highest point on The Ridgeway.

Tre’r Creiri Iron Age hillfort in N Wales. Fabulously impressive and views to die for. #HillfortsWednesday 📷 photos by me, Monday

#HillfortsWednesday Shipton Hillfort from Eggardon Hill. One of the best views in West Dorset. It shows Lyme Bay and the Devon coast to Start Point. The stretch of water from Portland to Start Point was originally “the West Bay” but changed with Bridport Harbour becoming West Bay in the 1880s

The entrance to Buckland Rings in the New Forest #Hampshire is protected by the excellent, evocative and (ever so slightly) eerie *Guardians of the Rings* 📷 Sept 2018 Made by artist Katie Surridge for Hampshire County Council Every Iron Age hillfort needs guardians like these #HillfortsWednesday

West Addinston in Scotland occupies the southern spur of Addinston Hill overlooking the junction of two burns. The hillfort is 82 m by 50 m and has 3-metre-deep internal ditch, wave-like mound, and multiple earthen ramparts. It has extensive views along the Leader Water. #HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday - or not so hilly 👀 Rathgall, or the Ring of the Rath is a large multivallate hill fort near the town of Shillelagh. Dating from the Bronze Age, it consists of 3 roughly concentric stone ramparts with a fourth wall dating from the Medieval period at its centre. #Archaeology

I frequently drive close to there on way to ferry terminal - I had no idea it was there. Very impressive from Environment Agency 1m LIDAR hillshade #HillfortsWednesday

West Hills Camp, a multivallate Iron Age fort less than a mile west of Old Rothbury Hillfort, Northumberland 📸 March 26 #HillfortsWednesday

Castle Howe Hillfort at Little Langdale in the Lake District. The fort guards the Wrynose Pass, and possibly dates to the Iron Age. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Cumbria

Crug Hywel hillfort, Table Mountain, Brecon Beacons, last Saturday. Just north of Crickhowell, in the heart of the early medieval kingdom of Brycheiniog.

#HillfortsWednesday Caherdaniel, Co Ciarrai. www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/14751/c...

#HillfortsWednesday A vanished giant of north Wales 😥 The enormous stone-walled hillfort of Braich y Dinas ('the arm (peninsula) of the fort') once commanded the north Gwynedd coast from this rocky summit 🛖 By the 1920s it was being quarried away & is now entirely lost 😮⤵️ 📷 My own, Sunday

It's #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah 🥳 Here's the tree-covered ramparts of mighty Buckland Rings near Lymington #Hampshire at the southern margins of the New Forest Bought by a forward-thinking Hampshire County Council in 1988 A glorious if sometimes overlooked Iron Age enclosure 📷 Sept 2018

Found in 1823, this Roman mosaic from Bramdean Hampshire was recorded by John Lickman in 1828 The centre featured Medusa surrounded by deities Sadly an attempt to lift it in 1873 completely failed and the tesserae were finally shovelled up and used to repair holes in a road 😱 #MosaicMonday

Morning handsome! 😍 #MosaicMonday

Oplontis, Villa Poppea, Campania. 🏺 One of my fave #MosaicMonday floors may look a bit like linoleum from a 1950s kitchen but is in fact a C1 BC mosaic carpet of white tesserae w irregular inserts of coloured marble. Very apt for a luxurious #Roman salon w frescos of the sanctuary of Apollo.

A playful fish in the dining room 🐟 For #MosaicMonday we have this panel of flooring from a 3rd/4th Century C.E. villa complex in Verona. 📸 Us, #Roman Theatre Museum, Verona. #ancientbluesky #archaeology #skystorians #ancientrome #classicsbluesky

Alas! The weekend of Exercise Druid Sacrifice at Valley on Anglesey has come to an end. The pocket Druid and Bard offer their thanks at the sacred little lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach before departing.