#StandingStoneSunday During construction of this bridge "a causeway of ancient origins but unknown age" was discovered underwater Could that be the ancient route used by Neolithic peoples to reach this stone circle? 📍 Callanish VIII, Bernera island, Scotland 📸 Me #archaeology #photoftheday 🏺

Finding Nero? There he is! (the one on the left, obvs) Always good to see the 13 year old proto tyrant: part of the incredible collection of Charles Wyndham, second Earl of Egremont (1710–63) Today at the ever-wonderful Petworth House @nattrustarch.bsky.social #Roman #Archaeology

Is it #StandingStoneSunday already?! 😮🥳 Take a spin around the incredible Harold Stone standing stone on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire In 2024, following path erosion, we discovered a rare Bronze Age cobbled platform around it. Browse on @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab: skfb.ly/pvJw8

The Castel Statue Menhir, Guernsey. An Early Bronze Age female figure of power: spiritual, temporal or both. Raised on the highest point of the island (I think), slighted and buried at some point in the past. #StandingStoneSunday 🏺🦣

The menhir near La Croterie in Chauvé (Loire-Atlantique) is over 4m tall, 3.5m wide at the base of the broad face and 1.5m thick. A recumbent stone nearby may have been a twin or may never have stood. Card by Chapeau early 1910s. #StandingStoneSunday.

A recent stones trip to Coldrum long barrow in Kent with @classicalalan.bsky.social - misty, muddy and very atmospheric! This place is 6,000 years old, just so awesome. #StandingStoneSunday

Boscawen-un Stone Circle 📸 By me from a few summers ago. I miss Cornwall, but the journey and #MECFS are not happy bedfellows. #StandingStoneSunday

Finding Nero? There he is! (the one on the left, obvs) Always good to see the 13 year old proto tyrant: part of the incredible collection of Charles Wyndham, second Earl of Egremont (1710–63) Today at the ever-wonderful Petworth House @nattrustarch.bsky.social #Roman #Archaeology

#RomanSiteSaturday with Witcombe Roman Villa in autumn We've spent the last 4 autumns heading to Shropshire, as well as the Cotswolds & into Wales you can see more of that here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjB...

Currently hallucinating primary coloured Roman legions invading my Durotrigian living space It's like AD 43 again (but more cheerful) Winter #Olympics

Currently hallucinating primary coloured Roman legions invading my Durotrigian living space It's like AD 43 again (but more cheerful) Winter #Olympics

A Roman bronze statuette of a 3 horned bull carrying portrait busts, possibily deities, on its head and tail A curious offering recovered in Tessa Verney Wheeler's 1934 excavation of a Romano British temple on Maiden Castle hillfort Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social 📷 Sept 2025 #FindsFriday

This #findsfriday we have a gold mounted amber pendant. It consists of a flat central disc of amber framed by a wide round border of thin gold. Found with a primary cremation in Bell Barrow Wilsford G8 and excavated by William Cunnington.

#FindsFriday - a stone, probably from the Lake District, perforated for use as a pendant, found in an #IronAge pit in Suffolk

#FindsFriday A huge hollow gold torq from the Snettisham Hoard, dating to about 70 BC in the Iron Age It may have been part of royal treasure of the Iceni tribe! Found in Norfolk, England, in 1948 📍 Seen in Norwich Castle Museum 📸 Mine #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

Samian ware bowl (fragment) Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle. The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear. The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall. #FindsFriday #Roman

It’s #FindsFriday! This week we have a fantastic Iron Age Saddle Quern recovered during excavations in West Yorkshire.

The busts always looked like they have wings to me! Also not to be some kind of conspiracy theorist, but last time I went to see this I couldn't find the third horn. Which sounds like bad joke, but it is at an awkward angle and the lighting doesn't help.

A Roman bronze statuette of a 3 horned bull carrying portrait busts, possibily deities, on its head and tail A curious offering recovered in Tessa Verney Wheeler's 1934 excavation of a Romano British temple on Maiden Castle hillfort Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social 📷 Sept 2025 #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday Slightly rarer than hen's teeth, the magical Nesscliffe Iron Age spoons on display in the brilliant Shrewsbury Museum 🥰 Thought to have been used for divination - perhaps by Druids - fewer than 30 pairs have been discovered since 1829....😮 🎥 My own, last week

Roman penknife with gladiator handle found at Piddington, 3rd century AD, portraying a secutor, beside a modern reproduction. Oh, for a museum shop that sold the replica… British Museum #FindsFriday

An iron dagger (with wooden handle) and iron scabbard (with gold and silver inlay) found in the 1960s excavation of the mid 1st c AD #Roman fort at Waddon Hill #Dorset Hopefully not used on any of the Durotriges ! 😬 Now in the fantastic Bridport Museum 📷 Feb 2023 #RomanFortThursday

A reconstruction of buildings in the civilian settlement ('vicus') outside the south gate of the fort of Housteads (Vercovicium) © Historic England (illustration by Peter Urmston). #RomanFortThursday #AncientBluesky

The northern defences of Birrens Roman Fort (Blatobulgium) in Dumfriesshire - an outpost fort for Hadrian’s Wall. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Birrens

Magnificent tombstone of an Asturian cavalryman from the fort at Ribchester, found in 1876. Sadly lacking an inscription, but a deeply unsettling portrayal of a classic scene, riding down a barbarian warrior, as if a hunter spearing a wild beast. Now in Ribchester Roman Museum. #RomanFortThursday

#RomanFortThursday Castra Cecilia fue un campamento romano también denominado «Cáceres el Viejo», fundado en el año 80 a.C., por el general Cecilio Metelo, a unos 2,5 km al noreste de la ciudad de Cáceres, Extremadura, España. #Hispania #Roma #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #AncientBluesky

#RomanFortThursday: a #Roman dagger and and two dagger sheaths, both elaborately decorated with inlays (silver, brass, enamel). Found in the Roman fort at Ehingen-Risstissen, dating 1st century AD. On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen 🏺 #archaeology

Doorway into the hot dry room at the bathhouse at Chesters Roman Fort, on Hadrian's Wall. The jambs demonstrate continuity of design from much earlier work, such as that in #TheFlintstones' house, at Bedrock. #RomanFortThursday #ADoorAbleThursday #Northumberland #RomanBritain 📷 my own, from 2024.

An iron dagger (with wooden handle) and iron scabbard (with gold and silver inlay) found in the 1960s excavation of the mid 1st c AD #Roman fort at Waddon Hill #Dorset Hopefully not used on any of the Durotriges ! 😬 Now in the fantastic Bridport Museum 📷 Feb 2023 #RomanFortThursday

Iron Age forts simply weren't designed to deal with artillery barrages. It's a real flaw.

Following the circuit of Flowers Barrow Iron Age hillfort in Dorset is not recommended as there's occasional unexploded ordnance hereabouts 😱 📷 Feb 2022 It's vital that visitors check when it's not being shelled from Lulworth MoD Artillery Range: www.gov.uk/government/p... #HillfortsWednesday

Archaeologist Duncan Sayer on the significance of weapon burials - and the child buried with a sword at the site he led in Kent, which I was lucky enough to discuss with him on the latest series of Digging for Britain. theconversation.com/four-early-m...

#IronAgeWednesday: #Brochs - Stone structures found particularly in NW #Scotland, built throughout the Iron Age. #Archaeologists have long debates about their purpose & use. Were they purely defensive or similar to stately homes, or perhaps a mix of defence & living quarters with symbolic functions?

For #ReliefWednesday a representation of Minerva, the #Roman goddess of wisdom, arts, crafts, and warfare. She's carrying the helmet, a lance and a shield. The deity is accompanied by an #owl, her sacred animal. Found in Burgstall an der Murr. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemnberg 🏺 #archaeology

From the NE, the ramparts of Flowers Barrow Iron Age hillfort, atop a cliff at the seaward end of a ridge overlooking Worbarrow Bay, give a great idea of how the enclosure originally dominated the land 🤩 It's one of our favourite #Dorset hillforts (just don't tell the others) #HillfortsWednesday

First mentioned in Roman sources over 1,700 years ago as a collective name for troublesome, barbaric peoples, the Picts went on to become the dominant kingdom in northern Britain 💪 On 12 February, explore their southern kingdoms at this online event: www.digitscotland.com/events/east-...

This is such exciting news for the prehistory & early history of western Britain & the wider European seaways, providing further firm evidence for the tin trade documented by classical authors 👇

For a Wintry #HillfortsWednesday Hod Hill'’s lower rampart, Hanford, covered with snow; courtesy of Chris Downer.

And the evocative recreation of the main entrance of #Llanmelin hillfort by the brilliant #AlanSorrell. Dated 1940 the painting is owned and curated by @Museum_Cardiff #HillfortsWednesday #artwork #History #art (2/2)

#HillfortsWednesday An oldie but a goldie 😉👍 Llanmelin Wood #hillfort is a small but elaborate Iron Age hillfort defended by two, and in some places three, banks. #Archaeology #History (1/2) 👇

#HillfortsWedenday Waddon Lane in Loders has just reopened after some years. It has allowed this view across the valley to Eggardon Hillfort on the horizon

A mass Viking grave that dates from the 9th century found at an Iron Age hillfort at Wandlebury, south of Cambridge includes the skull of a 6ft 5in man with a hole bored in his skull who was suspected of having a pituitary gland tumour. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An important and tragic find. The events on Wandlebury Hill, close to the Iron Age Hillfort in the Gogmagog Hills (with optional hill figures), tells you something about how the high prehistoric places were used in 9th century 🏺 #HillfortsWednesday www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

#HillfortsWednesday & its Burrow Camp in Shropshire So many incredible Hillforts in the county, you can catch many of them in our new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjB...

Following the circuit of Flowers Barrow Iron Age hillfort in Dorset is not recommended as there's occasional unexploded ordnance hereabouts 😱 📷 Feb 2022 It's vital that visitors check when it's not being shelled from Lulworth MoD Artillery Range: www.gov.uk/government/p... #HillfortsWednesday

One of the surviving ramparts of Burghead Fort - a Pictish promontory fort in Moray. The fort was occupied between 6th and 10th centuries AD, and was a major centre of Pictish power. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Burghead #Picts

Visitors in November admiring the view. Runsa, an Iron Age hillfort in Sweden, was strategically situated on a 30 metre tall rock promontory in Lake Mälaren, with views towards Sigtuna. The ancient fort covers an area of 200 x 100 metres. Photo: Richard Whitehand. #HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday Wilbury Hill, Letchworth, Hertfordshire ancientmonuments.uk/114620-sligh...

Filming for #DiggingForBritain with the brilliant @toriherridge.bsky.social on the very edge of Buckspool promontory fort, Pembrokeshire, in the heat of August last year 🌞🔥 Perfect viewing tonight for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖🥳 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

From the NE, the ramparts of Flowers Barrow Iron Age hillfort, atop a cliff at the seaward end of a ridge overlooking Worbarrow Bay, give a great idea of how the enclosure originally dominated the land 🤩 It's one of our favourite #Dorset hillforts (just don't tell the others) #HillfortsWednesday