I seem to be trapped in a sub-Tolkien world… if it’s not Druids I’m seeing dragons everywhere…. I mean even in Winchester! #dragon

For #findsfriday - a small box with iron ship’s rivets. These were given by Edith Pretty to Vincent Redstone to show success in the discovery of the Sutton Hoo ship. I have drew a similar rivets - a Viking one from Repton featuring in ‘River Kings’ by Cat Jarman. #viking #saxon #suttonhoo

On an incredibly rare day where Scotland face England at both rugby 🏉 and cricket 🏏 this is probably the only opposite ever get to post this rather splendid stained glass window in Edinburgh of Scottish representatives of each sport. #heritage

#hillfortwednesday - miraculously an hour of sun on Salisbury Plain today enabling a condition survey of Battlesbury Hillfort. Not looking bad and the views were grand. Colt Hoare’s plan in Ancient Wiltshire still works. #archaeology #wiltshire #ironage #celts

#drawing 4842 #drawingdiggingforbritain perfect practice for sketching at the British Museum tomorrow with Urbansketchers London #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

Well done to my lovely friends that presented #diggingforbritain - I end my #drawingdiggingforbritain sketches with a salute to them @toriherridge.bsky.social, Rosanna, Stuart, @megsdigs.bsky.social & (of course) @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Don’t we live on an incredible isle eh? #archaeology

So that is the last of this series of #diggingforbritain you may not be surprised that I’m drawing the Buckspool fort which we dug with @henebtwa.bsky.social Channelling my inner Rose Ferraby with a collage of finds - Thanks to @toriherridge.bsky.social for being fab! #drawingdiggingforbritain

Nearly missed tonight's #DrawingDiggingForBritain - fascinated by the analysis that showed that a stone hand tool was used for grinding tin.

Absolutely blown away by the fossil fern remains and intrigued by the iron-age dogs #DrawingDiggingForBritain

Skull of a young man (17-24 years old) from a mass grave dating to the ninth century. The individual had survived an earlier trepanation and was around 1.9m tall #DrawingDiggingforBritain

Trepanned skull from Wandlebury in Cambridgeshire excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit and featured on #diggingforbritain this evening. An early medieval offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain

A tiny Roman bird figurine (possibly a hawk) from excavations by Archaeoscan at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire featured on #diggingforbritain as an offering for to ight’s #drawingdiggingforbritain

#drawing 4840 #drawingdiggingforbritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

Eh what’s this? @thecure.com winning 2 Grammys (best alternative music album and best alternative music performance). I saw them on the Prayer tour (1989) and still love em. Congratulations to all - I wonder if Perry knew. #thecure #songsofalostworld

#ArtDD2026 C3-C4th copper alloy spear handle-butt From a Pictish site in Fife. For #DrawingDiggingForBritain and #DiggingForBritain. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @richardosgood.bsky.social #archaeology

If you watched the @timeteam.bsky.social episode on our return to the princely burial in Gloucestershire you will have seen some lovely items which are shown here! Watch the programme here - m.youtube.com/watch?v=xiPm...

#drawing 4835 Bronze Age cremation urn #drawingdiggingforbritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

#findsfriday - the ‘Face of Agamemnon’. A gold funerary mask from Mycenae - probably 16th C BCE. Sadly not the face of the king though. One of those wow moments when you finally see the object that has become incredibly familiar to you from books & stories #archaeology #greekmyths #trojanwar #gold

I’ve now caught up on last night’s #DrawingDiggingforBritain and decided to draw the stone anchor found in the River Wear while @toriherridge.bsky.social was filming.

#ArtDD2026 The Ritual Year Big Reveal 🥳🥳🥳 For today & tomorrow's #dailydrawing, here is the cover of our new book (out in August), featuring some of my illustrations from within! @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social

Delighted to have been at the launch of the @henebtwa.bsky.social five year strategy in Cardiff today. Our work with Heneb and Nat Museum Wales got a good mention and I hope we continue to work in the land of the dragon for many years . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #archaeology #wales

With malted grain and a barrel hoop from the oldest whisky maker in the world, today's #DrawingDiggingForBritain had a bit of a theme going on!

This gorgeous Pictish pin was found at East Lomond Hill, Fife by a team from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social - a fabulous site and discovery shown on #diggingforbritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social tonight. A birthday offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology #picts #scotland

Think I might be busy tonight doing other stuff for my birthday so am pre-loading my #drawingdiggingforbritain efforts starting with the beautiful piece of amber found by @jimleary.bsky.social & his team at Skipsea - magical: petrified fire I think! All on #diggingforbritain tonight #archaeology

The @profaliceroberts.bsky.social world domination by book tour reaches Winchester Waterstones (with a couple of sneaky ‘Crypts’ joining Domination’). The cover of the book includes part of the wonderful Hinton St Mary Mosaic from Dorset (photo BBC) #books #archaeology

#ArtDD2026 Roman brooch & Roman/early med(?) whistle. For #drawingdiggingforbritain and #diggingforbritain, I eschewed the bone box & went for these finds from Broadway. @richardosgood.bsky.social @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

I definitely didn’t do this lovely little bone box justice this evening, at least in part because I could barely take my eyes off the screen when it was opened. I hope there will be analysis of the ‘mud’ inside to see if an ointment can be identified. #DrawingDiggingforBritain

#drawing 4827 bone box #DrawingDiggingForBritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

#DrawingDiggingForBritain I gasped when they slid the Roman bone box lid open. I could imagine the Roman lady or her servant using the ointment that was thought to be inside.

This charming box excavated at Broadway by Worcester Archaeology - @explorethepast from a Roman cemetery featured in #diggingforbritain tonight - my offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology #roman

Must admit I’m becoming a little chariot obsessed these days. Mainly Iron Age… but for #mosaicmonday how about this rather magnificent example from Boxford excavated by my friend Matt with @cotswoldarch.bsky.social & volunteers in 2019 - before we’d even heard of Covid. #roman #archaeology #chariot

Hopefully you all know how I love the mixture of archaeology and art. Today I visited the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social & saw the spellbinding collection of Rose Ferraby work. Of so many things precious to me - landscapes, sites, artefacts. One week left - go and see it! #archaeology #art #wiltshire

Today’s #FindsFriday is the head of the Norfolk boar standard! Its fierce face was the first sign, on site, of the Iron Age hoard featured this week on Digging for Britain. www.pre-construct.com/news/the-nor... #IronAge #Archaeology #NorfolkCarnyx

So my big news - a new digging hat! After 20 years my trusty Akubra died & I’ve replaced it with this one complete with an opal. Now to fix the Bustard/Emu feathers (Wiltshire & Australian affiliation) & the full Phil Harding effect is achieved. Who knows, coming to a @timeteam.bsky.social dig soon?

#drawing 4821 wall plaster fragments, Romano British, London #DrawingDiggingForBritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

Not so much #DrawingDiggingForBritain as photoshopping #DiggingForBritain

What an inspirational lot these folks are #drawingdiggingforbritain amazing

I had a bit of a disaster while #DrawingDiggingforBritain this evening when one of my pens leaked everywhere. Thankfully it narrowly missed last week’s drawing. I loved the cross-Channel connections that this little coin represented.

So much to see in tonight's #DrawingDiggingForBritain - Athough the Carnyx and Boar's head standard were magnificent, my favourite find was the wooden ladder at Sizewell.

Where to start with the Sizewell excavations by @cotswoldarch.bsky.social on #diggingforbritain tonight? So many cool features, deposits and finds excavated and present by my mate Rosanna. I kind of liked this brooch #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology

An incredible jigsaw lived together by MOLA - Roman painted wall plaster found in London and presented on #diggingforbritain by @megsdigs.bsky.social #drawingdiggingforbritain

The boar’s head standard found by @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social is just so fabulous. #drawingdiggingforbritain #diggingforbritain

Phenomenal. The Thetford Carnyx sound by @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social and seen tonight on #diggingforbritain

#ArtDD2026 Roman brooch For #drawingdiggingforbritain and #diggingforbritain, which is on tv again tonight. Resisted the temptation of the #carnyx 😇. @richardosgood.bsky.social Did this one early, as I've got a long day digging on site tomorrow, which usu leaves me too tired and cold to paint🙄😀

Tonight it’s #diggingforbritain some come and join us with #drawingdiggingforbritain - just chose something on the programme that appeals and depict it with your artwork in whatever form you like! Some strong contenders tonight I reckon… #archaeology

#drawing 4818 enamel brooch #DrawingDiggingForBritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

#drawing 4816 enamel token #DrawingDiggingForBritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch @richardosgood.bsky.social

#drawing 4814 and 4815 #DrawingDiggingForBritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

The 1,800-year-old finds from Carlisle were beautiful, and it’s amazing that they survived intact. #DrawingDiggingforBritain

#DrawingDiggingForBritain Really enjoyed capturing some of the artefacts shown in this North West episode.