#findsfriday - this week the team have found lots of blank rounds in the practice trenches. dates from 1911 (made in the Royal Labs Woolwich) to 1915 made in Kings Norton and a 1917. All this info is on the object - you don’t get that in prehistory! #archaeology #firstworldwar #relevant #wellbeing

Amazing new discovery: Archaeologists found a rare 5th-century BC bronze ceremonial chariot at Casas del Turuñuelo, revealing insights into the ancient Iberian culture's wealth, religion, and trade. 👉 www.elmundo.es/cultura/2026...

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

Come see me @chalkefestival.bsky.social next week ! - #HearthOfScience 🏺 ex-arch for @livancworlds.bsky.social - interviewing brill speakers 🎤 (Roman slavery; Iron Age Identity; Wilderlands) - new for 2026, Awakening The Stone 🔥 placemaking past to future - #Neanderthals vs Romans butchery 🪨🦌🔪 !

John Piper - an all time favourite artist. From his depictions of archaeology to his magical stained glass in the Cathedral in Liverpool. A gorgeous exhibition @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social No photos so my pics from catalogue or my sketch inspired by his works. Genius. #archaeology #wiltshire

Loving reading through the Trysor exhibition catalogue from Oriel Môn, Anglesey. Amongst the discoveries are 2 Iron Age treasures from RAF Valley found by RAF personnel in 2024. It’s a stupendous display- go visit! Site photos of course by @harvey_mills #archaeology #celts #veterans #llyncerrigbach

Quick update from the project at RAF Valley. Lots of excitement within the team and a very successful trip. Suffice it to say it will make a cracking @timeteamofficial prog. Wonderful to see our first two finds of the project on museum display at Oriel Môn too #archaeology #celts #heritage #anglesey

All going on with @timeteam.bsky.social at Llyn Cerrig Bach this weekend. The episode will be phenomenal…… #celts #ironage #archaeology

And so we return! The op nightingale team are going back to RAF Valley this weekend. Will we find more of the famed Llyn Cerrig Bach assemblage ? Watch this space - fingers firmly crossed 🤞… #chariot #celts #druids #ironage #archaeology

Absolutely wonderful evening at @butserancientfarm.co.uk for the burning of their wicker man - THE AMESBURY ARCHER- hence my talking on the Bronze Age. Drums, music, art in beautiful countryside. The sound of the carnyx too as the man burned. Here’s to 2027! #archaeology #wickerman #beltane

Joyous Beltain to you! If you are at @butserancientfarm.co.uk tomorrow come & find me as I talk about the Bronze Age from our ancient roundhouse. And then marvel as we burn the wicker man to ask for the land and crops to be blessed! #archaeology #wickerman #beltaneblessings #heritage

#findsfriday - the Lewis Chess pieces. Now in the @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Edinburgh, these 12-13 century items were made from walrus ivory & whale teeth, found in around 1831. Initially carved in Norway they highlight links to Scandinavia. Quite wonderful. #archaeology #chess

Anzac Day 2026. With thoughts for the service personnel of Australia and New Zealand. Especially Alan Mather, George Sayner and my grandfather Walter Osgood #anzacday2026 #anzac 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

In addition to Druids, my current obsession is chariots! Mostly Iron Age but the Roman equivalents are passable. Cool to be in Colchester at the site of only known Roman circus in Britannia with all the chariot links that entails & an old @timeteam.bsky.social too! #chariot #archaeology #Roman

#hillfortswednesday the interior of the reconstructed roundhouse from Moel y Gerddi hill in north Wales at @butserancientfarm complete with lovely La tene artwork, firedogs and rather splendid sheep! a super place to visit. #ironage #celts #archaeology

***Stop Press*** A rather incredible piece of news just in. The Crick has examined the DNA of the two individuals in a Saxon burial at Cherington in our dig with @timeteam.bsky.social & @cotswoldarch.bsky.social & found that they were BROTHER & SISTER. Astonishing what science can do now.

Vikings? In Winchester? Poor old King Alfred would be appalled! King Cnut perhaps less so…. If you want to read more about The remnants of Saxon and Viking rulers I’d recommend the Bone Chests by @catjarman #Vikings #archaeology #alfredthegreat #winchester

What splendid progress in the Sutton Hoo ship build in Woodbridge. Great display of construction techniques, of tapestry work and also the Coppergate helmet . All followed by @timeteam.bsky.social as well #saxon #suttonhoo #experimentalarchaeology

#findsfriday - the extraordinary gold tubular torc from Snettisham now on display in Norwich. You could spend hours here just in the Boudicca gallery with all of its incredible Iron Age material see @tessmachling.bsky.social bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/02/04/a... #torc #ironage #celts #boudicca

This Monday and Tuesday a group of volunteers re-chalked the wonderful Bulford Chalk kiwi - one of the younger scheduled monuments in Salisbury Plain constructed in 1919. I love this community project which we try to accomplish every year or so. #heritage #newzealand www.gov.uk/government/n...

#hillfortswednesday - a distant view of Sidbury Hillfort on Salisbury Plain with modern day warriors in the foreground. The ever-fabulous kukri dance performed by the 3rd Division Gurkha Signals yesterday. #heritage

The launch of the Trysor exhibition at Oriel Môn on Anglesey showed the big reveal of the Iron Age terret & bridle bit from Llyn Cerrig Bach found by David and Graham (with absolutely LOADS to follow!) Well done to all the vets and serving personnel involved. #archaeology #celtic #roman #wellbeing

So here’s a real tease for #findsfriday - a wonderful site in Norfolk excavated with the @timeteam.bsky.social family producing wonderful finds. Sadly no close ups of what we found; that will have to wait for the programme - it’ll be worth it!!! #archaeology

So here’s a real tease for #findsfriday - a wonderful site in Norfolk excavated with the @timeteam.bsky.social family producing wonderful finds. Sadly no close ups of what we found; that will have to wait for the programme - it’ll be worth it!!! #archaeology

It’s a Roman site so we were hopeful of finds but blimey are the trays full! This programme is going to be a cracker @timeteam.bsky.social #archaeology #roman #veterans

Let the first dig adventure of 2026 begin! Meet g up with all the old friends @timeteam.bsky.social on a site which could be pretty sensational - watch this space! #archaeology #roman

#mosaicmonday - the frankly rather incredible shrine of Minerva at Chester. The mosaic is part of an art project close to the shrine and shows the goddess with her owl. Thought to be 2nd Century. A most evocative ancient carving. #minerva #roman #Chester

On #findsfriday looking forward to highlighting a couple of discoveries made by the op nightingale veterans (including this coin with military standard appropriately) to the Roman Finds Group. From Buckspool (with @henebtwa.bsky.social ) to Anglesey. #archaeology

#findsfriday the astonishing, enigmatic Hendy Head from Anglesey now in Oriel Môn - found in a ploughed field overlooking the Menai straits and thought to be Late Iron Age. Did this Celtic god oversee the a Roman attack on the Druids and an end of the old ways? #celts #ironage #druids #anglesey

An unusual entry for #mosaicmonday but you’ll forgive me given my employers! This tank is depicted in the floor of the @tankmuseum.bsky.social in Bovington, Dorset. Dad trained here in c1943 (probably in a Cromwell) - visiting the museum with his son years after must have been very odd indeed.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. Happy #stdavidsday to all my Welsh friends (and those who live there or studied there with me!) - some lovely Welsh pics 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #wales

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.