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The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🍻 Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮 In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 📷 Yesterday

Loved this episode! The @durotrigesdig.bsky.social is still top of my bucket list, must get down next summer #Archaeology #Durotriges #IronAge

The Iron Age hillfort of Spettisbury Rings (Crawford Castle / Castle Ring) #Dorset This mighty 2ha univallate enclosure is today largely hidden behind the old railway and modern village of Spetisbury. Most people driving on the A350 are unaware of it 📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016 #HillfortsWednesday

Happy #Halloween This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper #RomanArchaeology

Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍 These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895 © Trustees of the British Museum #Roman #Archaeology

The historic Vivian Slate Quarry in Llanberis, Gwynedd, rises out of dense autumn woodland with its narrow galleries visible 😮🍂 Now a scheduled monument, the quarry forms part of the Welsh Slate World Heritage Landscape 📷 My own, last weekend 🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/40571

The engraved entrance stone to the famous Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange at County Meath in Ireland. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Newgrange #Prehistory #Ireland

Oooh that's Sunday morning's reading sorted!

A moment of mindfulness this morning with my rescue staffie Edie. The beauty of the Peak District never fails to captivate us. #mindfulmoment #peace #mindfulness #mentalhealth #peakdistrict

#FindsFriday This curious bone object is apparently the back of a comb 🤔 It was found in an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery near the Thames, from the 5th or 6th century AD Now in the Museum of Reading 🏺 #archaeology #museums #heritage

If you like hillforts AND brochs (and who doesn't?) here's Edin's Hall #ScottishBorders a Late Iron Age #broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside the NW corner of an earlier bivallate 0.9ha #hillfort Beautifully captured in this kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🪁 📷 🤩 Happy #HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday oldie but Goldie! This is British Camp in the Malvern Hills, an Iron Age hillfort built in 4 phases during the 1st millennium BC. The hillfort had 4 gateways and was populated by dozens of hut circles. #Archaeology #History

Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses Proper lovely 😍 🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011 For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html #HillfortsWednesday

It is Wednesday & so it is time for our weekly #hillfort clip. This time we have the Laws of Monifieth, an extraordinary site not far from Dundee. The site incorporates an Iron Age Broch, a stone walled fort that predates the Broch & an ancient cup & ring marked stone - see zurl.co/9HPpS

On this wonderful #HillfortsWednesday we look back at issue 68 of AARGnews where our Editor's Picture focussed on Uffington Castle - an Iron Age univallate hillfort. Environment Agency LiDAR shows incredible detail, including medieval ridge and furrow within the hillfort itself!

Let's hear it for the minor chiefs for #HillfortsWednesday who didn't quite have the resources or followers to build Maiden Castle 🤔😟 The pretty stunning but little known Fan hillfort, commanding hill country between Llanwrda & Talley, Carmarthenshire, with a bold gateway approach 👌 📷 RCAHMW 2014

Wow, a small Roman glass bottle with preserved ointment from almost 2,000 years ago! 🤩 The ointment is composed of fatty acids, glycerine, and plant fibres (wood, pollen, and seeds). Perhaps a valuable cosmetic or medicinal cream. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier 📷 by me #Archaeology

The lovely Duddo Five Stones Stone Circle with an offering. 📸 my own. #StandingStoneSunday

This is so perfect 😂 #InternationalArchaeologyDay

For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.

This week on #findsfriday we have a post medieval silver finger-ring found in Heytesbury in 2015. A simple four-petalled gilded flower covers the joint in the band, now partially damaged. The hoop has raised edges and between them is a gilded strip with a series of pellets running down through it.

#FindsFriday #Derbyshire #archaeology A beautiful barbed and tanged arrowhead from the Early Bronze Age, produced on translucent, amber-coloured flint. Found in Church Broughton, now in Derby Museum

Hi BlueSky! Jumping in with my first post to play #findsfriday and this lovely little spindle whorl found during excavations at Caerfai promontory fort in 2022. 📸 my own from the Cherish project with DigVentures