Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼
@archaedelle.bsky.social
Archaeologist in Wales 🏴 | Finds Officer based in Amgueddfa Cymru 🏛️ | PhD on Iron Age mortuary practices 🛖 | ADHD: expect typos 🥲 | she/her | all views are mine!
How did prehistoric cultures perceive remarkable natural stones in the landscape? I came across this incredible perched glacial erratic nr Cregennan Lakes yesterday in upland Gwynedd which closely resembles some regional Neolithic tombs 🧐 One for #TombTuesday 📷 My own
We also have more details on the Bulford pit alignment in Wiltshire, and articles on Butser, anthropomorphic figurines, Linear B Tablets, cartoons, etc etc!! So much to read... and all FREE! Enjoy! 2/3
"‘Kerry Cow’ bones revealed as ancient bear remains, challenging long-held theory on farming’s arrival in Ireland & Great Britain" In an *EXCLUSIVE* article for PAST 113, we hear from UCD team carrying out analysis on Ferriter's Cave. www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications... 1/3 #Archaeology
PAST 113 - Summer 2026 | The Prehistoric Society
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A new blog post has landed, exploring compulsion, boundedness, and new ways of delivering complex ideas 🙂 practisesmakeplaces.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/i...
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PONDERING UPON COMPULSION, BOUNDEDNESS, and NEW WAYS OF DELIVERING COMPLEX IDEAS As a Neurodiverse person, compulsion plays a rather significant role within my day-to-day life, occasionally to my d…
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An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!
Europa 2026, in honour of Prof. Penny Spikins, York Univ & online, Sat 6th June! Tickets £20-£40 Speakers: Richard Wilson, Robert Ashby, Jenni French, Chris Stringer, Matt Pope, Sylvia Bello, Professor Penny Spikins Details & booking: #Archaeology 🏺 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...
Europa 2026: What can we learn from Neanderthals?
The Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2026
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I finally did it I finally stood in a hypocaust!!! 📍 Lydney Park, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
📣 Call for Papers: Europa 2026❗️ @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social 🧐 Theme: What can we learn from Neanderthals? 📍 Location: University of York 🗓️ Date: Saturday 6 June 🚨 Abstract deadline: Sunday 5 April We’d love to highlight ECR research! Please share with any Neanderthal fans in your networks!
Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales. Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Metal detectorists find 2,000-year-old treasure in field
The find - the first of its kind in west Wales - is incredibly rare and has been described as one of 'historical significance'
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6th century mosaic of a child playing chariot racing from the Great Palace at Constantinople. Pushing wheels on sticks represents the chariot and four horses. Part of the collections at the Great Palace Mosaic Museum in Istanbul. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday
Beautiful line drawing of a Scottish gold torc (Netherurd, @tessmachling.bsky.social ??) by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s 1958 Scotland Before History (thanks to @gjmichaelson.bsky.social for reminding me of this book!) #FindsFriday
#HillfortsWednesday Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales 📸 @drtobydriver.bsky.social #Archaeology #History #Cymru
Some Iron Age ramparty goodness from Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, high above the villages of West #Dorset Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland We love it here 📷 Feb 2023 Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
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...
#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
A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday
I have worked in Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for over six years, yet I learn something new about our collections every day 🤩 Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!
For #FindsFriday A copper alloy late Iron Age 15cm high bulls head *fitting* with elongated horns and horn-caps Looking mournfully at us, wanting to be understood Findspot unknown, function sadly unknown Donated to the BM by Salisbury Museum in 1946 © Trustees of the British Museum 1946,1010.1
The 15th century ‘Angel Roof’ of St Helen’s Church at Brant Broughton in Lincolnshire. While restored in the later 19th century, the colours are based on extensive traces of the original paintwork. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #BrantBroughton #Lincolnshire #AdventAngels
Another successful PAS Cymru Finds Day in Aberystwyth yesterday, this time hosted at the @librarywales.bsky.social! 🏴 The history of Ceredigion is enriched with every Finds Day and it’s such a privilege to play a part 🥰 Big thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social for his help on the day!
For #FindsWednesday A nice surface find of a pebble tool - with percussion damage at both ends - typical of prehistoric finds from other hillforts & promontory forts. One to document through #PAS on Saturday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & then properly record for this scheduled site
Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me. This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold. Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD. Timeless beauty! 📷 Corning Museums of Glass 🏺
Really looking forward to giving the Cambrian Archaeological Association Christmas lecture tonight. There may be Druids! Am doing some last minute cramming with the help of some of the usual suspects. Thus I can blame them for any errors! #celts #ironage #veterans #archaeology #wellbeing
Appros of nothing, The Sussex mammoth Map www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... 🦣🏺
Sussex Ice Age Map - Google My Maps
Mapping Pleistocene Sites and Neanderthal Artefacts in Sussex
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For me, Ancient Music Ireland playing the Loughnashade horns were the highlight of my night. Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!
An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌 A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters 📷 Dr Adelle
@archaedelle.bsky.social the CAS lecture was excellent. The range of your study and different results were fascinating plus you totally threw me with mummification! Thank you for answering me.
