We are delighted that @vaneshreev.bsky.social, has just received the Prestigious Emslie Horniman Scholarship from the Royal Anthropological Institute. This award will support her fieldwork in central India, for her project titled ‘VinLAP: The Vindhyan Landscape Archaeology Project' 📸 Joshua Harry

A small stone altar from Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire, possibly dedicated to Mars Lenus - a combined Roman and native god of war. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Chedworth

The awe-inspiring, 16 hectare multivallate hillfort of Traprain Law (Dunpendyrlaw / Dumpender Law) #EastLothian This mighty site dominated the political landscape of early #Scotland from the Late Iron Age well into the post Roman period 📷 August 2014 Happy #HillfortsWednesday !

The huge, ancient geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert are under threat from destruction by off-road vehicles. Analysis of photographs of them since 1959 reveals the true extent of this ongoing heritage disaster #WorldPhotographyDay 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 Rare example of a rune stone discovered in the Faroe Islands may be an ancient grave marker 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via Popular Mechanics www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

Archaeologists Found a Floor Stone Covered in Runes—and It Might Be a 1,000-Year-Old Tombstone

A grave marker’s cryptic message could reveal a lost chapel’s secrets.

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The Jason Arday memorial in Cambridge. Some lovely messages by people remembering the victim of this horrific racist witch hunt. #JusticeForJasonArday #FuckTheMedia #FuckNathanCofnas

If you're new to Bluesky or simply looking for some nice accounts to follow to fill your timeline with interesting ideas, diverse perspectives, a dash of inspiration, and news and stories you might not get elsewhere, can we suggest the Humanists UK Starter Pack? bsky.app/starter-pack...

Happy #StandingStoneSunday! Here's an interesting one - the Mên Scryfa ("stone with writing") in Cornwall The inscription (not visible here) reads "Rialobranus son of Cunovalus" maybe meaning a Romano-British king ~6th century AD But the stone itself is probably prehistoric! 📸 Mine🏺 #archaeology

This week eclipse in all its glory, in the form of a spiral progression with the pictures taken from my telescope! 🔭🧪

Tingwall Standing Stone on Shetland. The stone is also known as the ‘Murder Stone’, and is connected with the death of Lord Skaldale by his cousin Earl Henry of Orkney during the late 14th century. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Tingwall #Shetland

When you stub your toe in the night 😭 #FindsFriday Statue of Taweret, Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility It was probably made for a Royal tomb in the late Ptolemaic period, c.100 BC 📍 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology

How far back does human occupation in Europe date? New absolute dates and associated stone tools from Mujina pećina cave in Dalmatia, Croatia push hominin presence in the region back c.30,000 years earlier than previously believed! #ThrowbackThursday 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Map of Wallacea, showing possible dispersal routes of the first humans in the Pacific. 50,000 years ago, foragers in the Raja Ampat islands 🇮🇩 made use of a wide variety of foraged resources, allowing them to adapt to the unique island ecosystem. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

To the south of the latest excavation area at Must Farm we uncovered an interesting organic deposit containing lots of preserved wood, including trees. None of the wood appeared to have been worked, though some had been gnawed by beavers.

This week’s Time Team podcast, with Helen Geake and Martyn Williams sees Anne Mitchell answer more Ness-related questions.

Time Team podcast – ‘Is the Brodgar Butterfly really a butterfly?’

This week’s Time Team podcast, with Helen Geake and Martyn Williams sees Anne Mitchell answer more Ness-related questions.

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West Kennet Long Barrow last weekend... brown and scorched and crispy... And as we enter a 5th heatwave this week, it's not looking like it will be getting any better 🥵 #TombTuesday #archaeology 🏺

Some of the Cursus barrows - a linear arrangement of Early Bronze Age burial mounds, situated close to Stonehenge. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Wiltshire

When is a painting not a painting? When it's a stunning micro-mosaic! 👀 #MosaicMonday Made in Rome in 1820 from tiny glass pieces, this scene depicts the ruins of ancient Paestum (near Naples) It's set into a fancy table in Anglesey Abbey near Cambridge 📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology

The ‘Heel Stone’ at Stonehenge in Wiltshire. The stone may have been one of two that helped to frame the sunrise on midsummer’s day. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Stonehenge #Prehistory #Wiltshire

The Merry Maidens #StandingStoneSunday

For #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... Cahersiveen Standing Stone, Kerry, Ireland Image: 2026 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Infrared #B&W #Black&White #Monochrome #ClassicMono #PhotographersOfBluesky #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Kerry

Happy #StandingStoneSunday to all who celebrate 🥳 The atmospheric stone circle at Castlerigg, Keswick, last June - in anything but a heatwave Very much looking forward to revisiting this majestic site in a few day's time 🤗 📷 My own

Run! It's a stampeeeede! 🦏🐘🦓 #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology 📍 Avebury, Wiltshire 📸 Mine 🏺

#InternationalCatDay: a marvellous Egyptian faience ring depicting a #cat and her kittens. 🐈 The ring is probably related to Bastet, the feline goddess of fertility and protection. 📷 Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Basilica of Constantine in Trier, Germany. Built in the early 4th century, the building was part of a larger palace complex, and served as Constantine’s throne room. The building now serves as the Protestant Church of the Redeemer. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Trier

For #RomanSiteSaturday, here's a 2nd century well made of flint blocks at Littlecote Roman Villa in Wiltshire It supplied the earliest phases of the flint-built villa-farmhouse 📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology

Don't miss the solar eclipse on 12 August: it'll be the deepest partial solar eclipse visible from the UK for the next 55 years. 🌍🌕☀️

Not something you see every day in England... a crocodile chained to a palm tree! #FindsFriday On this coin of Augustus and Agrippa, the crocodile symbolises Egypt and the palm tree symbolises victory - victory over Cleopatra in 31 BC! Found near Ely, East Anglia 📸 Me 📍Ely Museum 🏺 #archaeology

A 4th century AD stamp-impressed colour coated New Forest Ware bowl found in a 6th century grave at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in 2014 The heavily worn nature of bowl suggests it was a prized possession A family heirloom? #FindsFriday #Roman #Archaeology

Pictish carving of a dog-headed man, known as the ‘Mail Stone’. Possibly dating to the late C7th or early C8th, the carving was found by a grave digger at Mail cemetery, Cunningsburgh, Shetland in 1992. Part of the collections at Shetland Museum & Archives 📸 My own #FindsFriday