Cavalry parade helmet (1st cent CE) from the fort at Newstead, in ‘Scotland’s First Warriors’ exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland m, Edinburgh. #FindsFriday
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Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
It’s #FindsFriday! 🏺 This lovely decorated Anglo-Saxon pot from the Ozengell Collection dates to 575–650 CE. Found in a male burial with weapons and buckles, its decoration was likely made with a metal pin. 📸 Photo by our work experience student Koko. OZ1047. © Kent Archaeological Society
#FindsFriday! At first glance, this stone, recovered from a Romano-British site in Norfolk, just looks like it’s been scratched and thrown away. Those scratches, however, represent something pretty interesting – they’ve been caused by a blade or point being dragged across the stone and sharpened.
Want to see archaeologists digging a Medieval mystery in #Dorset? Of course you do! Follow @lawrence-shaw.bsky.social and our very own @derekpitman.bsky.social and @megsdigs.bsky.social plus many others this weekend on the #CareerInRuins channel Trailer here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=b5At...
Did we just find a LOST archaeological site? | 21st Aug | Career in Ruins
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Bournemouth University archaeologists have reopened a Dorset field investigation after earlier trenches revealed walls now believed to mark a medieval farmstead near Poole Harbour and linked to a 15th century map. https://bournemouthone.com/news/story?s=5303
Missed our latest research seminar? Or want to go back for second helpings? Catch up on 'The Horse in Prehistory' now via our YouTube channel: tr.ee/Horse-in-Prehistory
Gorgeous collection of chunky Iron Age gold staters from the Bowerchalke Hoard, associated with the Durotriges tribe. Now on display in Salisbury Museum. #FindsFriday
Close up of the incised decoration on a Late Iron Age Glastonbury Ware pottery jar 😍😍😍 Found at Glastonbury Lake Village #Somerset On display in the excellent English Heritage owned Glastonbury Tribunal Lake Village Museum (open till the end of October) 📷 August 2026 #FindsFriday
The best cigarette card EVER. The card is perforated, allowing a gentle push to create a tiny free-standing Boadicea statue. Godfrey Phillips 1907, 60x35mm #BoudicaFriday #Echolands
Was für ein erstaunliches römisches Fußbodenheizungssystem 😍 So viele Stellen, an denen man stehen kann! #HypocaustGate
Römerstrasse Neckar-Alb-Aare@roemerstrasse.bsky.social · 2d agoKostenlose Führung am 22.08. um 16 Uhr im Thermenmuseum Schleitheim-Iuliomagus mit dem Archäologen Valentin Homberger. Auf Wunsch kann im Anschluss der benachbarte römische Keller besichtigt werden, der zur zugehörigen Kleinstadt gehörte. Mehr Info: www.roemerstrasse.net/erleben/vera...
Clans in north-east England were organised around maternal lineage prior to the Roman conquest of Britain, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals suggests
DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain | New Scientist
Clans in north-east England were organised around maternal lineage prior to the Roman conquest of Britain, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals suggests
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I spent the afternoon at Old Oswestry hillfort under a spectacular sky with sun on the straw-coloured plateau. The southern slopes looked like dry savannah whilst the bracken on the northern slopes was a brilliant array of colours. Very dramatic. Pics and visiting notes on my blog: wp.me/pcZwQK-9Pe
I noticed this comment (wholeheartedly agree!) and the panel but not location, so imagine my shock when I came face to face with her today!
Was für ein erstaunliches römisches Fußbodenheizungssystem 😍 So viele Stellen, an denen man stehen kann! #HypocaustGate
Römerstrasse Neckar-Alb-Aare@roemerstrasse.bsky.social · 2d agoKostenlose Führung am 22.08. um 16 Uhr im Thermenmuseum Schleitheim-Iuliomagus mit dem Archäologen Valentin Homberger. Auf Wunsch kann im Anschluss der benachbarte römische Keller besichtigt werden, der zur zugehörigen Kleinstadt gehörte. Mehr Info: www.roemerstrasse.net/erleben/vera...
The remains of the east gate defences at Piercebridge Roman Fort in County Durham. The fort lies at a strategic point where Dere Street crossed the River Tees. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Piercebridge
#RomanFortThursday and it would be stupid to go all the way to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 just to photograph a reconstructed Roman watchtower..... so ...here's the Romeinse wachttoren just southeast of Utrecht 😆 And for good measure - another at the Museum Hoge Woerd to the west of Utrecht
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 Southeast corner entrance and ramparts of Liddington Castle Hillfort, beside the highest part of The Ridgeway National Trail, showing the univalate bank and ditch and the pitted interior. To the bottom is the triangulation point originally used to measure the distance to Uffington Castle trig.
A trial trench cut in 1963 found flint flakes and animal bones, while Neolithic sherds have also been found at the site. 📷 NDM More: http://www.megalithi...
Rybury Camp
Hillfort in Wiltshire, England
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In which the Construction Historian learns a new word. 'multivallate' apparently means more than one set of ramparts. Vallate from Latin 'vallum' meaning wall or rampart. 'Wall' comes from 'vallum' too.
Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d agoThe 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 !
Some views from a visit to Uffington yesterday. Actually clouds in the sky this time. #HillfortsWednesday
May I recommend the Carn Liath Broch for all your roadside picnic needs? Also this broch has outbuildings, which was a whole new idea for me. Every other broch I've seen stands in grand isolation.
Bryn Gaer Hillfort, near Llanaber, Gwynedd, Wales; courtesy of Ian Medcalf. #HillfortsWednesday #IronAge #Archaeology #Cymru
Clifford's Hill Earthwork: Possibly an Iron Age outwork of the nearby Rybury Camp #HillfortsWednesday - this is a roughly 'L' shaped scarp slope, 2.2m high, with an outer causewayed ditch, 0.2m deep. Arms extend to the north and west, 40m and 60m long respectively. More 1/
Needed the rain - from Saturday’s ride - Glastonbury Tor small pimple between Parrock Hill and Cadbury Castle, melting in the sun. Camelot and King Arthur’s round table were there? #HillfortsWednesday
Saw a great book for sale during a recent short break to the Welsh Marshes. It was in the gift shop at Ludlow Castle. #HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday Crug Hywel is an Iron Age hillfort, with a clearly visible earth and stone ditch and rampart.The fort is tear-drop shape in plan, tapering towards the northwest end, and encloses an area roughly 100 metres NW-SE and 50 metres NE-SW. #Archaeology #History
View of Moel Arthur hillfort from Offa’s Dyke - across the Clwydian hills. #HillfortsWednesday #HillfortWednesday
