Join us for tours of our excavation at La Hougue Bie today. All part of the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalofArchaeology, with @jerseyheritage.bsky.social and the Société Jersiaise. Tours at 11, 12, 1pm and 2pm #JerseyPrehistory #IceAgeIsland 🇯🇪🦣🏺 share.google/TvxClzeDLq6X...

MIDDLE EARTH OPEN DAY: JERSEY’S DEEP PAST

<p>Open day at La Hougue Bie exploring Jersey’s deep prehistory with talks, finds &amp; experts, led by Dr Matt Pope.</p><p>How far back does Jersey’s prehistoric record go? What was the interior of t...

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1/8/26 - nocturn

Another offering from the Arthog stone setting, taken from the nearby cairn and showing the white quartz boulder of the monument gleaming out from below the white quartz outcrop of the hill above for #StandingStoneSunday

Last night we ended the #DolmensAtDusk tour with spectacular skies from The Watersplash

Brilliant field school opportunity

Dr Wendy Morrison@hillfortian.bsky.social · 7d ago

#archaeology #fieldschool #training #Roman #goddess #senuna It's the final day of registration for the @chapcic.bsky.social Sept training dig. But I'm extending til 3 Aug. There are 5 slots left on Week 1 (30Aug-4sep) and 2 each on weeks 2&3 (6-11/13-18 Sep) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archaeolog...

#archaeology #fieldschool #training #Roman #goddess #senuna It's the final day of registration for the @chapcic.bsky.social Sept training dig. But I'm extending til 3 Aug. There are 5 slots left on Week 1 (30Aug-4sep) and 2 each on weeks 2&3 (6-11/13-18 Sep) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archaeolog...

Archaeology Training Excavation / Fieldschool

Looking for fieldwork experience and skills training? CHAP offers a training excavation! ***FEES APPLY*** read below NOT A FREE EVENT

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Coverage of our project from the BBC.

BBC Jersey {bot}@bbcjersey.bsky.social · last wk.

Three-year project into ancient land begins https://bbc.in/4fChxdh

Day 6: Field Walking Beginning the archaeological investigation of the field walking transects at 20m intervals, mapping variation in prehistoric activity. 🦣🏺 www.instagram.com/p/DbVt8WCN7fm/

Matt Pope on Instagram: "Day 6: Fieldwalking #Archaeology #Jersey #Prehistory"

19 likes, 0 comments - mattpopeeu on July 28, 2026: "Day 6: Fieldwalking #Archaeology #Jersey #Prehistory".

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2.5 mins between the worlds. Halfway on my run, dawn breaks behind me, crossing the causeway to Corbiere. The low tide landscape offers solitude & wilderness. Renewed by the tide, we can only ever be short-term visitors here & my only company are the sea birds. I feel very lucky to be here.

It's been a busy summer of #AerialArchaeology so far..with no signs of an end quite yet 🔥☀️🛩️

CBHC / RCAHMW@rcahmwales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dr Toby Driver has recorded the hidden archeology that has come to light due to the summer drought!To find out how crop marks form, visit:zurl.co/cPQrv. If you would like copies of any of these photographs or further information, please contact our Library & Enquiries Service:nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk

Really delighted to be able to share the news I start as Prof. of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social in the autumn. Really lucky to have such great support from colleagues at Bloomsbury, @archsoutheast.bsky.social and beyond. Really excited for this next chapter.

UCL Institute of Archaeology@uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 2w ago

Huge congratulations to @mattpope.bsky.social, who has been promoted to Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology 🎉 Matt's new appointment recognises decades of research, teaching and fieldwork, as well as his longstanding commitment to the @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology community. #Archaeology

Good morning from Jersey ATC

Day 3: Jersey's Ice Age geology. #IceAgeIsland #Jersey #Prehistory 🏺🦣🇯🇪

Some brilliant work by Archaeology South-East colleagues, now on display in Chelmsford Museum. 🏺

Chartered Institute for Archaeologists@cifarch.bsky.social · 2w ago

A large Iron Age cemetery containing the lavishly adorned remains of high-status individuals dating from around 2,000 years ago has been uncovered in Essex by CIfA Registered Organisation UCL Archaeology South-East: https://ow.ly/9yUn50Zrkyg #IronAge #archaeology #romanbritain

Day 2. Starting in the field. #Jersey #IslandArchaeology # 🦣🏺🇯🇪

Day 1 of our Jersey Fieldwork Season. Leaving behind the coastline. #IslandArchaeology

Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.

The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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We've arrived in Jersey for our 2026 field season and we are cooking our first meal. Potatoes, and potato fields will feature in the next three weeks of prehistoric research. 🇯🇪🏺🦣

By 1929 the Abbé Breuil realised the Mesvinian was not a viable, coherent technological stage. So he pivoted & set out the case for that the material discovered by Warren represented a unique technological stage between the Acheulean & Mousterian. He named it The Clactonien #ClactonPrehistory

The next chapter in our #ClactonPrehistory story is, after the discovery of the spear, the most important one.... 🦣🏺

Warren was unable to make sense of the artefacts in terms of known European Palaeolithic cultures. But upon showing them to the Abbé Breuil "the Father of Prehistory", the mystery was solved. He pronounced them Mezvinian, after a proto-Middle Palaeolithic site in Belgium. #ClactonPrehistory 🦣🏺

I'd love to speak to a Pueblo archeologist or a Pueblo person who can comment on the proposed mineral leases in Chaco Canyon and the tremendous damage that will result.

BBC Radio 3 The Essay: The Dawn of Music How did the invention of clay change how we made instruments? Archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett unearths the origins of human music.

Just finished a watch-thru of Twin Peaks S1&2. Just as weird as I remembered but more scary and tragic than I'd taken on board. Now also having to process that folksy Pete Martel, who discovered both Laura Palmer’s body & the fish in the kettle, was played by Jack Nance, who played Eraserhead 😳

You know how for ages I said I would get the Hookland Right To Reside cards printed up? Well it done at last as a special insert for the copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social - I now just have to deliver them to the shop first.

For recent and current ground breaking research on the Clacton Spear and related technology follow @annemiekemilks.bsky.social research.reading.ac.uk/engagement-a... scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=e...

Making a point: early wood technologies of the British Isles - Engagement and Impact

Microscopic analysis and advanced imaging of what could be the world’s oldest woodworked artefact, the Clacton spear, puts the skills of its Palaeolithic makers into sharper focus. Archaeologists from...

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Dr Matt Pope@mattpope.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hazzledine-Warren will be best remembered for the 1911 discovery of The Clacton Spear. 30cm long, made of yew, worked by stone tools, broken in antiquity. Preserved for 420,00 years in peaty mud on the Clacton-on-Sea foreshore. Its the oldest known wooden weapon in the world. #ClactonPrehistory 🦣🏺

Hazzledine-Warren will be best remembered for the 1911 discovery of The Clacton Spear. 30cm long, made of yew, worked by stone tools, broken in antiquity. Preserved for 420,00 years in peaty mud on the Clacton-on-Sea foreshore. Its the oldest known wooden weapon in the world. #ClactonPrehistory 🦣🏺

It feels cooler in the garden this morning. Cooper and me playing hide and seek which is her favourite game. I just found her

I just uttered the phrase "Don't re-hydrate, pre-hydrate!", apparently it isn't part of heat wave advice already!

It's time to introduce Samuel Hazzledine Warren into the Ice Age Clacton story. Born in 1872 into a wealthy Essex family, he was able to retire in his early 30s and focus on geology. He began to collect bones and artefacts from the Clacton-on-Sea and Jaywick foreshores. 🏺🦣 #ClactonPrehistory