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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO // OUT TODAY // 6:15PM 🌟 LiDAR Hotseat with the wonderful Stefan Milo. Where we explore the incredible British Camp and Arthur's Stone... But also Thornbough and Long Meg. We got carried away. @stefanmilo.bsky.social #archaeology #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT TODAY 6:15PM 🌟 A video on the recent geology article on the Devil's Arrows - finding their origin, a new stone... and even a stone of my own, which I think is a good candidate! #archaeology #prehistory #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Extremely excited by the new study provenancing the Devil's Arrows standing stones. 🤩 It is marvellous work! My photo also made the cover of the journal this month! Much needed work by Anthony Clarke, @jimleary.bsky.social and Chris Kirkland! Link: doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2026.0504 #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT TODAY 6:15PM! 🌟 A very exciting episode of the LiDAR Hotseat with the Prehistory Guys! We look at a "super-henge", Britain's largest hillfort, and a LOT of prehistoric burial mounds... Tune in! @prehistoryguy.bsky.social

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT TODAY - 5PM 🌟 A little dive into the Hellvi Mask. A Roman cavalry helmet found on the Island of Gotland, Sweden... If that's not strange enough, it had been modified with these bronze eyes. 🤔 #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW 🌟 A new episode of the LiDAR Hotseat. This week with special guest: Pete Kelly of History Time! We find evidence of Boudica's tibal tribe - the Iceni; a Dark Age fortress on the edge of the British Isles; and the lost gardens of a castle! #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT at 5PM TODAY! (in 15 mins) 🌟 A new episode of the LiDAR Hotseat. This week with special guest Paul Whitewick! @paulwhitewick.bsky.social Featuring the most fascinating Roman mystery I've ever seen... and possibly solving it! As well as some peculiar prehistoric mounds. 🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

There is a very large, circular enclosure just southeast of Darlington, County Durham. 🤔 I would love to hear what folk on here think it may be... #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I know a Langdale Axe when I see one! The Irish came to northwest England (and probably East Riding / Wales) a LOT in the Neolithic. Particularly around the same time stone circles started showing up in the landscape!

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW! 🌟 A deep dive into Britain's most unusual Roman villa - Castle Dykes. Which holds the unique moniker "Defended Roman Villa". Check it out on my channel: www.youtube.com/@AdamMorganI... #archaeology

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Jim Leary @jimleary.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A lot frustrates me about the press release put out. Why is the date so precise? All C14 dates are a range - is 2950BCE the median, the start, or the end of the range? And the interpretation of the (very nice) discoidal knife/scraper as a symbol of the sun disc is many levels of bonkers.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - Out NOW! 🌟 A deep dive into the lost stone circle of Grasmere... and the many hints that it did, indeed once exist. It's a thrilling ride - so come along!!! #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

⭐ NEW VIDEO - Out Today at 5PM! ⭐ How I Discovered a LOST Roman Road... Using LiDAR If that title and thumbnail don't get to titillated, I don't know what will...

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT at 5PM TODAY 🌟 A deep-dive on Gamelands Stone Circle! And how it may help us explain Stonehenge, and more importantly - Shap Avenue 🤓 It's a good one... #archaeology #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

“Thornborough … has stumped historians” If some of our very “best” prehistorians explored any sites outside Wiltshire / Orkney, we’d probably know more about them 😬 (and that counts describing sites only in reference to Stonehenge…) #archaeology #prehistory www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-n...

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Yorkshire's mysterious 'Stonehenge of the North' which has stumped historians

They are around 5,000 years old.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

⭐ NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW!! ⭐ About a tower, found buried under the streets of York. Now known as the "Anglian Tower", or "The Most Interesting Building in Britain"... wow 😱 LINK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzot... (I forgot to promote this - as it was my 30th birthday yesterday!) #archaeology #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🌑 NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW! 🌑 “This Statue Fell Out of a Cliff - and Nobody Knows Why…” A video on the so-called “Huntcliff Figure” of Saltburn, which allegedly dates to the Bronze Age… 🤩 Featuring three guests (of which only @paulwhitewick.bsky.social is on BlueSky!) LINK: youtu.be/E-ThrhjxUZ0?...

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This Statue Fell Out of a Cliff - and NOBODY Can Explain It

YouTube video by Adam Morgan Ibbotson

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'm about to go live with the AMAZING Pete Kelly of History Time! To talk our favourite sites around the world! 😀 Come check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pXk...

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Ten Amazing Prehistoric Monuments - @AdamMorganIbbotson + @HistoryTime

YouTube video by Pete Kelly

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW 🌟 " The Horrible Truth About Stonehenge... " A sequel to a video I made a year ago, listing off many reasons not to romanticise prehistoric sites. Not specifically about Stonehenge. And no, they didn't sleep with them like 'that'. GROW UP... Link: youtu.be/L7FqBZpjkYg

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

⭐⭐ SURPRISE NEW VIDEO! ⭐⭐ Exploring an out-of-place Roman coffin, allegedly found within a Norman castle in Northallerton, Yorkshire... LINK: youtu.be/ACACVax-UDo

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The Ancient Roman Coffin MYSTERY...

YouTube video by Adam Morgan Ibbotson

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

⭐️ NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW ⭐️ "Britain's Strangest Ancient Coin Discoveries..." An exploration of some of the weirdly exotic ancient coins found on our drizzly shores. #youtube #archaeology #history

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The Vale of Mowbray is the most insane prehistoric site in the British Isles. In my opinion 🤔 An 11-mile chain of at least eight southeast / northwest aligned henges (among the largest in Britain), terminating at Britain's 2nd tallest standing stones... 😩 #archaeology #history #StandingStoneSunday

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm aware that there was disagreement about the article by Steve Dickinson on a potential new Cumbrian Stone Circle (@adamibbotson.bsky.social). I wonder whether this is the reason that the Autumn Issue of PAST 111 has been deleted online. I am sad because we had an article on malt in this issue. 🤔

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The Autumn Issue, Number 111 of PAST, the magazine of @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social, has been taken offline. It was there, we know this because we downloaded a copy. But now it is gone. Can anyone please explain why this has happened. Thanks.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I was playing with 3D analysis techniques, and found something cool. 🌟 Who wants digital crop marks? Well, this method gives you an idea of how crop marks will appear in the landscape for any subtly surviving earthworks, using only GIS and 3DsMax.. 😎 #archaeology #GIS 🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The so-called “Snake Stone”. A large fallen boulder below The Wainstones, a rocky outcrop in the North York Moors. 🤔 It has a single large piece of Neolithic rock art on it: a long line terminating in a dot. (zoom in to find it!) #Archaeology #prehistory 🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I've read the official write-up on this apparent "recumbent stone circle in the Lake District", and I'm 99.9999% sure it's not real. Smacks of wishful thinking, there's no evidence, and not one mention of the QUARRY it sits on... plus the rock art looks unlikely. Bad. #archaeology #prehistory

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🌟🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW 🌟🌟 This Roman Road Makes NO SENSE - Wade's Causeway. A big video on one of northern Englands most mysterious archaeological sites! - that may be older than Stonehenge... LINK: youtu.be/Iq_IBU1SfUs #YouTube #Archaeology #Prehistory

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This Roman Road Makes NO SENSE - Wade's Causeway

YouTube video by Adam Morgan Ibbotson

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

⭐️ NEW Youtube VIDEO - OUT NOW! ⭐️ The Google Earth Moose Mystery. One of the strangest investigations in the history of modern archaeology. What was once believed to be the largest and oldest hill-figure in the world... Check it out on my channel: youtube.com/@AdamMorganI... #archaeology #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A photo of myself at Commondale Stone Circle, in the North York Moors. What a place - completely off the beaten track! 💫 Taken on a 35mm film camera like the old school hipster I really am. #archaeology #Yorkshire

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Work in progress scanning and visualising Wainstones 6 rock art. It's already different to what I thought... 🤔 Most detailed one I've done yet - and it's barely visible in person. #archaeology #StandingStoneSunday

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫 A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩 Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?... #archaeology #history #Roman

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Honestly, I think I'm onto something here. 🤔 The resolution of these is incredible. You'd be able to pick up the tiniest of details, just with simple photogrammetry and a few post-processes... Da Vinci has nothing on Adam Morgan Ibbotson. #archaeology #3D #StandingStoneSunday

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Amazing new video by my good friend WC21! Exploring what might just be a long-forgotten Roman Bridge in the Pennines! Built over in 2011, and opened by Rory Stewart no less! 🤩 LINK: youtu.be/To_0fDeXql8?...

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Lost Roman Road. Bridge on Roman Foundation.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Not sure if this is a done thing - but DID YOU KNOW, you can convert photogrammetry models to GIS analyses? 🫠 i.e., you can scan the surface of rock art - then analyse it like you would a landscape. So, slope, hillshade, local relief. Seems extremely useful... 🤔 #3D #archaeoogy #prehistory 🏺

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We've finally made it to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖 Here's a reconstruction of Buckspool coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire, a craggy limestone headland defended by a set of intermittent banks & packed with house platforms 😮 Excavations in 2025 revealed a wealth of Roman finds 🏺 📷 My own

Drawing of a coastal fort seen from the air with many roundhouses inside & smoke rising

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🔥 NEW VIDEO : OUT NOW 🔥 A long time in the making - it is a deep-dive into 'The Devil's Arrows' the 2nd largest standing stones in the British Isles, but bigger than Stonehenge! They're strange... It's a hoot! Link: youtu.be/WshfMm15Jv8 #archaeology #prehistory 🏺

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Britain's LOST Prehistoric Wonder (that's bigger than Stonehenge!)

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Something new for #StandingStoneSunday - a little bit of artsy photogrammetry... This one of the Devil's Arrows' central stone, Yorkshire. 2nd tallest standing stone in the British Isles. 🤩 #archaeology #prehistory #Yorkshire

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Highly recommend this YouTube documentary by Elephant Graveyard. One of the best ever made... Perfectly describes the Joe Rogan fanbase’s slide into anti-intellectual cultism. ☠️ Link: youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

A photo of a crop mark at the Devil's Arrows, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire. 🤔🤔 This may just be a 'superhenge' - a rare kind of Neolithic monument most famously found at Stonehenge: Durrington Walls. Except this one is bigger... #archaeology #LiDAR

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The southern stone of the Devil's Arrows 👿 - the 2nd tallest standing stone in the British Isles. Nobody knows how old it is, but it probably dates to the Neolithic, so time time between 4000 and 2500 BC... #archaeology #prehistory #ancient #Yorkshire🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Fun camera game - Guess which one of these photos was shot on a £4000 Canon camera, and which is from an Iphone... 📸🤳 💰 Guess down below, and be in for a chance to win my hand in marriage. 💰 #photography #camera #archaeology 🏺

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