Reposted by Andrew GaultAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 08/07/2026At Haughey's Fort, they identified over 200 possible wooden domestic structures, indicating it was a dense and structured settlement far exceeding what would be expected of a typical hillfort. Alongside these were several large, circular buildings, likely communal spaces 6/12 1102
Reposted by Andrew GaultAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 08/07/2026NEW Best known as the mythological capital of Ulster, Navan Fort was one of the five ancient capitals of Ireland. New research finds the landscape's significance stretches all the way back to the Bronze Age, indicating it was a major prehistoric centre. #AntiquityThread 1/12 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology 26825
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Was up on Cavehill this afternoon, in this pic standing on the Bronze Age summit cairn and looking towards McArt's Fort and Belfast beyond. Lovely day for it. 000
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 24/12/2025As if the workhouse circumstances weren't bad enough, add in some strong #AdventHorror vibes for good measure. Happy Christmas! 🎅🎄 121
Reposted by Andrew GaultJames O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Hot off the press, our new paper on the incredible Late Bronze Age nucleated settlement at Brusselstown Ring hillfort, Co. Wicklow, Ireland is freely available to read (doi.org/10.15184/aqy...). @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.ukdoi.orgBrusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland | Antiquity | Cambridge CoreBrusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland 03010
Reposted by Andrew GaultHarry Fokkens @harryfokkens.bsky.social · 17/11/2025What stunning views from these Irish passage graves @Carrowkeel 2172
Reposted by Andrew GaultPatrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Grand first day digging the Dane’s Cast in Co Down! Iron Age or Medieval linear earthwork running along the Newry Valley. We’ll know soon enough. Some nice postholes, a palisade slot and two big ditches and banks 1244
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I should have posted this on Tuesday I suppose. The Knockagh monument, war memorial for County Antrim. Familiar backdrop round these parts and somewhere I've been running to a bit recently. 000
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I visited this site shortly after the damage was reported. Shocking indeed. Good to see this outcome, but that damage cannot be undone. BBC News - Damage to historic site 'a significant loss to society' www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comDunmull Hillfort: Damage to historic site is 'a significant loss to society'Dr Paul Logue, from the Department for Communities, said damage to a hillfort is "one of the very worst" he's seen. 263
Reposted by Andrew GaultUCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Research shows that pig remains at Newgrange result from midwinter feasting conducted c.2600-2450 BC, centuries after the tomb had been closed off. Most of pigs slaughtered during mid-winter solstice after being fattened on acorns in oak forests in the preceding months. 2/3 151
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Recently, midway water-stop at Ben Crom reservoir during the Mourne Seven Sevens. Turned out to be a great day. 020
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 19/08/2025The gardener's curse is constantly seeing the problems, the pests, the things that could be better. You can't sit still for five minutes without seeing a job to do. Year 4 in my new garden sees vine weevils, slug tsunamis, malnourished soil, totrix moths and possibly box moth caterpillars ☠️ 🐛 🪲 100
Reposted by Andrew GaultNigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Stunning images by Julian Friers of extinct and lost Irish animals from #Megaloceros, #Mammoth, to Great Auk, with the full story of Ireland’s ice age animals and human impacts on the fauna by Mike Simms. Published by National Museums Northern Ireland August 2025 ISBN 0-900761-69-5 2328
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 16/07/2025The most picturesque house in the Mournes, seen at the end of a loop of the Annalong Valley today. And a horse, who I caught napping. 040
Reposted by Andrew GaultNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 05/07/2025A more than 5,550-year-old well-preserved #Neolithic knife. The blade is crafted from flint and secured in a wooden handle using birch tar. Furthermore, the handle features a hole, intended for attaching a cord. From the pile dwelling settlement...🧵 1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology 7696137
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Trail running woe in the Antrim Hills yesterday. At the furthest point from my car just as I was turning to head back I realised my key was gone. Small hole in the pocket 🤦 Luckily I met a chap (the only other person!) who let me use his phone and I was able to get my spare key. Lessons learned 🙌 130
Reposted by Andrew GaultJames Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Surveying a house in Leicestershire. Its all about the brickwork. Early 18thC bricks w/ angled skintlings & mid-19thC bricks w/ horizontal skintlings. Skintlings are the creases where the bricks were stacked in the kiln. This changes from angled to horizontal in early 19thC. 3408
Reposted by Andrew GaultPhil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The capstone covering the 10m long chamber of the dolmen angevin of Briande (aka Pierre du Marais) in Arçay (Vienne) has broken in two but still rests rather dramatically on 7 surviving orthostats. #TombTuesday. Card by Dando-Berry c.1905. 0327
Reposted by Andrew Gault(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Millin Bay is a kinda cool place as nobody's really sure what's going on with it, apart from.maybe the wondrous Liam McQuillan and Lisa White who are currently working on it. It is one of the highly strange sites across Ireland, and has more than a whiff of @hookland.bsky.social about it. A thread 5579
Reposted by Andrew GaultDr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Our alternative interpretations of the ‘king’ of Newgrange (a skull fragment from an individual who was born of incest) and his distant relations have been published! We argue for the importance of careful integration of aDNA results with detailed archaeological evidence. Such a great team effort! 18423
Reposted by Andrew GaultAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 24/06/2025Cover image from 'The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber' - Jessica Smyth et al. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...doi.orgThe ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber | Antiquity | Cambridge CoreThe ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber - Volume 99 Issue 405 0122
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Finally starting to feel myself again after completing the Mourne Way Marathon yesterday. It's the first marathon I've done, and to add to the type 2 fun it's a trail marathon on forest tracks, rough mountain trails and bog with >1100m elevation gain. With heavy rain showers and hail thrown in 😆 020
Reposted by Andrew GaultProf Nicki Whitehouse @fossilbeetle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Are you interested in re-wilding? We have a questionnaire on re-wilding and the historic environment open, and keen to hear from ecologists, land managers, and archaeological practitioners. Access the questionnaire here - uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...uofg.qualtrics.comQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 11824
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 27/05/2025You may not realise it, but somewhere, quietly, a miniature schnauzer is watching you. 140
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Ballylesson, south of Belfast and Edenderry, in the sunshine today. Impressive landscape, not far from the Giant's Ring. 020
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Archaeology is built heritage. I keep seeing the term being applied to refer only to historic buildings, as if archaeological heritage were a separate thing. It isn't. It constitutes the material remains of human cultures and agency, distinct for example from natural heritage. 010
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Peak long run today in the sunny Mournes, now tapering to the Mourne Way Marathon in early June. What a day for it! 010
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Loving evening walks in our local woods these days 020
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Stretched after getting out of bed this morning and pulled something in my shoulder. Forties innit? 100
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Apple blossom and first plantings at the allotment. Potatoes are up and enjoying the sunshine. It's getting colder though, and that breeze! 🥶 020
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 26/04/2025kids in the woods listening to Gish on a Saturday night 🤷🏼♂️ 000
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 22/04/2025What did the little flutter mouse do to you Ireland?? 010
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I've always been influenced by Japanese garden design. Making a calm green serene place at home is an antidote to *gestures at everything* This is the final piece of a 3-year build of our new garden, a tsukubai area at the tool shed. As ever, I've only a few plants to add to finish. 000
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 04/04/2025theconversation.com/irelands-neo...theconversation.comIreland’s neolithic passage tombs were not just the burial place of the elite – new researchNew analysis challenges the idea that only elites were buried in passage tombs. 010
Reposted by Andrew GaultSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 31/03/2025𝖲𝗁𝗂𝗉’𝗌 𝗉𝖺𝗂𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗋, 𝖠𝗋𝗎𝖻𝖺, 𝖲𝗈𝗎𝗍𝗁 𝖠𝗆𝖾𝗋𝗂𝖼𝖺. 𝟣𝟫𝟧𝟩 𝖻𝗒 𝖤𝗌𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝖡𝗎𝖻𝗅𝖾𝗒 416126
Reposted by Andrew GaultDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The native village of Secoton in what would become Virginia, featuring community banqueting and dancing. Viewed in 1588 by Thomas Hariot and published by Theodor de Bry, whose day is today. 2719
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Long easy Sunday run in the Antrim Hills passing my old friend the Ballygilbert standing stone, overlooking Ballygally and the Irish Sea. #StandingStoneSunday 1163
Reposted by Andrew GaultCouncil for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Our Statement of Support for the Gardens Trust 📢 We support the Gardens Trust in urging the UK Government to reconsider its plans to remove the Trust’s role as a statutory consultee on planning applications, announced on 10th March. Read more here👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/sup... 1258
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Some earnest cross-community work in my neck of the woods involves planting your potatoes on St Patrick's day, to be harvested on 12 July. TBH these will be covered in butter and garlic by June, but still the intention is there. Happy St Patrick's day etc ☘️ 020
Reposted by Andrew Gault(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 14/03/2025As the onslaught of St Patrick's Day approaches, |I'm presenting a wee list of folks to follow who represent the *real* ireland in its diversity. Here we go, my 1st #FollowFriday on Bluesky! Guaranteed leprechaun free...LFG! 2238
Reposted by Andrew GaultTuatha @tuatha.ie · 12/03/2025Aghnaglack Court Tomb • Fermanagh This remarkable megalithic tomb is hidden away in Ballintempo Wood, not far from Enniskillen in County Fermanagh. It is a rare example of a dual court tomb, and it is likely to date to the earlier part of the Neolithic Period (c.4000–3500 BC). #Ireland #SpéirGhorm 1499
Reposted by Andrew GaultStone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid is The South Zeal Menhir Standing Stone at The Oxenham Arms. Carved from Dartmoor granite by Neolithic people 5000 years ago 1149693
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 20/02/2025www.thejournal.ie/ancient-rema...thejournal.ieAncient remains found in Co Derry bog ‘likely to belong to young woman’ who lived 2,000 years agoThe remains have been hailed as “one of the most important archaeological discoveries on the island of Ireland”. 010
Reposted by Andrew GaultDr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I hereby dedicate this Valentine’s Day on honour of all the Medieval girlypops who sealed their spicy love letters with this seal matrix that depicts a squirrel and the legend ‘I CRAKE NOTIS’ (I crack nuts) 🥜 More info: finds.org.uk/database/art... #FindsFriday #ValentinesDay 07011
Reposted by Andrew GaultHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 31/01/2025‘Winter Skein’ Other work of the Ladybird artists, (1983) Artist Ronald Lampitt 537540
Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 31/01/2025One of our favourite things is a trip up the coast to Cushendun beach followed by a quick visit to Mary McBrides. January weekday quiet, place to ourselves. 030