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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How did prehistoric cultures perceive remarkable natural stones in the landscape? I came across this incredible perched glacial erratic nr Cregennan Lakes yesterday in upland Gwynedd which closely resembles some regional Neolithic tombs 🧐 One for #TombTuesday 📷 My own

A person standing alongside an enormous propped boulder

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The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We also have more details on the Bulford pit alignment in Wiltshire, and articles on Butser, anthropomorphic figurines, Linear B Tablets, cartoons, etc etc!! So much to read... and all FREE! Enjoy! 2/3

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The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"‘Kerry Cow’ bones revealed as ancient bear remains, challenging long-held theory on farming’s arrival in Ireland & Great Britain" In an *EXCLUSIVE* article for PAST 113, we hear from UCD team carrying out analysis on Ferriter's Cave. www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications... 1/3 #Archaeology

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PAST 113 - Summer 2026 | The Prehistoric Society

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!

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The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Europa 2026, in honour of Prof. Penny Spikins, York Univ & online, Sat 6th June! Tickets £20-£40 Speakers: Richard Wilson, Robert Ashby, Jenni French, Chris Stringer, Matt Pope, Sylvia Bello, Professor Penny Spikins Details & booking: #Archaeology 🏺 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...

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Europa 2026: What can we learn from Neanderthals?

The Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2026

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Thanks for the capturing the moment I stood in a hypocaust @bristolboy99.bsky.social and Linda!!

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I finally did it I finally stood in a hypocaust!!! 📍 Lydney Park, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

A photo of me standing in the foundations of a Roman bath house at Lydney Park. I am in the hypocaust with my arms up.

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

📣 Call for Papers: Europa 2026❗️ @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social 🧐 Theme: What can we learn from Neanderthals? 📍 Location: University of York 🗓️ Date: Saturday 6 June 🚨 Abstract deadline: Sunday 5 April We’d love to highlight ECR research! Please share with any Neanderthal fans in your networks!

PDF of the Call for Papers for the Prehistoric Society’s Europa conference in honour of Professor Penny Spikins at the University of York on 6 June. The theme is “What can we learn from Neanderthals?” Abstract submission date 5 April. Email abstracts to Meetings@PrehistoricSociety.org

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales. Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

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Metal detectorists find 2,000-year-old treasure in field

The find - the first of its kind in west Wales - is incredibly rare and has been described as one of 'historical significance'

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

6th century mosaic of a child playing chariot racing from the Great Palace at Constantinople. Pushing wheels on sticks represents the chariot and four horses. Part of the collections at the Great Palace Mosaic Museum in Istanbul. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Beautiful line drawing of a Scottish gold torc (Netherurd, @tessmachling.bsky.social ??) by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s 1958 Scotland Before History (thanks to @gjmichaelson.bsky.social for reminding me of this book!) #FindsFriday

Black and white line illustration of a wide eyed figurine wearing a grotesque style gold torc.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#HillfortsWednesday Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales 📸 @drtobydriver.bsky.social #Archaeology #History #Cymru

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Some Iron Age ramparty goodness from Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, high above the villages of West #Dorset Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland We love it here 📷 Feb 2023 Happy #HillfortsWednesday !

The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort looking out at the sea and sky

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Filming for #DiggingForBritain with the brilliant @toriherridge.bsky.social on the very edge of Buckspool promontory fort, Pembrokeshire, in the heat of August last year 🌞🔥 Perfect viewing tonight for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖🥳 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Toby & Tori in high Vis at the edge of a coastal blow hole

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

#findsfriday - the ‘Face of Agamemnon’. A gold funerary mask from Mycenae - probably 16th C BCE. Sadly not the face of the king though. One of those wow moments when you finally see the object that has become incredibly familiar to you from books & stories #archaeology #greekmyths #trojanwar #gold

A golden mask of a face of a man with a moustache

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday

A fragment of terracotta tile with the footprint of a dog towards the lower edge and another to the right.

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I have worked in Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for over six years, yet I learn something new about our collections every day 🤩 Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!

Me holding a pill-shaped hide shield with bronze plate decoration and a lenticular central boss. I am looking down at the shield.

Me standing behind the shield looking at the camera. It is about 4 feet long.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

For #FindsFriday A copper alloy late Iron Age 15cm high bulls head *fitting* with elongated horns and horn-caps Looking mournfully at us, wanting to be understood Findspot unknown, function sadly unknown Donated to the BM by Salisbury Museum in 1946 © Trustees of the British Museum 1946,1010.1

A stylised copper alloy image of a sad looking bull with elongated horns

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The 15th century ‘Angel Roof’ of St Helen’s Church at Brant Broughton in Lincolnshire. While restored in the later 19th century, the colours are based on extensive traces of the original paintwork. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #BrantBroughton #Lincolnshire #AdventAngels

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Another successful PAS Cymru Finds Day in Aberystwyth yesterday, this time hosted at the @librarywales.bsky.social! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The history of Ceredigion is enriched with every Finds Day and it’s such a privilege to play a part 🥰 Big thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social for his help on the day!

Beth and I sat at a long skinny table with paperwork and artefacts on a black tablecloth. Three adults and a child sit at the table opposite, two kids play in the back, their faces covered by emojis.

A stone spindle whorl and a cream-colored flint arrowhead in my hand.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

For #FindsWednesday A nice surface find of a pebble tool - with percussion damage at both ends - typical of prehistoric finds from other hillforts & promontory forts. One to document through #PAS on Saturday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & then properly record for this scheduled site

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me. This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold. Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD. Timeless beauty! 📷 Corning Museums of Glass 🏺

Colorful glass bowl with thin, vertical, multicolored bands curving around the interior and exterior, creating a marbled, striped pattern in greens, blues, purples, browns, yellows, and white, shown on a plain gray background with a soft shadow underneath.

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Really looking forward to giving the Cambrian Archaeological Association Christmas lecture tonight. There may be Druids! Am doing some last minute cramming with the help of some of the usual suspects. Thus I can blame them for any errors! #celts #ironage #veterans #archaeology #wellbeing

A pile of archaeological books about the Iron Age, Druids, hillforts and Boudicca. On the right is the. Ok on the finds from Llyn Cerrig Bach by Sir Cyril Fox.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Appros of nothing, The Sussex mammoth Map www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... 🦣🏺

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Mapping Pleistocene Sites and Neanderthal Artefacts in Sussex

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

For me, Ancient Music Ireland playing the Loughnashade horns were the highlight of my night. Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts

A bronze bulls head with curved horns and protruding tongue that forms a ring - the handle of an Iron Age bronze vessel.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌 A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters 📷 Dr Adelle

A group of archaeologists peer down into a display cabinet full of objects

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kimiannucci.bsky.social @kimiannucci.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

@archaedelle.bsky.social the CAS lecture was excellent. The range of your study and different results were fascinating plus you totally threw me with mummification! Thank you for answering me.

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

All I want for Christmas is the abolition of the term ‘fibula’ (brooch), or worse: ‘fibula brooch’

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales. I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳 @findsorguk.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐

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lpfgsocmedia.bsky.social @lpfgsocmedia.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Do join us at our free online symposium tomorrow from 10am! You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http... Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in ID: 364 396 620 178 1 PC: bG2gD3ZU

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

On a chilly morning such as this, let’s imagine ourselves as a Hadrian’s Wall soldier starting his shift in one of the turrets, checking his section of wall, & then upwards on watch duty. Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow! #RomanFortThursday

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It’s horrid & cold & barely light out there - so warm yourselves around the glow of this Roman cavalry horse chamfron at @vindolandatrust.bsky.social based on one found in the excavations. Bronze dazzling as gilt & leather smooth as caramel, this is the accessory every little pony wants this Xmas.🎄

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Seriously looking forward to this with the renowned @richardosgood.bsky.social 🔥🧙💯

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🍻 Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮 In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 📷 Yesterday

A figure photographs a rocky headland in a storm

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 29/10/2025

Friendly reminder, if you see someone this Halloween wearing the plague doctor with the bird beak mask costume, you have to ask them what they are supposed to be and if they then say they're a medieval plague doctor... it's your duty to correct them ;)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ... *opens manilla envelope* ... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ... *slides 8x10 photo across table* ... you wore the tutti frutti

CIAsandman on Twitter writes: "Leftist friend got called “fuckin lib” by a foid at a bar last night. Their cultural grip is slipping. It’s cringe and gay to even be associated with anything left of center."

On January 21, 2025, CIAsandman tweets: "White boy fuel." There's a photo showing him holding a half-eaten piece of bread a bottle of water. On his wrist is a white Swatch watch.

An eBay auction for the Swatch says: 1996 Vintage Swatch Watch TUTTI FRUTTI GW109 Working Swatch Watches Women

A detective looks down at a suspect while a light is shining above the suspect's head.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

#MosaicMonday - Discovered in 2003 at the submerged site of Riches Dunes, near Marseillan in France. The scene shows Apollo's punishment of the satyr, Marsyas. #Myth #Art 🏺 Image: Musée de l’Ephèbe et d’archéologie sous-marine du Cap d’Agde (n°2926). Link - musees-occitanie.fr/oeuvre/emble...

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

A rather grisly #MosaicMonday Villa de Noheda, Villar de Domingo García #Spain During the #Roman occupation of Spain, there lived a man who was so wealthy that he could have his wine shipped all the way from Syria. One of the largest mosaics ever found. #Archaeology #art #History #artwork

The Roman villa: The villa itself is immense, covering about 24 acres, and belonged to a wealthy aristocrat, potentially connected to Emperor Theodosius I.
The mosaic: The mosaic is the largest figurative one discovered in the entire Roman Empire, spanning over 291 square meters in the dining room. It is rich with mythological and daily life scenes, including the abduction of Helen of Troy and the chariot race between Pelops and Hippodamia.
Discovery: The site was discovered by accident in 2005 when a tractor hit a hard spot in a field.
Current status: The site is an active archaeological excavation, and while only a small portion has been explored, it is considered one of Spain's most important Roman sites.

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Lil pavement folly that entertains me greatly. A parkland estate for a tiny signpost.

I don’t know how to describe it. A weird section of a kind of ellipse of grass tacked onto a curved piece of pavement. To call it a flowerbed would be misleading. Strident double yellow lines enclose it on the road side. In the middle of the grass stands an upright pole with a tiny sign at the top. Beyond a proper park with fields and trees is visible. I doubt this makes sense if you can’t see the image.

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I collect pictures of gate latches. The endless minute variations and human ingenuity appeal to me greatly, and the countless hands that have moved them. This one is between Near and Far Sawrey, Lake District and has a lovely combination of textures between the iron, wooden gate, and stone gatepost.

A photo of a gate with rusty brown metal gate latch.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC. To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone. Bernisches Historisches Museum. 🏺 #archaeology

A row of colorful ancient glass bracelets in blue, yellow, green, and brown, each with different patterns, displayed against a black background.

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Me: Academic journals are a racket we need to do something about this it isn’t sustainable 😠 Big Academic Journal: hello WORM, would you like to peer review this article for free? Me: ok

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🏺 Has anyone done functionality experiments on Bronze Age lunate spears? The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage? Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)

Photo of three bronze elongated leaf-shaped spear heads. Each has two lunate 'gaps' symmetrically placed along its long axis. Image from: Molloy, B. 2017. Hunting Warriors: The Transformation of Weapons, Combat Practices and Society during the Bronze Age in Ireland. European Journal of Archaeology. Vol 20 (issue 2): pages 280-316.

Photograph of shiny bronze lunate spearhead, similar form as in image 1, but longer lunates and with added detailing on the spear body.
Image from Met Museum website: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/470329

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

#HillfortsWednesday White Castle is an Early Iron Age fort, on a promontory defended on three sides by steep slopes. It is oval on plan, measuring internally 230ft - 180ft, and is surrounded by triple ramparts which may have been topped by stone walls. #Archaeology #History

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