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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another great find from the sea Heather and Liv from our maritime unit discovered this grindstone during a circle search near the 13th century Mortar Ship Wreck Such stones were rotated to sharpen tools and are known from the 9th century Could this be contemporary with the wreck? #FindsFriday

Two divers recover a medieval grindstone from the sea bed

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 13h

To be fair, they could do with some prehistoric dancers 👍

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 20h

Dancing the stone Research by Fiona Colbert @bournemouthuni.bsky.social on the Bronze Age so-called *dancing stones* using timelapse photography "No instructions, no context, just bodies and feet" 💃🕺 Featured in this month's British Archaeology magazine #KeepDancing #Archaeology

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For the #Stonehenge area, there is new imagery on Google Earth from August this year showing lots of #archaeology. Pits for missing stones at #Stonehenge plus the barrows just to the SW. Read this thread for more examples ... 1/8

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Huge congratulations to two of our students, Niamh and Liv, on reaching some fantastic milestones while diving on the medieval Mortar Wreck 🥳 Niamh 50 dives Liv 75 dives Exploring history and experiencing the past from a whole new perspective 🏺⚓️ #ArchaeologicalDiving @bumaritime.bsky.social

Two archaeological divers explore the remains of a medieval ship wreck

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An excellent day spent celebrating the life, work and legacy of Ivan Donald Margary, unsung hero of 20th century archaeology, history and heritage at the @cbasoutheast.bsky.social and #SussexArchaeologyandHistory conference

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And now onto Maiden Castle as @durotrigesdig.bsky.social takes the new archaeology intake round the ramparts of Dorset's mighty Iron Age hillfort (with added Roman temple)

Grass covered Iron age hillfort ramparts

Archaeologists on grass covered Iron age hillfort ramparts

Archaeologists investigating the walls of a Roman temple

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is #amphitheatrethursday a thing? Anyway, here's the great Maumbury Rings at Dorchester which we're visiting today Top notch #Roman Archaeology

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Early #HillfortsWednesday 😊

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A Late Iron Age, Black Burnished Ware pottery tankard 📷 Sept 2026 Found as a grave accessory at Wynford Eagle and now in Dorset Museum It would have originally held just over 4 pints - cheers 🍻 #FindsFriday #FridayFeeling

Brown / grey Pottery tankard with handle in a museum case

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And now onto Maiden Castle as @durotrigesdig.bsky.social takes the new archaeology intake round the ramparts of Dorset's mighty Iron Age hillfort (with added Roman temple)

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is #amphitheatrethursday a thing? Anyway, here's the great Maumbury Rings at Dorchester which we're visiting today Top notch #Roman Archaeology

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fun fun fun In the Shade shade shade 🤣

Archaeologists stand within the remains of a Roman townhouse wondering where the sun has gone

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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Out and about at Dorchester's Roman Town House with the incoming first years @buarchanth.bsky.social, lovely day for a great talk by @durotrigesdig.bsky.social!

Image shows a group of students sitting ranged on a tiered set of stone steps, listening to a beardy archaeologist holding forth about Romans, Durotriges Dorset Iron Age folks and heritage generally

Image shows Dorchester's Roman Town House - a modern structure of a tiled roof over glass walls, built to protect the remaining walls and mosaics of the Roman house. The sky is blue and a line of shadow crosses the picture where the shadow of the buildings behind fall

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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2026-09...

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Bournemouth University awarded €1.5m to uncover 10,000 years of seabird history

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Visiting the *Treasure Lost and Found* exhibition @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social and great to be welcomed by two women of the Durotriges 👋 #IronAge #Dorset #archaeology

Image of an Iron Age woman and her daughter projected intothe interior wall of a reconstruction Iron Age roundhouse

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Sally Chinery @sallyc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Christening my #durotriges big dig tshirt by invading Roman Territory on the first day of my fortnight dig at Vindolanda the weather is just right not too hot not too cold. Morning tour complete digging begins after lunch!

A currently clean (won’t be for much longer when we start digging!) green tshirt with a black and white Durotriges Big Dig icon on it

A view of the grey stone walls of Vindolanda Roman Fort surrounded by green fields and trees

A large area of green grassy area with a Roman fort behind in front of a hill with blue sky covered in clouds

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When something you've excavated becomes a set of souvenirs in the gift shop 🤩 The Langton Herring Iron Age copper alloy mirror at Dorset Museum as postcard, fridge magnet and keyring Reader, we bought them all 😆👍 #archaeology #prehistory

Postcard, fridge magnet and keyring all depicting a decorated bronze mirror, laid out on a wooden table

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MAST Archaeology @mastarchaeology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Meanwhile in our spare time at our #Poole HQ we are putting back together some #HMSInvincible1758 olive oil jars @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A good time to re-share my piece revealing how a matrifocal Iron Age was not restricted to aDNA science since 2024, but was suspected first by 19thc. ancient historians and subsequently by French and then British archaeologists since the late 20th century: theconversation.com/ancient-dna-...

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Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology

Genetics shows that women stayed put in Late Iron Age Dorset, while men moved to other groups.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An excellent new archaeo-historical (or is that historico-archaeological?) podcast to get obsessed by 😊 👇👇👇👇

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Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Bournemouth University has been awarded €1.5 million to lead a unique five-year research project exploring 10,000 years of seabird history to help inform long-term conservation strategies for populations in Northern Europe.” #Seabirds www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2026-09...

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Bournemouth University awarded €1.5m to uncover 10,000 years of seabird history

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For #HillfortsWednesday, I give you the mighty Hambledon Hill Camp, Dorset. Text by Dave Stewart and Miles Russell. www.digitaldigging.net/hambledon-hi...

An artist's interpetation of Hambledon Hillfort in the form layered pages in a book, painted with watercolours.

A digital terrain model of Hambledon Hillfort, in all the colours of Christmas.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Like a prehistoric dance mat, the curiously carved feet of the Pool Farm stone found 1931 From a Bronze Age barrow containing an adult and juvenile dated to 1840 BC Were the two sizes of feet meant to represent them? Replica in the Wells + Mendip Museum #Somerset 📷 Aug 2026 #StandingStoneSunday

A series of feet and dots carved into a large stone nearly 4,000 years ago. A modern replica displayed in a modern museum context with feet painted red to make them clearer

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is so interesting - both for what it shows about waves of migration around 3,000 BC and that this migration included women.

Screenshot from the Nature paper in the quoted post:
"...Sales's Lot burial, the individual may well have been a first-generation immigrant to Britain, which might explain the special treatment her remains received in the form of deposition in the ancient long barrow. The fact that this apparently venerated individual was female raises questions regarding both the status of women in early metal-using societies and also the extent to which women actively engaged in migration, rather than makes migrating and 'marrying' or at least having children with local women."

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What a great idea for museums.

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Cornwall Archaeological Society @cornwallarch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Information on how to become a member is here: cornisharchaeology.org.uk/become-a-mem... Here ends the commercial. From now on this site will be archaeological and historical, but not strictly, or purely, as neither should be narrow.

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

⚠️ OPEN ACCESS alert ⚠️ New paper on the reuse of Neolithic monuments by Beaker using incommers for the disposal of their dead Joint research from Bournemouth and Uppsala universities in Nature @nature.com @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @humanevouu.bsky.social ⏬️⏬️⏬️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain

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Nikola Vuković @nikolavukovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Together, these cases show how ancient monuments could retain importance long after the communities that built them were gone. Set in a beautiful part of southwestern England, it was a joint effort by @humanevouu.bsky.social & @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social. Cheers to all (4/4)

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Nikola Vuković @nikolavukovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At Monkton-up-Wimborne, one of the *coolest sites* in the study, an elaborate Neolithic monument incorporated a family burial within deep chalk-cut features. More than 1500 years later, it was deliberately reused for the burial of an unrelated man with Bell Beaker-associated ancestry. (3/4)

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Nikola Vuković @nikolavukovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At three sites, Bronze Age newcomers were buried in Neolithic monuments built around a millennium prior. The earliest of these is a Beaker-associated female individual, providing evidence that these early Beaker-related migrations were not exclusively male-associated (2/4)

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Nikola Vuković @nikolavukovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Happy to share our latest paper on the reuse of Neolithic burial monuments in southwestern Britain. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some of the key findings (1/4):

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Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New research on Beaker using incommers burying their dead in Neolithic mounds [Spoiler alert] the earliest is female (which nicely skewers the rather tired *first wave male Beaker migration* theory)

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some really lovely tidbits of information in this new paper on the genetics of people buried in monuments in southwestern Britain. Paper itself emphasis the reuse of Early Neolithic funerary monuments for burial by incoming Beaker-using groups, around a thousand...

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Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Now it's official, I can tell you my totally thrilling news! I will be presenting Digging for Britain, along with my co-presenters Meg Russell and Rosanna Price. Dream team, and a dream come true! Happy Friday everyone! www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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Digging for Britain returns to BBC Two and iPlayer with a new presenting team

Digging for Britain set to return to BBC Two in early 2027 with a new presenting team led by Dr Tori Herridge

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Going back in time... Overlying reconstruction roundhouses over drone footage of the Iron Age building platforms recorded in Trench T at #Durotriges26 Gorgeousity !! 🤩🤩 With many thanks to @derekpitman.bsky.social #Archaeology

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