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Untidy Garden @untidygarden.bsky.social · 21h

Well I’ve discovered the only thing that makes dog #2 bark. Now I’m stuck playing it on repeat while he tilts his head at my iPad 😂

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Longing (noun): an intense, unfulfilled desire or craving for something that is absent or unattainable #HypocaustGate Today @romanpalace.bsky.social

An archaeologist reaches out in a futile attempt to claim a Roman underfloor heating system

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 21h

Waking up to a Carnyx 🐗📢 The talented Letty Stott playing a Carnyx last night alongside the sacred waters of Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake, Ynys Mon/Anglesey 🎶😮 Have a great Sunday everyone 🍻 🎥 My own - volume up!

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX #LlynCerrigBach #ExDruidSacrifice

Me playing a carnyx beneath a storm blackened sky

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Absolutely delightful Roman period socketed-terminal in the form of a Ram's head - possibly with a piggy snout 🤔🧐? Found as part of a sacred spring deposit on Ynys Mon/Anglesey & now on display in the brilliant Oriel Môn (Anglesey Museum) until next Easter - essential viewing! 👌 📷 My own

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Remember the rules #IronAgeLife

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OK folks, I'm noting these orders down as fast as I can ;-)

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Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The menhir of St-Eden near Porznéjen in Plouescat (Finistère) is 6m tall and has 2 large depressions on one side caused by natural weathering but 30 cupules on one face are man made. It is on the coast and this c.1909 card by Neurdein has 2 men looking out to sea.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#FindsFriday heading north this morning to the magical island of Ynys Mon/Anglesey to continue the search around Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake with Op Nightingale & good friends & colleagues @richardosgood.bsky.social & @archaedelle.bsky.social 🧙

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of my favourite surviving Ministry of Works signs, thankfully still on display at Cadw's Strata Florida abbey, Ceredigion Nothing like plain talking..😮😅 📷 My own, last weekend

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A brilliant site. I did an extended write-up of the record a couple of years back. Definitely needs a new survey.. coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/55991

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Now that I am safely back down out of the Rhinog mountains here are some more views of the Craig y Dinas hillfort. While considered to be Iron Age it reminded me a lot of small Early Medieval defended sites. The 2m wide wall is impressive as is the passage entrance. #HillfortsWednesday

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just passing the Craig y Dinas hillfort snd settlement on it’s rocky outcrop in Dyffryn Ardudwy with Moelfre in shadow behind it #HillfortsWednesday

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I recently surveyed the stunning Sheep Hill fort in Dumbartonshire. Complete with faced stone walls, rock cut entranceways, platforms galore. Easily one of my top 5 hillforts #HillfortsWednesday 📷 my own

Photo shows the grassy earthworks of a hillfort. The sun is shining

Photo shows an exposed faced Iron Age stone wall with a metre scale ontop

A photo looking down into the Clyde from ontop of the hillfort

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Looks slightly too unusual for someone to have carved it more recently, who was trying to make it look old 🤔🧐

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A curious Celtic conundrum for #HillfortsWednesday A male mustachioed head said to have been found at Maiden Castle hillfort in #Dorset Is it Iron Age? 🤔 Part of the Rodney Legg collection 📷 © Trustees of the British Museum 2013.8017.106 Date unknown, importance unclear, investigation ongoing

A yellow block of limestone carved into a make face with moustache, flat nose and bulging eyes

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HillfortsWednesday High up on the mighty Ysgyryd fawr/Skirrid ridge hillfort yesterday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & Kate Churchill 🤩 The long ridge-top hillfort has remnants of surviving gateway stonework & commands unparalleled views across the hills & valleys of Monmouthshire 📷 My own

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CBHC / RCAHMW @rcahmwales.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wales’s archaeology from the air! Discover this summer’s remarkable drought discoveries with @drtobydriver.bsky.social in Current Archaeology and the Time Team Podcast. 📖 zurl.co/vrp3d 🎧zurl.co/s7ff7 #Archaeology #Wales #hanescymru #yagym

Image of Caerhun Roman fort, near Conwy (Crown Copyright: RCAHMW).

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Had a lovely day visiting sites in Monmouthshire with @drtobydriver.bsky.social and @churchillarch.bsky.social Our 1st stop was prompted by an interesting artefact reported to PAS Cymru, and the 2nd was Ysgyryd Fawr to check out the Iron Age earthworks still visible along the trail 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #archaeology

Selfie with me to the left wearing a black PAS Cymru fleece and ball cap, Toby to the right wearing a red Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales hoodie. We are smiling in front of a murky pool.

Photo of the hillfort from a higher vantage point on a stone outcrop, looking down the slope with Toby and Katie to the left. Rolling green hills and cloudy skies in the background.

Photo of sun beams through the clouds illuminating the town of Abergavenny in the distance.

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Eleanor Ghey @eleanorghey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This year's Roman Research Trust Joan Pye lecture will be by Richard Madgwick on 18th Nov.

Poster with details: Feeding the Roman Army on the Frontiers: Isotope research on animal provisioning in Britannia and beyond, 18.11.26 7pm free on Zoom https://tinyurl.com/FeedingtheRomanArmy

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Cambrian Archaeological Association @cambriansarch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🥁The Winner of the 2026 Gwobr Archaeoleg Cambrian Archaeological Award is Archie Robson for his dissertation 'A lost art? Digital and experimental investigation of a Mesolithic engraved stone assemblage from Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, UK'. Well done, Archie! 👏🎉 More> bit.ly/4rGGZEp @durham.ac.uk

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Cambrian Archaeological Association @cambriansarch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our last walk and talk of 2026!! We would love if you joined us 🍂. Date: Saturday 24th October 2026. Snailbeach Leadmining Landscape, Shropshire. Leader: Henry Owen-John More info and booking here >>https://cambrians.org.uk/walks-and-talks-programme-2026/

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy #TombTuesday to those who celebrate 💀🥳 The magnificent & enormous Bronze Age summit cairn on Aran Fawddwy mountain in Eryri/Snowdonia under a heavy frost on Christmas eve, 2025 ❄️ An epic place to inter the bones & ashes of the prehistoric dead 👌 📷 My own

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did you catch this post of Toby’s. It just came to mind - see all the replies for lots of lovely responses to the stones here (& elsewhere). Thought of you. bsky.app/profile/drto...

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nice to see the parch marks of the late Flavian fort at Caersws appearing on the latest Google Earth coverage. The inner roads and stone defence wall along with eastern road and multiple defensive ditches can all be seen. The earlier Flavian campaign fort defences also appear east of the village.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very nice. Think some Montgomeryshire data includes new 2026 imagery - understandable with the months of clear skies for survey Got some aerial shots of the earlier fort this summer but most of my flights in central Wales were dogged by wind!

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Using this image to tell my students about the recent rethink of animal bone evidence from Ferriter's Cove.

A grey teddy bear with blue nose is dressed in a highland cow outfit

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MosaicMonday with Aeneas & Dido in a hunting scene from the Low Ham mosaic, Somerset Museum See more from our Journey taking in Taunton, North Devon & Cornwall >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX...

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The ‘Dorchester Prison Mosaic’ which was discovered under the Dorchester Prison cemetery in 1856. Now part of the collections at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Dorchester

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Victorian reconstruction of Cardiff Roman fort's commanding walled & north gate in the Welsh capital yesterday, basking in autumn sunshine 🌞 🍂 Generally thought to be a storey too tall, the walls still give a good impression of conquest-era Wales c. AD75 📷 My own

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hope it goes well - you always get a buzz from a live audience

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today (5th October) is the anniversary of my starting work with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in 1981. The beginning of a career drawing old stuff. Although 'retired' I am still drawing old stuff... At a different pace and mostly for fun. #ArchitecturalIllustration

A black and white photo of a young man drawing with a dip pen.

Pen and watercolour sketch of a three storey house drawn while on holiday.

Work in progress on old buildings in a narrow street.

A man standing by a window drawing using a sketchbook and pencil.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ready to go at Cardiff Half Marathon 🌞🍻

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you / diolch to all my followers - there seems to be 10k of you 🥰🥳 For #StandingStoneSunday here's a special Toby the Trowel cartoon I drew at the age of 23 🧐 I'd phrase a lot of it differently nowadays but it's an historical item - pre internet fact-checking days 😮 ❤️ Enjoy folks 🍻

A cartoon strip about standing stones narrated by a talking Trowel

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The stunning remains of the Norman doorway at Ystrad Fflur/Strata Florida abbey this afternoon in clear autumn sunshine 🌞🍂 📷 My own

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A shame - I will miss you. Have a good day in the hills!

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Beautiful start at Aberystwyth #parkrun this morning 🌞 Volunteering instead of running today with Cardiff Half tomorrow 😬🤞 Have a great Saturday everyone!

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Roman bridge at Pont-Saint-Martin in the Aosta Valley, northwest Italy. Dating to the 1st century BC, the bridge is one of many impressive Roman monuments in the area. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #AostaValley

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