Reposted by Durotriges DigDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 9hThat famous, unscripted scene from the film version of *Do ponies on hillforts dream of electric chariots* 1266
Reposted by Durotriges DigDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 11hBonus vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses Proper lovely 😍 🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011 #HillfortsWednesday 1447
Reposted by Durotriges DigDr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Enjoyed a recent visit to 'Barbury Castle', an Iron Age hillfort near Swindon. Very impressive banks and ditches! Hillforts were some of the first archaeological sites I became interested in, and I still find them fascinating. 2133
Reposted by Durotriges Digjessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 9hDartmoor pony on the ramparts of Wooston Castle hillfort, staring up the Teign valley at Prestonbury hillfort. Double chariot dreams 1212
Reposted by Durotriges DigForest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 10hAlways nice to come back from a weekend & be spoiled for choice for #HillfortsWednesday Had a fantastic time seeing more in Pembrokeshire & Gower 🏴 📷 Caer Aber Pwll Building to the new Hillfort Series this autumn For now you can catch more Welsh Hillforts here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY... 0164
Reposted by Durotriges DigRupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 7hLooking up at the Iron Age Hillfort on Earl's Hill, Pontesbury, near Oaks, Shropshire; courtesy of Bill Harrison. #HillfortsWednesday #IronAge #Archaeology 093
Reposted by Durotriges DigMythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 10hA glimpse into a distant time when this isle was a land of giants. Castell Henllys Iron Age Village, Pembrokeshire, Wales, is beautifully situated in fine wooded countryside; from a distance, it gives the impression that ancient folk still live here and that we’re somehow intruding on their privacy. 25312
Reposted by Durotriges DigJonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 10hDo oppida qualify for #HillfortsWednesday...? 153
Reposted by Durotriges DigJon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 10h#HillfortsWednesday Maiden Castle in England is one of the largest hillforts in Europe. Photograph taken in 1935 by Major George Allen (1891–1940). #Archaeology 16416
Reposted by Durotriges DigDuncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 10hDo ponies living wild on a hillfort have Iron Age chariot dreams? The beautiful inhabitants of Traprain Law, East Lothian. #HillfortsWednesday 69512
Reposted by Durotriges DigForest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 11h#HillfortsWednesday & an incredible evening spent at Treyarnon Bay, photographing the promontory fort(s) of the Winecove point complex & staying at the YHA place there You can see more of the story in the new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX... 0142
Reposted by Durotriges DigJonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 11hHJM on Old Sarum for #HillfortsWednesday: "they chose a low, featureless hill perking up from the valley of the Avon, and breathed upon it, and lo, the turf sank and swelled and vast green billows of earth curled round their crests into oval cirques that even the brutal heel of war could not deface… 1236
Reposted by Durotriges Digjessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 12hI guilt tripped my daughter across 3,500 miles to 📸 this so I’d better post it! Afrasiyab, the ancient original site of Samarkand, occupied from 600 BCE until the Mongol invasion #HillfortsWednesday 3566
Reposted by Durotriges Digjessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 12hViews across the Levels and the Severn to Wales from Dolebury Hillfort, a large Iron Age multivallate enclosure on the edge of the Mendip Hills. Impressive limestone ramparts and many Clouded Yellow butterflies last week #HillfortsWednesday 1275
Reposted by Durotriges DigAedh MacTire @tine119.bsky.social · 15h#HillfortsWednesday Ness of Birgi, Shetland. www.shetland.org/blog/ness-of...shetland.orgNess of Burgi: An Iron Age Mystery | Shetland.orgShetland is rich in archaeological remains spanning more than four thousand years and this walk on Scatness takes in one of the lesser-known - and more mysterious - sites, the Ness of Burgi. 0183
Reposted by Durotriges DigKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 12hThe ramparts of Hod Hill Hillfort, near Blandford Forum in Dorset. The fort is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in the county. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #HodHill #IronAge #Archaeology #Dorset 0738
Reposted by Durotriges DigDr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 11hFor #HillfortsWednesday the enormous, but heavily eroded, coastal promontory fort at Porth y rhaw, Pembrokeshire, in the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 🤩 The 5 metre+ high ramparts are among the most massive anywhere in west Wales. Excavations have revealed a long occupation 📷 My own, Saturday 113723
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 11hIf you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday 519139
Reposted by Durotriges DigDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology 727665
Reposted by Durotriges DigAde @scrufftyguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Stoney Littleton Long Barrow, near Wellow, Somerset on Sunday. Neolithic chambered tomb with superb ammonite fossil at the entranceway (see pic 2). 👏 #TombTuesday #Somerset #StoneyLittleton #Fossil #Ammonite @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @sanhs.org 05711
Reposted by Durotriges DigDavid @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Annaghmore Dolmen A pretty little portal tomb right by the side of a quiet rural road. County Leitrim October 2024 #TombTuesday 0337
Reposted by Durotriges DigDr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A Roman tombstone for #TombTuesday. It was found on Ludgate Hill in London in 1669, and marked the final resting place of centurion Vivius Marcianus. His wife Januaria Martina set it up for him some time in the third century. 0345
Reposted by Durotriges DigLaurence Mitchell @eastofelveden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 I feel privileged to have entered the chamber of the mighty Gavrinis tomb last week. A 6,000-year-old Neolithic passage tomb on a tiny island in the Gulf of Morbihan, Brittany, it's interior walls are covered in swirling megalithic art. It Similar in some ways to Newgrange in Ireland ##TombTuesday 010617
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology 727665
Reposted by Durotriges DigTin Girl @tinnedgirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The early Brits liked a BIG breakfast! 1183
Reposted by Durotriges DigFollowing Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#MosaicMonday – Mosaic depicting the capture of wild animals for Roman spectacles, including bears and wild boar. Originally measuring 15 × 9 m, it was discovered in 1904 in the Horti Liciniani in Rome and dates to the early 4th century AD. 📍 Centrale Montemartini, Rome. 04711
Reposted by Durotriges DigForest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#MosaicMonday & the East Coker Mosaic at the Museum of Somerset, Taunton c4, the hunting scene may be a nod to the villa owners love of hunting We caught this on a broader journey to North Devon & Cornwall which you can catch here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX... 1406
Reposted by Durotriges DigDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Modern replica of a #Roman mosaic floor set into the approach to Sudeley Castle Winchcombe #Gloucestershire The original was found in 1882 during excavations at Spoonley Wood but has since been largely destroyed 📷 Aug 2026 #MosaicMonday 312122
Reposted by Durotriges DigDr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The entranceway to a #Roman house in #Pompeii, with a striking black & white mosaic leading into the rest of the house - still in the place it was first laid nearly 2000 years ago #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #MosaicMonday 312622
Reposted by Durotriges DigOscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Love this dramatic shot, this mosaic must have stunned London when it was found in 1869! #MosaicMonday This is the 'Bucklersbury Pavement' from the early 200s CE, probably part of a wealthy villa or baths in the centre of old Londinium 📸 The London Museum 🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky 3457
Reposted by Durotriges DigDr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Following last week's post, and prompted by a comment made then, I'm sharing two more details from Ras al-Hillal in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) to document this floor. On the left, a cup with a ? dove. On the right, a ? gazelle and a ? fruit tree. 📷1991 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺 1429
Reposted by Durotriges DigBecky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lively #MosaicMonday from posh C4 #Roman villa at Horkstow Lincs once featured wheel w Orpheus in centre enchanting animals including this bear, elephant (yes really) + 6 others in panels around him. Now over Humber in Hull Museum of Archaeology 🏺 For painting of mosaics after 1797 discovery see 2/. 111332
Reposted by Durotriges DigKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of several mosaics from the Roman Town House at Dorchester in Dorset. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Dorchester #Dorset 216024
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Modern replica of a #Roman mosaic floor set into the approach to Sudeley Castle Winchcombe #Gloucestershire The original was found in 1882 during excavations at Spoonley Wood but has since been largely destroyed 📷 Aug 2026 #MosaicMonday 312122
Reposted by Durotriges DigDr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#StandingStoneSunday A flying visit today to the stunning C9th-10th AD Nevern high cross, very likely standing on or close to its original spot on an early Christian site. One the great treasures of Pembrokeshire 🤩 📷 My own 534934
Reposted by Durotriges DigCat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Jazzing up my Iron Age dialogues tote bag - got a few more coats to go but love it so far. Let's hope the internet didn't lie and ironing acrylic markers fixes the colour!! #ironage #archaeology 2365
Reposted by Durotriges DigDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The gift shop @coriniummuseum.bsky.social is officially the best 😊👇👇 3273
Reposted by Durotriges DigDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A mini-lith in the Porlock Stone Circle @exmoornp.bsky.social #Somerset Measuring 24m in diameter and containing at least 13 stones, this Early Bronze Age monument can be hard to find with uprights standing only 15 – 80cm tall 📷 Aug 2019 Small but perfectly formed 😍 #StandingStoneSunday 29210
Reposted by Durotriges DigMalcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026West Kennet Avenue at Avebury today in the wind and then rain. Timeless as ever 💚 #StandingStoneSunday 19812
Reposted by Durotriges DigMiles King @milesking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026hmm. Other parts of Maiden Castle have ne'er seen a sheep for months. It's a tsunami of Red Fescue. 1161
Reposted by Durotriges DigDr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Another entry for #SundaySheep! 0213
Reposted by Durotriges DigPhil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The 4m tall Grande Pierre in Maupertus-sur-Mer (Manche) is one of 2 menhirs that were pulled over and buried in the 1940s for expansion of the airport runway. They were uncovered and re-erected in 1997. This card from 1905. #StandingStoneSunday. 0507
Reposted by Durotriges Dighookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We archaeologists tell the stories of the stones not to erase their mystery, not to undo their role as anchoring post for folklore, but to transmit the Long Neolithic. We give context for ghosts, provide new reasons for lithic pilgrimage. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday 227243
Reposted by Durotriges DigDr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The shrub on Thundersbarrow Hill has been partially cleared, revealing the profile of the bank, the ditch and Thundersbarrow itself under the shrub. How old is the barrow and how does it relate to the enclosure and the 'pond' to the south? #Prehistory #SouthDowns #Adur 36311
Reposted by Durotriges DigKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Easterton Of Roseisle Stone - a Class 1 Pictish Symbol Stone discovered at Moray in 1894. The stone probably dates to the 5th or 6th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #Picts 10707131
Reposted by Durotriges Dignancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As I #AmWriting and researching sacrifice. death ritual, and #IronAge bog people, here's a listen on The Ancients podcast. Love the warning: "Contains detail that may be incompatible with Sunday lunch." 😅 294
Reposted by Durotriges DigLomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#StandingStoneSunday A waymarker at Merrivale #Dartmoor It had been freezing & wet that day - after the frost melted, I was left with true Autumn 48715
Reposted by Durotriges DigMoley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Stone row and kistvaen (stone cist) at Lakehead Hill, Bellever Forest, #Dartmoor yesterday for #StandingStoneSunday. (and a bit of early #TombTuesday) 211218