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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Medieval floor tile fragments from Sherborne Abbey in Dorset. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #SherborneAbbey

Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Roman Fortlet/Signal Station above the Valley of Stones, Dorset. Recently cleared of bracken. Situated on Black Down, it has line of site to Durnovaria and north-west to the known Roman fort on Waddon Hill. #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #ValleyofStones

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A tour of Cerne Abbas at the weekend and a look at the archaeological dig on the site of the old Abbey. #Archaeology #Dorset

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

2026 Chalke History Festival, the Hot One!

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Tour of the Normandy Beaches by bike.

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I had to endure a bit of Harassment in the Workplace this week! #valleyofstones #Dorset

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25 If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand www.channel4.com The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm Enjoy 😊

Archaeologists Ruby, Sandi and Meg, all smiling in the sun

Archaeologists Sandi and Bron happy by the site hut

Archaeologists Kel and Sandi examine some finds laid out on a table in the sun

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Breezy walk on Hive Beach Sunday afternoon.

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The news is out! On Wednesday I found this unsuspecting looking bone under a nodule. We thought it was a baby mammoth scapula. This morning we realised it was the jaw of a cave lion. An incredible team effort to expose, identify, and conserve this incredibly rare specimen 😍🦣🦁💗 #TuskForce

A cave lion jaw with two exposed teeth still in the ground

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Loving the new law that once we reach +28° all archaeological digs must provide ice creams and lollies! 😎🍦 #Archeology #Digs #ValleyofStones #BigDig #Durotriges

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

In 1944 Otto May (F Co), Richard Blake (A Co) & Carl Fenstermaker (Easy Company) 506thPIR, 101st Airborne were all about to play their part in that Day of Days.They took off on this night in readiness for DDay. Our dig team found the dog tags of all 3 men at Aldbourne, Wiltshire. They all survived

A soldier standing at ease - Otto May. Us Army

A folded peace of metal with writing on it - the dog tag of Otto May

A smiling American soldier in uniform. Richard Blake.

A young American soldier in uniform with the patch of a screaming eagle on his left shoulder to the right of the image. This is Carl Fenstermaker, one of the two pathfinders of Easy company, 506th parachute infantry regiment - 101sr Airborne. One of the so-called ‘Band of Brothers’

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A day amongst prehistoric stones in Cornwall - the remarkable Chun quoit, and Men-al-Tol.

A large boulder on top of three other stones with the sea in the background and pink foxgloves to the left in the grass. This is Chun quoit burial chamber in Cornwall

The Men-al-Tol: a stone alignment in Cornwall. A standing stone at the front and then a circular stone with central perforation behind it and another standing stone behind that. Hills in the background

A standing stone in the foreground and a circular stone with central perforation to the left. Dark cloudy skies. This is the Men-al-Tol in Cornwall

Three large stones with a boulder on top within a grassy field and with a blue sky with clouds. This is the Chun Quoit in Cornwall - a prehistoric burial chamber

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Life's a ditch A lovely Early Iron Age ditch #Durotriges25

Archaeologists excavating sections across a v shaped Prehistoric ditch

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Not been for over forty years, they wouldn’t let me climb on them this time!

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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Ok this is fun! David Willey, former curator of the Tank Museum in the UK, now has back garden chats YouTube channel. In this first episode he talks about a book by Canadian wartime photographer Ken Bell. 🇨🇦🇬🇧 #histbookchat youtu.be/8yWnek9YCmc?...

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Books that got me going — Not in Vain by Ken Bell

YouTube video by David Willey

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Historical highlights from our recent tour of Ireland

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum then on to Londinium. The Portway uncovered.

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I love a good castle. I can thoroughly recommend the @nationaltrust.bsky.social guided tour, which includes the new Kings’ Tower observation platform at Corfe Castle. #Dorset

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Past Participate @pastparticipate.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This small circle of stones in the Valley of Stones is the remnants of a bronze or iron age house. The house itself would have been built out of wood, just using the stones for additional external support. #25sarsensofchristmas #dailysarsen #sarsen #valleyofstones #FarminginProtectedLandscapes

A circle of large stones in a grassy field

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Back in the Office for a few days. Valley of Stones. #Dorset #Sarsen #ValleyofStones

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Looking down on the Tower of London from the Walkie Talkie Building, Sky Garden. #London

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Glorious sunshine up on the South Dorset Ridgeway this week. Bronkham Hill, Sink Holes and Hardy Monument.

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I think someone has pulled the plug out of West Bay Harbour

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Last night I was sat on a Roman Mosaic listening to top Historian @holland-tom.bsky.social talking about Gladiators and the Colosseum of Rome. Brilliant! #History #Romans #Gladiators @theresthistory.bsky.social

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The Tupperware Tank in action. Yes it was a plastic tank.

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Despite its many inaccuracies and the fact we were totally wrong to be there in the first place. Still one of my all time favourite films.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 21/01/2025

Dr. Jones illustrating the most important and rewarding part of being an archaeologist.

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

An afternoon spent in the Valley of Stones, measuring Sarsens.

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Hambledon Hill in Dorset on a fine spring afternoon - #HillfortsWednesday is a perfect way to start any year and a reminder that I need to get out wandering on many more ramparts in 2025.

Standing on the lowest, outer bank (rampart) of Hambledon Hill Iron Age hillfort in Dorset. In front you can see the line of banks and ditches sweeping around the side of the hillsides. The late afternoon spring sunlight casts a faint shadow. Out in the distance you can see rural north Dorset’s green rolling countryside.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#HillfortsWednesday Maiden Castle in England is one of the largest hillforts in Europe. Photograph taken in 1935 by Major George Allen (1891–1940). #Archaeology

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Forget heavy expensive armour. Apparently all you need to overthrow an entire country is as many Toyota Land Cruisers as you can get! #Syria

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The Battlefield Explorer @bfxpl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A day out and about in the Ardennes, mostly on the lookout for tanks, tanks and more tanks.

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Friends Day and a return to Bovington Tank Museum to meet up with old friends… 1/

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Adie @adie1158.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Sd Kfz 141/1 Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf L (Panzer lll) at the Tank Museum at Bovington. #Tank #Panzer #Tankmuseum

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Not only that, the Bovington Tank Museum has the world's only running Tiger I and they drive it at open days every year: tankmuseum.org/tank-nuts/ta...

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Tiger I - The Tank Museum - Tiger 131

The Tiger tank was a legend in its time and struck terror into the hearts of WW2 Allied tank crews. Tiger 131 is the world's only running Tiger I.

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Tony Boccia @tonyboccia.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

At the #Queensland Museum in #Brisbane, there is an excellent #ANZAC exhibit that includes the only existing #German tank from the #FWW. These pictures don’t do it justice. If you’re down there, check it out! #History #WW1

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TableTopBill @tabletopbill.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

RCD Centurion tank on Ex Certain Trek, South of Wurzburg, Germany, 4-20 Oct 1975. LAC photo 🇨🇦 #TankTuesday #ColdWar

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Rivets and Pins @rivetsandpins.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

As promised last #TankTuesday, a thread on the British A9 & A10 tanks. These wonderfully quirky-looking tanks were the last of the line of British medium tanks developed from the early 1920s through to the mid-1930s. Both were used by the British Army in the early years of WW2. A very long 🧵 1/

A black & white photo of a column of three A9 tanks drives down a grassy slope. Their hatches are closed and they sport two-tone camouflage.. On their left, three A10 tanks drive down the slope abreast. No tanks seem to carry any markings other than their serial numbers.

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Mike Bennett @formerlytankiemike.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Same spot 80 years apart. 1942/43 photo is of my dad and his mates from 8th Army on R&R in Cairo. The second is from a friend taken this year.

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