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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FindsFriday Iron knife with bone handle inscribed with ring and dot decoration, and knurled headed copper alloy pommel. From a context dated c AD 290-320 in the ditch at Rock Roman Villa, #Brighstone, #Isle of Wight. See #NHLE 1008304 shorturl.at/sKuOw On display at Newport Roman Villa.

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lynchets and hedgerows, remnants of strip fields at Chillerton #IsleofWight, #MedievalMonday

View from north end of Chillerton Down looking southeast towards the other side of the valley where there are horizonal hedgerows and lynchets along the hillside forming narrow strip fields. Far views beyond to Stenbury Down.

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#ThrowbackThursday #IsleofWight Newport #Roman Villa was discovered 100 years ago in 1926 and excavated by architect/antiquarian Percy Stone. This Saturday there is free admission to the villa 10am-2pm for #HeritageOpenDays with guided tours from our museum colleagues. See shorturl.at/AEuSx

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tomorrow we shall be at Newport Minster #IsleofWight for ‘History on your doorstep’. Come and say hello if you’re passing by St Thomas’ Square, doors will be open! #HeritageOpenDays shorturl.at/32HM8

View of the west door of St Thomas' Church (Newport Minster). Two closed wooden vertical plank doors with ornate black iron work in scrolls. Stone doorway is arched and has sculptural decoration eitherside.

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#ThatchThursday St Agnes Church Freshwater #IsleofWight, our only thatched church. Designed by Architect I. Jones. Built 1908 using reused stone, timber-framed roof covered with Norfolk Reed. 📷 from George Powell’s 'Island Thatch' albums held in the #HistoricEnvironmentRecord

View of thatched stone church with bell tower. View from the field to the south, showing the southwest external elevation. Grass and hedge in the foreground.

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Early Bronze Age handled Beaker bowl excavated from a barrow near Nunwell #IsleofWight by Capt. J. Thorp in 1882. Found with a crouched male inhumation. Now in the Isle of Wight Museum Collection. See shorturl.at/38cpZ, shorturl.at/nyVK9, shorturl.at/ssfLA #FindsFriday #BronzeAge #Beaker

Pottery bowl with lugs and combed decoration

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On #InternationalDogDay Cast copper alloy long-nosed hound figurine of Roman, possibly fourth century, date. Thought to have perhaps been a votive offering. Reported to the #PortableAntiquitiesScheme (see shorturl.at/9fCpC) and acquired by the Isle of Wight Museum Service. #IsleofWight #Roman

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

From the #IsleofWight #HistoricEnvironmentRecord Late medieval double flue up-draft kiln excavated 1967-68 at Knighton. Produced both sand-tempered pottery vessels including pitchers and dishes, and roof tiles. See Fennelly 1969: shorturl.at/ggsvi #medievalarchaeology #medieval #pottery

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#TidalTuesday #IsleofWight Before the pier was built, #Ryde was inaccessible to ships at low tide. In his ‘Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon’, Henry Fielding in 1754 writes ‘there was, at low water, an impassible gulf… of deep mud, which could neither be traversed by walking or swimming.

Ryde pier with hovercraft crossing the sand at low tide

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Remains of the 13th century tower of St Helen’s Church, #IsleofWight which served parish and priory during the medieval period. Mostly lost to the sea, the remains were repurposed in the 18th century as a sea mark, shown as "White Tower" on 1780s chart. #MedievalMonday #MaritimeMonday #MapMonday

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#WaterTowerWednesday #EastCowes #IsleofWight Water from wells at the engine house in Pumphouse Lane was pumped to the water tower that stood near the top of Victoria Grove, built to provide a head of water at the top of the town. Demolished in the early 1980s after being derelict for some years.

Red brick water tower with arched windows and tank on the top.

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#MapMonday. John Speed’s 1611 map of #Newport #IsleofWight printed as an inset to his map of the Island in ‘The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine’. The town centre still retains its medieval street pattern today. See shorturl.at/0kYow, shorturl.at/rZKhs and shorturl.at/8QqDK

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

On #FindsFriday, pencil drawing by our incredibly talented former colleague Frank of an #IronAge stater of Verica which was found on the beach on the north west coast of the #IsleofWight in 1975 and donated to the #IOW museum collection.

Greyscale pencil drawing of an Iron Age coin with horse and rider on one side and a vine leaf with the letters VI to the left and RI to the right on the other side.

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

For anyone watching the racing at Cowes Week, check out the 4 lion statues on the Esplanade and at Egypt Point, erected in 1894 by the West Cowes Local Board of Health as part of the esplanade improvements. Two are Grade II listed, see #HistoricEngland #NHLE 1222859 & 1267595 #IsleofWight #CowesWeek

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

‘Noah’s Nuts’: organic and gravel sediments laid down by the Old Western Yar now sometimes exposed in the eroding cliff face along the #IsleofWight SW coast. Funded by Historic England we obtained C14 dates of c8000 cal BC for hazelnuts from these deposits #archaeology #nature #FestivalofArchaeology

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#IsleofWight #FestivalofArchaeology #Archaeology #Nature #TidalTuesday The #submergedforest at Wootton-Quarr is dated by dendrochronology to 3463-2694 cal BC with an earlier floating sequence of 268 years. Trees grew under increasingly stressful conditions due to rising sea-levels. shorturl.at/lVxrm

Neolithic tree on the beach which has been sampled for dendrochronological dating

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#FestivalofArchaeology, #Archaeology and #Nature; as it’s #MosaicMonday, here are dolphins on a floor at Combley Roman Villa, #IsleofWight #NHLE 1010002 shorturl.at/5gMB4

Mosaic floor with two dolphins and grey and red border

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#FestivalOfArchaeology #Archaeology #Nature At Rock Roman Villa pellets from a barn owl nesting in the building when it was ruinous in the 4th century contained bones of bats, mice, shrews, birds and amphibians, giving clues to the environment in which it foraged. Report in #IsleofWight HER.

Drawing of a barn owl flying over the ruins of Rock Roman Villa where it nested.

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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Our landscapes hold thousands of years of stories. Old hedges, seeds, rivers, ruins, and woodlands can reveal how people and nature have shaped one another, and what that shared past can teach us about caring for places today. 👉https://www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/archaeology-and-nature.html

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Galleries caused by beetle larvae on a medieval ash stake from a post alignment on Binstead Beach #IsleofWight #FestivalOfArchaeology #archaeology #nature

Photograph of a medieval wooden stake with bark still attached and showing galleries caused by beetle larve

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#FestivalofArchaeology #ArchaeologyandNature #KneppAccord Archaeology can help us to understand the environmental history of places and the roles that different people have played in shaping environments over time.

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Welcome to our new Bluesky account. We look forward to sharing news and information about the archaeology and historic environment of the Isle of Wight. #archaeology #IsleofWight #historicenvironment #heritage

Bronze Age burial mounds on Brook Down, Isle of Wight

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