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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 23h

Definitely not a British hillfort, part ll. The ancient mud brick ruins of Ayaz-Kala, built at the end of the 4th century BCE to protect Khorezm and the Silk Routes, now Uzbekistan. #HillfortsWednesday 📸 intrepid daughter

Pinkish beige ruined mudbrick walls with arrow slits? and tower fortifications in a desert landscape with blue sky and high clouds

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@wittspat.bsky.social this is a splendid double fishy tailed guy too. They all seem to have human thighs as far as the knees but I can’t make that fit into a design based on the fragment we were looking at last week :/

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Andrea (I have friends everywhere) @ninedragons99.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Another #MosaicMonday. This is the changing room in the baths of Herculaneum.

Ancient changing room, around the walls are still benches and shelves for clothes, on the floor in the middle is a black and white mosaic with a triton and various sea creatures.

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The early runner catches the view. Castle Drogo, the last castle to be built in England, above a sea of mist in the Teign gorge this morning.

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The imposing tall menhir and part of the circle of small stones which lie just SW of the main stone rows at Merrivale, Dartmoor. Grand Neolithic ceremonial complex with Bronze Age settlement. #StandingStoneSunday

A tall, thin menhir in evening light from a low angle with smaller granite stones visible in the middle distance of moorland

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I 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

A ridge of desert rock with crumbling evidence of stone construction of walls and buildings

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Views 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

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A live feed #TilesOnTuesday for you, straight from Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The Sher Dor Madrasah, 17th century 📸 intrepid daughter

A blue dome, tall cylindrical tower and side of a madrasah building, completely covered in intricate Islamic tiles, against a blue sky

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The smaller but no less impressive stone circle at Stanton Drew, Somerset. Part of a ritual complex dating to 4,500 years ago, the main circle is the third largest in Britain and would contained a forest of huge wooden posts in concentric rings #StandingStoneSunday

A ring of large standing stones including two huge uprights in the foreground and one leaning at a sharp angle to the right, trees beyond and blue sky

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bronze Age petroglyph depicting very happy hunters and a dog. State History Museum of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek 📸 intrepid daughter, September 26 #FindsFriday

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow!!! We’ve lived in Dartmoor National Park for 18 years and seen most British wild mammals but always failed with this one, Until Today!🥳 You can probably hear my little heart thumping #otters #Dartmoor (not actually a biodiversity desert)

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The giant earth ripples of Hambledon Hill last Sunday. Lay in the wind-shade on top, ate lunch and watched kites, buzzards and crows against the blue, isolated cirrus skeins drifting eastward high over Blackmore Vale ☺️ #hillfortswednesday #Hambledon #dorset

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The mighty Neolithic fortified hill enclosure of White Tor, Dartmoor. Two huge granite rubble ramparts, structures and cairns, all covered in infinitely slow growing white lichen, built up against the existing castle like black rocks that jut out of the tor. Stunning 360 views. #HillfortsWednesday

A huge cairn and hut circle, highlighted with white lichen, against the jagged black rock of a tor giving the effect of castle castellations. A huge landscape view of Cornwall beyond

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happy #StandingStoneSunday 🥳🌞 This is one of the taller stones (nearly twice head height) in the remote & spectacular Drizzlecombe stone row complex at Yelverton, Dartmoor 🥰 Well worth a visit! 📷 My own, May 2026

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Langstone, a late Neolithic/early Bronze Age standing stone with distinctive shape, looking towards the Langstone Moor stone circle in shadow on the left and Great Mis Tor. The circular indents on the stone are bullet marks from its use as target practice before D Day #StandingStoneSunday

A tall, 3 metre high standing stone with a jagged outline and jumbled rocks at its base. A tor in sunlight and cloud shadows is visible beyond a stretch of grassy moorland

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Petroglyph depicting camels and riders from northern Tajikistan, late Bronze Age. Now in the National Museum of Antiquities, Dushanbe. 🐪 🐪 📸 intrepid daughter, Aug 26 #FindsFriday

A dark coloured slab of rock with designs of camels, some with riders, facing both ways. Also what appears to be a sun image at the top. Museum display case.

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Definitely not a British hillfort. Yamchun Fortress, overlooking the mountains of Afghanistan in the Wakhan Valley, Tajikistan. Still Iron Age! Originally built in 300 BCE to guard the ancient Silk Road, expanded in the 10th Century. 📸 by intrepid daughter a couple of weeks ago #HillfortsWednesday

A castle like stone fortification on a barren, rocky promontory with huge mountains behind, snowcapped in the distance

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The sun sets over the southern stone row at Merrivale, Dartmoor. Dating from the early Bronze Age, at over 260 metres this double stone row has a burial cairn in the middle and is part of a large, imposing ceremonial site and settlement #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor

Golden light, a triangular blocking stone in the foreground and a double row of stones stretching into the distance and the sunset

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Five beautiful barbed and tanged flint arrowheads from the Boscombe Bowman burial, between 2500 and 2200 BCE. Now in the Salisbury Museum #FindsFriday

Five barbed and tanged flint arrowheads arranged in a museum display

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Figsbury Ring, an Iron Age univallate enclosure with an inner ring ditch, purpose unknown. Maud Cunnington investigated in 1924 and found a Bronze Age sword and early Iron Age pottery. Fabulous views of Salisbury Plain and Old Sarum #HillfortsWednesday

A rampart curving left with wide flat inner space and inner ditch enclosing another space. Far reaching views beyond

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

All three Devil’s Arrows,Yorkshire. Had to wobble on top of a wooden fence for this angle, never underestimate my commitment 😁 #StandingStoneSunday

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Cat Frampton @catframpton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I wrote a piece about pictures, land use and lies (or half truths) And the power a photo has in our ‘scroll on past’ social media world. sidecountry.co.uk/is-a-picture...

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Is a picture worth a thousand words? - SideCountry

I paused briefly on my way off the hill the other day and took a quick photo. It’s not my best work, I may be an artist but photos really aren’t my medium,

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Iron Age hillfort of Foel Drygarn on the eastern edge of the Preseli Mountains, not far from the where the bluestones for Stonehenge originated . Stone ramparts containing the remains of many round houses and three large Bronze Age burial cairns. Now inhabited only by sheep #HillfortsWednesday

Hillfort on the skyline with stone ramparts visible and a path through heather to the summit. Sheep grazing in the foreground on reeds and grass

Two large stone burial cairns in an upland landscape, Preseli mountains beyond and sunlight glimpsed through a threatening sky

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Duddo Five Stones, Northumberland. Feels like they’re waiting for something. If so, they’ve been waiting since the early Bronze Age 📸 March 26 #StandingStoneSunday

Five standing stones on the flat summit of a hill silhouetted against a blue sky

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A 3000 yr old Bronze Age gold torc that wouldn’t look out of place at the Met Gala. Interestingly, a dispute over who owned this find from a Monkton Deverill burial mound led to the 1996 Treasure Act, whereby all treasure belongs to the Crown. Salisbury Museum #FindsFriday

A twisted gold torc made from a single strand twisted back on itself then twisted again to form a loose rope with bar end fastenings, displayed in a black museum case. Blurry photo, sorry

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lovely dog turning into foliage but still scratching her ear. C13th choirstalls at Salisbury cathedral #InternationalDogDay #Woodensday

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The mighty Iron Age outer ramparts of Old Sarum, a site with links to most of the major eras of British history. Used in the Neolithic and inhabited from the Iron Age to the Tudors, it was even a parliamentary ‘rotten borough’ in the 18th and 19th centuries. #HillfortsWednesday

Two large chalk ramparts and a deep ditch curving to the left with summer arable farmland beyond

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Alert or just realised he has to be a faithful footrest for eternity. Amazing carved detail in the C15th tomb of Baron Hungerford, Salisbury cathedral. #TombTuesday

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The always charismatic Scorhill, a Bronze Age stone circle near Gidleigh on Dartmoor. There are 34 stones either upright or fallen, but there may have been as many as 60. The Grey Wethers circles are just over the horizon to the left. #StandingStoneSunday

A moorland landscape with part of a stone circle in evening light, one tall pointed stone to the right blocks the sun

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gorgeous collection of chunky Iron Age gold staters from the Bowerchalke Hoard, associated with the Durotriges tribe. Now on display in Salisbury Museum. #FindsFriday

A group of gold staters or coins with highly abstract representations of a horse on one side and Apollo’s head on the other. Displayed on a dark grey background in a museum case.

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The somewhat shy and reticent ramparts of Cranbrook Castle, Dartmoor National Park. An early Iron Age hillfort above the Teign Gorge, rectangular in shape with single rampart and ditch just visible on the horizon if you squint a bit #HillfortsWednesday

Trees in the foreground, depressingly beige and dry pasture fields in the distance and faint ramparts of a hillfort on the horizon

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Langstone on Dartmoor with White Tor’s Neolithic fortified tor enclosure behind. On a chilly winter day a few years back. Bring on the chilly winter days 🙏 #StandingStoneSunday

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Raising an orphaned elephant can take upwards of a decade. Our founder, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, was the first person to successfully hand-raise a milk dependent orphaned African elephant. More than 300 orphan elephants have now grown up in our care. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates...

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One hillfort viewed from another. In the distance the Iron Age hillfort of Brent Tor with its medieval church. Just one of the spectacular views from the much earlier Neolithic fortified enclosure on the summit of White Tor, Dartmoor. #HillfortsWednesday

A conical hillfort with Brentor church on top seen in the distance across an intricate pattern of farmland and woods in winter. In the foreground are scattered rocks which mark the edge of a Neolithic settlement on top of White Tor.

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Bronze Age cairn to the North East of Lordenshaws hillfort near Rothbury. An amazing site with complex multivallate fort, Bronze Age cemetery and tons of rock art 📸 from this March #TombTuesday

A footworn path through winter heather leads to a low mound studded with rocks. Moorland hills in the distance

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Their species may be in decline but our house martins are well into their third brood and some will attempt a fourth before they fly south. Saw them all chase off a sparrow hawk the other day; strength in numbers! Collective noun is a ‘circlage’, ‘flight’ or rather rudely, ‘gulp’. #birdsofbluesky

A flight of house martins taking wing from electricity wires silhouetted against blue sky and trees

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Siward’s Cross, also known as Nuns Cross, stands at the junction of two of the main routes across Dartmoor, now known as the Abbots’ Way and Monks’ Path. It predates the Norman conquest and marks the boundary of the Saxon Earl Siward’s lands. ‘Siward’ engraved across the top. #StandingStoneSunday

An upright stone cross on a path with low walls stones in a moorland landscape

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A lovely Nene Valley ware hunt cup, with barbotine decoration of stags and hounds. Probably made between 150 and 250 CE, it would have been used to serve beer or wine, and now lives in Durham Archaeology Museum. #FindsFriday

A cup with narrow base and wide bowl tapering to a narrower, slightly flared rim, glazed almost black, with a double row of stags and hounds as decoration, made with the barbotine method where slip is piped onto the surface

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Moorland Association @moorlandassoc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Taken from a piece in today's @telegraph.co.uk by Jamie Blackett:

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Treryn Dinas, a dramatic Iron Age coastal promontory fort or cliff castle in Cornwall. Footsteps (not Iron Age) point towards the bulk of the fort with its sophisticated ramparts hidden from this angle, but you can just make out one rampart on the neck #HillfortsWednesday

A wide stretch of sandy Cornish beach with a single set of footprints leading to a bulky cliff on the left. Ramparts of an Iron Age fort can be seen in a dip between these cliffs and a dramatic cliff castle silhouette

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

‘Chariots, Treasure and Power: Secrets of the Melsonby Hoard’ Fantastic Yorkshire Museum exhibition showcasing some of the 800+ artefacts from the UK’s largest Iron Age metalwork hoard! So many beautifully crafted bronze objects decorated with coral, glass, and enamel! Do visit! 📷 me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows various copper-alloy objects, now green with corrosion, from the Melsonby Iron Age Hoard on display at the Yorkshire Museum in York.

Top left: a copper-alloy bridle bit. The metal rod was placed in the ponies mouth and the rings at each end rested on the cheeks

Middle left: an ornate copper-alloy finial

Bottom left: Decorative horse harness fitting

Top right: a view of the so-called ‘Block’. The block is made up of 88 individual artefacts which were threaded together, wrapped in fabric and then buried. Over time the objects have become fused together due to iron corrosion and appear as a large orangey-brown block of corroded metal. Objects in the block include horse harnesses, spearheads, wagon parts, and more! On the wall behind is exhibition signage reading ‘Chariots, Treasure and Power: Secrets of the Melsonby Hoard’

Middle right: Horse harness fitting embellished with coral bleached white by time, but once a vibrant red colour.

Bottom right: decorative stylised human face from a copper-alloy wine mixing bowl

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hurston Ridge stone row on Dartmoor. A beautiful Bronze Age double stone row of 99 stones with a tall stone at the top and a wider blocking stone at the bottom. Looking NNE over a parched mid Devon towards Exmoor #StandingStoneSunday

A double row of stones like crocodile teeth stretching down a moorland slope with a taller stone on the right and a blocking stone just visible at the end. Farmland in the distance beyond.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New discovery: Roman mosaic unearthed at ancient city of Tralleis in western Türkiye. www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/2... 🏺

A photo of the mosaic during the excavation, depicting a hippocampus, sea creature with the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.
Two person are cleaning the mosaic with brushes.

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Socks and sandals; proof the Romans were at it long before Gen Z, especially in chilly North East Britannia. This little razor handle with herringbone pattern sock and ‘solea’ sandal was found in the River Tees near Darlington and now lives in Durham Archaeology Museum. #FindsFriday

A small copper alloy razor or knife handle, in the form of a lower leg with chunky knitted sock in a herringbone pattern and the outline of a basic Roman ‘solea’ sandal, in a museum display case

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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Stormzy is possibly the best comeback ever! He's coming back to visit on Saturday as a 1 year old and I for one can't sleep with excitement. Fun will be had!!!

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The huge Bronze Age walled settlement of Grimspound looking a bit like an alien landing site in yesterday’s evening light on Dartmoor. Remains of some of the 24 stone roundhouses visible. #HillfortWednesday (sort of) #Dartmoor

A circular stone walled enclosure is visible as an oval shape on the side of a moorland hill from across a valley. Warm evening colours of gold, bronze and green

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Down Tor stone row, also known as Hingston stone row, Dartmoor. 157 stones over a length of about 350 metres. 📸 from early May when there was still some actual green grass on the moor #StandingStoneSunday

A stone row stretching into the far distance with largest stone on the right. The stone row is marked by green turf with longer bleached moorland grass either side

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An unknown horned fertility god sacred to a local tribe in the North East of Britannia, according to the Durham Archaeology Museum. To be honest I’m getting serious Donnie Darko do NOT mess with this bunny vibes #FindsFriday

A stone carving with a figure in relief with a large round head, crudely carved features and horns, in a museum display case

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