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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

British Camp, with Pinnacle Hill and The Malverns stretching out behind. This was a huge Bronze/Iron Age hillfort.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Waving to Old Sarum 👋 The mighty multivallate Iron Age hillfort, just NE of Salisbury #Wiltshire, reused as Roman town and Medieval motte and bailey, rears up as you come in to land at the nearby airfield 📷 Oct 2016 #HillfortsWednesday

The grass covered ramparts of a hillfort and exposed masonry atop a medieval motte and bailey castle as seen from a descending aircraft, wing at top of picture

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The Roman Society @theromansoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

For #FindsFriday here are some finds in context. Excavations of PERIOD IID, RM.55: GLASS & POTTERY at Verulamium (St. Albans). www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I was in Carhampton yesterday giving a talk on recent finds from Somerset. What a lovely group of people with loads of interesting finds in their heritage centre that have been found locally - well worth a visit!

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

For #FindsFriday I wanted to share this silver denarius of Caracalla, dating to 214 AD. The son of Septimus Severus, Caracalla is well know as a ruthless emperor who famously murdered his brother (and 'co emperor') Geta. See the record here: finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Here today at Castle Cary Market House spreading the word about The Portable Antiquities Scheme 😁 @findsorguk.bsky.social

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I'll be at Castle Cary Museum tomorrow! I won't be taking finds in for recording this time, but will be spreading the word about the PAS and the work we do. My specialism is archaeological finds, so I will be able to comment on anything aged AD 1700 - 500,000 BC. See you there!

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Zoomorphic styles are common in the Roman period. Here's a second century, almost complete, brooch in the shape of a chicken for #FindsFriday See the full record here - Record ID: finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I've had a few cancellations so there are a couple of spaces left for this finds day, please email asap if you want to nab one!

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

If you haven't already seen it, check out the new archaeology room at Sidmouth Museum, complete with model hillfort of Blackbury castle! #HillfortsWednesday

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This Saturday is my Finds Day in Wells Museum! If you are a finder booked in to see me, please make sure you arrive 5 mins before your appointment, and have all your findspots ready! See you soon!

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

From last week's Finds Friday... Now we don't see these very often in Somerset! A stunning Iron Age bead is highlighted for today's #FindsFriday The decoration is a classic Iron Age swirling motif, and the bead is a lovely deep blue colour. See the full record here finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It's always nice when you find something with a personal connection. This Post Medieval #buckle has a maker's mark for S C (for S Cook), whose buckles have been recorded nationwide. Dated to AD 1650 - 1800. See the full record here - finds.org.uk/database/art... #FindsFriday

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The Iron Age hillfort at Battlesbury Camp lies near Warminster in Wiltshire. It is a bivallate hillfort that enclosed an area of 9.5 hectares. The southwest area of the hill fort is built over Bronze Age burial mounds. #HillfortWednesday

The hillfort from air by Wessex Archaeology

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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A lion, a star, and a name that no longer needs writing. This striking Roman intaglio ring, found at the Union Grounds in Colchester, dates to the 3rd century AD. The deep blue gem is nicolo paste, a dark glass used to imitate more expensive stones, and it’s been engraved with a lion beneath a star.

Close-up of a Roman ring with a deep blue glass intaglio set in a bronze bezel. The engraved image shows a lion walking beneath a small star. The ring is worn but still clearly detailed, with a rich patina on the metal and a glossy surface to the gem.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It’s #HillfortsWednesday ! Here’s the gorgeous bivallate Iron Age hillfort of Flowers Barrow atop a chalk ridge overlooking Worbarrow Bay #Dorset It sits in the @Unesco.org World Heritage #JurassicCoast and MoD Firing Range, close the ghost village of Tyneham 📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

The double ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort visible in shadow from the air on top of a chalk cliff eroding into the sea

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The ramparts at Dolebury Warren hillfort, part of a beautiful walk in the Mendip Hills with incredibly varied landscapes. The views are across the Chew Valley to the Bristol Channel. Some of the huge rubble walls are exposed by weathering. #HillfortsWednesday #IronAge

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

www.bajr.org/the-lithic-s... The Call for Papers is out for this November 2025 Conference of the Lithics Studies Society. Open to all from specialists to independent researchers, from Early to established careers. so read on. :)

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The Lithic Studies Society 2025 - Call for Papers - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources

Call for Papers for the LSS Annual Conference on Friday 7th & Saturday 8th November 2025 The Lithic Studies Society will host its annual conference this year at Voluntary Action LeicesterShire in Leic...

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Beckford's Tower @beckfordstower.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

🗣 NEW TALK: The Tower: One year on From grotto excavations and solar panels to peeling paint and exciting new objects, the last few years have seen major changes at Beckford’s Tower! 📆 Tuesday 10 June 2025, 6pm 🎫 £10 www.tickettailor.com/events/bathp...

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

🏞️ Hillfort of the Week: Bell Hill 🏞️ Overlooking #Lindean Loch near #Selkirk , Bell Hill is a brilliant example of a ridge-top fort. The Borders has one of the highest concentrations of #IronAge hillforts in Europe—evidence of a thriving past in this ancient landscape.

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James O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

There has been much debate as to whether Burnswark hillfort in S. Scotland was the site of a Roman siege, or was a long abandoned fort re-used by the Romans as a training camp. Excavation in in the 60's recovered lots of Roman ballistics and even a Roman sword! #HillfortsWednesday

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Found an archaeological object and want it identifying? Come along to a Finds Day! All the info about my next finds day in Taunton is here on my facebook event - fb.me/e/5LastALAq

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

A late #FindsFriday but here is this lovely little piece of decorated #medieval coarseware. It dates to the 11th to 15th century, and retains some glaze and decoration on the exterior. See the full record here: finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I am on annual leave from today until Wednesday. If you find a hoard insitu please contact myself via DM or the NCMD hoard hotline (see linktree), leave covered in the ground for excavation by archaeologists. If in doubt, don't dig it out! Have a good bank holiday all ☺️

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Have you found something you think might be an archaeological object? Come along to a Finds Day! I can take a look at your finds, give an ID and create a record for the PAS database. (Finds will be borrowed for 4 months.) For upcoming Finds Days in 2025 check the link in bio.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Head of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, from the Ryedale hoard, North Yorkshire. Interpreted as a possible sceptre head, latter half of 2nd century AD. Yorkshire Museum. #FindsFriday Begging the question…(p.1of2)

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Jim Leary @jimleary.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A few tens of millions of years ago this nugget of Baltic amber bobbed across the sea to arrive on British shores. Over a thousand years ago someone picked it up and began to turn it into a bead for a necklace, before losing it on our site at Skipsea. #FindsFriday #Skipsea2025 🏺

A photo of a partly made amber bead held between fingers.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This week on #findsfriday, we have a bronze pin or hasp with two birds, likely pigeons with a ring on the top. The pin is inscribed 'LVCIANVS' and was found on Honey Street in Woodborough, Wiltshire. Search more of our collections here at: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...

Long pin laid horizontally. Left top end has two birds facing each other with a loop hole in the middle. Pin length inscribed

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Rebecca Griffiths @yorym-flo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This stunning Neolithic knapped, ground, polished stone axehead was found in a river in Yorkshire. It's likely made of Langdale tuff. Langdale axes have been found throughout England & are evidence for exchange of materials in the Neolithic. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

For #FindsFriday here is a really nice (although incomplete) example of a barbed and tanged arrowhead dating to the Early Bronze Age. The pressure flaking on this example is wonderful, it must have taken such skill to produce. See the full record here - finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A reminder that this month I will be holding another #FindsDay at Yeovil Heritage Centre - appointment only! - Wednesday 21st May - 2pm - 4pm - email somerset.finds@swheritage.org.uk to book!

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#HillfortsWednesday View from the spectacular crags of Allt yr Esgair fort in Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons National Park; looking over Talybont-on-Usk Air photos in 2022 revealed a large Roman camp below (arrowed), a grim reminder of C1st AD conflict ⚔️ coflein.gov.uk/en/site/710500 📷 Apr 25

Foreground shows rocky summit of high ridge, with a valley below whose fields are arrowed - and hills beyond

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Maughold Head #IsleOfMan An Iron Age hillfort, covered in gorse. Extensive views from the top along the east coast of the island. #HillfortsWednesday

The hill, covered in gorse, is viewed from Maughold churchyard.

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#HillfortsWednesday with Castle Naze in the Peak District, technically a promontory fort with ditches on the southeastern side

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

On what would have been her 106th birthday, I'm very excited to share that my biography, The Life of Eva Perón: First Lady, Actress, Activist and Philanthropist will be published by @penandswordbooks.bsky.social in September 2025! #Evita #EvaPerón

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#FindsFriday Dartmoor is rich in Bronze Age ceramics as so few people have lived there since. These (2250-1100 BC) are in Plymouth's terrific Box museum: Raddick Hill 'Trevisker' (from Cornwall) vessel Chagford beaker Dewerstone 'Trevisker' vessel Hurston Ridge Collared Urn

Four vessels are shown.
On the left, a pinkish one with near vertical sides has an upper section with incised decoration.
The next two are smaller pinkish vessels, a beaker with a bulbous body and splayed neck with scratched decoration, and one about half its size which has a ring of punched circles and tiny handles near the neck.
On the right is a slightly darker, very large urn with a small base that extends to a body that's broader near the top, before turning in with a broad banded neck, decorated with incised lines in geometric patterns.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Two rare leaf-scroll handled Samian Ware dishes found with a #Roman cremation at Sompting West #Sussex in 1971 In the wonderful Worthing Museum @wtmworthing.bsky.social Made in Rheinzabern #Deutschland in the early 3rd century, they're stamped with the makers names, FAVVO and IVVENIS #FindsFriday

Two leaf-scroll handled Roman red pottery (Samian ware) dishes on display in Worthing Museum. Both made in Germany and both stamped with a makers mark (FAVVO and IVVENIS)

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This #findsfriday we have a Viking gold finger-ring, made from six strands of gold plaited together to make a band. This dates back to the 10-11th century AD and was found in the Stockley area, near Heddington, Wiltshire, 2013.

Multiple perspective of gold ring with twisted metals

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

@naomipayne.bsky.social 's Somerset Pottery Fabric Type Series is now online! Such a valuable resource and great to be able to access from anywhere :) congrats Naomi! archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/col...

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Somerset Pottery Fabric Type Series

The Somerset Pottery Fabric Type Series (SPFTS) is a reference collection of medieval and post-medieval pottery fabrics found in Somerset.

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It's #FindsFriday! Today I wanted to share this beautiful early Medieval brooch with striking enamel. These are rare in the South West and is the first from Somerset recorded on the PAS database! finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

‘Use happily and live!’ What a great motto inscribed on this Roman silver spoon! The bowl is worn on the left side from years of (hopefully) happy use by its right-handed owner! From Pentrehyling Roman fort, Shropshire. 4th century AD. Shrewsbury Museum 📷 by me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

My photo shows a Roman silver spoon with an oval bowl inscribed in Latin ‘VTEREFELISVIV’. Excavated from a fort ditch at Pentrehyling Roman Fort in Shropshire. Dated late 3rd - early 4th century AD. Overall length: 15.2cm; length of bowl: 4.4cm; width of bowl: 2.6cm; weight: 16g

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🌸 May was originally the 3rd month of the #Roman calendar. 🌻Festivals of ancient origins celebrating the beginning of summer take place in various European countries halfway between the spring equinox & summer solstice such as the Gaelic Beltane.Traditions include bonfires, wildflowers & a greenery

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A little May Day/Beltane natural miracle this morning: 8 damselflies emerging together from our pond, ready to begin their summer 🌿☀️

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 01/05/2025

In Neolithic Denmark, for example, 'sun stones' were likely buried in the ground like seeds as a kind of fertility ritual. Following a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun, they may have done it as a plea to return the darkened sun. 2/2 Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Round, stone plaque engraved with a sun motif.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 01/05/2025

Happy #MayDay! 🏺🌸 The festival has its origins in ancient festivals such as Roman Floralia, which celebrated the Roman goddess of flowers, Flora. However, the celebration of fertility goes back much further than that. 1/2 📷 Floralia by Antonio María Reyna Manescau (1888)

Painting of Romans in togas celebrating Floralia. Inside a pillared hall, they lay flowers at the feet of a statue of the goddess Flora.

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Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

For #FindsFriday I wanted to highlight a recent find from Somerset: this double looped palstave axe dating to the Bronze Age. We usually see single looped palstaves, so this object is the first of it's kind recorded on the PAS! finds.org.uk/database/art...

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