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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Great day catching up with colleagues from Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales archaeology dept in Cardiff today. Really appreciate the tour and the opportunity to think about what more we can do together. Top notch Christmas Decs as well. @henebtwa.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Great day at the Pembrokeshire Archaeology day with @pembscoast.bsky.social This year, the event was hosted in partnership with @henebtwa.bsky.social Thanks to all the speakers, you were all superb. My first year chairing. Great fun. Thank you to everyone who helped put the day together.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

It's talk season and it's great to be back. Fab turn out at Llangwm History Society last night. @henebtwa.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Fun weekend taking in some of that culture lark in Cardiff. Great to meet with Oli Lovett to discuss our top secret media project as well!

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Llech-y-Drybedd, Pembrokeshire for #TombTuesday

A neolithic burial chamber, looking a bit like a large stone mushroom, sits in a green field that is peppered with the yellow of dandelions. It faces a sunset, the sky streaked with gold, cream, and blue.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Fantastic to see the third review of the Research Framework for the Archaeology Wales completed yesterday. Really important documents, ensuring that we get the best out of Welsh Archaeology. I was lucky enough to pull together the minor refresh of the Neo and EBA theme. Congrats all!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Fab day meeting up with colleagues from across Wales at the Heneb staff away day. Unfortunately this is the only rubbish picture I took. Honestly- twas fab. Thanks to Zoe and the gang for organising! @henebtwa.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Amazing to see a 16/17th century (replica) spanish galleon sail into Fishguard this weekend. What an amazing insight into what long distance trade would have looked like at the time! Thanks for coming Galleon Andalucia!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

An interesting few days at the Future Energy Wales conference 2025. Fantastic to hear about this important sector for archaeology and our path towards Net Zero. #RUKFEW25

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Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology @henebtwa.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Following the end of week one and we've had a fantastic time working with Operation Nightingale at Buckspool Promontory Fort! Things are looking really exciting with lots of Roman pottery, a piece of jet bracelet, and a broach! We think we have two stone built round houses appearing in the trench!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Fantastic to get the opportunity to visit the @henebtwa.bsky.social dig for Operation Nightingale at Buckspool Promontory Fort. Lots of finds - particularly amazing to see preserved animal bone on a West Wales site - Hens teeth in this part of the world. Can't wait to see the results.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Delighted to see our amazing Pendinas featured by CIfA this month. A huge thanks to the wider team!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Fantastic couple of days at the #IronAgeDialogues conference. Great to meet with colleagues from Wales and beyond and hear about all the amazing things going on at the moment! More of this please. I'm just sorry I can't make the last day!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Photo-ception. I'm sure this pose was in the risk assessment.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It's #MedievalMonday! This week the unusual hybrid of Medieval fortification and Georgian splendour: Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire. Built by a Flemish Knight it was later the home of Sir John Wogan, an important figure in the court of Edward I. Stonking garden as well! @henebtwa.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This fort has been subject to exstensive excavations by @henebtwa.bsky.social We found the most amazing monumental romano-british building just inside the entrance. Certainly not domestic! Hope you had the chance to visit!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

That is a Stonker. Added to my list!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

On my way home after an interesting day talking Heneb at the Wales Heritage Group in Cardiff. Thanks to @archaeologyuk.bsky.social for hosting! Looking forward to seeing how the group evolves! @henebtwa.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Lovely day at the National Botanic Gardens. Great to see the newly restored regency lakes bedding in after our community excavations a few years ago. It was a very special place to work. Its also a cracking greenhouse!

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Had a great time chatting with many lovely folks at the Finds Day at Ceredigion Museum yesterday! It was all hands on deck, huge thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social, Jenna and Nicola for all your help! We had some incredible finds brought in for recording that I can’t wait to share with you all 🤩

Photo of 7 people standing around round tables in Ceredigion Museum wearing coats. I am looking at something and smiling.

Photo of three children and 5 adults standing at the table. The children are handling a replica dodecahedron.

Photo of Jenna and David sat at the round tables chatting, Toby is standing with arms crossed. David has a baby swaddled in a purple sling.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Thank goodness it's #FindsFriday! This might just be my favourite polished stone axe. The 'Hayscastle Axe' at Tenby Museum is a highly polished flint axe. As we don't have flint of any quality around here, this is a certain import, clearly made for beauty as much as function.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Do you like Hillforts? Come and hear me whiter on about a particularly special one this Thursday!!! #HillfortsWednesday @henebtwa.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Thank goodness it's #HillfortsWednesday. This week Carmarthenshire's largest hillfort 'Y Gaer Fawr' the larger of two Hillforts on Garn Goch. The hillfort is roughly oval in shape. It has at least 3 phases and 8 entrances. It has an internal area of 12 ha defended by massive walling.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It's #TombTuesday. This week the Foel Eryr cairn which featured in the background of #StandingStoneSunday. Built entirely of stone, and measuring 17m in diameter, and still standing more than 2m tall, this cairn crowns Foel Eryr, the second highest peak in the Preselis.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A huge thank you from me. A real eye-opener of the possibilities of LiDAR. Even better, I came away from the session with what I believe might be the world's only luminous purple scale model of Foel Drygarn #HillfortsWednesday.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#MedievalMonday - Pembroke Castle. Founded as a Motte and Bailey c.1093 AD. Much of its present form is due to William Marshall c.1189AD. @henebtwa.bsky.social have done lots of work at the castle including this geophys survey with Neil Ludlow in 2016 funded by the @castlestudies.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

It's #StandingStoneSunday, and what a day it has been. The highest megaliths on the Preseli Ridge?The Cerrig Lladron stone pair sits just beneath the summit of Foel Eryr, the second highest peak on the Preselis. The two stones, one little, one large appear align with the amazing cairn at the top!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It's #FindsFriday. Spot the odd one out! This week, the humble spindle whorl. The hole is for a shaft or 'spindle' and they were used for the spinning of yarn. For those who work on prehistoric Wales, finds are not a common sight. Spindle whorls are therefore a firm favourite amongst most.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It's #hillfortswednesday! This week Garn Fawr, Strumble Head. A complex hillfort of unusual design. Built by connecting large outcrops together with enormous loose boulder walls. It has been surveyed but never excavated. It's a stunner and a good place for a walk!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

#TombTuesday. This week the mighty three cairns of Foel Drygarn. I think these may be the most iconic cairns in the west. Despite the awesome proportions of the later Iron Age Hillfort which surrounds these mounds they still manage dominate the landscape.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Its #standingstonesunday. Perhaps Pembrokeshire's finest stone row: Parc y Meirw, built into a hedgebank near Llanycaer. Consisting of at least four uprights and two recumbents, all of the stones are whoppers, the largest is 2.7m tall. We don't have many around here, but this is a corker.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Great start to the @cambriansarch.bsky.social Darganfod-Discovery 2025 conference. Fantastic to see that there is lots of exciting things going on that I know nothing about! We need more of this sort of thing.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Fantastic day representing @henebtwa.bsky.social at the Aberystwyth Archaeology day at the National Library. Great talks and a chance to catch up with old friends. Big thanks to Jenna (Heneb) and Nicola (RCHAMW) for putting on such a good show.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I have a box full of 'real' copies in the car ready for the arch in Aberystwyth tomorrow! I firmly believe a well put-together booklet with lots of pictures and drawings is a hard to beat legacy for any community archaeology project!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It's #Hillfortswednesday. Here is the magnificent Pendinas hillfort. One of the largest in West Wales, it towers over Aberystwyth. Over the last few years it has been at the centre of a community archaeology project led by @henebtwa.bsky.social and the RCAHMW. This Friday I am talking about it!👇👇

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🎉🎉The biggest day in the Ceredigion archaeological calendar is coming up 🎉🎉 Heneb and the RCAHMW are hosting an archaeology day at the National Library in Aberystwyth this Friday! There are a few tickets left! The speakers this year look dazzling! I know there are top secret finds to reveal!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Sign up sign up! This day is always super interesting. A fantastic insight into what's going on in Welsh archaeology. @cambriansarch.bsky.social @henebtwa.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It's #standingstonesunday! We have been on a bit of an explore around Dinas, Pembrokeshire this weekend. Ty Meini is a whopper and visible from the main road for the eagle eyed. 2.7m tall and the right kind of wonky it is a part of a great density of standing stones as you approach the Preselis.

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Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology @henebtwa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🐲 A Welsh dragon for this week's #FindsFriday ready for St David's Day tomorrow. This is a military cap badge of the Brecknockshire Regiment dating to the First World War. Unfortunately he's missing a bit of his leg and tail! More information here 👉 buff.ly/4i4OXRL

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus Pawb! Happy St David's day everyone! My hometown is St David's so I take the daffodil wearing and cawl eating quite seriously. Here is St David's Cathedral in all its glory. The present cathedral was consecrated more than 800 ya. Built on a bog, it hasn't fallen over yet!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The finest archaeological organization on the planet has joined Bluesky! Welcome to greener pastures.

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The most important read in the Welsh archaeological year has arrived. Arch Camb appears to have had a bit of a makeover! @cambriansarch.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Super exciting stuff. We are all going to have to think about our understanding of IA society. It would be really helpful if Welsh bones could stop dissolving in our acidic souls

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Is it Christmas yet? Nadolig Llawen from the windy west of Wales @DyfedArch!

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Annual migration to @tag45.bsky.social Excellent fun as always catching up with old friends and having my brain melted by the very best thinkers.

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