Reposted by NanceMiles King @milesking.bsky.social · 25/06/2026And as we have another record breaking hot day, the BBC leads the PM headlines with news that the price of Oil has dropped. 01910
Reposted by NanceDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Disputed lyrics no. 73 *Car Wash* by Rose Royce (1976): "You might not ever get rich" (True) ✅️ "But let me tell you it's better than digging a ditch" (False) ❌️ Whatever *it* is, digging an Iron Age ditch at #Durotriges26 is so much better 311214
Reposted by NanceCouncil for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Looking for a Christmas gift that actually feels different? Give the gift of discovery with a CBA Membership. 🎁 Perfect for anyone who loves the past, stories or exploring places. Membership unlocks a world of archaeology all year round 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/support-us/gift-subscriptions.htmlarchaeologyuk.orgGift CBA MembershipWhy not feed someone’s passion for the past by gifting them a CBA membership. A membership is the ideal present for any archaeology professional, student, or enthusiast in your life. 064
Reposted by NanceDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 04/11/2025[Warning - human remains] Iron Age #archaeology on TV tonight, Tuesday 4th Nov 9pm #More4 Available for download later on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD #Prehistory #Durotriges 👇👇 14912
Reposted by NanceBronwen Russell @curious-bronwen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Great day out in Dorchester celebrating #maidencastle 40 years on -catching up with some friends and colleagues old and new! This guy wasn’t bad @durotrigesdig.bsky.social 1183
Reposted by NanceThe Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Utagawa Kuniyoshi's "Self-portrait as a cat lover", mid 19th c, Japan, depicts the artist surrounded by cats. Kuniyoshi was known for his love of felines, and his studio was reportedly filled with them; he placed them into many of his works, often as a form of satire to cleverly evade censorship 07018
Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Miles turn now at the Maiden Castle 40 year later day school 030
Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Maiden Castle Archive display with even my 40 year old t shirt from the dig ☺️ no way it would fit me now 😄 3242
Reposted by NanceDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Some absolutely fantastic archaeology coming to a TV near you soon 😀 👇👇 05413
Reposted by NancePeter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 29/10/2025We all love a new hillfort, or in this case fortlet. Identified recently in #Herefordshire from LiDAR as part of work for Forestry Commission. A multi-vallate fort overlooking a blind valley. More information here: htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/media/1187/h... #HillfortsWednesday 610717
Reposted by NanceJon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 29/10/2025#HillfortsWednesday Castle Ditches Llancarfan - A substantial univallate enclosure, set along a steep-sided east-west ridge defined by a single bank, and counterscarped. Occupation is attested from the Iron Age through to the Romano-British period. #AncientBlueSky🏺 #Archaeology #History 14211
Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering. 02715
Reposted by NanceSimon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 17/10/2025For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum. 021555
Reposted by NanceJonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Yew tree at Marston House, Somerset estimated to be 3,000 years old. 615118
Reposted by NanceRichard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Tomorrow we embark on the last Op Nightingale fieldwork for 2025, back to the sacred lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey, last refuge of the druids. Will we find more of this incredible Celtic assemblage as we did in 2024? Watch this space….! #archaeology #celtic #anglesey #veterans #wellbeing 713613
Reposted by NanceKimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Hi BlueSky! Jumping in with my first post to play #findsfriday and this lovely little spindle whorl found during excavations at Caerfai promontory fort in 2022. 📸 my own from the Cherish project with DigVentures 2738
Reposted by NanceMerchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 10/10/2025It is #worldmentalhealthday today (we'd argue that's every day). We love you all very much so this is for you...media.tenor.coma drawing of a ghost that says ghost hugAlt: a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug 611014
Reposted by NanceHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2025As the once manager of a historic former flour mill, I’m always drawn to places where the tradition still thrives. One such gem is Worsbrough Mill near Barnsley, a working watermill on the River Dove producing premium organic flours. Milling here goes back to Norman times. The 14111
Reposted by NanceLego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2025The Dentalux toothbrush shown here and found last week is from the cargo ship Wec Van Eyck, which lost a container of Lidl goods bound for Spain in Feb 22. Many years ago, a friend found 100s of unused toothbrushes washed up. He told us he had a lifetime's supply for his family. 08614
Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering. 0228
Reposted by NanceDr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 01/10/2025Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵 13430201225
Reposted by NanceDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Escaping back into the Iron Age @butserancientfarm.co.uk A day spent investigating roundhouses and pondering mosaics with @curious-bronwen.bsky.social @tessmachling.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social @experimentalkearns.bsky.social 😊👍 #Archaeology 710113
Reposted by NancePaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025...aaaand Richard Tice, from a party with five MPs, is on BBC Question Time for the fourth time in less than 18 months. The Greens? Don't be silly... 4233
Reposted by NanceNTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 23/09/2025 Here's happy team shot with carved stone. #Priorwood Garden @n-t-s.bsky.social 0121
Reposted by NanceDr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 19/09/2025"The IEA estimates that datacentres’ total electricity consumption could double from 2022 levels to 1K TWh in 2026, approximately Japan’s level of electricity demand" What little progress we make to stem the tide of climate change is being squandered on AI. The whole enterprise should be dismantled 0104
Reposted by NanceNTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Find of the dig so far! Fantastic medieval carved boss from ribbed vaulting of Melrose Abbey. What a cracker! #Priorwood Garden @n-t-s.bsky.social 1425
Reposted by NanceDuncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The meanest two archaeologists in Norwich tonight. If anyone comes into this pub shouting about reused ship’s timbers or what the Romans did for us, they’re going to GET SOME. @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social #NotHavingIt 912211
Reposted by NanceDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Start your day the Iron Age way* (*In a pit full of animal body parts) 44912
Reposted by NanceLaura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage. 214872
Reposted by NanceDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 10/09/2025It's #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah 🥳 Here's Hollingbury Camp, a wonderful univallate Early Iron Age subsquare hillfort at the NE edge of Brighton East #Sussex Aerial 📷 © 1948 K-D100 from the excellent CUCAP archive @camdiglib.bsky.social cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG... 212316
Reposted by NanceFishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Glass furnace alert! 🔥🍷 We did it! We finished building our glass furnace @butserancientfarm.co.uk!! And what a handsome creature it is too. 😍 We can't wait to fire it... In other news, if anyone has a *normal* curator and would like to swap, please DM us. 511614
Reposted by NancePaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I remember when I were a lad, the Neolithic was peopled by peaceful hippies who grew crops, erected stones, and were generally nice to each other. Well not any more, sunshine 😁zmescience.comArchaeologists Discover 6,000 Year Old "Victory Pits" That Featured Mass Graves, Severed Limbs, and TortureAncient times weren't peaceful by any means. 6388
Reposted by NanceNTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Busy day on site for our open day at Crarae Gardens. Lots of enthusiastic helpers big and small. @n-t-s.bsky.social 0134
Reposted by NanceMiles King @milesking.bsky.social · 23/08/2025"Years of NFU lobbying" to increase the area of arable land used to grow bioethanol crops (a completely fake approach to tackling climate change) shows how much it really cares about food security. www.farminguk.com/news/nfu-pus...farminguk.comNFU pushes ministers to scrap biofuel crop capThe government has agreed to review key biofuel policies after years of NFU lobbying, opening the door to scrapping the cap on crop-based fuels. 02316
Reposted by NanceTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/08/2025While researching my novel 1983, which is based on the Nottinghamshire mining village where I grew up, I had a weird memory of a man who used to take his cow for a walk around the village, like it was a dog. "Have I made that up?" I wondered. So I checked my mum and dad's old photos. I hadn't. 1919
Reposted by NanceNTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Some nice flakes of Arran pitchstone out of Test pit 2 this morning @n-t-s.bsky.social in front of chambered cairn. 1212
Reposted by NanceIan Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 19/08/2025The Weedy Pond is drying up - the Chiffchaff has barely enough water to bathe. I'm providing supplementary water in dishes but throughout Dorset, wildlife is struggling to find a natural water supply. Fallen leaves from Hawthorn, Field Maple & Goat Willow litter the ground here. #ukbirds #drought 3546
Reposted by NanceDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 18/08/2025A 12 petal, red-tipped flower design from a late 4th century AD mosaic set down in the dining room of #Littlecote Roman villa #Wiltshire Found in 1729, then thought to be lost and destroyed Found again in 1977 and still visible today Huzzah! 📷 May 2015 #MosaicMonday! 319635
Reposted by NanceRaksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Some work news…. #Archaeology #TV #History 🏺 www.channel4.com/press/news/s... 1816615
Reposted by NanceDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Face 2 Face with the Iron Age Detail from the Marlborough Bucket @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social The *bucket*, originally of yew bound with iron hoops and decorated with sheet bronze, may originally have held a burial 📷 Feb 2022 #Archaeology #Prehistory 514530
Reposted by NanceInsta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Smart! A Raven doing Raven things. 392114341780
Reposted by NanceAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Roman floor tile with a sketch of a lighthouse (or space rocket? 🚀😉) The sketch was scratched into the wet clay before firing. Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’. British Museum 📷 by me #TilesonTuesday #Archaeology 723844
Reposted by NanceButterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 08/08/2025It's the final weekend to get out for the #BigButterflyCount and help take nature's pulse 🦋 You don't need to be an expert to make a big difference for butterflies and moths. All you need is 15 mins, a spot of sunshine and patience! 👉 bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org 📷: Pallant Medical 24727
Reposted by NanceBAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social · 08/08/2025It seems the Venn Diagram of archaeologists and cat lovers is just a circle… Happy #FindsFriday to all you cat loving archaeologists! This adorable pot comes from Thailand and was made during the 11th or 12th century! 🐈🏺 2396
Reposted by NanceNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 08/08/2025For #FindsFriday a rare fragment of a #Neolithic patterned cloak made of lime bast, dating 2700-2500 BC. Found in Maur-Schifflände, Switzerland. On display at Landesmuseum Zurich. 📷 me #Archaeology 625455
Reposted by Nancedr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 31/07/2025"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name. 240169704665
Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Lots of happy families @portlandmuseum.bsky.social festival of archaeology #festivalofarchaeology looking forward to next year already😃 041
Reposted by NancePortland Museum @portlandmuseum.bsky.social · 30/07/2025We had a fantastic first day! Come along tomorrow for day 2 of Relaxing Relics at Portland Museum! @archaeologyuk.bsky.social 011
