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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Next week the team of veterans and service personnel will return to Castlemartin Ranges with @henebtwa.bsky.social to explore the enigmatic promontory fort at Buckspool. Will we find Iron Age evidence? Or objects like this exquisite jet Roman pin? #findsfriday #archaeology #wellbeing #veterans

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Book recommendation! I really enjoyed @elodieharper.bsky.social‘s work to imagine the fate of Boudicca’s daughters so have now moved to the Wolf Den a story from Pompeii. ‘Boudicca’s Daughter’ big thumbs up esp as a @theduncanmackay.bsky.social credit is within! #archaeology #history #druid #roman

Image of ‘the wolf den’ and ‘Boudicca’s daughter’ books by Elodie Harper alongside a Roman lamp and on top of frescoes from Pompeii

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I don’t know the Odyssey well enough so can’t comment on how close to the epic it is (and I’m banned from talking about armour accuracy) but I must say I really enjoyed the film last night. Circe is a great character and Agamemnon properly scary! #odyssey #Homer

A copy of the Odyssey with a toy wooden horse on it

The golden death mask of ‘Agamemnon’ in the National museum in Athens

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#findsfriday - this week the team have found lots of blank rounds in the practice trenches. dates from 1911 (made in the Royal Labs Woolwich) to 1915 made in Kings Norton and a 1917. All this info is on the object - you don’t get that in prehistory! #archaeology #firstworldwar #relevant #wellbeing

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Amazing new discovery: Archaeologists found a rare 5th-century BC bronze ceremonial chariot at Casas del Turuñuelo, revealing insights into the ancient Iberian culture's wealth, religion, and trade. 👉 www.elmundo.es/cultura/2026...

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Just loving seeing the emergence of the fabulous chariot at Chalke History Festival today with lots of super added details. Big plans from this with @timeteam.bsky.social and @butserancientfarm.co.uk . Good to see the team at work! Too hot for celts though… #chariot #celts #ironage #archaeology

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Come see me @chalkefestival.bsky.social next week ! - #HearthOfScience 🏺 ex-arch for @livancworlds.bsky.social - interviewing brill speakers 🎤 (Roman slavery; Iron Age Identity; Wilderlands) - new for 2026, Awakening The Stone 🔥 placemaking past to future - #Neanderthals vs Romans butchery 🪨🦌🔪 !

Photo of woman in a field, behind her is a festival site. Closer behind her is a purple flag with text EARTH Experimental Archaeology Research & Teaching Hub.

Photo of a piece of charred birch bark, a ceramic container and shells that have lumps of birch tar inside. All are on the grass.

Photo of large standing stone, behind which is a grassy hill with large monumental letters spelling CHALKE. It's sunset and golden light and shadows lay across the scene.

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

John Piper - an all time favourite artist. From his depictions of archaeology to his magical stained glass in the Cathedral in Liverpool. A gorgeous exhibition @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social No photos so my pics from catalogue or my sketch inspired by his works. Genius. #archaeology #wiltshire

A cartoon of stone rows and archaeology finds in Wiltshire with pots on soil with green field background. John piper - In preparation for his stained glass window

A landscape view of barrows in fields with dark brooding sky - Salisbury Plain. John Piper

The stained glass in the lantern of the Catholic cathedral in Liverpool by John Piper

A sketch of a dolmen/quoit by me! The Devil’s Den on Wiltshire - a pastiche of John Piper’s depiction of Pen Lan in Pembrokeshire

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Loving reading through the Trysor exhibition catalogue from Oriel Môn, Anglesey. Amongst the discoveries are 2 Iron Age treasures from RAF Valley found by RAF personnel in 2024. It’s a stupendous display- go visit! Site photos of course by @harvey_mills #archaeology #celts #veterans #llyncerrigbach

Cover of a book called ‘Treasure’ with an Iron Age bronze bridle bit coming from the soil

A bronze bridle bit (above) and terret ring with red glass inlay (below) from RAF valley displayed in a book. Late Iron Age

Three men in high vis jackets. Two hugging after the discover of an Iron Age bridle bit

A bronze bridle bit and terret ring of the late Iron Age on a glass case with a wooden floor visible and display board of the find to the right

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Quick update from the project at RAF Valley. Lots of excitement within the team and a very successful trip. Suffice it to say it will make a cracking @timeteamofficial prog. Wonderful to see our first two finds of the project on museum display at Oriel Môn too #archaeology #celts #heritage #anglesey

Lots of people gathered round a home in the grass with buildings in the background

Derek from time team holding a camera and smiling as finds are made

An Iron Age copper alloy terret ring (below) and horse bridle bit (above) on display at Oriel Môn in Anglesey

A display of an Iron Age bridle bit and terret ring (to the left) in a glass case with display board about Operation Nightingale to the right at Oriel Môn museum Anglesey

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

All going on with @timeteam.bsky.social at Llyn Cerrig Bach this weekend. The episode will be phenomenal…… #celts #ironage #archaeology

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

And so we return! The op nightingale team are going back to RAF Valley this weekend. Will we find more of the famed Llyn Cerrig Bach assemblage ? Watch this space - fingers firmly crossed 🤞… #chariot #celts #druids #ironage #archaeology

Books about Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey as well as Druids by Stuart Piggott

An Iron Age bridle bit and terret ring in front of Cyril Fox’s model of the chariot from Llyn Cerrig Bach

Op nightingale veterans Graham in an orange high vis holds an Iron Age horse bridle but from Llyn Cerrig Bach which he has just found

prof Alice Roberts holds the horse bridle bit found at Llyn Cerrig Bach by Graham in 2024

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Absolutely wonderful evening at @butserancientfarm.co.uk for the burning of their wicker man - THE AMESBURY ARCHER- hence my talking on the Bronze Age. Drums, music, art in beautiful countryside. The sound of the carnyx too as the man burned. Here’s to 2027! #archaeology #wickerman #beltane

Wicker man in the form of the Amesbury Archer

A fool trapped in the leg of the Butser wicker man

The Butser wicker man on fire with drummers in the foreground and people playing the carnyx trumpet to the left

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Joyous Beltain to you! If you are at @butserancientfarm.co.uk tomorrow come & find me as I talk about the Bronze Age from our ancient roundhouse. And then marvel as we burn the wicker man to ask for the land and crops to be blessed! #archaeology #wickerman #beltaneblessings #heritage

A wicker man in the form of an Iron Age warrior with a shield with Celtic designs and red decoration and spear. A torc around his neck. Fir trees behind him

A green man and a woman in a red cloak on a green hill. On the ridge behind is a wicker man in form of Celtic warrior with spear and shield

Silhouettes of drummers in front of flames igniting a wicker man with a dark night sky

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

#findsfriday - the Lewis Chess pieces. Now in the @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Edinburgh, these 12-13 century items were made from walrus ivory & whale teeth, found in around 1831. Initially carved in Norway they highlight links to Scandinavia. Quite wonderful. #archaeology #chess

An image of 6 chess pieces with the Queen back row left and king back row right

An image of chess pieces with the Queen sat on throne on the left resting chin on her hand the king on his throne on the right holding a sword in his lap, and a bishop at the front

An image of chess pieces with a bored looking queen sat on her throne at the back and a bishop front left

Three Lewis chess pieces - back row queen and king and. Bishop at the front

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Anzac Day 2026. With thoughts for the service personnel of Australia and New Zealand. Especially Alan Mather, George Sayner and my grandfather Walter Osgood #anzacday2026 #anzac 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

Photograph of an Australian soldier from the First World War

A Nga Tapuwae sign with a New Zealand silver fern made from the silhouettes and shadows of First World War soldiers

A statue with a carved angel and an Australian plough team in front of it in Adelaide- a memorial to the First World War

A commonwealth war graves headstone with two wooden crosses holding poppies in front of it. This is the headstone of Private Alan Mather, killed in June 1917 and recovered by archaeologists in 2008

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In addition to Druids, my current obsession is chariots! Mostly Iron Age but the Roman equivalents are passable. Cool to be in Colchester at the site of only known Roman circus in Britannia with all the chariot links that entails & an old @timeteam.bsky.social too! #chariot #archaeology #Roman

A reconstruction of a Roman chariot on a red floor

An iron statue in white and blue of a Roman chariot race

A Roman horse hood found in excavations in Colchester

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#hillfortswednesday the interior of the reconstructed roundhouse from Moel y Gerddi hill in north Wales at @butserancientfarm complete with lovely La tene artwork, firedogs and rather splendid sheep! a super place to visit. #ironage #celts #archaeology

The inside of an Iron Age roundhouse with timber uprights and white walls with a red stripe at the bottom and spiral designs. In the middle cooking pot hangs over a fire and a ‘firedog’ is in the foreground

A Manx ram with two sets of horns sitting on straw within a grassy enclosure with fence hurdles on the left

Manx tam with four horns sitting down in a grassy paddock with straw, hurdle de zing to the left and two trees and two roundhouse thatched roofs in the background

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

***Stop Press*** A rather incredible piece of news just in. The Crick has examined the DNA of the two individuals in a Saxon burial at Cherington in our dig with @timeteam.bsky.social & @cotswoldarch.bsky.social & found that they were BROTHER & SISTER. Astonishing what science can do now.

An illustration by Time Team of a young boy with a sword in a grave and a young woman behind him with a workbox

Sketch of two skeletons in a grave cut on an archaeological site

An Anglo Saxon workbox encased in soil and wrapped with consolidation bandages from site

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Vikings? In Winchester? Poor old King Alfred would be appalled! King Cnut perhaps less so…. If you want to read more about The remnants of Saxon and Viking rulers I’d recommend the Bone Chests by @catjarman #Vikings #archaeology #alfredthegreat #winchester

Several people dressed in Viking clones stand to the left of two yellow and green Viking shields in front of Winchester Museum

A series of circular red, yellow and black shields to the right with two people in Viking reenactment costume to the left

The cover of the book ‘Bone Chests’ by Cat Jarman with fragments of stained glass window

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

What splendid progress in the Sutton Hoo ship build in Woodbridge. Great display of construction techniques, of tapestry work and also the Coppergate helmet . All followed by @timeteam.bsky.social as well #saxon #suttonhoo #experimentalarchaeology

Tapestry depiction of the discovery and excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship

A wooden ship under construction in a white shed. This is the Sutton Hoo experimental ship

The bow of a wooden ship under construction in a white shed. This is the Sutton Hoo experimental ship build

In the background and through the windows the bow of the wooden ship build at Woodbridge - replicating the Sutton Hoo ship. On the left a person with no dignity wearing a replica of the Coppergate helmet from York

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

#findsfriday - the extraordinary gold tubular torc from Snettisham now on display in Norwich. You could spend hours here just in the Boudicca gallery with all of its incredible Iron Age material see @tessmachling.bsky.social bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/02/04/a... #torc #ironage #celts #boudicca

‘Celtic’ art motifs (la Tene) on the gold tubular torc from snettisham

Red inlay and la tene swirls decorating a terret ring (used to guide chariot reins) - the terret is made of bronze and is now green as a result of oxidising

Half of a reconstruction of an Iron Age chariot with wicker hurdle sides and a wheel at the front. This is part of a virtual riding experience for children in Norwich museum

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This Monday and Tuesday a group of volunteers re-chalked the wonderful Bulford Chalk kiwi - one of the younger scheduled monuments in Salisbury Plain constructed in 1919. I love this community project which we try to accomplish every year or so. #heritage #newzealand www.gov.uk/government/n...

A sheet of iron with a silver fern motif made from the silhouettes of New Zealand soldiers and their shadows. The words Ngā Tapuwae are below this

A chinook helicopter hovers over a fenced area with three straps below the aircraft as it places bags of chalk onto the Bulford kiwi. A dusty cloud around

The mess tent above the Bulford kiwi with tables and chairs and the New Zealand flag to the right of the image. Gurkha soldiers in the background

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

#hillfortswednesday - a distant view of Sidbury Hillfort on Salisbury Plain with modern day warriors in the foreground. The ever-fabulous kukri dance performed by the 3rd Division Gurkha Signals yesterday. #heritage

A scene of Salisbury plain with four Gurkhas on camouflage holding kukri knives. In the background Sidbury Hillfort and clouds

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The launch of the Trysor exhibition at Oriel Môn on Anglesey showed the big reveal of the Iron Age terret & bridle bit from Llyn Cerrig Bach found by David and Graham (with absolutely LOADS to follow!) Well done to all the vets and serving personnel involved. #archaeology #celtic #roman #wellbeing

An Iron Age bridle bit (above) and terret ring (below) at Oriel Môn, Anglesey

A terret ring with inlaid red enamel on display at Oriel Môn, Anglesey

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

So here’s a real tease for #findsfriday - a wonderful site in Norfolk excavated with the @timeteam.bsky.social family producing wonderful finds. Sadly no close ups of what we found; that will have to wait for the programme - it’ll be worth it!!! #archaeology

Three women with trays of finds in front of them in a white tent. Rachel, Helen and Dani from Time Team

A man in a grey hat and blue fleece on the left speaking with a woman in a blue waterproof and brown trousers on the right. In a green field with trees and a grey sky

A ma with a beard in a green coat holding up an object

A man in a hat wearing a blue coat and camouflage trousers flanked by two Roman reenactors in red capes

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It’s a Roman site so we were hopeful of finds but blimey are the trays full! This programme is going to be a cracker @timeteam.bsky.social #archaeology #roman #veterans

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Let the first dig adventure of 2026 begin! Meet g up with all the old friends @timeteam.bsky.social on a site which could be pretty sensational - watch this space! #archaeology #roman

A time team T shirt covered by a trowel, red book on the Roman army, black diary with time team sticker and archaeologist’s hat

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

#mosaicmonday - the frankly rather incredible shrine of Minerva at Chester. The mosaic is part of an art project close to the shrine and shows the goddess with her owl. Thought to be 2nd Century. A most evocative ancient carving. #minerva #roman #Chester

A mosaic of a portico with the goddess Athena holding a staff in her right hand and a shield in her left with an owl perching on her left shoulder

The surrounds of the shrine of Minerva at Chester with a portico placed around the original carving on a stone outcrop a tree behind the structure and grass in the foreground

Artists impression of the shrine of Minerva in Chester from a display board on sit. six human figures in attendance with one placing offerings in a niche to the right and one attending the central carving of Minerva

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

On #findsfriday looking forward to highlighting a couple of discoveries made by the op nightingale veterans (including this coin with military standard appropriately) to the Roman Finds Group. From Buckspool (with @henebtwa.bsky.social ) to Anglesey. #archaeology

A Roman coin depicting two people either side of two military standards

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#findsfriday the astonishing, enigmatic Hendy Head from Anglesey now in Oriel Môn - found in a ploughed field overlooking the Menai straits and thought to be Late Iron Age. Did this Celtic god oversee the a Roman attack on the Druids and an end of the old ways? #celts #ironage #druids #anglesey

A carved stone head in a glass. Are with reeds and a green background to either side

A carved stone face with eyes nose and mouth visible. The mouth has a hole in the upper right lip (as we look) perhaps for offerings

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

An unusual entry for #mosaicmonday but you’ll forgive me given my employers! This tank is depicted in the floor of the @tankmuseum.bsky.social in Bovington, Dorset. Dad trained here in c1943 (probably in a Cromwell) - visiting the museum with his son years after must have been very odd indeed.

Mosaic of a First World War tank with a crown above it and the motto ‘Fear Naught’ below

A view of a Cromwell tank in Polish markings

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. Happy #stdavidsday to all my Welsh friends (and those who live there or studied there with me!) - some lovely Welsh pics 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #wales

Celtic cross at Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire

The cliff’s with the sea braking against them at buckspool fort Castlemartin

Sunset against the cliffs at Castlemartin

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I seem to be trapped in a sub-Tolkien world… if it’s not Druids I’m seeing dragons everywhere…. I mean even in Winchester! #dragon

A Chinese dragon in a shopping centre, Winchester, Hampshire 2026

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

For #findsfriday - a small box with iron ship’s rivets. These were given by Edith Pretty to Vincent Redstone to show success in the discovery of the Sutton Hoo ship. I have drew a similar rivets - a Viking one from Repton featuring in ‘River Kings’ by Cat Jarman. #viking #saxon #suttonhoo

A wooden box with four lumps of rusty iron sitting on cotton wool. An explanatory note with handwriting is pasted in the u sets die of the raised lid of the box - this mentions that they are ships rivets from Sutton Hoo given by Edith pretty to Vincent Redstone

A drawing of an iron ship’s rivet with the caption ‘3. Ship nail: River Kings in a book by Cat Jarman

A black and white photo (c) British Museum of the excavated shape of the Sutton Hoo ship

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

On an incredibly rare day where Scotland face England at both rugby 🏉 and cricket 🏏 this is probably the only opposite ever get to post this rather splendid stained glass window in Edinburgh of Scottish representatives of each sport. #heritage

A stained glass window showing a man in cap and blue shirt with white trousers holding a rugby ball on the left and a man in blue blazer and cap with white pads and red sash holding a cricket bat on the right.

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#hillfortwednesday - miraculously an hour of sun on Salisbury Plain today enabling a condition survey of Battlesbury Hillfort. Not looking bad and the views were grand. Colt Hoare’s plan in Ancient Wiltshire still works. #archaeology #wiltshire #ironage #celts

A view of Hillfort banks and ditches in the sun

Banks and ditches of a hillfort with clouds

A ln etching of a hillfort plan in ‘Ancient Wiltshire’ by Richard colt Hoare. This is Battlesbury Camp

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Jean Edwards @jeaned70.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

#drawing 4842 #drawingdiggingforbritain perfect practice for sketching at the British Museum tomorrow with Urbansketchers London #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Well done to my lovely friends that presented #diggingforbritain - I end my #drawingdiggingforbritain sketches with a salute to them @toriherridge.bsky.social, Rosanna, Stuart, @megsdigs.bsky.social & (of course) @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Don’t we live on an incredible isle eh? #archaeology

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

So that is the last of this series of #diggingforbritain you may not be surprised that I’m drawing the Buckspool fort which we dug with @henebtwa.bsky.social Channelling my inner Rose Ferraby with a collage of finds - Thanks to @toriherridge.bsky.social for being fab! #drawingdiggingforbritain

A sketch of Roman coins, jet pin and spindle whorls

A sketch of Roman pot sherds Roman coins, spindle works and a jet pin against a background of cliffs sea and two curious circular structures

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Wendy Tagg @wendytagg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Nearly missed tonight's #DrawingDiggingForBritain - fascinated by the analysis that showed that a stone hand tool was used for grinding tin.

Artefacts including stone hand tool and Roman swords.

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Wendy Tagg @wendytagg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Absolutely blown away by the fossil fern remains and intrigued by the iron-age dogs #DrawingDiggingForBritain

Drawings of Roman Stylus, prehistoric fossil fern and tree, paw print on tile etc.

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Skull of a young man (17-24 years old) from a mass grave dating to the ninth century. The individual had survived an earlier trepanation and was around 1.9m tall #DrawingDiggingforBritain

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Trepanned skull from Wandlebury in Cambridgeshire excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit and featured on #diggingforbritain this evening. An early medieval offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain

Drawing of a human skull facing left with a circular hole on the left side. Elements of the skull held in place by tape

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A tiny Roman bird figurine (possibly a hawk) from excavations by Archaeoscan at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire featured on #diggingforbritain as an offering for to ight’s #drawingdiggingforbritain

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Eh what’s this? @thecure.com winning 2 Grammys (best alternative music album and best alternative music performance). I saw them on the Prayer tour (1989) and still love em. Congratulations to all - I wonder if Perry knew. #thecure #songsofalostworld

A carved stone head as album cover for the cure’s ’songs from a lost world’ with t shirt of the cure’s with lipstick lips behind

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