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Archaeological Research Services Ltd @arsltd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In 2025, we began work for our client Galliford Try on excavations near Cheltenham for Gloucestershire County Council’s M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme. Now we’re bringing you updates on some of what we’ve been finding at this fascinating site. archaeologicalresearchservices.com/a-look-at-ou...

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A look at our excavations for the Gloucestershire M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme – Part 1 - Archaeological Research Services Ltd

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Archaeological Research Services Ltd @arsltd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you tuned in last week, you saw how work got underway in 2025 on excavations near Cheltenham for Gloucestershire County Council's M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme. Today we're sharing the next part of this journey of discovery! archaeologicalresearchservices.com/a-look-at-ou...

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Archaeological Research Services Ltd @arsltd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen how work has progressed on excavations near Cheltenham for the M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme. Today we focus on one of the fascinating finds uncovered during this time – a burial from Site 1. archaeologicalresearchservices.com/a-look-at-ou...

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Archaeological Research Services Ltd @arsltd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's this week's update of our excavations near Cheltenham for Gloucestershire County Council's M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme - with details of some amazing finds! archaeologicalresearchservices.com/excavations-...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Well HELLO Iron Age roundhouses 👋 How very lovely to see you!! 😍 #Archaeology #Durotriges26

Two archaeologists in yellow hi viz vests, surrounded by green crop and beneath a cloud filled sky, clean up the distinctive circular outlines of two Iron Age roundhouse gulleys

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Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🚨We have decided to EXTEND the call for papers for the 2026 AARG Meeting in Plzeň (Pilsen), Czechia. The call will now close on Wednesday 10th June 2026. Be quick! 🚨 If you need more information, follow the link in the comments below. #LiDAR #aerialarchaeology #AARG26 #archaeology

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's #HillfortsWednesday at last! To celebrate, here's the glorious multivallate 3 hectare Iron Age enclosure of Pilsdon Pen #Dorset from the air, NW at the top 🤩 📷 © David Hymans citizen science project #Airchaeology www.airchaeology.org/2018/08/31/p...

The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort from the air, surrounded by field boundaries, hedgerows and trees

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Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Did you miss AARG 2025 in Trondheim, or do you want to re-live the highlights? You're in luck! 🍀 We are delighted to announce a selection of presentations from AARG 2025 are now available on our YouTube Channel 🎉19 videos are available, with more coming soon! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The heavily ploughed interior of Hod Hill #Roman fort, early September 1949 Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks © Historic England see: britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW... #RomanFortThursday

Black and white aerial photo looking down on a ploughed white field set within the ramparts of a roughly rectangular Roman fort with trees in the background

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We have a brand new series of Digging for Britain ready for your delectation, and an expanded team of expert presenters bringing you the latest on a range of exciting discoveries from across the UK.

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Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

AARGnews Spotlight: 📣Drone-based magnetometer survey📣 How do you speed up a geophysical survey of an archaeological site? By using an aerial platform! In a study supported by an AARG Fund grant, Kseniia Bondar et al describe their use of a UAV mag to survey 2 Roman forts in Ukraine #geophysics

© CC-BY K. Bondar et al. AARGnews 71 (2025)

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Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

🚨Special Announcement! 🚨 AARG are delighted to announce that AARG 2026 is confirmed for 10th-12th September in…Pilsen, Czechia! 🎉 The meeting will take place at the impressive Museum of West Bohemia! Further details and a call for papers will be communicated soon. For now, save the date! 📆

The impressive Bohemia museum in Pilsen is in view infront of a clear blue sky

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The Iron Age ‘Battersea Shield’ which was found in the River Thames at Battersea in 1857. Dating to around 350-50 BC, the shield is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #BatterseaShield #IronAge

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones. Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare. Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

Two sets of dome-shaped game pieces are displayed on a gray surface, with each set containing 10 pieces. The arrangement of the pieces is loose.

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Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Last week AARG supported 5 members to attend a TRAIL (Training and Research in the Archaeological Interpretation of LiDAR) workshop in Slovenia. Attendees enhanced their knowledge of LiDAR and machine learning. Thanks to Žiga Kokalj from ZRC SAZU for an excellent event! #LIDAR #ALS #AI #archaeology

students sat in a lecture room attending a workshop. Some are looking at laptops, some at the screen behind the camera

students sat in a lecture room attending a workshop. Some are looking at laptops, some at the screen beyond the photo

a group of people stand on a woodland trail on a fieldtrip listening to the tour leader talk

eight people smile for the camera beside a screen promoting the TRAIL event

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🍻 Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮 In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 📷 Yesterday

A figure photographs a rocky headland in a storm

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Loved this episode! The @durotrigesdig.bsky.social is still top of my bucket list, must get down next summer #Archaeology #Durotriges #IronAge

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Iron Age hillfort of Spettisbury Rings (Crawford Castle / Castle Ring) #Dorset This mighty 2ha univallate enclosure is today largely hidden behind the old railway and modern village of Spetisbury. Most people driving on the A350 are unaware of it 📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016 #HillfortsWednesday

The scrub and partially tree covered ramparts of an oval Iron Age hillfort from the air, its centre covered in green grass and surrounded by ploughed fields with a tree lined railway and a modern road flanked by houses at the bottom of the picture

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy #Halloween This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper #RomanArchaeology

Oval intaglio engraved with a skeletal human figure resting on an amphora and holding a jug, carved in translucent amber-colored stone.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍 These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895 © Trustees of the British Museum #Roman #Archaeology

Two copper alloy brooches with double-headed, long-eared, hare-like ends, inlaid with red and blue enamel decoration, both stained green after centuries in the soil

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The historic Vivian Slate Quarry in Llanberis, Gwynedd, rises out of dense autumn woodland with its narrow galleries visible 😮🍂 Now a scheduled monument, the quarry forms part of the Welsh Slate World Heritage Landscape 📷 My own, last weekend 🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/40571

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The engraved entrance stone to the famous Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange at County Meath in Ireland. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Newgrange #Prehistory #Ireland

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Oooh that's Sunday morning's reading sorted!

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A moment of mindfulness this morning with my rescue staffie Edie. The beauty of the Peak District never fails to captivate us. #mindfulmoment #peace #mindfulness #mentalhealth #peakdistrict

A tubby blue female staffie called Edie sits next to her owner in a field, both are looking into the distance. Edie wears a red harness and tartan collar and her familiar wears a green wax coat and yellow bobble hat.

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

#FindsFriday This curious bone object is apparently the back of a comb 🤔 It was found in an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery near the Thames, from the 5th or 6th century AD Now in the Museum of Reading 🏺 #archaeology #museums #heritage

A semicircular piece of bone with multiple rings inscribed into it, held upright in a museum stand

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If you like hillforts AND brochs (and who doesn't?) here's Edin's Hall #ScottishBorders a Late Iron Age #broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside the NW corner of an earlier bivallate 0.9ha #hillfort Beautifully captured in this kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🪁 📷 🤩 Happy #HillfortsWednesday

A low circular wall inside multiple grass covered ramparts with trees in the distance, as seen from the air

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

#HillfortsWednesday oldie but Goldie! This is British Camp in the Malvern Hills, an Iron Age hillfort built in 4 phases during the 1st millennium BC. The hillfort had 4 gateways and was populated by dozens of hut circles. #Archaeology #History

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses Proper lovely 😍 🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011 For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html #HillfortsWednesday

The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort plus foundations of stone built prehistoric structures looking down from the air

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It is Wednesday & so it is time for our weekly #hillfort clip. This time we have the Laws of Monifieth, an extraordinary site not far from Dundee. The site incorporates an Iron Age Broch, a stone walled fort that predates the Broch & an ancient cup & ring marked stone - see zurl.co/9HPpS

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Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

On this wonderful #HillfortsWednesday we look back at issue 68 of AARGnews where our Editor's Picture focussed on Uffington Castle - an Iron Age univallate hillfort. Environment Agency LiDAR shows incredible detail, including medieval ridge and furrow within the hillfort itself!

LiDAR DTM visualisation of Uffington IA Hillfort showing the univallate rampart enclosures and ridge and furrow earthworks

A historical black and white aerial photograph of the IA Uffington Hillfort, taken from AARGnews issue 68. Extract from a scanned image downloaded from the US Geological Survey EarthExplorer website.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Let's hear it for the minor chiefs for #HillfortsWednesday who didn't quite have the resources or followers to build Maiden Castle 🤔😟 The pretty stunning but little known Fan hillfort, commanding hill country between Llanwrda & Talley, Carmarthenshire, with a bold gateway approach 👌 📷 RCAHMW 2014

An upland hillfort seen from the air with strong earthworks defining the defences

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Wow, a small Roman glass bottle with preserved ointment from almost 2,000 years ago! 🤩 The ointment is composed of fatty acids, glycerine, and plant fibres (wood, pollen, and seeds). Perhaps a valuable cosmetic or medicinal cream. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a small, Roman bottle made of translucent pale green glass. It has a square body with rounded shoulders, a short, narrow, cylindrical neck with an out-turned, flat rim sealed with a (cork?) stopper. There is a single curved handle attached between the shoulder of the bottle and top of the neck. The bottle contains a solid, yellowish-orange substance. Bottle height 9.6 cm. The bottle is displayed on a grey surface. Dated late-1st century to first-half 2nd century AD.

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The lovely Duddo Five Stones Stone Circle with an offering. 📸 my own. #StandingStoneSunday

One of the Duddo standing stones in a grassy field, with a sunflower offering placed in a crack in the stone

Five of the Duddo standing stones in a grassy field with people stood looking at them

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This week on #findsfriday we have a post medieval silver finger-ring found in Heytesbury in 2015. A simple four-petalled gilded flower covers the joint in the band, now partially damaged. The hoop has raised edges and between them is a gilded strip with a series of pellets running down through it.

Silver finger ring taken from all angles. Central clover shape stone

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

#FindsFriday #Derbyshire #archaeology A beautiful barbed and tanged arrowhead from the Early Bronze Age, produced on translucent, amber-coloured flint. Found in Church Broughton, now in Derby Museum

A series of images of a Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead, from all available angles, with a cm scale to left and bottom. The flint is translucent and amber in colour. Image credit Portable Antiquities Scheme

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Hi 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

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