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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t want the rubber hedgehog, Shuck, I’m trying to work.

Black Labrador next to me, dropping a toy on my arm

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

POV: one week to book deadline. Current Mood: 1974 Timpo Viking.

Coloured plastic toy Viking hit in neck with an arrow.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Altar’d consciousness. “I want something mind altering.” “I’ve got just the thing…” The famous wall of altars in the Clayton collection at Chesters Roman Fort. The little ones 🥹 #RomanSiteSaturday

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

POV: one week to book deadline. Current Mood: 1974 Timpo Viking.

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Many people are still surprised to discover that the lands to the north of Hadrian's Wall are dotted with Roman sites including forts, roads, camps and bathhouses. To find out more, check out my books, both currently reduced if you buy direct from the publisher: shorturl.at/7Ytav #RomanSiteSaturday

The cover of two books by Alan Montgomery, entitled the Road to Mons Graupius and Walking the Antonine Wall

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some prehistoric bling for #FindsFriday 3 stone and 5 decorated glass beads found with the burial of a young Iron Age woman at Langton Herring now in #DorsetMuseum They may originally have been worn individually as amulets or together as a necklace (as shown here) 😍 📷 Sept 2026 #Durotriges

Eight circular beads of different size, 3 of stone and 5 of glass, threaded together for display in a museum case

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Huge congratulations to @theduncanmackay.bsky.social on Echolands hitting the best seller spot 👏👏👏

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What more could you want in a book? Read it.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a hugely deserved honour, because it's a wonderful book (...and not just because there's torcs in it!! 😝). Congratulations Duncan... author of a fabulous archaeo-travelogue through time and space! ❤️ #Archaeology 🏺

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge… Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found. Chariot ponies knew they were cool. National Museum Scotland #FindsFriday

Decorated bronze pony cap with long, slender curving horns

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🗃️ 🏺 Absolutely loved this book, the deepest dive into the possibilities around Boudica herself - who she was, where and when things happened – but also what her uprising and eventual defeat meant for the Iron Age communities of Britain

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#1 Bestseller 💥 Archaeology. History. Boudica. Artefacts. Landscape. Travel. Torcs. Battles. Druids. Black Labrador. In a factual book. There might be more to life; but not much more… #BoudicaFriday #Echolands A Journey in Search of #Boudica

Echolands by Duncan Mackay with an Amazon best seller banner

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Universal soldier Damaged fragment of a tombstone commemorating a #Roman auxiliary cavalryman from Whitcombe #Dorset in #DorsetMuseum The full image probably showed the horse trampling on a Briton / Durotrigian 😲 📷 Sept 2026 #RomanFortThursday

Damaged sculptural relief showing a Roman cavalryman with cape and helmet, holding a spear and riding an angry horse

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Never not going to be excited at seeing my books in an actual honest to goodness bookshop. #RomanFortThursday

Book on a black shelf. Cover image is a grassy landscape of a rocky promontory stretching to the horizon with a stone wall snaking up it to the right. The sky above is dramatic grey clouds. In the foreground to the right is superimposed a stone statue of a seated man wearing draped robes. The book title Roman Life on Hadrian's Wall and author's name Claire Millington are prominent.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Arbeia, South Shields Roman Fort: the reconstructed gatehouse. #RomanFortThursday #PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil Roman soldier in front of a full sized Roman fort stone gatehouse.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do ponies living wild on a hillfort have Iron Age chariot dreams? The beautiful inhabitants of Traprain Law, East Lothian. #HillfortsWednesday

Wild ponies grazing on a grassy hilltop.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That famous, unscripted scene from the film version of *Do ponies on hillforts dream of electric chariots*

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do ponies living wild on a hillfort have Iron Age chariot dreams? The beautiful inhabitants of Traprain Law, East Lothian. #HillfortsWednesday

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For #HillfortsWednesday the enormous, but heavily eroded, coastal promontory fort at Porth y rhaw, Pembrokeshire, in the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 🤩 The 5 metre+ high ramparts are among the most massive anywhere in west Wales. Excavations have revealed a long occupation 📷 My own, Saturday

A view along a cliff lined coast with the sea on the right & blue sky beyond

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photo looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with circular stone broch on the left and trees beyond

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Pete Savin @petesavin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A look at Burnswark Hill fort in the Scottish Borders the site of two Roman siege camps at its base youtu.be/CQts-nXSlHg?...

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Burnswark Roman Siege camps

YouTube video by Roman History Walks

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a fantastic book and I highly recommend it. (and also, if you aren't familiar with the landscape to have google maps on hand because it's a physical journey at times down the highway!)

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I try to post this every year, and almost forgot; it is important not to forget. At 4.30am 109 years ago today, my great uncle Sydney went into action near Zonnebeke in the third battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). He was killed in action and has no known grave. He was 22.

A sepia photograph of a young British soldier in Great War uniform smiling at the camera.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nothing to see here, just a man in love with a carnyx, intending to spend the rest of the afternoon blocking other people from seeing its beauty. The one…the only…Deskford carnyx and stunning reproduction of it in its prime, scaring Romans. #FindsFriday National Museum of Scotland

Me, looking a bit lovelorn, in front of the partially surviving head of a carnyx, a a full sized shiny reproduction

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh yes, Blackwells Edinburgh, that’s how to display it! Show it’s lovely cover off😍 Thank you! #Echolands A Journey in Search of Boudica. #BoudicaFriday

A copy of Echolands by Duncan Mackay on a bookshelf with its cover on display

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So thought I’d hunt out the gaudy bauble that is the Netherurd torc terminal in the National Museum of Scotland, that always makes @tessmachling.bsky.social go all giddy, for #FindsFriday Very splendid, and has Iceni / Snettisham connections to make it even more special.

A highly decorated grotesque La Tene style gold TORC terminal.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh yes, Blackwells Edinburgh, that’s how to display it! Show it’s lovely cover off😍 Thank you! #Echolands A Journey in Search of Boudica. #BoudicaFriday

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All I can say is it's a damn good job he's in Edinburgh, or there would be fisticuffs... Gaudy Bauble?? How very dare he! #Archaeology 🏺 #NotEastAnglianTat #Torcs

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A Late Iron Age, Black Burnished Ware pottery tankard 📷 Sept 2026 Found as a grave accessory at Wynford Eagle and now in Dorset Museum It would have originally held just over 4 pints - cheers 🍻 #FindsFriday #FridayFeeling

Brown / grey Pottery tankard with handle in a museum case

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Dr Andrew Tibbs @andrewtibbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boudicca bearing more than a passing resemblance to Wonder Woman!

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bisected by road and half covered in trees, the multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Milber Down #Devon can be difficult to fully appreciate on the ground Here it is seen from the air 📷 © Frances Griffith 1985 / Devon County Council www.devon.gov.uk/historicenvi... It's #HillfortsWednesday

The three ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort in a black and white aerial photograph showing one half, the left, covered in trees, one half, the right, covered in grass and a road running through the middle

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Burnswark Hill 360 for #HillfortsWednesday starting off southwards with the Solway in the far distance, and ending with some prat who was cluttering up the view.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sentinels. That feeling, alone on a windswept hillfort, when you can’t shake the sensation of being watched… Live, from Burnswark. #HillfortsWednesday

Silhouettes of staring sheep on a grassy hilltop.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Need cheering up? Have a bit of this happy little Roman dog in the Clayton Museum at Chesters.

Small bronze figurine of a happy terrier type dog.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If this isn’t now your favourite Roman carving, you’re wrong. It is. I will not be discussing this further. Found Vindolanda; on display Chesters.

A really cute little running wild boar, looks like it could be from Shaun the Sheep.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If this isn’t now your favourite Roman carving, you’re wrong. It is. I will not be discussing this further. Found Vindolanda; on display Chesters.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Death in Paradise Discussing ritual murder in the British #IronAge with Tristan Hughes #TheAncients Podcast for #HistoryHit Warning: Contains detail that may be incompatible with Sunday lunch Watch / listen on YouTube (or wherever you get your podcasts) share.google/WSe8946LRXJJ... #Archaeology

Archaeologist with beard chats to historian with stubble about ancient bad stuff with a pixelated hand in the background and the words Vile Acts in front

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Goddess Queen is nearly here! Click here to order - and for tickets to book-signing events in Bath, York and London NEXT WEEK! linktr.ee/thegoddessqu... And check out the full video on instagram…

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, I’m an Aelian, I’m an imperial Aelian, I’m an emperor in the north. 🎶 #HadriansWall

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ravenglass Roman bathhouse. “Where’s the water?” Just, yeah. #PlaymobilInfestation

Three nearly naked Playmobil Romans in the ruins of a bathhouse.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Time Machine Drone (yes, of course I have one 🙄) was up over Maryport Roman fort today. #RomanFortThursday (on a Sunday, because, like, time travel)

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hardknott Roman fort 360. #RomanFortThursday but on a Sunday.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hardknott Roman Fort. “Right, we’ve got the photo, let’s go.” “In the car?” “Of course.” “On the same road?” “Yes…?” “I think I’ll stay here, thanks.” #IYKYK #PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil Roman soldier on a stone wall with a vast hilly background.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ravenglass Roman bathhouse. “Where’s the water?” Just, yeah. #PlaymobilInfestation

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