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Tawnatruffaun Portal Tomb County Sligo April 2025 #TombTuesday

David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cloughorr Standing Stone Overlooking Portrush on the North Antrim coast, this stone is about 1.6 metres high August 2025 #StandingStoneSunday

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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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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology

A woman with yellow hair and man with grey, both dressed in Neolithic textiles and furs, the man holding a shovel, stand infront of a stone built structure with thatched roof. Neither look happy

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Annaghmore Dolmen A pretty little portal tomb right by the side of a quiet rural road. County Leitrim October 2024 #TombTuesday

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sarn Meyllteyrn Standing Stone In the graveyard of the ruined St.Peter's Church just north of Sarn Meyllteyrn village stand this 2.5 metres tall stone Gwynedd June 2016 #standingstonesunday

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Rock art at Beltany Stone Circle County Donegal September 2024 #StandingStoneSunday

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Viking Mask Stone. A runestone set up in memory of a warrior who died in battle, c. AD 970-1020. Runic inscription: ‘Gunnulfr and Eygautr/Auðgautr and Áslakr and Hrólfr raised this stone in memory of Fúl, their partner, who died when kings fought’. From Aarhus, Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows the front of a Viking Age memorial runestone carved from granite and decorated with a large mammen-style face mask. A Runic inscription runs on two sides of the stone and above the mask.

The face of the mask is roughly triangular in shape, painted black, and with a long braided beard made of thick black snake-like tendrils. There are two tendrils on top of the head, each of which wrap around one of two leaf-shaped ears, and the ends of the tendrils appear like two horns on top of the head. The face has two dark blue circular eyes and a grimacing mouth which reveals a red tongue, and two white teeth, one at either side. Runestone dimensions: Height 160 cm, Width varies between 47-70 cm.

The runestone was found in Aarhus in an old water mill which burned down in 1849. When the mill was originally built the runestone was used as a building stone. It is now on display at the Moesgaard Museum.

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Kilnavert Wedge Tomb County Cavan October 2024 #TombTuesday

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Kilnavert Standing Stone County Cavan October 2024 #StandingStoneSunday

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Cashtal yn Ard Isle of Man August 2024 #TombTuesday

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Annaghmare Court Tomb from above showing the horseshoe shaped court, a gallery of 3 burial chambers & 2 side chambers which were added much later...Neolithic pottery, bone, flint scrapers & a bear's tooth were found during excavations County Armagh #TombTuesday

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Beaghmore Prehistoric Complex County Tyrone 📷March 2021 #StandingStoneSunday

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Something wonderful for the weekend! About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this tiny figurine was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Imagine the artist at work, sitting by the warmth and flickering light of a fire, carving what is the world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse! 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This time last year I was lucky enough to see this amazing artefact at an exhibition at the @museecluny.bsky.social in Paris - a prehistoric spearhead fashioned from rock crystal, discovered in France and possibly up to 20,000 years old.

A leaf shaped worked piece of translucent rock crystal that was used in prehistoric times as an arrow or spear head.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#FindsFriday Beautiful Mesolithic baskets! So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago! A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today! Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #Archaeology

Three almost complete small natural fibre baskets in three different sizes, made of twined raw esparto grass. Decorated with geometric motifs made with dyed fibres although these are difficult to discern in my photograph. Found at the Cave of Los Murciélagos(Cave of bats) in southern Spain. The baskets are remarkably well-preserved as a result of the unique conditions in the cave; a combination of low humidity and cooling winds. On display at the National Archaeology Museum in Madrid. Recent analysis has dated the fibre baskets to about 7,500 BC during the Iberian Mesolithic period

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Andrew Gault @andrewgault.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Novel archaeological survey technique deployed at Dunluce Castle a few years back.

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sharagore Wedge Tomb, County Donegal 📷September 2024 #TombTuesday

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

😬😬😬 Ballygilbert Standing Stone County Antrim 📷October 2024 #standingstonesunday

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Herne the Hunter, the #BonfireSculpture for 2024 is done. Herne, his origin lost in the mists of time, appeas in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', I first knew him via Susan Cooper's book 'Dark is Rising'. Accounts see him haunting Windsor Great Park and leading the Wild Hunt.

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Ballynageeragh Portal Tomb in County Waterford...a shoddily reconstructed dolmen with a wall of concrete blocks to support the capstone. A 1939 excavation found cremated bone, flint and charcoal in the chamber. 📷July 2024 #TombTuesday

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