Andrew Mayfield
@andersarchaeology.bsky.social
Community archaeologist for the Royal Parks and Kent County Council. Sometimes found in Greenwich Park & Shorne Woods. Member of SWAG. Enabled archaeology, LIDAR, volunteering and the archaeology of parks 🛞🔥🌳
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Secrets of Britain’s ancient elites revealed by remarkable find in Yorkshire field
The remarkable find offers insights about the wealth and power dynamics of 1st century Britain
www.independent.co.uk
This is an incredible assemblage of #ironage objects ❤️ www.independent.co.uk/news/science... I was lucky to play a small part in the excavation. Huge round of applause for Sophie at the British Museum and Tom and Emily at @arcdurham.bsky.social the #MelsonbyHoard is in the news 👍🏻👏🏻
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The next online talk will look at life on the road in the mediaeval period. What was it like to travel, who could be found on the road, and what observations did they leave us?
I'll be live online at 7pmGMT on Wednesday 28 January.
Booking & more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...
I'll be live online at 7pmGMT on Wednesday 28 January.
Booking & more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...
January 3, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The next online talk will look at life on the road in the mediaeval period. What was it like to travel, who could be found on the road, and what observations did they leave us?
I'll be live online at 7pmGMT on Wednesday 28 January.
Booking & more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...
I'll be live online at 7pmGMT on Wednesday 28 January.
Booking & more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...
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We're often asked 'how did Roman potters create the moulds that they used to make lamps & deity figurines?' The answer is that there were numerous methods used. In these 4 videos Sarah & I show one technique that we have identified.🏺#Archaeology #Pottery #Ceramics #Classics youtu.be/nJD9tCfv-7I?...
A Mould for a Goddess Pt 1 The Archetype
YouTube video by PottedHistory
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December 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We're often asked 'how did Roman potters create the moulds that they used to make lamps & deity figurines?' The answer is that there were numerous methods used. In these 4 videos Sarah & I show one technique that we have identified.🏺#Archaeology #Pottery #Ceramics #Classics youtu.be/nJD9tCfv-7I?...
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May 2025: It was another busy month in Greenwich Park - with two milestone announcements.
For the first time since 2021 a new herd of eight fallow deer returned to the park 🦌
At the end of the month the Rose Garden reopened after an exciting multi-year regeneration project 🌹
#12MonthsOfTRP
For the first time since 2021 a new herd of eight fallow deer returned to the park 🦌
At the end of the month the Rose Garden reopened after an exciting multi-year regeneration project 🌹
#12MonthsOfTRP
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
May 2025: It was another busy month in Greenwich Park - with two milestone announcements.
For the first time since 2021 a new herd of eight fallow deer returned to the park 🦌
At the end of the month the Rose Garden reopened after an exciting multi-year regeneration project 🌹
#12MonthsOfTRP
For the first time since 2021 a new herd of eight fallow deer returned to the park 🦌
At the end of the month the Rose Garden reopened after an exciting multi-year regeneration project 🌹
#12MonthsOfTRP
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🏺 You want ancient shields? Not only can you gawp close-up at huge Bronze & Iron Age examples, but also see gorgeous mini votive shields from hoards - showing real variety in form - and the simply astonishing Enderby BARK SHIELD, which revealed true diversity in Iron Age materials & artisan skill.
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🏺 You want ancient shields? Not only can you gawp close-up at huge Bronze & Iron Age examples, but also see gorgeous mini votive shields from hoards - showing real variety in form - and the simply astonishing Enderby BARK SHIELD, which revealed true diversity in Iron Age materials & artisan skill.
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🏺 Top tip for British Museum visitors: go across the court, up rotunda stairs, cross bridge into upper floor, head past crowds aiming for Egypt and Mesopotamia, and go straight to Rooms 50 and 51 where the most stunning array of glories from later prehistory await you!
December 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🏺 Top tip for British Museum visitors: go across the court, up rotunda stairs, cross bridge into upper floor, head past crowds aiming for Egypt and Mesopotamia, and go straight to Rooms 50 and 51 where the most stunning array of glories from later prehistory await you!
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A magnificent ginkgo biloba showing stunning seasonal colours 🍂
📍 Greenwich Park
📸 Anna M and Mark W
📍 Greenwich Park
📸 Anna M and Mark W
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A magnificent ginkgo biloba showing stunning seasonal colours 🍂
📍 Greenwich Park
📸 Anna M and Mark W
📍 Greenwich Park
📸 Anna M and Mark W
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Cast your vote to make the Melsonby Hoard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social's Rescue Project of the Year 2026!
Unearthed by our archaeologists, the hoard is one of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
@proftommoore.bsky.social
Unearthed by our archaeologists, the hoard is one of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
@proftommoore.bsky.social
Vote to make Melsonby Hoard Current Archaeology’s Rescue Project of the Year - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Cast your vote to make the Melsonby Hoard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social's Rescue Project of the Year 2026!
Unearthed by our archaeologists, the hoard is one of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
@proftommoore.bsky.social
Unearthed by our archaeologists, the hoard is one of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
@proftommoore.bsky.social
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This magnificent sweet chestnut tree has sat proudly for centuries in the Greenwich Park Flower Garden 🌳
As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This magnificent sweet chestnut tree has sat proudly for centuries in the Greenwich Park Flower Garden 🌳
As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
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Throughout The Green Park you'll find London plane trees standing tall. These urban warriors have an important role to play 🌳
As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹
As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Throughout The Green Park you'll find London plane trees standing tall. These urban warriors have an important role to play 🌳
As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹
As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹
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Next Monday 1 Dec 25: Sophia Adams will be talking about "The Melsonby hoard" for the Combined Hertfordshire Archaeological Societies. Lecture on zoom, free tickets from Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1777827874... #IronAge #prehistory #archaeology #HorseGear #AmazingFind @ehasarch.bsky.social
The Melsonby Hoard: a talk by Sophia Adams
The Melsonby Hoard is a highly significant discovery of Iron Age metalwork from nearly 2,000 years ago discovered in late December 2021.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Next Monday 1 Dec 25: Sophia Adams will be talking about "The Melsonby hoard" for the Combined Hertfordshire Archaeological Societies. Lecture on zoom, free tickets from Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1777827874... #IronAge #prehistory #archaeology #HorseGear #AmazingFind @ehasarch.bsky.social
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The next CHAS lecture is a not-to-miss event! Join us on December 1 to hear British Museum curator Dr. Sophia Adams talk about the amazing Melsonby Hoard - and, as always, it's free!
More info and a link for tickets here:
ehas.org.uk/ehas.org.uk/...
#archaeology #ancientBluesky
More info and a link for tickets here:
ehas.org.uk/ehas.org.uk/...
#archaeology #ancientBluesky
The Melsonby Hoard: a talk by Sophia Adams - East Herts Archaeological Society
The Melsonby Hoard is a highly significant collection of more than 800 pieces of Iron Age metalwork from nearly 2,000 years ago.
ehas.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The next CHAS lecture is a not-to-miss event! Join us on December 1 to hear British Museum curator Dr. Sophia Adams talk about the amazing Melsonby Hoard - and, as always, it's free!
More info and a link for tickets here:
ehas.org.uk/ehas.org.uk/...
#archaeology #ancientBluesky
More info and a link for tickets here:
ehas.org.uk/ehas.org.uk/...
#archaeology #ancientBluesky
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Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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On 13 November, join Prof. Tom Moore FSA and Dr Sophia Adams FSA as they share recent finds in Melsonby, North Yorkshire - one of the largest hoards of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain!
www.sal.org.uk/event/melson...
www.sal.org.uk/event/melson...
The Melsonby hoard: Vehicles & Power in Late Iron Age North Yorkshire - Society of Antiquaries of London
In this lecture Prof. Tom Moore FSA and Dr Sophia Adams FSA share recent finds in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, one of the largest hoards of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain. They explore h...
www.sal.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
On 13 November, join Prof. Tom Moore FSA and Dr Sophia Adams FSA as they share recent finds in Melsonby, North Yorkshire - one of the largest hoards of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain!
www.sal.org.uk/event/melson...
www.sal.org.uk/event/melson...
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It's Reading Week - but the #archaeology never stops!
Dr Kris Lockyear is out in the field this week w/ 2nd & 3rd year students running (with Gareth Rees, 1 of our alum) a surveying course in Hertfordshire...
Stay tuned & send good weather vibes!
#LocalAndGlobal
#ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology
Dr Kris Lockyear is out in the field this week w/ 2nd & 3rd year students running (with Gareth Rees, 1 of our alum) a surveying course in Hertfordshire...
Stay tuned & send good weather vibes!
#LocalAndGlobal
#ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It's Reading Week - but the #archaeology never stops!
Dr Kris Lockyear is out in the field this week w/ 2nd & 3rd year students running (with Gareth Rees, 1 of our alum) a surveying course in Hertfordshire...
Stay tuned & send good weather vibes!
#LocalAndGlobal
#ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology
Dr Kris Lockyear is out in the field this week w/ 2nd & 3rd year students running (with Gareth Rees, 1 of our alum) a surveying course in Hertfordshire...
Stay tuned & send good weather vibes!
#LocalAndGlobal
#ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology
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We were lucky enough to work with @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social to scan the #MelsonbyHoard recently! See www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... for more info on this amazing discovery.
Help the York Museums Trust keep the hoard in Yorkshire and donate today at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m....
Help the York Museums Trust keep the hoard in Yorkshire and donate today at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m....
May 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We were lucky enough to work with @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social to scan the #MelsonbyHoard recently! See www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... for more info on this amazing discovery.
Help the York Museums Trust keep the hoard in Yorkshire and donate today at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m....
Help the York Museums Trust keep the hoard in Yorkshire and donate today at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m....
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Lovely to see the listing increased to Grade II* by Historic England and the DCMS for this amazing windmill in Margate. Draper's Windmill was constructed in about 1843, by John Holman, millwright of Canterbury. 🧵
📷 Emily Greenaway
📷 Emily Greenaway
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Lovely to see the listing increased to Grade II* by Historic England and the DCMS for this amazing windmill in Margate. Draper's Windmill was constructed in about 1843, by John Holman, millwright of Canterbury. 🧵
📷 Emily Greenaway
📷 Emily Greenaway
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The 2,000-year-old secrets that the amazing Melsonby Hoard is slowly revealing
The 2,000-year-old secrets that the amazing Melsonby Hoard is slowly revealing
NEW evidence dates the sensational “Melsonby Hoard” to a couple of decades earlier than the legendary queen Cartimandua and so it shines a light on a period of British history about which little is known.
www.bntmedia.uk
October 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The 2,000-year-old secrets that the amazing Melsonby Hoard is slowly revealing
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We're excited to be working with Wealden Archaeology Group at Scotney Castle! During October, the team has been undertaking GPR survey to learn more about the lost buildings depicted on 18th-early 19th century plans, to the west of the Old Castle.
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRec...
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRec...
October 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We're excited to be working with Wealden Archaeology Group at Scotney Castle! During October, the team has been undertaking GPR survey to learn more about the lost buildings depicted on 18th-early 19th century plans, to the west of the Old Castle.
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRec...
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRec...
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NEW Handaxes and Levallois cores from Shbicha, Iraq. Lying at the crossroads of Pleistocene hominin dispersals, these lithics show repeated episodes of raw material exploitation, indicating well-developed knowledge of the local environment.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
October 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
NEW Handaxes and Levallois cores from Shbicha, Iraq. Lying at the crossroads of Pleistocene hominin dispersals, these lithics show repeated episodes of raw material exploitation, indicating well-developed knowledge of the local environment.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.
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And so back to Greenwich by water, and there while something is dressing for our dinner, Sir William and I walked into the Park, where the King hath planted trees and made steps in the hill up to the Castle, which is very magnificent.
April 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
And so back to Greenwich by water, and there while something is dressing for our dinner, Sir William and I walked into the Park, where the King hath planted trees and made steps in the hill up to the Castle, which is very magnificent.
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Whilst storms 🌪️ rage on the west coast, here's an incredible Samian vessel from Aquae Sulis - Roman Bath - to start the week.
It depicts two gladiators locked in combat ⚔️🛡️😮
An incredible survival & on display in the Roman Baths museum
📷 My own
It depicts two gladiators locked in combat ⚔️🛡️😮
An incredible survival & on display in the Roman Baths museum
📷 My own
September 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Whilst storms 🌪️ rage on the west coast, here's an incredible Samian vessel from Aquae Sulis - Roman Bath - to start the week.
It depicts two gladiators locked in combat ⚔️🛡️😮
An incredible survival & on display in the Roman Baths museum
📷 My own
It depicts two gladiators locked in combat ⚔️🛡️😮
An incredible survival & on display in the Roman Baths museum
📷 My own
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Today I learned something amazingly new to me.
Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲
Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo
Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲
Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo
September 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Today I learned something amazingly new to me.
Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲
Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo
Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲
Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo
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Tonight is the 85th anniversary of so many WW1 records being destroyed. #otd #ww1 #geneaology
See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-1940-fir...
See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-1940-fir...
The 1940 fire at Arnside Street - The Long, Long Trail
It is widely known that the majority of British WW1 soldier’s army service records went up in smoke when the War Office […]
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September 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Tonight is the 85th anniversary of so many WW1 records being destroyed. #otd #ww1 #geneaology
See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-1940-fir...
See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-1940-fir...