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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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 […]
www.longlongtrail.co.uk
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...
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If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
Ben Affleck visits Butser Ancient Farm (Archive Clip)
YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
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And just like that, Season 2 of #Bodiam100 is complete!
We’ve had an amazing 3 weeks on site with around 140 participants joining us
#OutInTheField.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers & to our property colleagues for making us so welcome at Bodiam. 🏺🧵
@nationaltrust.org.uk
We’ve had an amazing 3 weeks on site with around 140 participants joining us
#OutInTheField.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers & to our property colleagues for making us so welcome at Bodiam. 🏺🧵
@nationaltrust.org.uk
August 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
And just like that, Season 2 of #Bodiam100 is complete!
We’ve had an amazing 3 weeks on site with around 140 participants joining us
#OutInTheField.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers & to our property colleagues for making us so welcome at Bodiam. 🏺🧵
@nationaltrust.org.uk
We’ve had an amazing 3 weeks on site with around 140 participants joining us
#OutInTheField.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers & to our property colleagues for making us so welcome at Bodiam. 🏺🧵
@nationaltrust.org.uk
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Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
August 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
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August 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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This week's #AlphabetChallenge is #WeekGforGlass so please enjoy the only known depiction of Roman glass blowing, on an oil lamp.
Three have been found: in Asseria, Ferrara and Spodnje Skofije.
Three have been found: in Asseria, Ferrara and Spodnje Skofije.
August 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This week's #AlphabetChallenge is #WeekGforGlass so please enjoy the only known depiction of Roman glass blowing, on an oil lamp.
Three have been found: in Asseria, Ferrara and Spodnje Skofije.
Three have been found: in Asseria, Ferrara and Spodnje Skofije.
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The decorated backplate of a copper alloy Iron Age mirror
From a pit with mid-late 1st century AD Roman glassware
Possibly part of a very late Durotriges grave assemblage
Found at Chettle Park Dorset in 2003
Now in the BM (2009,8006.1)
© The Trustees of the British Museum
#FindsFriday
From a pit with mid-late 1st century AD Roman glassware
Possibly part of a very late Durotriges grave assemblage
Found at Chettle Park Dorset in 2003
Now in the BM (2009,8006.1)
© The Trustees of the British Museum
#FindsFriday
August 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The decorated backplate of a copper alloy Iron Age mirror
From a pit with mid-late 1st century AD Roman glassware
Possibly part of a very late Durotriges grave assemblage
Found at Chettle Park Dorset in 2003
Now in the BM (2009,8006.1)
© The Trustees of the British Museum
#FindsFriday
From a pit with mid-late 1st century AD Roman glassware
Possibly part of a very late Durotriges grave assemblage
Found at Chettle Park Dorset in 2003
Now in the BM (2009,8006.1)
© The Trustees of the British Museum
#FindsFriday
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The Yorkshire Museum is delighted to announce that it has received £192,096 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund alongside support from public fundraising to acquire the Melsonby Hoard for future generations.
www.bajr.org/melsonby-hoa...
www.bajr.org/melsonby-hoa...
Melsonby Hoard acquired by the The Yorkshire Museum - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
The Yorkshire Museum is delighted to announce that it has received £192,096 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund alongside support from public fundraising to acquire the Melsonby Hoard for future ...
www.bajr.org
July 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The Yorkshire Museum is delighted to announce that it has received £192,096 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund alongside support from public fundraising to acquire the Melsonby Hoard for future generations.
www.bajr.org/melsonby-hoa...
www.bajr.org/melsonby-hoa...
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News | Yorkshire Museum acquires iron age hoard after fundraising campaign – Melsonby Hoard of over 800 artefacts was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021
Yorkshire Museum acquires iron age hoard after fundraising campaign - Museums Association
Melsonby Hoard of over 800 artefacts was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021
www.museumsassociation.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
News | Yorkshire Museum acquires iron age hoard after fundraising campaign – Melsonby Hoard of over 800 artefacts was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021
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🎉 Welcome to #FestivalOfArchaeology Youth Day! 🎉
Today is all about young voices, bold ideas, and the future of archaeology. Here’s what's coming:
🖼️ My Heritage Photography Exhibition!
🎓 Student & Early Careers Conference at 3 PM
🆕 Big News from the Youth Advisory Board
💬 And even more surprises 👀
Today is all about young voices, bold ideas, and the future of archaeology. Here’s what's coming:
🖼️ My Heritage Photography Exhibition!
🎓 Student & Early Careers Conference at 3 PM
🆕 Big News from the Youth Advisory Board
💬 And even more surprises 👀
July 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎉 Welcome to #FestivalOfArchaeology Youth Day! 🎉
Today is all about young voices, bold ideas, and the future of archaeology. Here’s what's coming:
🖼️ My Heritage Photography Exhibition!
🎓 Student & Early Careers Conference at 3 PM
🆕 Big News from the Youth Advisory Board
💬 And even more surprises 👀
Today is all about young voices, bold ideas, and the future of archaeology. Here’s what's coming:
🖼️ My Heritage Photography Exhibition!
🎓 Student & Early Careers Conference at 3 PM
🆕 Big News from the Youth Advisory Board
💬 And even more surprises 👀
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In Iron Age finds news:
The Yorkshire Museum has acquired the Melsonby *hoard* (more properly *assemblage*) a huge collection of material including chariot fittings, equestrian gear and weaponry, thanks to the National Lottery funding and fundraising 👇👇
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huzzah!
The Yorkshire Museum has acquired the Melsonby *hoard* (more properly *assemblage*) a huge collection of material including chariot fittings, equestrian gear and weaponry, thanks to the National Lottery funding and fundraising 👇👇
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huzzah!
July 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
In Iron Age finds news:
The Yorkshire Museum has acquired the Melsonby *hoard* (more properly *assemblage*) a huge collection of material including chariot fittings, equestrian gear and weaponry, thanks to the National Lottery funding and fundraising 👇👇
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huzzah!
The Yorkshire Museum has acquired the Melsonby *hoard* (more properly *assemblage*) a huge collection of material including chariot fittings, equestrian gear and weaponry, thanks to the National Lottery funding and fundraising 👇👇
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huzzah!
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World War One pillboxes in Norfolk listed by Historic England
Pillboxes are
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Read more about the role of our archaeologists in this amazing discovery: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Melsonby Hoard - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
July 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Read more about the role of our archaeologists in this amazing discovery: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...