Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology
@buarchanth.bsky.social
Archaeology at Bournemouth University
Come and say hello if you are interested in studying #archaeology at the @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Open Day today!
October 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Come and say hello if you are interested in studying #archaeology at the @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Open Day today!
Massive congratulations to Philip Riris who been awarded a prestigious 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize for his work on human-environmental interaction, South American prehistory, computational modelling, resilience, historical ecology, and rock art. Well done Phil! Read more here; ow.ly/I3B050XfyLN
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Massive congratulations to Philip Riris who been awarded a prestigious 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize for his work on human-environmental interaction, South American prehistory, computational modelling, resilience, historical ecology, and rock art. Well done Phil! Read more here; ow.ly/I3B050XfyLN
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And we're off!
#Archaeology @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
Digging dirt, shipwrecks and dead Romans
What's not to like? 😁
Come join us !
@buarchanth.bsky.social
#Archaeology @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
Digging dirt, shipwrecks and dead Romans
What's not to like? 😁
Come join us !
@buarchanth.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
And we're off!
#Archaeology @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
Digging dirt, shipwrecks and dead Romans
What's not to like? 😁
Come join us !
@buarchanth.bsky.social
#Archaeology @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
Digging dirt, shipwrecks and dead Romans
What's not to like? 😁
Come join us !
@buarchanth.bsky.social
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CONGRATULATIONS to Meg @megsdigs.bsky.social and Jon of @buarchanth.bsky.social whose video series #Stratmates has been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Archaeology Achievements Awards 2025 🥳
You can catch up with the #Stratmates backcatalogue over on #Instagram
#Archaeology #Dorset
You can catch up with the #Stratmates backcatalogue over on #Instagram
#Archaeology #Dorset
October 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
CONGRATULATIONS to Meg @megsdigs.bsky.social and Jon of @buarchanth.bsky.social whose video series #Stratmates has been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Archaeology Achievements Awards 2025 🥳
You can catch up with the #Stratmates backcatalogue over on #Instagram
#Archaeology #Dorset
You can catch up with the #Stratmates backcatalogue over on #Instagram
#Archaeology #Dorset
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The first in a series of posts listing participants in University Archaeology Day #UAD25 @britishacademy.bsky.social ... Look out for @buarchanth.bsky.social at the event!
... Plenty more to come!
... Plenty more to come!
October 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The first in a series of posts listing participants in University Archaeology Day #UAD25 @britishacademy.bsky.social ... Look out for @buarchanth.bsky.social at the event!
... Plenty more to come!
... Plenty more to come!
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Join Meg and Jon over on #instagram as they discover and discuss a stunning #Roman military incised gemstone (intaglio) found at the fort of Waddon Hill #Dorset
##RomanSiteSaturday #Stratmates #Archaeology
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##RomanSiteSaturday #Stratmates #Archaeology
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September 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Join Meg and Jon over on #instagram as they discover and discuss a stunning #Roman military incised gemstone (intaglio) found at the fort of Waddon Hill #Dorset
##RomanSiteSaturday #Stratmates #Archaeology
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www.instagram.com/reel/DOOciQD...
##RomanSiteSaturday #Stratmates #Archaeology
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www.instagram.com/reel/DOOciQD...
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New update on @buarchanth.bsky.social Ukrainian colleagues' work supporting veterans and Ukrainian heritage, including work with @henebtwa.bsky.social and Operation Nightingale - www.gofundme.com/f/help-sergi...
Donate to Help Sergiy Preserve & Present Ukrainian Heritage, organized by Mark Brisbane
The war in Ukraine has turned the lives of its people upside down, and… Mark Brisbane needs your support for Help Sergiy Preserve & Present Ukrainian Heritage
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August 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
New update on @buarchanth.bsky.social Ukrainian colleagues' work supporting veterans and Ukrainian heritage, including work with @henebtwa.bsky.social and Operation Nightingale - www.gofundme.com/f/help-sergi...
🎉 Congratulation to everyone on #ALevelResultsDay!
If you are considering Archaeology and didn’t get the results you wanted, our clearing phone lines are now open: +44(0)1202 966777
🎥 Watch the BU Archaeology Showcase: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym55...
If you are considering Archaeology and didn’t get the results you wanted, our clearing phone lines are now open: +44(0)1202 966777
🎥 Watch the BU Archaeology Showcase: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym55...
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August 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🎉 Congratulation to everyone on #ALevelResultsDay!
If you are considering Archaeology and didn’t get the results you wanted, our clearing phone lines are now open: +44(0)1202 966777
🎥 Watch the BU Archaeology Showcase: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym55...
If you are considering Archaeology and didn’t get the results you wanted, our clearing phone lines are now open: +44(0)1202 966777
🎥 Watch the BU Archaeology Showcase: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym55...
Last week we were @romanpalace.bsky.social for the #festivalofarchaeology. We carried out a GPR survey with the help of many of the visitors and had an excellent day talking about some of our work!
July 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Last week we were @romanpalace.bsky.social for the #festivalofarchaeology. We carried out a GPR survey with the help of many of the visitors and had an excellent day talking about some of our work!
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Interested in pursuing a British Academy Postdoctoral fellowship at @buarchanth.bsky.social? Check us out at www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/our-fa... and drop us a line. If you're not sure who to contact directly, email me!
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
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July 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Interested in pursuing a British Academy Postdoctoral fellowship at @buarchanth.bsky.social? Check us out at www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/our-fa... and drop us a line. If you're not sure who to contact directly, email me!
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Week one of our archaeological fieldschool, putting our archaeology students BSAC diving skills to use investigating shipwrecks across Poole Bay @bsacdivers.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Week one of our archaeological fieldschool, putting our archaeology students BSAC diving skills to use investigating shipwrecks across Poole Bay @bsacdivers.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
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Ethan has completed the half section of his Iron Age storage pit at #Durotriges25
Despite there being no finds at the very base of the feature, he is happy 😊
Despite there being no finds at the very base of the feature, he is happy 😊
July 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ethan has completed the half section of his Iron Age storage pit at #Durotriges25
Despite there being no finds at the very base of the feature, he is happy 😊
Despite there being no finds at the very base of the feature, he is happy 😊
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JOB as PT Assistant Curator with our lovely friends at Hengistbury Head. Likely to be of interest to @buarchanth.bsky.social present and past students!
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June 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
JOB as PT Assistant Curator with our lovely friends at Hengistbury Head. Likely to be of interest to @buarchanth.bsky.social present and past students!
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A big THANK YOU to the @buarchanth.bsky.social volunteer team (some of whom are pictured here) who made the #Durotriges25 big dig open day possible
You're all wonderful 😊
You're all wonderful 😊
June 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A big THANK YOU to the @buarchanth.bsky.social volunteer team (some of whom are pictured here) who made the #Durotriges25 big dig open day possible
You're all wonderful 😊
You're all wonderful 😊
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Thank you to the 834 people who came to visit us on the @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #Durotriges25 Big Dig open day
Great to see you all and do please come and see us again next year on #Durotriges26 👍
Great to see you all and do please come and see us again next year on #Durotriges26 👍
June 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thank you to the 834 people who came to visit us on the @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #Durotriges25 Big Dig open day
Great to see you all and do please come and see us again next year on #Durotriges26 👍
Great to see you all and do please come and see us again next year on #Durotriges26 👍
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Excavation has begun across the long, linear ditch in the southern end of Trench M at #Durotriges25
Really hoping it's Iron Age 🤞
Really hoping it's Iron Age 🤞
June 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Excavation has begun across the long, linear ditch in the southern end of Trench M at #Durotriges25
Really hoping it's Iron Age 🤞
Really hoping it's Iron Age 🤞
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Day one on site with the #Durotriges25 dig team
A quick fly-by, courtesy of Jo and Sue Crane, shows the area under investigation this year and the archaeological features prior to cleaning 🤩
A quick fly-by, courtesy of Jo and Sue Crane, shows the area under investigation this year and the archaeological features prior to cleaning 🤩
June 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Day one on site with the #Durotriges25 dig team
A quick fly-by, courtesy of Jo and Sue Crane, shows the area under investigation this year and the archaeological features prior to cleaning 🤩
A quick fly-by, courtesy of Jo and Sue Crane, shows the area under investigation this year and the archaeological features prior to cleaning 🤩
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Want to hear an archaeologist try and make sense of all the prehistoric features just exposed in the first trench to be excavated at #Durotriges25?
Course you do
#Archaeology #FindsFriday
Course you do
#Archaeology #FindsFriday
May 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Want to hear an archaeologist try and make sense of all the prehistoric features just exposed in the first trench to be excavated at #Durotriges25?
Course you do
#Archaeology #FindsFriday
Course you do
#Archaeology #FindsFriday
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Just your average Wednesday morning with students @buarchanth.bsky.social queuing up to meet Medusa 🐍🐍
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@bignorvilla.bsky.social
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@bignorvilla.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just your average Wednesday morning with students @buarchanth.bsky.social queuing up to meet Medusa 🐍🐍
😱😱
@bignorvilla.bsky.social
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@bignorvilla.bsky.social
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Live update
Our annual pilgrimage to the magnificent @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the students of @buarchanth.bsky.social
A glorious day to be visiting the Iron Age 😎
#HillfortsWednesday
Our annual pilgrimage to the magnificent @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the students of @buarchanth.bsky.social
A glorious day to be visiting the Iron Age 😎
#HillfortsWednesday
April 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Live update
Our annual pilgrimage to the magnificent @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the students of @buarchanth.bsky.social
A glorious day to be visiting the Iron Age 😎
#HillfortsWednesday
Our annual pilgrimage to the magnificent @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the students of @buarchanth.bsky.social
A glorious day to be visiting the Iron Age 😎
#HillfortsWednesday
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A cheeky little piece of late Iron Age Black Burnished Ware pottery
Slightly damaged
Photographed in July 2024 at the moment of retrieval, a mere 2,000 years after it was lost
Will we find anything similar this year on #Durotriges25?
Let's hope so
#Archaeology #prehistoric #Dorset #FindsFriday
Slightly damaged
Photographed in July 2024 at the moment of retrieval, a mere 2,000 years after it was lost
Will we find anything similar this year on #Durotriges25?
Let's hope so
#Archaeology #prehistoric #Dorset #FindsFriday
April 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A cheeky little piece of late Iron Age Black Burnished Ware pottery
Slightly damaged
Photographed in July 2024 at the moment of retrieval, a mere 2,000 years after it was lost
Will we find anything similar this year on #Durotriges25?
Let's hope so
#Archaeology #prehistoric #Dorset #FindsFriday
Slightly damaged
Photographed in July 2024 at the moment of retrieval, a mere 2,000 years after it was lost
Will we find anything similar this year on #Durotriges25?
Let's hope so
#Archaeology #prehistoric #Dorset #FindsFriday
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Siggy Osborne and Emma Jenkins @buarchanth.bsky.social undertaking plant identification and ecological habitat studies in the Drumadoon landscape. @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @fossilbeetle.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Siggy Osborne and Emma Jenkins @buarchanth.bsky.social undertaking plant identification and ecological habitat studies in the Drumadoon landscape. @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @fossilbeetle.bsky.social
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Meet Kimmeridge Woman - an Iron Age skeleton whose face we've been able to recreate using new technology. As she goes on display at Wareham Museum, find out more about the process of reconstructing her face and what we can learn from her skeleton: bit.ly/42BtGcj
@buarchanth.bsky.social
@buarchanth.bsky.social
Face to face with the past: BU student recreates face of Iron Age Dorset woman
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April 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Meet Kimmeridge Woman - an Iron Age skeleton whose face we've been able to recreate using new technology. As she goes on display at Wareham Museum, find out more about the process of reconstructing her face and what we can learn from her skeleton: bit.ly/42BtGcj
@buarchanth.bsky.social
@buarchanth.bsky.social
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The wreck of an Admiralty mooring lighter, known as the ‘Pin Wreck’, located off St Albans Head, has been added to the National Heritage List for England
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#MaritimeArchaeology #MaritimeHistory
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#MaritimeArchaeology #MaritimeHistory
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The wreck of an Admiralty mooring lighter, known as the ‘Pin Wreck’, located off St Albans Head, has been added to the National Heritage List for England
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
#MaritimeArchaeology #MaritimeHistory
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
#MaritimeArchaeology #MaritimeHistory
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Our latest blog is out now - read all about the Grand Old Lady - and here a pair of binoculars from #RMSMedina @buarchanth.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHeritage www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...
March 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Our latest blog is out now - read all about the Grand Old Lady - and here a pair of binoculars from #RMSMedina @buarchanth.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHeritage www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...