Dr Toby Driver
@drtobydriver.bsky.social
🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
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Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?
January 27, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?
Great to be at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay today with @rcahmwales.bsky.social colleagues to attend the launch of the new Heneb strategy
Great to see so many colleagues here from across Wales & England
Great to see so many colleagues here from across Wales & England
January 29, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Great to be at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay today with @rcahmwales.bsky.social colleagues to attend the launch of the new Heneb strategy
Great to see so many colleagues here from across Wales & England
Great to see so many colleagues here from across Wales & England
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Good morning from Senedd Cymru /Welsh Parliament 🏴
Here for @henebtwa.bsky.social launch event, speaking about why #archaeology matters.
(Love that there's a giant torc here at the centre of Welsh political power!)
Here for @henebtwa.bsky.social launch event, speaking about why #archaeology matters.
(Love that there's a giant torc here at the centre of Welsh political power!)
January 29, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Good morning from Senedd Cymru /Welsh Parliament 🏴
Here for @henebtwa.bsky.social launch event, speaking about why #archaeology matters.
(Love that there's a giant torc here at the centre of Welsh political power!)
Here for @henebtwa.bsky.social launch event, speaking about why #archaeology matters.
(Love that there's a giant torc here at the centre of Welsh political power!)
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@drtobydriver.bsky.social SAW YOU ON DIGGING FOR BRITAIN 👌👌👌
January 28, 2026 at 5:38 PM
@drtobydriver.bsky.social SAW YOU ON DIGGING FOR BRITAIN 👌👌👌
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Ancient Greek silver stater (coin) with an octopus on the reverse side. 🐙
Minted in Eretria, Euboea, Greece, 500-480 BC.
Photo: British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
#ReliefWednesday
Minted in Eretria, Euboea, Greece, 500-480 BC.
Photo: British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
#ReliefWednesday
January 28, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Ancient Greek silver stater (coin) with an octopus on the reverse side. 🐙
Minted in Eretria, Euboea, Greece, 500-480 BC.
Photo: British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
#ReliefWednesday
Minted in Eretria, Euboea, Greece, 500-480 BC.
Photo: British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
#ReliefWednesday
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What lies Beneath (the soil)?
The Iron Age hillfort of Chalbury #Dorset, interior roundhouse platforms showing up beautifully:
1) composite #LiDAR visualization courtesy of @mark-walters.bsky.social
2) magnetometry survey by Dave Stewart in 2014
We count at least 73 houses 😲
#HillfortsWednesday
The Iron Age hillfort of Chalbury #Dorset, interior roundhouse platforms showing up beautifully:
1) composite #LiDAR visualization courtesy of @mark-walters.bsky.social
2) magnetometry survey by Dave Stewart in 2014
We count at least 73 houses 😲
#HillfortsWednesday
January 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
What lies Beneath (the soil)?
The Iron Age hillfort of Chalbury #Dorset, interior roundhouse platforms showing up beautifully:
1) composite #LiDAR visualization courtesy of @mark-walters.bsky.social
2) magnetometry survey by Dave Stewart in 2014
We count at least 73 houses 😲
#HillfortsWednesday
The Iron Age hillfort of Chalbury #Dorset, interior roundhouse platforms showing up beautifully:
1) composite #LiDAR visualization courtesy of @mark-walters.bsky.social
2) magnetometry survey by Dave Stewart in 2014
We count at least 73 houses 😲
#HillfortsWednesday
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Sussex has legends of Giants but I never thought one would reveal its face in such a dramatic way
January 28, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Sussex has legends of Giants but I never thought one would reveal its face in such a dramatic way
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It's finally #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah!
Here's the spectacular Iron Age enclosure of Chalbury in south #Dorset
Sitting above the town of Weymouth and gazing down at the English Channel, the roughly D-shaped univallate hillfort encloses 3.3ha
✈️📷 looking east © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
Here's the spectacular Iron Age enclosure of Chalbury in south #Dorset
Sitting above the town of Weymouth and gazing down at the English Channel, the roughly D-shaped univallate hillfort encloses 3.3ha
✈️📷 looking east © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
January 28, 2026 at 6:22 AM
It's finally #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah!
Here's the spectacular Iron Age enclosure of Chalbury in south #Dorset
Sitting above the town of Weymouth and gazing down at the English Channel, the roughly D-shaped univallate hillfort encloses 3.3ha
✈️📷 looking east © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
Here's the spectacular Iron Age enclosure of Chalbury in south #Dorset
Sitting above the town of Weymouth and gazing down at the English Channel, the roughly D-shaped univallate hillfort encloses 3.3ha
✈️📷 looking east © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
We've all made it to another #HillfortsWednesday! 🥳
The Iron Age still has the capacity to completely stump modern scholars 🧐
Nowhere more so than with the 3 hillforts on Hardings Down, Gower, S.Wales..
All close neighbours, with quite different builds... So what was the chronology?! 😮🤔
📷 Lidar
The Iron Age still has the capacity to completely stump modern scholars 🧐
Nowhere more so than with the 3 hillforts on Hardings Down, Gower, S.Wales..
All close neighbours, with quite different builds... So what was the chronology?! 😮🤔
📷 Lidar
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 AM
We've all made it to another #HillfortsWednesday! 🥳
The Iron Age still has the capacity to completely stump modern scholars 🧐
Nowhere more so than with the 3 hillforts on Hardings Down, Gower, S.Wales..
All close neighbours, with quite different builds... So what was the chronology?! 😮🤔
📷 Lidar
The Iron Age still has the capacity to completely stump modern scholars 🧐
Nowhere more so than with the 3 hillforts on Hardings Down, Gower, S.Wales..
All close neighbours, with quite different builds... So what was the chronology?! 😮🤔
📷 Lidar
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#HillfortsWednesday with the rainclouds breaking behind Pen Dinas, Aberystwyth
If you haven't seen it yet, we had a great time catching up with @drtobydriver.bsky.social & talking about all things Iron Age & Welsh Hillforts
you can catch that here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
If you haven't seen it yet, we had a great time catching up with @drtobydriver.bsky.social & talking about all things Iron Age & Welsh Hillforts
you can catch that here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
January 28, 2026 at 5:57 AM
#HillfortsWednesday with the rainclouds breaking behind Pen Dinas, Aberystwyth
If you haven't seen it yet, we had a great time catching up with @drtobydriver.bsky.social & talking about all things Iron Age & Welsh Hillforts
you can catch that here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
If you haven't seen it yet, we had a great time catching up with @drtobydriver.bsky.social & talking about all things Iron Age & Welsh Hillforts
you can catch that here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
The old #jokes are the best @danherb10.bsky.social...🤔🫣
I walked past a line of #Viking assembly sites the other day..
It was rubbish.. literally just one Thing after another 😊
I walked past a line of #Viking assembly sites the other day..
It was rubbish.. literally just one Thing after another 😊
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 PM
The old #jokes are the best @danherb10.bsky.social...🤔🫣
I walked past a line of #Viking assembly sites the other day..
It was rubbish.. literally just one Thing after another 😊
I walked past a line of #Viking assembly sites the other day..
It was rubbish.. literally just one Thing after another 😊
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Y'know, comparison is the enemy of joy. And this stone monument makes other stone monuments feel sad about themselves. Thanks for making an ordinary Tuesday Epic, @drtobydriver.bsky.social
#TombTuesday 12 seconds of bright winter sun & a cold east wind across the ancient burial mound of Bryn Cader Faner in the Eryri/Snowdonia uplands
Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮
🎥 My own, Sunday
Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮
🎥 My own, Sunday
January 27, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Y'know, comparison is the enemy of joy. And this stone monument makes other stone monuments feel sad about themselves. Thanks for making an ordinary Tuesday Epic, @drtobydriver.bsky.social
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'Victory' and inscription recording construction of a section of the Antonine Wall, AD140s.
"For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, a detachment of the 20th Legion Valeria Victrix built 4,411 feet."
RIB 2208.
#EpigraphyTuesday
#ReliefWednesday
"For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, a detachment of the 20th Legion Valeria Victrix built 4,411 feet."
RIB 2208.
#EpigraphyTuesday
#ReliefWednesday
January 27, 2026 at 8:03 AM
'Victory' and inscription recording construction of a section of the Antonine Wall, AD140s.
"For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, a detachment of the 20th Legion Valeria Victrix built 4,411 feet."
RIB 2208.
#EpigraphyTuesday
#ReliefWednesday
"For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, a detachment of the 20th Legion Valeria Victrix built 4,411 feet."
RIB 2208.
#EpigraphyTuesday
#ReliefWednesday
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Brane Entrance grave near Sancreed, in Cornwall. #TombTuesday
January 27, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Brane Entrance grave near Sancreed, in Cornwall. #TombTuesday
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From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector.
Still looking.
Still looking.
January 27, 2026 at 7:12 AM
From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector.
Still looking.
Still looking.
#TombTuesday 12 seconds of bright winter sun & a cold east wind across the ancient burial mound of Bryn Cader Faner in the Eryri/Snowdonia uplands
Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮
🎥 My own, Sunday
Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮
🎥 My own, Sunday
January 27, 2026 at 6:43 AM
#TombTuesday 12 seconds of bright winter sun & a cold east wind across the ancient burial mound of Bryn Cader Faner in the Eryri/Snowdonia uplands
Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮
🎥 My own, Sunday
Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮
🎥 My own, Sunday
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Some inspiration for a cold day during bleak times.
Half million year old handaxes from Boxgrove, Sussex, laid out for a photoshoot with Dr Claire Harris at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social
#MondayMotivation
🦣🏺
Half million year old handaxes from Boxgrove, Sussex, laid out for a photoshoot with Dr Claire Harris at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social
#MondayMotivation
🦣🏺
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Some inspiration for a cold day during bleak times.
Half million year old handaxes from Boxgrove, Sussex, laid out for a photoshoot with Dr Claire Harris at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social
#MondayMotivation
🦣🏺
Half million year old handaxes from Boxgrove, Sussex, laid out for a photoshoot with Dr Claire Harris at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social
#MondayMotivation
🦣🏺
A fabulous new conference proceedings on coastal archaeology from @sidestone.bsky.social
...and you can read online for free! This is what academic publication should look like 👏👏
www.sidestone.com/books/archae...
#coastal #wrecks #archaeology
...and you can read online for free! This is what academic publication should look like 👏👏
www.sidestone.com/books/archae...
#coastal #wrecks #archaeology
Archaeology Of Coastal Settlements @ Sidestone Press
This volume presents the proceedings of the HOMER 2021 international conference, held in September/October 2021 on the Island of Oléron, France. The conference focused on recent advances in coastal an...
www.sidestone.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM
A fabulous new conference proceedings on coastal archaeology from @sidestone.bsky.social
...and you can read online for free! This is what academic publication should look like 👏👏
www.sidestone.com/books/archae...
#coastal #wrecks #archaeology
...and you can read online for free! This is what academic publication should look like 👏👏
www.sidestone.com/books/archae...
#coastal #wrecks #archaeology
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Made a few improvements to my online portfolio to provide more context with my reconstruction images. I'll include more paradata with the projects I post in future. With so many now questioning image authenticity because of AI, I feel it's more important than ever to declare my sources & references.
Bob Marshall: Commissioned Reconstructions
Portfolio of Commissioned Reconstruction Artworks by Bob Marshall
bobmarshall.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Made a few improvements to my online portfolio to provide more context with my reconstruction images. I'll include more paradata with the projects I post in future. With so many now questioning image authenticity because of AI, I feel it's more important than ever to declare my sources & references.
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#MosaicMonday with this labyrinth mosaic, discovered in the churchyard at Caerleon, from the legate's residence
~c1-3 AD
We recently had a discussion on the Roman invasion of wales with @drtobydriver.bsky.social along with all things Wales & Hillforts 🏴
its here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
~c1-3 AD
We recently had a discussion on the Roman invasion of wales with @drtobydriver.bsky.social along with all things Wales & Hillforts 🏴
its here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
January 26, 2026 at 9:22 AM
#MosaicMonday with this labyrinth mosaic, discovered in the churchyard at Caerleon, from the legate's residence
~c1-3 AD
We recently had a discussion on the Roman invasion of wales with @drtobydriver.bsky.social along with all things Wales & Hillforts 🏴
its here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
~c1-3 AD
We recently had a discussion on the Roman invasion of wales with @drtobydriver.bsky.social along with all things Wales & Hillforts 🏴
its here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
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"[Barn] raisings are a model for examining the entirety of building as a relational practice, and the ways architectural work is embedded in, dependent on, and facilitated by structures of the economy, family, labor, and risk."
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 AM
"[Barn] raisings are a model for examining the entirety of building as a relational practice, and the ways architectural work is embedded in, dependent on, and facilitated by structures of the economy, family, labor, and risk."
The glorious, remote Nant Pasgan Fawr farmhouse in the hills above Talsarnau, Eryri/Snowdonia, approached by a slate slab bridge across a stream
The house has been dated by dendrochronology to the late C16th 😮
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/405144
📷 My own, yesterday
The house has been dated by dendrochronology to the late C16th 😮
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/405144
📷 My own, yesterday
January 26, 2026 at 7:42 AM
The glorious, remote Nant Pasgan Fawr farmhouse in the hills above Talsarnau, Eryri/Snowdonia, approached by a slate slab bridge across a stream
The house has been dated by dendrochronology to the late C16th 😮
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/405144
📷 My own, yesterday
The house has been dated by dendrochronology to the late C16th 😮
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/405144
📷 My own, yesterday
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Given the news, it seems appropriate to share this photograph once more. Feel free to share.
Hand of a gilded bronze statue of an Roman emperor.
From Kempten, 1st to 3rd c. AD
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung
📷 me
Hand of a gilded bronze statue of an Roman emperor.
From Kempten, 1st to 3rd c. AD
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung
📷 me
January 25, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Given the news, it seems appropriate to share this photograph once more. Feel free to share.
Hand of a gilded bronze statue of an Roman emperor.
From Kempten, 1st to 3rd c. AD
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung
📷 me
Hand of a gilded bronze statue of an Roman emperor.
From Kempten, 1st to 3rd c. AD
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung
📷 me
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The wonderfully sinister altar-like recumbent stone and flankers at Midmar Kirk (Aberdeenshire) plus the (also quite spooky) stone in the woods nearby #StandingStoneSunday
January 25, 2026 at 8:56 AM
The wonderfully sinister altar-like recumbent stone and flankers at Midmar Kirk (Aberdeenshire) plus the (also quite spooky) stone in the woods nearby #StandingStoneSunday
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January 25, 2026 at 4:55 PM