Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍄
@archaedelle.bsky.social
Archaeologist in Wales 🏴 | Finds Officer based in Amgueddfa Cymru 🏛️ | PhD on Iron Age mortuary practices 🛖 | ADHD: expect typos 🥲 | she/her | all views are mine!
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There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead:
A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday
Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday
Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
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No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻
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Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales.
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales.
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
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Do join us at our free online symposium tomorrow from 10am!
You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
ID: 364 396 620 178 1
PC: bG2gD3ZU
You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
ID: 364 396 620 178 1
PC: bG2gD3ZU
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Do join us at our free online symposium tomorrow from 10am!
You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
ID: 364 396 620 178 1
PC: bG2gD3ZU
You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
ID: 364 396 620 178 1
PC: bG2gD3ZU
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On a chilly morning such as this, let’s imagine ourselves as a Hadrian’s Wall soldier starting his shift in one of the turrets, checking his section of wall, & then upwards on watch duty.
Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow!
#RomanFortThursday
Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow!
#RomanFortThursday
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
On a chilly morning such as this, let’s imagine ourselves as a Hadrian’s Wall soldier starting his shift in one of the turrets, checking his section of wall, & then upwards on watch duty.
Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow!
#RomanFortThursday
Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow!
#RomanFortThursday
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It’s horrid & cold & barely light out there - so warm yourselves around the glow of this Roman cavalry horse chamfron at @vindolandatrust.bsky.social based on one found in the excavations. Bronze dazzling as gilt & leather smooth as caramel, this is the accessory every little pony wants this Xmas.🎄
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s horrid & cold & barely light out there - so warm yourselves around the glow of this Roman cavalry horse chamfron at @vindolandatrust.bsky.social based on one found in the excavations. Bronze dazzling as gilt & leather smooth as caramel, this is the accessory every little pony wants this Xmas.🎄
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Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
Prosopographia Imperii Romani
pir.bbaw.de
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
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Seriously looking forward to this with the renowned @richardosgood.bsky.social 🔥🧙💯
❄️⛄🎄Cambrians Christmas Lecture 2025 ❄️⛄🎄
The Druids' Sacrifice: Discovering Iron Age Wales on Military Land By Richard Osgood (Senior Archaeologist, Defence Infrastructure Organisation)
Online via Zoom: Thursday 4th December @ 7.00 pm
Booking details [to follow]
The Druids' Sacrifice: Discovering Iron Age Wales on Military Land By Richard Osgood (Senior Archaeologist, Defence Infrastructure Organisation)
Online via Zoom: Thursday 4th December @ 7.00 pm
Booking details [to follow]
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Seriously looking forward to this with the renowned @richardosgood.bsky.social 🔥🧙💯
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The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🍻
Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮
In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social
📷 Yesterday
Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮
In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social
📷 Yesterday
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🍻
Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮
In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social
📷 Yesterday
Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮
In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social
📷 Yesterday
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Friendly reminder, if you see someone this Halloween wearing the plague doctor with the bird beak mask costume, you have to ask them what they are supposed to be and if they then say they're a medieval plague doctor... it's your duty to correct them ;)
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Friendly reminder, if you see someone this Halloween wearing the plague doctor with the bird beak mask costume, you have to ask them what they are supposed to be and if they then say they're a medieval plague doctor... it's your duty to correct them ;)
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you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ...
*opens manilla envelope*
... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...
*slides 8x10 photo across table*
... you wore the tutti frutti
*opens manilla envelope*
... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...
*slides 8x10 photo across table*
... you wore the tutti frutti
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ...
*opens manilla envelope*
... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...
*slides 8x10 photo across table*
... you wore the tutti frutti
*opens manilla envelope*
... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...
*slides 8x10 photo across table*
... you wore the tutti frutti
Free lecture tonight! No need to book!
⏰ Tuesday 21 Oct 17:00 BST
📍 Online or in person (Society of Antiquaries of London)
www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...
⏰ Tuesday 21 Oct 17:00 BST
📍 Online or in person (Society of Antiquaries of London)
www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...
Traces of Touch: From Palaeolithic Embodied Markings to Amazonian Decorated Hands | The Prehistoric Society
Deep within Ardales Cave in southern Spain, in its most secluded chamber, someone dragged their pigment-coated hands downwards for over a metre, leaving behind two striking markings. Such gestures are...
www.prehistoricsociety.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Free lecture tonight! No need to book!
⏰ Tuesday 21 Oct 17:00 BST
📍 Online or in person (Society of Antiquaries of London)
www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...
⏰ Tuesday 21 Oct 17:00 BST
📍 Online or in person (Society of Antiquaries of London)
www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...
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#MosaicMonday - Discovered in 2003 at the submerged site of Riches Dunes, near Marseillan in France. The scene shows Apollo's punishment of the satyr, Marsyas. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Musée de l’Ephèbe et d’archéologie sous-marine du Cap d’Agde (n°2926). Link - musees-occitanie.fr/oeuvre/emble...
Image: Musée de l’Ephèbe et d’archéologie sous-marine du Cap d’Agde (n°2926). Link - musees-occitanie.fr/oeuvre/emble...
October 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#MosaicMonday - Discovered in 2003 at the submerged site of Riches Dunes, near Marseillan in France. The scene shows Apollo's punishment of the satyr, Marsyas. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Musée de l’Ephèbe et d’archéologie sous-marine du Cap d’Agde (n°2926). Link - musees-occitanie.fr/oeuvre/emble...
Image: Musée de l’Ephèbe et d’archéologie sous-marine du Cap d’Agde (n°2926). Link - musees-occitanie.fr/oeuvre/emble...
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A rather grisly #MosaicMonday
Villa de Noheda, Villar de Domingo García #Spain
During the #Roman occupation of Spain, there lived a man who was so wealthy that he could have his wine shipped all the way from Syria. One of the largest mosaics ever found.
#Archaeology #art #History #artwork
Villa de Noheda, Villar de Domingo García #Spain
During the #Roman occupation of Spain, there lived a man who was so wealthy that he could have his wine shipped all the way from Syria. One of the largest mosaics ever found.
#Archaeology #art #History #artwork
October 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
A rather grisly #MosaicMonday
Villa de Noheda, Villar de Domingo García #Spain
During the #Roman occupation of Spain, there lived a man who was so wealthy that he could have his wine shipped all the way from Syria. One of the largest mosaics ever found.
#Archaeology #art #History #artwork
Villa de Noheda, Villar de Domingo García #Spain
During the #Roman occupation of Spain, there lived a man who was so wealthy that he could have his wine shipped all the way from Syria. One of the largest mosaics ever found.
#Archaeology #art #History #artwork
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Lil pavement folly that entertains me greatly. A parkland estate for a tiny signpost.
October 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Lil pavement folly that entertains me greatly. A parkland estate for a tiny signpost.
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I collect pictures of gate latches. The endless minute variations and human ingenuity appeal to me greatly, and the countless hands that have moved them. This one is between Near and Far Sawrey, Lake District and has a lovely combination of textures between the iron, wooden gate, and stone gatepost.
September 16, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I collect pictures of gate latches. The endless minute variations and human ingenuity appeal to me greatly, and the countless hands that have moved them. This one is between Near and Far Sawrey, Lake District and has a lovely combination of textures between the iron, wooden gate, and stone gatepost.
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Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC.
To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone.
Bernisches Historisches Museum.
🏺 #archaeology
To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone.
Bernisches Historisches Museum.
🏺 #archaeology
September 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC.
To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone.
Bernisches Historisches Museum.
🏺 #archaeology
To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone.
Bernisches Historisches Museum.
🏺 #archaeology
Me: Academic journals are a racket we need to do something about this it isn’t sustainable 😠
Big Academic Journal: hello WORM, would you like to peer review this article for free?
Me: ok
Big Academic Journal: hello WORM, would you like to peer review this article for free?
Me: ok
September 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Me: Academic journals are a racket we need to do something about this it isn’t sustainable 😠
Big Academic Journal: hello WORM, would you like to peer review this article for free?
Me: ok
Big Academic Journal: hello WORM, would you like to peer review this article for free?
Me: ok
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🏺 Has anyone done functionality experiments on Bronze Age lunate spears?
The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage?
Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)
The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage?
Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)
September 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🏺 Has anyone done functionality experiments on Bronze Age lunate spears?
The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage?
Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)
The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage?
Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)
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#HillfortsWednesday
White Castle is an Early Iron Age fort, on a promontory defended on three sides by steep slopes. It is oval on plan, measuring internally 230ft - 180ft, and is surrounded by triple ramparts which may have been topped by stone walls.
#Archaeology #History
White Castle is an Early Iron Age fort, on a promontory defended on three sides by steep slopes. It is oval on plan, measuring internally 230ft - 180ft, and is surrounded by triple ramparts which may have been topped by stone walls.
#Archaeology #History
September 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
#HillfortsWednesday
White Castle is an Early Iron Age fort, on a promontory defended on three sides by steep slopes. It is oval on plan, measuring internally 230ft - 180ft, and is surrounded by triple ramparts which may have been topped by stone walls.
#Archaeology #History
White Castle is an Early Iron Age fort, on a promontory defended on three sides by steep slopes. It is oval on plan, measuring internally 230ft - 180ft, and is surrounded by triple ramparts which may have been topped by stone walls.
#Archaeology #History
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One of my favourite things about torcs, is that the word comes from the Latin word torquere (tor-kwe-ray) meaning twist, bend or torture.
This is also where we get the word 'queer'.
So even in its origin, queer meant twisted and wrong, as well as something shiny and fabulous.
This is also where we get the word 'queer'.
So even in its origin, queer meant twisted and wrong, as well as something shiny and fabulous.
The Sedgeford and Newark torcs - one from Norfolk, one from Nottinghamshire.
I still can't believe that anyone looked at these and said they were from the same mould...!! They're so clearly not.
1/3
#Archaeology 🏺
I still can't believe that anyone looked at these and said they were from the same mould...!! They're so clearly not.
1/3
#Archaeology 🏺
August 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
One of my favourite things about torcs, is that the word comes from the Latin word torquere (tor-kwe-ray) meaning twist, bend or torture.
This is also where we get the word 'queer'.
So even in its origin, queer meant twisted and wrong, as well as something shiny and fabulous.
This is also where we get the word 'queer'.
So even in its origin, queer meant twisted and wrong, as well as something shiny and fabulous.
Found a totally bonkers belt buckle in a department store in Kentucky
It’s depicting a Roman coin hoard but the more you look, the more nonsensical it gets. I had to have it, it is now mine forever
It’s depicting a Roman coin hoard but the more you look, the more nonsensical it gets. I had to have it, it is now mine forever
August 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Found a totally bonkers belt buckle in a department store in Kentucky
It’s depicting a Roman coin hoard but the more you look, the more nonsensical it gets. I had to have it, it is now mine forever
It’s depicting a Roman coin hoard but the more you look, the more nonsensical it gets. I had to have it, it is now mine forever
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"The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches."
By Heinrich Hoffmann from The English Struwwelpeter 1845.
#FairyTaleTuesday
By Heinrich Hoffmann from The English Struwwelpeter 1845.
#FairyTaleTuesday
August 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches."
By Heinrich Hoffmann from The English Struwwelpeter 1845.
#FairyTaleTuesday
By Heinrich Hoffmann from The English Struwwelpeter 1845.
#FairyTaleTuesday
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Pistyll Rhaeadr in #Powys, the highest waterfall in England and Wales. The natural arch is a particularly attractive feature. Legend has it this was formerly the lair of a #dragon: a giant flying serpent called a gwybr. A ruse involving a menhir and a lot of spikes destroyed it.
#folklore #legend
#folklore #legend
August 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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'I'm rediscovering-
That I too, am made of Iron. So here I sit-
and here I remember, that although a docile thing- My heart is a blast furnace'
#Shropshire #Poetry
That I too, am made of Iron. So here I sit-
and here I remember, that although a docile thing- My heart is a blast furnace'
#Shropshire #Poetry
April 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
'I'm rediscovering-
That I too, am made of Iron. So here I sit-
and here I remember, that although a docile thing- My heart is a blast furnace'
#Shropshire #Poetry
That I too, am made of Iron. So here I sit-
and here I remember, that although a docile thing- My heart is a blast furnace'
#Shropshire #Poetry
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Friends, it's #FolkyFriday!
Our theme today is "Folkloric Food!" Let us glut ourselves with stories and fill the day's belly with peculiarity!
From goblin fruit and Lembas bread to gingerbread houses and magic beans, tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!
Our theme today is "Folkloric Food!" Let us glut ourselves with stories and fill the day's belly with peculiarity!
From goblin fruit and Lembas bread to gingerbread houses and magic beans, tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!
a cartoon of snow white holding a shoe and a knife .
ALT: a cartoon of snow white holding a shoe and a knife .
media.tenor.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Friends, it's #FolkyFriday!
Our theme today is "Folkloric Food!" Let us glut ourselves with stories and fill the day's belly with peculiarity!
From goblin fruit and Lembas bread to gingerbread houses and magic beans, tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!
Our theme today is "Folkloric Food!" Let us glut ourselves with stories and fill the day's belly with peculiarity!
From goblin fruit and Lembas bread to gingerbread houses and magic beans, tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!