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!
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
What’s on my desk today?? 👀
- it’s made of iron
- it’s broken on one end
- it’s a metal detecting find, so there is no archaeological context
- found in St Brides Major, Vale of Glamorgan 🏴
Anyone want to take a stab at what it might be? 🧐
- it’s made of iron
- it’s broken on one end
- it’s a metal detecting find, so there is no archaeological context
- found in St Brides Major, Vale of Glamorgan 🏴
Anyone want to take a stab at what it might be? 🧐
July 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
What’s on my desk today?? 👀
- it’s made of iron
- it’s broken on one end
- it’s a metal detecting find, so there is no archaeological context
- found in St Brides Major, Vale of Glamorgan 🏴
Anyone want to take a stab at what it might be? 🧐
- it’s made of iron
- it’s broken on one end
- it’s a metal detecting find, so there is no archaeological context
- found in St Brides Major, Vale of Glamorgan 🏴
Anyone want to take a stab at what it might be? 🧐
And finally, the main event: the Europa 2025 Lecture by Professor Martin Bell!
‘Landscape connectivity in prehistory: can old routes enhance lives and can we go it alone?’
‘Landscape connectivity in prehistory: can old routes enhance lives and can we go it alone?’
June 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
And finally, the main event: the Europa 2025 Lecture by Professor Martin Bell!
‘Landscape connectivity in prehistory: can old routes enhance lives and can we go it alone?’
‘Landscape connectivity in prehistory: can old routes enhance lives and can we go it alone?’
Popping over to Somerset, Dr Richard Brunning is presenting ‘Journeys in life and death across prehistoric wetlands in Somerset’
He said Glastonbury Lake Village is the most important Iron Age site in the UK and I’m not even going to fight him on that (it’s in my study region and I am biased lolol)
He said Glastonbury Lake Village is the most important Iron Age site in the UK and I’m not even going to fight him on that (it’s in my study region and I am biased lolol)
June 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Popping over to Somerset, Dr Richard Brunning is presenting ‘Journeys in life and death across prehistoric wetlands in Somerset’
He said Glastonbury Lake Village is the most important Iron Age site in the UK and I’m not even going to fight him on that (it’s in my study region and I am biased lolol)
He said Glastonbury Lake Village is the most important Iron Age site in the UK and I’m not even going to fight him on that (it’s in my study region and I am biased lolol)
Dr Niels Nørkjær Johannsen has travelled all the way from Aarhus University, Denmark, to present his research ‘Neolithic routes, everyday mobility and journeying in life and death on the Jutland Peninsula’
This includes early cattle burials with what is likely two-wheeled carts - this is my JAM! 🤩
This includes early cattle burials with what is likely two-wheeled carts - this is my JAM! 🤩
June 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Dr Niels Nørkjær Johannsen has travelled all the way from Aarhus University, Denmark, to present his research ‘Neolithic routes, everyday mobility and journeying in life and death on the Jutland Peninsula’
This includes early cattle burials with what is likely two-wheeled carts - this is my JAM! 🤩
This includes early cattle burials with what is likely two-wheeled carts - this is my JAM! 🤩
Dr Sally Taylor is giving her talk titled ‘The Connectivity between Artefacts and Monuments in Early Neolithic Cumbrian Landscapes’
This included a lovely interlude with 360 degree video footage from three different Neolithic monuments!
This included a lovely interlude with 360 degree video footage from three different Neolithic monuments!
June 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Dr Sally Taylor is giving her talk titled ‘The Connectivity between Artefacts and Monuments in Early Neolithic Cumbrian Landscapes’
This included a lovely interlude with 360 degree video footage from three different Neolithic monuments!
This included a lovely interlude with 360 degree video footage from three different Neolithic monuments!
While everyone else was in the session…
I had a photoshoot with the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social banner! 🤪
I had a photoshoot with the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social banner! 🤪
June 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
While everyone else was in the session…
I had a photoshoot with the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social banner! 🤪
I had a photoshoot with the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social banner! 🤪
Professor @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social is now presenting ‘Landscape connectivity through animal (and human) journeys: reconstructing past movements and migrations using isotope analysis’
Strontium and oxygen isotopes can tell us where and when people/animals moved - we literally are what we eat!
Strontium and oxygen isotopes can tell us where and when people/animals moved - we literally are what we eat!
June 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Professor @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social is now presenting ‘Landscape connectivity through animal (and human) journeys: reconstructing past movements and migrations using isotope analysis’
Strontium and oxygen isotopes can tell us where and when people/animals moved - we literally are what we eat!
Strontium and oxygen isotopes can tell us where and when people/animals moved - we literally are what we eat!
Next is Molly Masterson on ‘Plantiness’ (one of my fav terms to be introduced into archaeology dialogue, thanks Molly!) in her talk ‘Rooted Routes: How plants move people’
The sensory experience of trees in archaeology, and what they mean/meant to people, is a lovely thing to consider ~ 🌳
The sensory experience of trees in archaeology, and what they mean/meant to people, is a lovely thing to consider ~ 🌳
June 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Next is Molly Masterson on ‘Plantiness’ (one of my fav terms to be introduced into archaeology dialogue, thanks Molly!) in her talk ‘Rooted Routes: How plants move people’
The sensory experience of trees in archaeology, and what they mean/meant to people, is a lovely thing to consider ~ 🌳
The sensory experience of trees in archaeology, and what they mean/meant to people, is a lovely thing to consider ~ 🌳
Kicking things off in our first session on hunter-gatherer landscape connectivity is @mattpope.bsky.social ‘Landscapes of connection and separation in the Palaeolithic records of the Doggerland and La Mancheland regions’
Reconstructing human activity in submerged regions is just 🤯😍
Reconstructing human activity in submerged regions is just 🤯😍
June 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Kicking things off in our first session on hunter-gatherer landscape connectivity is @mattpope.bsky.social ‘Landscapes of connection and separation in the Palaeolithic records of the Doggerland and La Mancheland regions’
Reconstructing human activity in submerged regions is just 🤯😍
Reconstructing human activity in submerged regions is just 🤯😍
The @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Europa Conference has begun!
It’s lovely to see so many folks at the University of Reading to honour Prof Martin Bell and I’m so pumped for the lineup of talks 🤩
It’s lovely to see so many folks at the University of Reading to honour Prof Martin Bell and I’m so pumped for the lineup of talks 🤩
June 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Europa Conference has begun!
It’s lovely to see so many folks at the University of Reading to honour Prof Martin Bell and I’m so pumped for the lineup of talks 🤩
It’s lovely to see so many folks at the University of Reading to honour Prof Martin Bell and I’m so pumped for the lineup of talks 🤩
I’m so looking forward to the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social’s Europa Conference this year in honour of Prof Martin Bell - check out the lineup! 🤩
Book tix below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...
🗓️ Saturday 7 June
📍 University of Reading
I hope you see you there!
Book tix below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...
🗓️ Saturday 7 June
📍 University of Reading
I hope you see you there!
May 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I’m so looking forward to the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social’s Europa Conference this year in honour of Prof Martin Bell - check out the lineup! 🤩
Book tix below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...
🗓️ Saturday 7 June
📍 University of Reading
I hope you see you there!
Book tix below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...
🗓️ Saturday 7 June
📍 University of Reading
I hope you see you there!
And finally, the man the myth the legend Prof Niall Sharples delivering his keynote talk ‘The significance of regionally in Iron Age Britain’
April 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
And finally, the man the myth the legend Prof Niall Sharples delivering his keynote talk ‘The significance of regionally in Iron Age Britain’
The last talk of the day before our keynote is Richard Hingley ‘Reconstructing an egalitarian Iron Age, 1939 to 2024’
Do we accurately portray Iron Age life in reconstructions? Do we idealise the Iron Age? Does it matter? Do you have a roundhouse fetish? 🛖
Do we accurately portray Iron Age life in reconstructions? Do we idealise the Iron Age? Does it matter? Do you have a roundhouse fetish? 🛖
April 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The last talk of the day before our keynote is Richard Hingley ‘Reconstructing an egalitarian Iron Age, 1939 to 2024’
Do we accurately portray Iron Age life in reconstructions? Do we idealise the Iron Age? Does it matter? Do you have a roundhouse fetish? 🛖
Do we accurately portray Iron Age life in reconstructions? Do we idealise the Iron Age? Does it matter? Do you have a roundhouse fetish? 🛖
Andy Valdez-Tullett is taking us to Wessex in his talk ‘[No field] boundaries make good neighbors? The implications of open field systems for society in Iron Age Wessex’
April 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Andy Valdez-Tullett is taking us to Wessex in his talk ‘[No field] boundaries make good neighbors? The implications of open field systems for society in Iron Age Wessex’
Over in Wales, Ken Murphy is telling us about ‘Settlement in south-west Wales: Emerging narratives’.
We have some lovely promontory forts in Wales don’t we 🥹
We have some lovely promontory forts in Wales don’t we 🥹
April 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Over in Wales, Ken Murphy is telling us about ‘Settlement in south-west Wales: Emerging narratives’.
We have some lovely promontory forts in Wales don’t we 🥹
We have some lovely promontory forts in Wales don’t we 🥹
Jumping back to the north, Manuel Fernandez Gotz is presenting ‘Beyond Walls: Reassessing settlement dynamics in Iron Age northern Britain’
Lots of new settlements have been discovered thanks to LiDAR data!
Lots of new settlements have been discovered thanks to LiDAR data!
April 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Jumping back to the north, Manuel Fernandez Gotz is presenting ‘Beyond Walls: Reassessing settlement dynamics in Iron Age northern Britain’
Lots of new settlements have been discovered thanks to LiDAR data!
Lots of new settlements have been discovered thanks to LiDAR data!
Matt Brudenell is taking us further south with his talk ‘The shape of things to come: pattern and change in the signature of Early to Middle Iron Age settlement in Eastern England’
April 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Matt Brudenell is taking us further south with his talk ‘The shape of things to come: pattern and change in the signature of Early to Middle Iron Age settlement in Eastern England’
Back after a short break and staying in Iron Age Scotland - Martin Carruthers is presenting ‘Becoming the Broch: Assembling Ancestry and Crafting Kin at The Cairns Iron Age Settlement, Orkney’
April 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Back after a short break and staying in Iron Age Scotland - Martin Carruthers is presenting ‘Becoming the Broch: Assembling Ancestry and Crafting Kin at The Cairns Iron Age Settlement, Orkney’
And more organic goodness 🤩
Dawn McLaren presenting the finds from Black Loch of Myrton: ‘Laying the foundations: artefact deposition practices on Iron Age wetland settlements in SW Scotland’
Starring a decorated wooden bowl packed with, and surrounded by, willow leaves 🌿
Dawn McLaren presenting the finds from Black Loch of Myrton: ‘Laying the foundations: artefact deposition practices on Iron Age wetland settlements in SW Scotland’
Starring a decorated wooden bowl packed with, and surrounded by, willow leaves 🌿
April 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
And more organic goodness 🤩
Dawn McLaren presenting the finds from Black Loch of Myrton: ‘Laying the foundations: artefact deposition practices on Iron Age wetland settlements in SW Scotland’
Starring a decorated wooden bowl packed with, and surrounded by, willow leaves 🌿
Dawn McLaren presenting the finds from Black Loch of Myrton: ‘Laying the foundations: artefact deposition practices on Iron Age wetland settlements in SW Scotland’
Starring a decorated wooden bowl packed with, and surrounded by, willow leaves 🌿
Speaking of preserved organics, omg 🤤😍
Anne Crone is presenting ‘A Window on the Early Iron Age? The wetland settlement at Black Lochb of Myrton in context’
Mobile wickerwork screens were preserved around the hearth area. We often imagine roundhouses being open-plan, so this is v cool!
Anne Crone is presenting ‘A Window on the Early Iron Age? The wetland settlement at Black Lochb of Myrton in context’
Mobile wickerwork screens were preserved around the hearth area. We often imagine roundhouses being open-plan, so this is v cool!
April 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Speaking of preserved organics, omg 🤤😍
Anne Crone is presenting ‘A Window on the Early Iron Age? The wetland settlement at Black Lochb of Myrton in context’
Mobile wickerwork screens were preserved around the hearth area. We often imagine roundhouses being open-plan, so this is v cool!
Anne Crone is presenting ‘A Window on the Early Iron Age? The wetland settlement at Black Lochb of Myrton in context’
Mobile wickerwork screens were preserved around the hearth area. We often imagine roundhouses being open-plan, so this is v cool!
Next up is Katie O’Connell in the best titled talk maybe ever: ‘Peat Dreams (are made of this): an Iron Age wetland settlement at Hyndford, South Lanarkshire’
Seeing all the organics preserved in an Iron Age roundhouse always makes me feel emotional, like being perfectly frozen in time 🥹
Seeing all the organics preserved in an Iron Age roundhouse always makes me feel emotional, like being perfectly frozen in time 🥹
April 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Next up is Katie O’Connell in the best titled talk maybe ever: ‘Peat Dreams (are made of this): an Iron Age wetland settlement at Hyndford, South Lanarkshire’
Seeing all the organics preserved in an Iron Age roundhouse always makes me feel emotional, like being perfectly frozen in time 🥹
Seeing all the organics preserved in an Iron Age roundhouse always makes me feel emotional, like being perfectly frozen in time 🥹
First up is Simon Stoddart on ‘The broch of Tirefuir (Argyll, Scotland) in its landscape context’. Broch on 😎
April 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
First up is Simon Stoddart on ‘The broch of Tirefuir (Argyll, Scotland) in its landscape context’. Broch on 😎
The #IronAgeDialogues conference is underway!
I’m definitely biased but this is my favourite piece of conference merch I’ve ever received 😍
I’m definitely biased but this is my favourite piece of conference merch I’ve ever received 😍
April 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The #IronAgeDialogues conference is underway!
I’m definitely biased but this is my favourite piece of conference merch I’ve ever received 😍
I’m definitely biased but this is my favourite piece of conference merch I’ve ever received 😍
Close-ups of the beautiful lichen on the Devil’s Quoit in Stackpole Warren, Pembrokeshire, and a magical swirly snail shell 🐌 #StandingStoneSunday
April 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Close-ups of the beautiful lichen on the Devil’s Quoit in Stackpole Warren, Pembrokeshire, and a magical swirly snail shell 🐌 #StandingStoneSunday