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Dr Toby Driver
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🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · Nov 18
A simply extraordinary Iron Age staircase, preserved within the wall thickness of the ruinous #Broch tower at Dun Carloway, Isle of Lewis, in the Outer #Hebrides.

The sophisticated pre-Roman architecture here blew me away when I saw it this June - a real bucket-list moment

📷 My own 2024
A stone staircase built of uneven slabs winds its way up inside a dark drystone tower, with steep walls to either side
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#TombTuesday A fitting place for the dead 💀: an early Bronze Age cairn- possibly the furthest west on the British mainland - sited close to the sea on Mayon Cliff above Sennen, West Penwith, Cornwall

Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed

📷 My own, last week
A round barrow with boulders in a coastal setting
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Total Shambles.
(See what I did there, eh?)
And it’s empty! (It’s pissing rain).
#York
The Shambles, a very old and pretty street in York, in the dark, and rain.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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A rather angry sea gryphon chases a cheeky dolphin across a 2nd century #Roman mosaic

Found at #Cirencester in 1849, the entirety of this decorated floor (featuring hunting dogs) can now be seen in the excellent @coriniummuseum.bsky.social

📷 Aug 2022

Don't play with your food this #MosaicMonday !
Detail from a Roman mosaic floor depicting a sea gryphon with claws outstretched chasing a dolphin
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Morning all.

Photograph by David Hurn. Sheep shelter from the rain, on an artillery range Mynydd Epynt, Wales 1973.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Next week on Thursday 20th November at 7.30pm I'll be talking to the Meifod Local History Group, nr Welshpool, about the Hillforts of Iron Age Wales 🛖. All welcome! 😊

For more information see: www.meifodhistorygroup.co.uk

@logastonpress.bsky.social
Toby's hillforts book sitting on the ground inside Llanmelin hillfort
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25

If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand

www.channel4.com

The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm

Enjoy 😊
Archaeologists Ruby, Sandi and Meg, all smiling in the sun Archaeologists Raksha and Lewis at work Archaeologists Sandi and Bron happy by the site hut Archaeologists Kel and Sandi examine some finds laid out on a table in the sun
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Seriously looking forward to this with the renowned @richardosgood.bsky.social 🔥🧙💯
cambriansarch.bsky.social Cambrian Archaeological Association @cambriansarch.bsky.social · 9d
❄️⛄🎄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]
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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❄️⛄🎄Darlith Nadolig y Cambriaid 2025 ❄️⛄🎄
Aberth y Derwyddon: Darganfod Cymru'r Oes Haearn ar Dir Milwrol
Gan Richard Osgood (Uwch Archeolegydd, Sefydliad Seilwaith Amddiffyn)
Ar-lein drwy Zoom: Dydd Iau 4ydd Rhagfyr am 7.00 pm
Manylion archebu [i ddilyn]
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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It was a delight filming with Derek Brockway & the BBC Cymru/Wales team this summer at the #hillforts of Long Wood, Lampeter, for Children in Need

Looking forward to seeing the show broadcast next week on BBC 1 Wales on 11th Nov at 8pm

@rcahmwales.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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#StandingStoneSunday chancing across the Merry Maidens stone circle in West Penwith, #Cornwall, as we dropped down to Newlyn was a real delight.

Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰

📷 My own, Friday
A ring of stones in a grassy field
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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"Time is like a #river; you never step into the same river twice"

A #sundial measuring #time on the ancient "Bridge of Pearls" (1636) over Afon #Conwy #Llanrwst #Wales #FWPM #RiversOfWales #envhist #weather #bridge #autumn #history #heritage #architecture #clock #bluesky 🌞
Sun above simple metal sundial on wall of bridge with river visible in the background.
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The remains of the mighty basilica wall at Roman Wroxeter (Viriconium) in Shropshire. Established by the end of the 1st century AD, Viriconium was one of the largest cities in Roman Britain. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Wroxeter #Shropshire
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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The old lane to the coast path at dawn...

Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Rawtenstall Market will be closing soon for refurbishment. Some long term market holders are leaving and I’ve become obsessed with capturing the market before it goes. #amsketching
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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#HillfortsFriday 🧐🤔

The enormous & majestic Treryn Dinas coastal promontory fort, West Penwith, Cornwall 🤩, seen with a dawn sun rising through cloud.

Home of the magical Logan Rock, perched high on a wall of granite at the heart of the liminal outcrop

📷 Yesterday
A rocky headland at dawn
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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St Michael's Mount nr Penzance

Diodorus Siculus (60-30BC); ‘The inhabitants of Britain who live on the promontory called Belerion [Cornwall] are friendly to strangers.. they work the tin… and convey it to an island.. called Ictis… (where) the merchants buy the tin from the natives

📷 Yesterday
An offshore island in stormy weather
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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#AdoorableThursday Looking out to the sea from the ancient doorway of St Winwaloe's, the 'Church of the Storms', on western Lizard, #Cornwall

📷 Yesterday
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Mynydd-y-Gaer: Hillfort in Denbighshire. #HillfortsWednesday There's a quite steep side, and a gentle sloping side. The defences on the western side are the best preserved, with no really obvious entrances, but the views are terrific.
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Followed by a long-awaited revisit to Old Oswestry & it couldn't have been a more perfect day for it 😊

#HillfortsWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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#HillfortsWednesday

Bolt Tail Iron Age promontory fort (the first shot is from a drone & not mine)

I love to think of them trading from here
Devon promontory from a drone shot South Devon blue seas Iron Age hill fort walls above the sea in South Devon Iron Age wall above the sea
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Following on from last week's blog on Treasure 'rewards', I've been trying to dig deeper into the numbers.

Although very preliminary, what I've found does not make for happy reading...

#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure

bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/04/l...
Looking for Treasure…
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Introduction Following on from my blog last week, I have been trying to find out exactly how much is being paid …
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The Iron Age hillfort of Spettisbury Rings (Crawford Castle / Castle Ring) #Dorset

This mighty 2ha univallate enclosure is today largely hidden behind the old railway and modern village of Spetisbury. Most people driving on the A350 are unaware of it

📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

#HillfortsWednesday
The scrub and partially tree covered ramparts of an oval Iron Age hillfort from the air, its centre covered in green grass and surrounded by ploughed fields with a tree lined railway and a modern road flanked by houses at the bottom of the picture
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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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
A figure photographs a rocky headland in a storm
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Great day out in Dorchester celebrating #maidencastle 40 years on -catching up with some friends and colleagues old and new!

This guy wasn’t bad @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Dr Miles Russell Stands in front of a screen showing the title slide of his talk, Beyond the ‘Castle’ Maiden Castle - 40 years on programme of abstracts from the day
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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⚠️ Durotriges on TV Alert ⚠️

Join #SandiToksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social as they explore Iron Age #Dorset in episode 1 of the new #archaeology series #HiddenWonders tonight on #More4 at 9pm

@buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

See you there !! 👇
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM