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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#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
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
#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
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
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
For more information see: www.meifodhistorygroup.co.uk
@logastonpress.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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
For more information see: www.meifodhistorygroup.co.uk
@logastonpress.bsky.social
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...
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
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...
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...
#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
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#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
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
The old lane to the coast path at dawn...
Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The old lane to the coast path at dawn...
Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
#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
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
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
#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
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
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
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
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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
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
#AdoorableThursday Looking out to the sea from the ancient doorway of St Winwaloe's, the 'Church of the Storms', on western Lizard, #Cornwall
📷 Yesterday
📷 Yesterday
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
#AdoorableThursday Looking out to the sea from the ancient doorway of St Winwaloe's, the 'Church of the Storms', on western Lizard, #Cornwall
📷 Yesterday
📷 Yesterday
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
Ah! The delights of coastal fieldwork in the driving rain & wind of winter. It doesn't get better than this 👌🌧️🌪️
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Ah! The delights of coastal fieldwork in the driving rain & wind of winter. It doesn't get better than this 👌🌧️🌪️
#TombTuesday one of the mighty (they are huge!) coastal barrows dominating the north coast of Cornwall at Newquay
This one was enclosed - & no doubt revered - by Trevelgue Head coastal promontory fort, while several others stand nearby. A number were lost during C19th improvements 😟
📷 Yesterday
This one was enclosed - & no doubt revered - by Trevelgue Head coastal promontory fort, while several others stand nearby. A number were lost during C19th improvements 😟
📷 Yesterday
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
#TombTuesday one of the mighty (they are huge!) coastal barrows dominating the north coast of Cornwall at Newquay
This one was enclosed - & no doubt revered - by Trevelgue Head coastal promontory fort, while several others stand nearby. A number were lost during C19th improvements 😟
📷 Yesterday
This one was enclosed - & no doubt revered - by Trevelgue Head coastal promontory fort, while several others stand nearby. A number were lost during C19th improvements 😟
📷 Yesterday
#HillfortsMonday 🧐🤔 ending the day at the enormous Trevelgue coastal promontory fort, Newquay in Cornwall.
A complex set of defences enclosing a substantial Bronze Age barrow & metal resources
A complex set of defences enclosing a substantial Bronze Age barrow & metal resources
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#HillfortsMonday 🧐🤔 ending the day at the enormous Trevelgue coastal promontory fort, Newquay in Cornwall.
A complex set of defences enclosing a substantial Bronze Age barrow & metal resources
A complex set of defences enclosing a substantial Bronze Age barrow & metal resources
...and the Wickerman vibe at the end...🫣😬
November 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
...and the Wickerman vibe at the end...🫣😬
It's #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The triple stone alignment of Harold's Stones, Trellech, is depicted as a relief carving on Lady Probert's sundial of 1689, now in the local church
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It's #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The triple stone alignment of Harold's Stones, Trellech, is depicted as a relief carving on Lady Probert's sundial of 1689, now in the local church
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
Obligatory #Halloween haunted face in pine cupboard door for anyone who subscribes 😉😱
#HappyHalloween
#HappyHalloween
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Obligatory #Halloween haunted face in pine cupboard door for anyone who subscribes 😉😱
#HappyHalloween
#HappyHalloween
#FindsFriday out in Trellech, Monmouthshire yesterday on fieldwork with Churchill Archaeology in the landscape around the famous Harold's Stones stone row.
..and we stumbled across a prone cupmarked slab which echoes the prominent pair of cupmarks on the cylindrical central stone 👍👌
📷 My own
..and we stumbled across a prone cupmarked slab which echoes the prominent pair of cupmarks on the cylindrical central stone 👍👌
📷 My own
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 AM
#FindsFriday out in Trellech, Monmouthshire yesterday on fieldwork with Churchill Archaeology in the landscape around the famous Harold's Stones stone row.
..and we stumbled across a prone cupmarked slab which echoes the prominent pair of cupmarks on the cylindrical central stone 👍👌
📷 My own
..and we stumbled across a prone cupmarked slab which echoes the prominent pair of cupmarks on the cylindrical central stone 👍👌
📷 My own
The historic Vivian Slate Quarry in Llanberis, Gwynedd, rises out of dense autumn woodland with its narrow galleries visible 😮🍂
Now a scheduled monument, the quarry forms part of the Welsh Slate World Heritage Landscape
📷 My own, last weekend
🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/40571
Now a scheduled monument, the quarry forms part of the Welsh Slate World Heritage Landscape
📷 My own, last weekend
🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/40571
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The historic Vivian Slate Quarry in Llanberis, Gwynedd, rises out of dense autumn woodland with its narrow galleries visible 😮🍂
Now a scheduled monument, the quarry forms part of the Welsh Slate World Heritage Landscape
📷 My own, last weekend
🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/40571
Now a scheduled monument, the quarry forms part of the Welsh Slate World Heritage Landscape
📷 My own, last weekend
🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/40571
With a trip to the incredible coastal forts of West Penwith on the cards 🥳, this splendid 1939 poster of excavations at Trevelgue Head promontory fort at Newquay, #Cornwall, was too good not to share for #HillfortsWednesday 👌🛖
📷 Published in: Nowakowski & Quinnell 2011. Trevelgue Head, Cornwall
📷 Published in: Nowakowski & Quinnell 2011. Trevelgue Head, Cornwall
October 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
With a trip to the incredible coastal forts of West Penwith on the cards 🥳, this splendid 1939 poster of excavations at Trevelgue Head promontory fort at Newquay, #Cornwall, was too good not to share for #HillfortsWednesday 👌🛖
📷 Published in: Nowakowski & Quinnell 2011. Trevelgue Head, Cornwall
📷 Published in: Nowakowski & Quinnell 2011. Trevelgue Head, Cornwall
Llywelyn ab Iorwerth's mighty C13th castle at Dolbadarn, Llanberis, watched over us yesterday as I ran my first Marathon Eryri
One of the toughest marathons in the world, the route delivered over 26.2 miles with 2745 ft of climb 😬. The freezing rain was tough, but chuffed to finish in 4:28 🥳
One of the toughest marathons in the world, the route delivered over 26.2 miles with 2745 ft of climb 😬. The freezing rain was tough, but chuffed to finish in 4:28 🥳
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Llywelyn ab Iorwerth's mighty C13th castle at Dolbadarn, Llanberis, watched over us yesterday as I ran my first Marathon Eryri
One of the toughest marathons in the world, the route delivered over 26.2 miles with 2745 ft of climb 😬. The freezing rain was tough, but chuffed to finish in 4:28 🥳
One of the toughest marathons in the world, the route delivered over 26.2 miles with 2745 ft of climb 😬. The freezing rain was tough, but chuffed to finish in 4:28 🥳
Sound advice. Dolbadarn Castle, Llanberis
📷 Yesterday
📷 Yesterday
October 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Sound advice. Dolbadarn Castle, Llanberis
📷 Yesterday
📷 Yesterday
Stunning autumn colours looking up towards Cnicht ('Knight') mountain near Croesor in Eryri/Snowdonia this afternoon ⛰️🍂
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Stunning autumn colours looking up towards Cnicht ('Knight') mountain near Croesor in Eryri/Snowdonia this afternoon ⛰️🍂
Looking forward to Cardiff Half Marathon next year... Last ran it 3 years ago, before it needed a ballot🥳 #running #cardiffhalf 🏃
October 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Looking forward to Cardiff Half Marathon next year... Last ran it 3 years ago, before it needed a ballot🥳 #running #cardiffhalf 🏃