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I've just launched by first Crowdfunder campaign to acquire an Iron Age Hoard for Oxfordshire Museums Service. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-.... Please support us by donating and/or sharing the link. Thank you @justrena.bsky.social for all your help thus far.
July 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Thank you @durotrigesdig.bsky.social for having me. The site is amazing, the students, staff and other volunteers are a joy to work with. Will miss my weekly fix very much. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
July 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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At the SE edge of the #Durotriges25 trench, Amanda and Steve seem to have found a roundhouse !!

They are happy (as is Holly) 😊
July 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Life's a ditch

A lovely Early Iron Age ditch

#Durotriges25
June 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Rain stops play #Durotriges25
June 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
7 hours of research for 100 words ✅
Frozen neck and shoulder ✅
Word salad insomnia ✅
Someone give me a fieldwork job
April 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Still haven’t got around to watching number 2 so here’s an OG for #FindsFriday
March 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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#MosaicMonday 3 cupids playing as Venus watches, 2nd Century AD from Utica, Tunisia, now in the Bardo Museum

Curiously it uses very large and very few tesserae, so appears almost 'pixellated'. It's also an uncommon example of its subjects casting shadows

📸Roberto Piperno 🏺 #archaeology #arthistory
March 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Apparently you get married here if anyone is offering #MosaicMonday
March 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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If you’re surprised and upset by this news, let us know:

bsky.app/profile/will...
What I will say is that if you’re concerned by this news as a member, as a fan of any of EH’s properties, or simply as someone who likes to walk around ruins, country houses and prehistoric sites, please write to English Heritage to say so.

Your voice matters the most.
I can’t say very much on this but I will say that we don’t accept the proposed changes for a number of reasons this article mentions (and others it doesn’t).

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
January 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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In the final episode of the latest Digging for Britain series, I visited John Henry Phillips as he led excavations at a 1960’s-70s ‘Gipsy Rehabilitation Centre’ in the New Forest. An exhibition linked to the dig will opens this Friday:
www.instagram.com/p/DEqH8D_MCf...
January 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Okay. I’ve written 800 words for @theconversation.com on why archaeologists aren’t shocked or baffled by the evidence for matrilineal descent in Late Iron Age Dorset.
January 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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I see Tony fucking Blair is at it again, then; with his now characteristically lenient grip on reality
January 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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A #Neolithic conch shell horn (charonia nodifera) found in Ösel, Lower Saxony, dating 5300-4900 BC - the oldest known musical instrument in this region. It's an evidence of early contacts with the Mediterranean region.
The shell was found filled with flint tools in a settlement pit.

🏺 #archaeology
January 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Happy New Year Tomb Fans #TombTuesday
December 31, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Bacchus, the #Roman god of wine, having had a drink or 10 (and naked apart from socks and a cloak) gets a lift home on a tiger

Discovered in Leadenhall Street #London in 1803, this central panel of a 3rd century mosaic was given to the British Museum in 1880

📷 March 2022

Happy #MosaicMonday!
December 30, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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December 29, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Empty Merrivale Xmas Eve with me boring everyone to death #StandingStoneSunday
December 29, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Merry Christmas Bluesky Kids
December 23, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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As thin as a slice of light. This Early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead was made between 6000 and 5000 years ago. The flint so delicately pressure-flaked that it is translucent.
#FindsFriday
December 20, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Bodowyr burial chamber/dolmen/ passage tomb on a heavenly day June 2021 #TombTuesday years
December 10, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Fingertips! (Late Neolithic - Grooved Ware pottery).
December 7, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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This is my pencil drawing of the enormous Dolmen of Crucuno, a Neolithic burial monument near Erdeven in Brittany. Partially demolished in the 19th century, it was also used for many years as a barn. Its cap stone weighs around 40 tonnes. #TombTuesday
December 3, 2024 at 9:18 AM