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View from a stone-walled castle looking down across a green valley and grey brooding cloudscape

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus / Happy St David's Day from the shattered 13th c walls of Castell Dinas Brân 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Built by Gruffydd Maelor II, prince of Powys Fadog, within
the ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort

#SirDdinbych #Denbighshire

#HillfortsWednesday on a Sunday 👋

View from a stone-walled castle looking down across a green valley and grey brooding cloudscape

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus / Happy St David's Day from the shattered 13th c walls of Castell Dinas Brân 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Built by Gruffydd Maelor II, prince of Powys Fadog, within
the ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort

#SirDdinbych #Denbighshire

#HillfortsWednesday on a Sunday 👋

Fig. 1. Relief block with embracing emperors, detail of fig. 7 (H. 104 cm, L. 270 cm) Credits Crediting for all images: Courtesy Çukurbağ Archaeological Project [TÜBİTAK 115K242], Kocaeli Archaeology Museum/multispectral or microscopic details : M. Abbe. URL http://journals.openedition.org/techne/docannexe/image/2567/img-1.jpg File image/jpeg, 832k

March 1, 293 CE: Today is the beginning of the Tetrarchy—the rule of four. It marks the day Diocletian and Maximian as Augusti made Galerius and Constantius their Caesars. Remember to hug it out as you keep your other hand on the hilt of your sword, 🗡️ folks. journals.openedition.org/techne/2567?...

#RomanSiteSaturday & a very frosty morning at the Roman Town house in Dorchester
This was several years ago but i've only just got the feeling in my fingers back 🥶

Check out our episode exploring some of Dorsets Cosiest Pubs >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kav...

Almost certainly 😇

Classic pointing pose. 10/10 😄

A tongue-in-cheek picture to advertise our next meeting! An AI creation that's not bad, but let's play spot the errors... Anyway, don't miss our next (absolutely real) meeting on Monday 2nd March which is our Member's Evening, a chance to enjoy a series of short talks given by SAHS members on topics or subjects they have an interest in. Our speakers this year are: - Katherine Welch - "Lost Pubs in Filey" - Fred Normandale - "Fred's Fishy Tales" - Andy Volans - "The History of Medicine in Scarborough" The meeting is at the Salvation Army Hall, Alma Parade, Scarborough. Doors open & refreshments from 7pm, doors close 7.25pm. Entrance is free to members with a £3 charge for visitors. If you would like to join the Society you can find out more and join on the evening or go to: https://www.sahs.org.uk/membership We look forward to seeing you there!

What a wonderful poster! Well done. Even the pointing on the R. Love it. @durotrigesdig.bsky.social - Yorkshire pointing :-)

Closing time 🙁

Every new beginning
Comes from some other beginning's end 🤞

Happy birthday to Constantine I who was born #OTD in AD 272 and who's coins could single-handedly keep the PAS in business. This nummus, minted in London, with a reverse type depicting the god Sol, the personification of the Sun, is a commonly recorded type. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

The Gleninsheen Gorget - a stunning late Bronze Age collar which was discovered in 1930 at Gleninsheen in County Clare. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Ireland

It's #FindsFriday once again!

We have this lovely paw print in our Romano-British villa excavation at Trosley which we believe may be a badger paw print!

Its one of a number of paw prints and signature marks we have in the CBM assemblage, with more information to come in due course!

#Animalprints

Belt set, military belt set

Ah, #FindsFriday again. Inspired by editing the London militaria catalogue, Let's have some rather splendid chip-carvery found in a late 4th/early 5th-century context in Mansell Street, with this set of belt plates, buckle plate, and strap terminal. www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...

Close up of a rim sherd of grey prehistoric pottery with a wavy line decoration, held in the hand of an archaeologist

For #FindsFriday, a decorated sherd of Iron Age pottery found in the upper fill of a chalk-cut storage pit in a banjo enclosure at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset

Photographed at the moment of discovery in June 2022

What will we find when #Durotriges26 starts later in the year?

Summer is coming...

This is a Roman headstud brooch dating to c.AD 75-200. Headstud brooches are named after the stud located on the bow. Decoration on these brooches can range from simple moulded designs to complex cells filled with enamel. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

#FindsFriday

Llyn Fawr occupies one of a series glacial cirques that form the northern escarpment of the South Wales uplands, overlooking the heads of the Vale of Neath & Cynon Valley. It was the site of an important hoard of weapons & tools from the late Bronze & early Iron Age. #Archaeology

#findsfriday 1: a lovely little spindlewhorl, fired clay and of Iron Age date

Two dark grey pottery shards with rough textures displayed above a centimetre scale on a white background.

We’re staying close to home for this #FindsFriday with these two fragments of Roman-era Derbyshire ware pottery found by #TeamCFA in Yorkshire. Produced between the 2nd and 4th centuries, Derbyshire ware travelled far and wide - it's been recorded on sites across central and northern Britain.

side and front profile of golden coloured ring with centre green stones

This #findsfriday we have a Roman green gem-set gold finger-ring, dating to the 3rd century AD, found in Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire, 2013.

search more of our collections here at: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...

For #FindsFriday we have a #Roman jet/shale assemblage from a coastal site in NE England, close to natural jet deposits and shale outcrops.

The presence of unfinished pieces and production errors suggests that people living nearby made them, profiting from a valuable local resource. Details below!

#FindsFriday & while i've spent a while there over the years, felt great to spend a rainy weekend looking back at the finds of Venta Belgarum: Roman Winchester
at the wonderful Winchester City Museum

See more of what we've been doing to get through winter >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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homer simpson and bart simpson are sitting on a couch with the words `` join us '' written on it . Alt: homer simpson and bart simpson are sitting on a couch with the words `` join us '' written on it .

Yay 🥳

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The end of Digging for Britain.
For me, at least.
But I’ll still be making television about archaeology, on other channels. So watch this space…

A lead ingot in sharp light

#FindsFriday Sharp sunlight strikes across the Ceredigion lead pig during safekeeping in @rcahmwales.bsky.social offices 🌞😮

The lettering makes no doubt about ownership..🧐

IMP DOMIT CAES AVG XIII COS (Property) of the Emperor Domitian Caesar Augustus, consul for the thirteenth time

📷 My own

This is our favourite bit of the tapestry 🤣

A section of the embroidery showing Daleks fighting mounted Normans

As the excitement over the displaying of the Bayeux Tapestry (embroidery) builds I feel the experience will only be worthwhile if the long suppressed section of the work is included.
@gingertrevtrev.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

A green frog named kermit plays a banjo sitting on a tree inside an enclosure

Totes

Absolutely! Who knows what damage an untethered group of banjos could cause to society

A fleeting action made eternal

Gotta love archaeology 😍👍