Dr Toby Driver

Overheat photo of the edge of an archaeological trench. At the bottom of the trench is part of a mosaic depicing a stylized flower. It is being carefully cleaned by two people. You can only see the backs of their heads and their hands.

Thought we'd post one of ours for a change. Our Floral Mosaic was the first to be discovered on the site, and here it is, being excavated in 1960.

#MosaicMonday

What a privilege to attend the Fiesta del Sagrado Corazón. Held for the first time in ten years, yesterday, on Pico San Carlos, Cantabria (2212m). More than 1000 people, of all ages, made an early start to reach the peak.

A mirror surface on a mountain lake in the mist

#HappyMonday everyone

📷 Reflections in Llyn Cau mountain lake below the summit of Cader Idris, Eryri/Snowdonia, April 2025 🥰

My own

Are there any mosaics featuring rain with a purple tinge? 😮🤔

Depiction, from a Roman mosaic, of a red crested snake sticking out its tongue

Apparently wearing a raspberry beret (the kind you find in a second hand store), this cheeky red-crested, tiny-tongued tessellated serpent features on a mid 4th century #Roman mosaic from Dorchester

Found in Durngate Street in 1905, it's now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social

📷 Sept 2024

#MosaicMonday

Incredible!

That's rotten luck. I hope it recovers fast

New performance coming up in Brighton - all welcome

Hope it goes very well!

Rad Dau Gopa Aberystwyth Twin Peaks Race - Sunday 12th October 2025 Senior & Junior Races. Mixed terrain. Starting and finishing on Aberystwyth Promenade and taking in the two peaks of Pen Dinas and Constitution Hill.

Really looking forward to the famous Aberystwyth Twin Peaks #run on 12th October.

Always a friendly event organised by Aber AC. A 7 mile loop taking in Pendinas hillfort, Constitution Hill & the Victorian promenade - enter here 👇

#running #trailrunning

www.sientries.co.uk/list.php?eve...

Amazing that these chaps ever consented to being settled in regional civitas capitals, let alone converting to togas & wine...😮🤔

I'm not an expert but I reckon ale in some form was also available. Plus of course wine from Late Iron Age Gaul

Milky Way , Callanish #StandingStoneSunday

A craggy white monolith now built into a war memorial in a village square

Heavens above it's #StandingStoneSunday 😮🥳

The war memorial in Penrhyncoch nr Aberystwyth is actually a tall quartz monolith

It once stood on the top road to Bontgoch, close to barrows on Banc Troedrhiwseiri - very likely a Bronze Age standing stone

📷 My own, yesterday

#UrbanPrehistory

Three waxwork Iron Age warriors.

Good to see one is still holding the fort, the other two must have sold out. Love these guys, they capture some of the cocksure sense of invincibility you must have needed to run at a Roman legion convinced you had them beat.
They were originally at the White Cliffs experience I think.

Should be a good year for bilberries

It's a pretty grim tale but an interesting churchyard indeed

Standing stone in a church wall with a bike

#StandingStoneSaturday 🙄🧐😮

Stretching the legs around the backlanes & hills of Devils Bridge, mid Wales, this morning... #cycling

It would have been rude not to stop at the tiny circular churchyard & Bronze Age stone circle at Ysbyty Cynfyn on the way👌

That's a pretty touching inscription

The Cadfan Stone at St Cadfan's in Towyn is a fascinating survival from 9th century Wales - with not only the earliest example of written Welsh but uniquely, commemorating two women - Tengrumui, and Cun, wife of Celyn. Poignantly it adds: 'Grief and loss remain'. broystumanner.com/st-cadfan-home

Amazing. I hope the journey goes well

The Langdon Bay Wreck.
The remains of a Middle Bronze Age vessel and cargo were identified in Langdon Bay, Kent, in 1974.
The wreck consist ed of Middle Bronze Age artefacts, including tools & weapons made in France. These items have been dated to 1100 BCE. Over 350 artefacts have been recovered.

Brodgar in the snow
@stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
#stonecircle
#brodgar
#orkney

Paul Nash visits Avebury

Mixed media, A3

For sale £75

A thing of beauty

😱

Amazing Roman villa 🫣😉😮

A literary classic

Sorry to hear that Mike

Some fantastic mannequins in Dover Museum @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social.
The Iron Age Britain looks like they had a heavy night though