Dr Toby Driver

Fabulous!

For #FindsFriday one more chance to enjoy the extraordinary newly-discovered Roman lead pig from Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion; one of a pair seemingly abandoned 🤔

Emperor Domitian's name is cast on the top, declaring it to be Imperial property 🧐

👉 @rcahmwales.bsky.social 3D model here: skfb.ly/pG6DJ

That's brilliant to hear. It was a real experiment in new seaside 'technology' when it was built, hence it being cautiously sited at one end of the bay...

🤨🤔👌

Lovely work by Charles Driver back in the day - & a wonderful photograph by @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social 👌📷

Not a great outcome for the heritage trail unfortunately 😞

Of course Peter - your brilliant reconstruction work in-situ. It was a great heritage trail while it lasted, & thankfully I have shots of most of the panels

Migration is part of what makes this country great.

We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.

The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

Give the brilliant new @capelicymru.bsky.social Welsh chapels ⛪ project a follow for the latest news & events looking at how nonconformist heritage in Wales can be safeguarded for future generations 👇

Great work by the team at @rcahmwales.bsky.social 👍👏

Poster yn hysbysebu digwyddiad Capeli Cymru yn Rhuthun ar y 21ain o Fawrth / Poster advertising a Capeli Cymru event in Ruthin, taking place on the 21st March

Poster yn hysbysebu digwyddiad Capeli Cymru yn Rhuthun ar y 21ain o Fawrth / Poster advertising a Capeli Cymru event in Ruthin, taking place on the 21st March

The next Capeli Cymru event is in Ruthin on the 21st March - come along and chat to the team about chapels and what nonconformist heritage means to you!

#CapeliCymru #WelshChapels #Ruthin #Denbighshire #Wales

Go for it! Be better than them 💪👌

A view of an archaeological trench with a group of archaeologists in hi-viz clothing, located at the bottom of a stone and vegetated cliff with the historic castle at the top

An aerial image of an archaeological trench surrounded by grass and some boulders, with a group of archaeologists working and wearing hi viz vests

A woman and a man are looking at some archaeological finds in the hands of the man

March 5th is #CornwallDay, so we're resharing the opportunity to see St Michael's Mount on #DiggingforBritain.

A team from Durham University and the National Trust were searching for evidence of Bronze Age tin processing on the island.

You can watch it on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

A painting of a Roman masonry walled fort with projecting towers from the air, reused as a base by Norman soldiers arriving in dragon boats from the sea

28th September 1066

An invading army led by William Duke of Normandy make the 780 year old #Roman fort of ANDERITVM (Pevensey) #Sussex a base prior to the Battle of Hastings

A vivid recreation © Alan Sorrell 1970 reproduced in 1976 as a Department of the Environment postcard

#RomanFortThursday

Gorgeous! Enjoy

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*So* important to leave the grove tidy too

When all the Druids really have to get home..😬🧙

📷 Birmingham, Sunday

Now I need a dress-up Iron Age doll..🥳

An open area of grassy heath with a sign in the foreground

#RomanFortThursday A remote posting in Ordovician territory - the upland Roman fort at Tomen y mur in Eryri/Snowdonia is named after the great medieval summit motte ('tomen' or mound) which sits over the Roman fort ('mur' - wall)

The brilliant signs were unfortunately taken down in 2022😔

📷My own

A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”

Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…

The new Private Eye is out now.

Hmm. I find this puzzling when two world class forest visitor centres & mountain biking hubs at Nant yr Arian & Coed y Brenin (both in mid & north Wales 🤨) were shut last year...😞

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 👋

Two people walking through a large grassy gateway with mountains beyond

Hooray it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳 Heading home after a day of digging, through the enormous collapsed gateway passage of Dinas Dinlle hillfort, in Gwynedd

Quite a view of the stunning mountains of central Eryri/Snowdonia for those leaving the fort - & the great Nantlle ridge😮⛰️

📷 My own, Aug 21

😮 unbelievable 😄

*absolutely insane* defined here as letting just anyone walk amongst the pilae..🤔🧐

A big fat view of the north wing of Fishbourne roman palace including walkways, mosaics, and happy visitors. And crucially no insanity whatsoever.

We're happy to announce that we are the last place on earth that hasn't gone *absolutely insane* and are open for visitors.

(This is a time-limited offer)

Catching up with two legends of Welsh archaeology today. Dr Jeffrey Davies (L) - Romanist & publisher of most books about Roman Wales in the last 40 years, & Chris Musson (R), former director of the Clwyd Powys Trust & my predecessor as first Aerial Investigator for the Royal Commission

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Very interesting indeed!

Looking out from Kercado chambered tomb.

The passage tomb at Kercado, near Carnac in Brittany, may have been constructed as early as 5,200 BCE. #TombTuesday

📷Personal photo, July, 2023.