Dan Herbert

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Definitely by The Rustler but is actually Neolithic Flint Mines in Britain.

My brain is a right bugger at the minute.
Also not helped by the people next door but one owning cockrels

British Bronze Age sickle unearthed in Lower Seine Valley Archaeologists from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) have announced the discovery of a Bronze Age sickle in France’s Lower Seine Valley. - HeritageDaily - Archaeol...

"British" Bronze Age sickle unearthed in Lower Seine Valley.
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While the article indicates the sickle is of "British" origin I think everyone knows the sickles were in fact made by Metallurgix in or around Lutetia.

www.heritagedaily.com/2025/08/brit...

It really is.
I thought it was really dark when I woke up this morning too. When I looked at the clock it was 4 O'clock

One for @danherb10.bsky.social

I reckon this photo deserves an outing for #FindsFriday too, given that it's 150 years since Lane Fox's (before he took the name Pitt Rivers) second round of excavations at Cissbury - providing an excuse to recount his tale of one particular discovery in the flint mines during the summer of 1875...

A photo of 4 green acorns on a white bookshelf surrounded by books

The wheel is turning

A Roman mosaic of a winged creature with a fish's tail and a felin head and fron paws, framed witin a half-circular twisted cord border. Some wag has placed a paper unicorn horn on the creature's head.

For reasons we won't trouble you with, we added a unicorn horn to our sea panther.

One week til I'm on my way up here again!

It is difficult! For instance, compare un-shaped sarsen and bluestone boulders with the shaped ones at Stonehenge and the differences are really obvious. But what if you have one boulder by itself in a field? Is it the remains of a monument like in Jim’s lovely photos, or just natural? 🏺 You can: 1/

A photo showing a grey stone dolmen on green grass and with cloudy skies above. Another stone, a single surviving kerb stone is located slightly further away.

A photo of a ring of stones - all that remains of a passage tomb.

A photo of a grey mushroom-like dolmen on green short-cropped grass.

A photo of a chunky dolmen within a passage tomb.

Topping off the top four megalithic sites in Ireland is Carrowmore in Co. Sligo. It is classified as part of the Neolithic passage tomb tradition, but many monuments look more like dolmens to me. It is a gorgeously striking site (and sight) though. 🏺

The circular backplate of a copper alloy mirror incised with swirling La Tene style (Celtic) decoration over 2 thousand years ago in the late Iron Age

The decorated backplate of a copper alloy Iron Age mirror

From a pit with mid-late 1st century AD Roman glassware

Possibly part of a very late Durotriges grave assemblage

Found at Chettle Park Dorset in 2003

Now in the BM (2009,8006.1)

© The Trustees of the British Museum

#FindsFriday

The Moel Hebog Shield - a late Bronze Age shield which was found in a bog near Moel Hebog Mountain (Eryri National Park) in 1784. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📷 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology

Beautiful Browne’s Hospital, Stamford 😍
Founded as a Bedehouse in the 15th century by a wool merchant, many of the buildings were in a bad state by the late 19th century and were demolished- the cottages were built at this time.

More info here: www.browneshospital.co.uk/history-and-...

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Unlike many other chapter houses, the ribbed vaulting of Southwell Minster's C13th chapter house doesn't have a central pier.
It hovers over the space like a starburst in dramatic light.

We should remember that next to the Romanesque Notre-Dame-du-Port in Clermont-Ferrand, there is the cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption. The predecessor of the 13th-century Gothic cathedral was the setting for the famous speech of Pope Urban II in 1095, which sparked the Crusades.
#medievalsky

Invigilating my first exam today.
Spare a thought for those having to take their resits under such conditions

Another in the long line of people who should never be in the Labour Party

A small chapel built into coastal cliffs

Seeing the day out at St Govan's Chapel, south Pembrokeshire, tonight after a day of digging on the coastal cliffs.

#OpNightingale #Pembrokeshire

Goodnight from the Great Orlando, exhausted by a shift on Blaxwich Pier peeping around the corners of time to tell day-trippers their fortunes. Goodnight from Molly Cogg, collecting haunted driftwood at Winterhorn Cove so she can make a spirit-freeing bonefire. Goodnight from Hookland.

For anyone interested in a deeper dive here is the Decode ME initial result statement. Quite proud that my DNA was one of the 15,579

www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-...

Me too
Was waiting to hear the findings

Is certainly long overdue
What went on that day was criminal

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Reconstruction of a Neolithic enclosure from the air showing the ditch, stone walls and internal buildings with smoke rising

Long before the Iron Age hillfort of Crickley Hill #Gloucestershire there was an impressive Neolithic enclosure

Here's an epic recreation looking West © Johnny Wall for the Crickley Hill online archive

crickley.org

For more of Johnny's art see

johnnywall.co.uk

#HillfortsWednesday

Reconstruction drawings help us think through evidence, but archaeologists recognise they also shape how we imagine past

Neolithic Sweet Track. A hirsute man (no baldness in prehistory!) walks boldly in front, behind him, his wife(?) her breasts modestly covered (unlike him), cares for their child

Little did they know what awaited them