Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology

Come and say hello if you are interested in studying #archaeology at the @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Open Day today!

Massive congratulations to Philip Riris who been awarded a prestigious 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize for his work on human-environmental interaction, South American prehistory, computational modelling, resilience, historical ecology, and rock art. Well done Phil! Read more here; ow.ly/I3B050XfyLN

Cast skeleton in diving gear

Two friendly archaeologists with finds, always happy to help

Cast skull in replica Roman legionary helmet

And we're off!

#Archaeology @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Digging dirt, shipwrecks and dead Romans

What's not to like? 😁

Come join us !

@buarchanth.bsky.social

CONGRATULATIONS to Meg @megsdigs.bsky.social and Jon of @buarchanth.bsky.social whose video series #Stratmates has been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Archaeology Achievements Awards 2025 🥳

You can catch up with the #Stratmates backcatalogue over on #Instagram

#Archaeology #Dorset

Image shows archaeology students in hi vis jackets lined up along an archaeological trench waving their hands in the air under a blue sky. Text lists Bournemouth University's Archaeology degree programmes (BSc Archaeology and BSc Archaeological, Anthropological and Forensic Sciences) and the QR code links to a website to find out more information about University Archaeology Day, on 27th October 2025, and to book FREE tickets either to attend in person or to watch the live-streamed panel sessions remotely.

The first in a series of posts listing participants in University Archaeology Day #UAD25 @britishacademy.bsky.social ... Look out for @buarchanth.bsky.social at the event!

... Plenty more to come!

Two archaeologists examine an expanded image of a Roman incised gemstone in a still taken from a reel on instagram

Join Meg and Jon over on #instagram as they discover and discuss a stunning #Roman military incised gemstone (intaglio) found at the fort of Waddon Hill #Dorset

##RomanSiteSaturday #Stratmates #Archaeology

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New update on @buarchanth.bsky.social Ukrainian colleagues' work supporting veterans and Ukrainian heritage, including work with @henebtwa.bsky.social ‬ and Operation Nightingale - www.gofundme.com/f/help-sergi...

YouTube video by Bournemouth University Bournemouth University Archaeology Showcase

🎉 Congratulation to everyone on #ALevelResultsDay!
If you are considering Archaeology and didn’t get the results you wanted, our clearing phone lines are now open: +44(0)1202 966777
🎥 Watch the BU Archaeology Showcase: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym55...

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Jon and Nick were also privileged enough to stand in the footsteps of many other admirers of the underfloor heating system, but don't tell @durotrigesdig.bsky.social #hypocaustgate

Last week we were @romanpalace.bsky.social for the #festivalofarchaeology. We carried out a GPR survey with the help of many of the visitors and had an excellent day talking about some of our work!

Postdoctoral Fellowships The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

Interested in pursuing a British Academy Postdoctoral fellowship at @buarchanth.bsky.social? Check us out at www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/our-fa... and drop us a line. If you're not sure who to contact directly, email me!

Week one of our archaeological fieldschool, putting our archaeology students BSAC diving skills to use investigating shipwrecks across Poole Bay @bsacdivers.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

A happy archaeologist in hi vis vest and hard hat stands by an Iron Age pit with ladder descending

Ethan has completed the half section of his Iron Age storage pit at #Durotriges25

Despite there being no finds at the very base of the feature, he is happy 😊

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JOB as PT Assistant Curator with our lovely friends at Hengistbury Head. Likely to be of interest to @buarchanth.bsky.social present and past students!

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An elite archaeological team having a drink sat on hay bales outside a brewhouse taproom

A big THANK YOU to the @buarchanth.bsky.social volunteer team (some of whom are pictured here) who made the #Durotriges25 big dig open day possible

You're all wonderful 😊

Two archaeologists (Julian Richards and Miles Russell), both in shorts, one in grey shirt and hat, the other in hi vis vest, holding a cup of tea

Visitors on a tour of an archaeological trench

Visitors to an archaeological excavation

Thank you to the 834 people who came to visit us on the @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #Durotriges25 Big Dig open day

Great to see you all and do please come and see us again next year on #Durotriges26 👍

Archaeologists in Hi Viz excavating sections across a dark soil-filled linear ditch feature cut into chalk

Excavation has begun across the long, linear ditch in the southern end of Trench M at #Durotriges25

Really hoping it's Iron Age 🤞

The Durotriges 2025 trench as freshly cleared, from the air, white chalk, darker features surrounded by green crops and a marquee at the centre

Day one on site with the #Durotriges25 dig team

A quick fly-by, courtesy of Jo and Sue Crane, shows the area under investigation this year and the archaeological features prior to cleaning 🤩

Want to hear an archaeologist try and make sense of all the prehistoric features just exposed in the first trench to be excavated at #Durotriges25?

Course you do

#Archaeology #FindsFriday

People queuing to enter a small brick house belonging to Medusa at Bignor Roman villa West Sussex with the South Downs rising up in the distance

Just your average Wednesday morning with students @buarchanth.bsky.social queuing up to meet Medusa 🐍🐍

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@bignorvilla.bsky.social

A reconstruction Iron Age roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm

Inside an Iron Age roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm

Welcome to the Iron Age sign 😊

Live update

Our annual pilgrimage to the magnificent @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the students of @buarchanth.bsky.social

A glorious day to be visiting the Iron Age 😎

#HillfortsWednesday

Iron Age pot, with bit missing, after 2 millennia in the ground, photographed as excavated

A cheeky little piece of late Iron Age Black Burnished Ware pottery

Slightly damaged

Photographed in July 2024 at the moment of retrieval, a mere 2,000 years after it was lost

Will we find anything similar this year on #Durotriges25?

Let's hope so

#Archaeology #prehistoric #Dorset #FindsFriday

Siggy explaining to the volunteers about plant families using flowers they had picked from around the farm.

In the Drumadoon landscape looking at the heathland and the Iron Age hillfort in the distance.

Siggy Osborne and Emma Jenkins @buarchanth.bsky.social undertaking plant identification and ecological habitat studies in the Drumadoon landscape. @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @fossilbeetle.bsky.social

Face to face with the past: BU student recreates face of Iron Age Dorset woman

Meet Kimmeridge Woman - an Iron Age skeleton whose face we've been able to recreate using new technology. As she goes on display at Wareham Museum, find out more about the process of reconstructing her face and what we can learn from her skeleton: bit.ly/42BtGcj

@buarchanth.bsky.social

Copper pins in situ on the wreck. Image Bournemouth University

Capstan on the stern of the wreck. Image Bournemouth University

The wreck of an Admiralty mooring lighter, known as the ‘Pin Wreck’, located off St Albans Head, has been added to the National Heritage List for England
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#MaritimeArchaeology #MaritimeHistory

Our latest blog is out now - read all about the Grand Old Lady - and here a pair of binoculars from #RMSMedina @buarchanth.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHeritage www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

3,700-year-old stone circle discovered in Derbyshire forest. Archaeologists found a single standing stone is part of a prehistoric complex with a stone circle & ceremonial platform. Excavations by Forestry England, @timeteam.bsky.social & @buarchanth.bsky.social revealed new details bit.ly/4iszb3z

Reconstructed daub walled conical thatched roof Iron Age roundhouse at Hengistbury Head

Live #HillfortsWednesday update 2

Exploring the excellent reconstruction Iron Age roundhouse and museum at Hengistbury Head #Dorset with the students of @buarchanth.bsky.social as the sea fog comes rolling in

Really looking forward to representing @buarchanth.bsky.social at the Royal Anthropological Institute's annual London Anthropology Day (londonanthropologyday.co.uk) - at Senate House on the 25th April this year. See you there?!