I want to make space for new works in my Etsy shop, so everything on there is now 20% off - including this watercolour on recycled cotton rag paper entitled 'Sun Henge' and paintings of ancient monuments in Brittany and Britain. Check it out here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#StandingStoneSunday
34 month PDRA position on my Roman Britannia: Mobility and Society project, based with fab project co-lead Dr Sophy Charlton at @york-bioarch.bsky.social - come join our interdisciplinary Cardiff-York team and reshape narratives of the Roman period in Britannia.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT035/p...
Replica of the gatehouse from the Roman fort at Manchester. Bit of a hidden site and worth exploring.
A lovely bit of Roman glass from Koblenz, Germany
The Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany. The best surviving example of a Roma gatehouse.
Pancakes for all
Research break from the new book. Archie discovers Roman good-luck charms weren’t subtle. Chesters fort, Hadrian’s Wall.
Buggered up my knee and now in a relationship with lots of painkillers. Fluffy hot water bottle helping. Annoyingly writing on hold for a few days 😩
A recreated Roman watchtower from Burgsalach on the German frontier. Similar structures existed across the Gask Ridge in Perthshire
A close up detail from the Warren Cup in the British Museum. Dating to around first century, it depicts a Greek scene of gay sex with this room attendant watching on. The cup features in my new book.
Been waiting a long time to see these in person. Can't wait to get to the NMS in November www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Off to London in a few weeks. Looked at taking the sleeper - £500 for two of us one way. Costs more than the hotel I'm staying in! A one way flight for two will be <£200 This is what politicians need to sort!
Wrong on so many levels
And it's 26 CofE bishops passing laws that affect the rest of the UK directly and indirectly.
This is the first printed plan of Ardoch Roman fort in Scotland, produced by antiquarian Robert Sibbald in 1695. Thirty years later, Alexander Gordon described it as 'the most entire and best-preserved of any Roman antiquity of that kind in Britain', which still holds true today! #RomanFortThursday
Disappointing to see @scottishwater.bsky.social blocking a public footpath with unnecessary fencing in Newport @willierennie.bsky.social @wendychambld.bsky.social
Switched on Digging for Britain and saw the brilliant Roman site near Sunderland appearing. May have gotten a bit muddy when I visited there a few years ago with Garry Bankhead
Not every night you switch on Digging for Britain and see three sitting one episode that you've visited
Visited this tomb in December and it was amazing. Great experience
Castle Greg Roman fortlet, one of the only known Roman sites in West Lothian, and one of the better preserved sites in Scotland
It's getting late, I'm tired and I've stumbled across the latest conspiracy theory- Oscar the grouch is a Timelord and his trash can is a Tardis! I'm sold
Burns and Bridgerton Night
Someone's Gotcha day. Spent at daycare and now the wee fellow is in his bed, exhausted
Roman sites in Scotland dating to the first century - the initial Roman invasion of Scotland
The remains of the bathhouse at Bearsden by Glasgow.
Some huge news from me. Just signed a contract to write my next book on the Romans for @headofzeus.bsky.social so a wee celebration and a huge thanks to Ben, Sarah & the team at the Soho Agency for making things happen. Roll on publication day (in 2027).
Time for a little pic me up
Beautiful Roman lamp depicting two gladiators from Cologne
Breaking news the translation of the Greenloaning Stone and the first writing and name from Scotland! stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/results-th...
Christmas time
