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Vote to make Melsonby Hoard Current Archaeology’s Rescue Project of the Year - Durham University

Cast your vote to make the Melsonby Hoard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social's Rescue Project of the Year 2026!

Unearthed by our archaeologists, the hoard is one of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

@proftommoore.bsky.social

This magnificent sweet chestnut tree has sat proudly for centuries in the Greenwich Park Flower Garden 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

Throughout The Green Park you'll find London plane trees standing tall. These urban warriors have an important role to play 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹

The Melsonby Hoard: a talk by Sophia Adams The Melsonby Hoard is a highly significant discovery of Iron Age metalwork from nearly 2,000 years ago discovered in late December 2021.

Next Monday 1 Dec 25: Sophia Adams will be talking about "The Melsonby hoard" for the Combined Hertfordshire Archaeological Societies. Lecture on zoom, free tickets from Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1777827874... #IronAge #prehistory #archaeology #HorseGear #AmazingFind @ehasarch.bsky.social

The Melsonby Hoard: a talk by Sophia Adams - East Herts Archaeological Society The Melsonby Hoard is a highly significant collection of more than 800 pieces of Iron Age metalwork from nearly 2,000 years ago.

The next CHAS lecture is a not-to-miss event! Join us on December 1 to hear British Museum curator Dr. Sophia Adams talk about the amazing Melsonby Hoard - and, as always, it's free!
More info and a link for tickets here:
ehas.org.uk/ehas.org.uk/...

#archaeology #ancientBluesky

The Melsonby hoard: Vehicles and Power in Late Iron Age North Yorkshire YouTube video by SocAntiquaries

Amazing how far the research has come along, love Sophie's use of graphics too 🥳❤️ www.youtube.com/live/-sl-Dm_...

A tile with well-preserved surface impressions: three distinct outline of shoes with hobnail patterns in the center, a animal paw prints nearby, and a rectangular maker's stamp with worn lettering and an imprint of a foot. And finger lines. The tile surface shows additional small impressions and chips.

Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2

#TilesOnTuesday 🏺

The Melsonby hoard: Vehicles & Power in Late Iron Age North Yorkshire - Society of Antiquaries of London In this lecture Prof. Tom Moore FSA and Dr Sophia Adams FSA share recent finds in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, one of the largest hoards of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain. They explore h...

On 13 November, join Prof. Tom Moore FSA and Dr Sophia Adams FSA as they share recent finds in Melsonby, North Yorkshire - one of the largest hoards of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain!

www.sal.org.uk/event/melson...

A group of students stand in a field in Hertfordshire with a total station and blue skies overhead. Photo by Dr Kris Lockyear.

It's Reading Week - but the #archaeology never stops!

Dr Kris Lockyear is out in the field this week w/ 2nd & 3rd year students running (with Gareth Rees, 1 of our alum) a surveying course in Hertfordshire...

Stay tuned & send good weather vibes!

#LocalAndGlobal
#ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology

We were lucky enough to work with @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social to scan the #MelsonbyHoard recently! See www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... for more info on this amazing discovery.

Help the York Museums Trust keep the hoard in Yorkshire and donate today at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m....

Lovely to see the listing increased to Grade II* by Historic England and the DCMS for this amazing windmill in Margate. Draper's Windmill was constructed in about 1843, by John Holman, millwright of Canterbury. 🧵

📷 Emily Greenaway

The 2,000-year-old secrets that the amazing Melsonby Hoard is slowly revealing NEW evidence dates the sensational “Melsonby Hoard” to a couple of decades earlier than the legendary queen Cartimandua and so it shines a light on a period of British history about which little is known.

The 2,000-year-old secrets that the amazing Melsonby Hoard is slowly revealing

Surveyor with ground penetrating radar machine and Scotney old castle in the background

Early 19th century redrawn plan of the buildings at Scotney Castle (copied from an 18th century survey)

We're excited to be working with Wealden Archaeology Group at Scotney Castle! During October, the team has been undertaking GPR survey to learn more about the lost buildings depicted on 18th-early 19th century plans, to the west of the Old Castle.
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRec...

Six brown-coloured lithics and sketches depicting them.

NEW Handaxes and Levallois cores from Shbicha, Iraq. Lying at the crossroads of Pleistocene hominin dispersals, these lithics show repeated episodes of raw material exploitation, indicating well-developed knowledge of the local environment.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

A picture of the full moon

If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.

#Melsonby back in the news thanks to @archaeologyuk.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻

And now the #Melsonby assemblage comes to a German #archaeology publication 👏🏻👏🏻

And so back to Greenwich by water, and there while something is dressing for our dinner, Sir William and I walked into the Park, where the King hath planted trees and made steps in the hill up to the Castle, which is very magnificent.

A red pottery vessel depicting gladiators in combat, in a museum case

Whilst storms 🌪️ rage on the west coast, here's an incredible Samian vessel from Aquae Sulis - Roman Bath - to start the week.

It depicts two gladiators locked in combat ⚔️🛡️😮

An incredible survival & on display in the Roman Baths museum

📷 My own

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Wow!!

Presentation slide showing results of survey

Today I learned something amazingly new to me.
Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲

Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo

The 1940 fire at Arnside Street - The Long, Long Trail It is widely known that the majority of British WW1 soldier’s army service records went up in smoke when the War Office […]

Tonight is the 85th anniversary of so many WW1 records being destroyed. #otd #ww1 #geneaology

See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-1940-fir...

YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm Ben Affleck visits Butser Ancient Farm (Archive Clip)

If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...

The Melsonby Hoard: life in Iron Age Britain 

#melsonby #ironage assemblage comes to an #englishheritage podcast near you open.spotify.com/episode/0eXX...

A large group of people standing in front of a moated castle

And just like that, Season 2 of #Bodiam100 is complete!

We’ve had an amazing 3 weeks on site with around 140 participants joining us
#OutInTheField.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers & to our property colleagues for making us so welcome at Bodiam. 🏺🧵

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Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain

#RomanSiteSaturday & you really can't go wrong with the spectacular Pharos of Dover

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A Roman oil lamp. The image on the lamp is rather naive, but clearly shows two people, one sat each side of a glass furnace. The character on the right is blowing into a tube with a glass vessle on the end.

This week's #AlphabetChallenge is #WeekGforGlass so please enjoy the only known depiction of Roman glass blowing, on an oil lamp.

Three have been found: in Asseria, Ferrara and Spodnje Skofije.