The Colins field guide to archaeology in Britain, so full of exciting places, sites, objects, info on everything just stuff 😊

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Iron Age #archaeology on TV tonight, Tuesday 4th Nov 9pm #More4

Available for download later on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD

#Prehistory #Durotriges 👇👇

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Simply the best

You are spoiling us Ambassador ☺️

Dr Miles Russell Stands in front of a screen showing the title slide of his talk, Beyond the ‘Castle’

Maiden Castle - 40 years on programme of abstracts from the day

Great day out in Dorchester celebrating #maidencastle 40 years on -catching up with some friends and colleagues old and new!

This guy wasn’t bad @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

Utagawa Kuniyoshi's "Self-portrait as a cat lover", mid 19th c, Japan, depicts the artist surrounded by cats.
Kuniyoshi was known for his love of felines, and his studio was reportedly filled with them; he placed them into many of his works, often as a form of satire to cleverly evade censorship

Thank you, we enjoyed every minute, reminiscing and archive diving is always a pleasure never a chore 😉☺️❤️

🤣 miracle we survived!

The ridgeway is a magic place everyone loved your talk and the sink hole info ☺️

Thank you ☺️ it was a great event, ☺️ we are still going in the pub - now there's a surprise! 😄

❤️ will do it again for the 50th! 😉☺️

Miles turn now at the Maiden Castle 40 year later day school

Maiden Castle Archive display with even my 40 year old t shirt from the dig ☺️ no way it would fit me now 😄

Maiden Castle 40 years on day school going well ☺️

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Some absolutely fantastic archaeology coming to a TV near you soon 😀 👇👇

A hillfort looking across the Teme Valley shown through LiDAR comprising at least two external banks and ditches

We all love a new hillfort, or in this case fortlet. Identified recently in #Herefordshire from LiDAR as part of work for Forestry Commission.

A multi-vallate fort overlooking a blind valley.

More information here:
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#HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday

Castle Ditches Llancarfan - A substantial univallate enclosure, set along a steep-sided east-west ridge defined by a single bank, and counterscarped. Occupation is attested from the Iron Age through to the Romano-British period.

#AncientBlueSky🏺
#Archaeology #History

Will do I will be maning the display 😄

See you there 😄

REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.

For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.

Yew tree at Marston House, Somerset estimated to be 3,000 years old.

Display boards talking about the discovery of the hoard at Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey

A lake with reeds

A hand holding a bronze terret ring

A pair of hands holding a horse bridle

Tomorrow we embark on the last Op Nightingale fieldwork for 2025, back to the sacred lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey, last refuge of the druids. Will we find more of this incredible Celtic assemblage as we did in 2024? Watch this space….! #archaeology #celtic #anglesey #veterans #wellbeing

Hi BlueSky! Jumping in with my first post to play #findsfriday and this lovely little spindle whorl found during excavations at Caerfai promontory fort in 2022. 📸 my own from the Cherish project with DigVentures

You are right, your not wrong 😁 as my Dad used to say ❤️ ours are called Jack and Stella and hit the spot everytime ☺️ hugs back at you xxcx

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It is #worldmentalhealthday today (we'd argue that's every day).

We love you all very much so this is for you...

Definitely need hugs and a big one for @portlandmuseum.bsky.social where we have had to have many closed days due to our one staff member and a lot of volunteers succumb to Covid 😥 we have deployed our secret weapons We will be back!

The Worsbrough historic flour Mill complex of buildings.

As the once manager of a historic former flour mill, I’m always drawn to places where the tradition still thrives. One such gem is Worsbrough Mill near Barnsley, a working watermill on the River Dove producing premium organic flours. Milling here goes back to Norman times. The