Would definitely be interested in featuring it! Would you be able to send an email to kathryn.krakowka@currentpublishing.com with the original photo and some text about the event and why you're posting about it now? Thanks!

Hello, this is an amazing cake! We'd love to include it in the Edible Archaeology section of our next issue of Current Archaeology. Get in touch at kathryn.krakowka@currentpublishing.com

Until next year, then… over and out! #CALive26

And thanks to all today’s marvellous speakers, to our volunteers, to everyone who came along on the day and everyone who participated online – we couldn’t do it without any of you. #CALive26

...and to Kirker Holidays, AS Geospatial Surveys Ltd, Wessex Insurance Brokers Ltd & Hare and Tabor in the ArchaeoFair! #CALive26

Thanks to all at the Archaeofair: @uclarchaeology.bsky.social, Kent Archaeological Field School, Udig Excavations Ltd, @royalarchinst.bsky.social @archaeopress.bsky.social, Andante Travels, Hidden History Travel, @culturalexperience.bsky.social... #CALive26

Thank you, too, to @Tash_Archaeo for presenting this year’s CA Awards, and to Adam Stanford for judging and presenting the @WorldArchaeo photo competition #CALive26

Thanks, too, to the sponsor of the @world-archaeology.bsky.social photo comp @Hidden History Travel. #CALive26

Big thanks once more to our hosts, @ioe.bsky, and our conference partner @uclarchaeology.bsky.social; the CA Awards sponsors, Andante Travels, Wessex Insurance Brokers Ltd, Udig Excavations Ltd & @royalarchinst.bsky.social #CALive26

…and that’s a wrap! CALive26 is officially over, and it’s been a blast. #CALive26

The winner of the 2026 CA Award for Archaeologist of the Year (sponsored by Andante Travels) is… Dr Jane Kershaw (@ox.ac.uk) #CALive26

The winner of the 2026 CA Award for Research Project of the Year (sponsored by Wessex Insurance Brokers Ltd) is… ‘Fit for an emperor? Excavating a monumental building from Roman Carlisle’ (Uncovering Roman Carlisle/Carlisle Cricket Club/SLR/Cumberland Council) #CALive26

The winner of the 2026 CA Award for Rescue Project of the Year (sponsored by Udig Excavations Ltd) is… ‘The Melsonby Hoard: exploring unprecedented insights into Iron Age Yorkshire’ (@durham.ac.uk /British Museum/Historic England) #CALive26

The winner of the 2026 CA Award for Book of the Year (sponsored by the @royalarchinst.bsky.social) is… ‘An Irish Civil War Dugout – Tormore Cave, County Sligo: archaeology, history, memory’, by Marion Dowd, Robert Mulraney, and James Bonsall #CALive26

First, the @world-archaeology.bsky.social Photo competition (sponsored by @Hidden History Travel and judged and presented by Adam Stanford): the winner is Tahir Ceylan, with his photo of Savatra Ancient City #CALive26

It’s time to announce the results of the 2026 CA Awards, which this year are sponsored by Andante Travels, Wessex Insurance Brokers Ltd, Udig Excavations Ltd & @royalarchinst.bsky.social, and presented by Natasha Billson #CALive26

Similarly, the international and collaborative nature of research into the Roman frontiers continues to flourish, David tells us #CALive26

Similarly, the international and collaborative nature of research into the Roman frontiers continues to flourish, David tells us #CALive26

We're looking at how the Frontiers of the Roman Empire has expanded across Europe since 1987 #CALive26

...if so, was the Vallum intended to create a temporary barrier, to seal off that area while the construction was taking place? David wonders #CALive26

What was the Vallum for, David asks. It's one thing to build a wall and dig a ditch, build milecastles and towers - but then you need to add 16 forts on the wall line - it slows everything down, and in the centre it's difficult to get materials up onto the wall line.... #CALive26

Inscriptions tell us that Hadrian's Wall was built by legionaries, while the Vallum was created by auxiliaries, David tells us #CALive26

We're now discussing 'the problem of the Vallum' - the great earthwork with its central ditch running behind the Wall. It appears to have been laid out from the forts and was only crossed at forts, David says. #CALive26

What inspired the look of Hadrian's Wall? There were relatively few city walls in Western Europe, David says - but there was one in Athens, a city that Hadrian knew well (and left monuments behind). #CALive26

David is discussing the materials and make-up of Hadrian's Wall, and the Vallum - which is also described by Bede! Talking about a 'passive' obstacle with no forts on it evolving into an active, offensive fortification #CALive26

What happened when the Wall was attacked? David suggests the most likely thing would be to open the gates and engage the enemy in the field #CALive26

You should also get out of your mind that the Romans were tidy, David says. The Carlisle Millennium excavations produced so much Roman rubbish! #CALive26

Comparing Hadrian's Wall to the German frontier - which is a palisade. You couldn't patrol along the top of that, David says - so why do so many assume there was a walk along the top of Hadrian's Wall? #CALive26

We are hearing about lasting impressions of Hadrian's Wall and its function, based on artistic depictions. Currently examining an image by Alan Sorrell #CALive26

Discussions of the function of Hadrian's Wall and how the fortifications operated, how people communicated, are also still ongoing until the present day #CALive26