Two-hour Ancient Wire Work workshop, led by tutor Holly Berkley.
🔥 Sunday 26 April
🍂 £50 per ticket
🔸 10am - 12pm OR 1pm - 3pm
During the session, you will create 5 attractive copper rings to take away with you, all based on real archaeological finds!
It is a rather special place isn't it 😊
A grass covered Iron Age hillfort from the air bordered by trees and with a farm and track way through the centre
Gotta love Woodbury hillfort 👍
A much overlooked multivallate multiangular 5.5ha Iron Age #Dorset gem 😍
📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
#HillfortsWednesday
Magnetometry survey plot for the inside of a hillfort showing lots of building activity and fairground related disturbance
Black and white photograph of the early 20th century fairground, with rides, inside Woodbury hillfort
Black and white photograph of the late 19th century fair ground inside Woodbury hillfort
Oh, is it #HillfortsWednesday?
Here's the magnetometer survey for Woodbury Hill Dorset done by Bournemouth student Arias Jordens in 2012
Much activity relates to the annual post medieval September market which inspired *Greenhill Fair* in Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel *Far from the Madding Crowd*
This carving of a Roman warrior's head was at the top of the rudder (rudderahead) of the Dutch Westindiaman 'Fame' of Hoorn, lost off Poole (Dorset, UK) in 1631. The original can be seen in the stunning new maritime archaeology gallery at Poole Museum.
Great talk last evening by Prof Dave Parham @buarchanth.bsky.social about the Swash Channel Wreck/'Fame' of Hoorn (1631) excavation & its place in the story of UK maritime archaeology. Glad to have been part of the project & to have identified the Wreck! Free pdf of report @archaeopress.bsky.social
Now we like hypocausts, and we like pies
But which is better ? 🤔
Pies
Definitely pies
It’s a very long time since I was a student at Bournemouth, but I have brilliant memories of studying archaeology in Dorset. A degree in archaeology gives you so many life and professional skills 👇
Students and volunteers on the Bournemouth University big dig wave from the gulley of an Iron Age roundhouse
A Bournemouth University diver uncovers a 13th century grave slab from the cargo a ship wreck in the English Channel
Students from anthropology and archaeology at Bournemouth University having a lecture inside a reconstruction prehistoric house
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Also pies
More on the *Swash Channel Wreck*, an armed Dutch merchant ship called the *Fame* (of Hoorn) which sank in 1631 off the coast of Poole #Dorset, further remains of which have been found in Studland Bay
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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#Archaeology
You wish 🤣🤣
A garden scene. In the foreground are two people looking together at some kind of clipboard. To the right of them is a wheeled contraption that looks like a pram without the cot part. It's a Ground penetrating radar device.
We're hosting Erin and Will today (from @buarchanth.bsky.social). They're surveying our Formal Garden using ground penetrating radar.
Can't wait to see what they discover. Probably a previously unknown hypocaust. 🤞
On the left an man in a baseball cap. On the right a woman wearing glasses. The woman is pushing a trolley-type implement. they are standing in front of a low wall and hedging.
Those folk from @buarchanth.bsky.social are back today with their fancypants ground penetrating radar.
They're trying to find out what's beneath our car par.
We don't like to tell them they're wasting their time... Nothing interesting ever gets found under a car park, right? 👑😬
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...
🎉 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!
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 😊
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!
jobs.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/jobs/job/Ass...
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 👍
