I’ve caught up on #DrawingDiggingforBritain with my final drawing of a Roman sword chape. Thank you @richardosgood.bsky.social for facilitating this annual creative outlet again. I plan to keep my pens and paints out now rather than put them away for another 12 months.
#drawing 4842 #drawingdiggingforbritain perfect practice for sketching at the British Museum tomorrow with Urbansketchers London #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch
A sketch of five human faces in outline
Well done to my lovely friends that presented #diggingforbritain - I end my #drawingdiggingforbritain sketches with a salute to them @toriherridge.bsky.social, Rosanna, Stuart, @megsdigs.bsky.social & (of course) @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Don’t we live on an incredible isle eh? #archaeology
A sketch of Roman coins, jet pin and spindle whorls
A sketch of Roman pot sherds Roman coins, spindle works and a jet pin against a background of cliffs sea and two curious circular structures
So that is the last of this series of #diggingforbritain you may not be surprised that I’m drawing the Buckspool fort which we dug with @henebtwa.bsky.social Channelling my inner Rose Ferraby with a collage of finds - Thanks to @toriherridge.bsky.social for being fab! #drawingdiggingforbritain
Artefacts including stone hand tool and Roman swords.
Nearly missed tonight's #DrawingDiggingForBritain - fascinated by the analysis that showed that a stone hand tool was used for grinding tin.
Skull of a young man (17-24 years old) from a mass grave dating to the ninth century. The individual had survived an earlier trepanation and was around 1.9m tall #DrawingDiggingforBritain
Drawing of a human skull facing left with a circular hole on the left side. Elements of the skull held in place by tape
Trepanned skull from Wandlebury in Cambridgeshire excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit and featured on #diggingforbritain this evening. An early medieval offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain
A drawing of a small metal bird
A tiny Roman bird figurine (possibly a hawk) from excavations by Archaeoscan at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire featured on #diggingforbritain as an offering for to ight’s #drawingdiggingforbritain
Drawings of Roman Stylus, prehistoric fossil fern and tree, paw print on tile etc.
Absolutely blown away by the fossil fern remains and intrigued by the iron-age dogs #DrawingDiggingForBritain
Circular paper with a green and brown round metal handle. To the left is the narrow end which would have been slotted onto the long shaft of the spear.
#ArtDD2026
C3-C4th copper alloy spear handle-butt
From a Pictish site in Fife.
For #DrawingDiggingForBritain and #DiggingForBritain.
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#drawing 4835 Bronze Age cremation urn #drawingdiggingforbritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch
Oooh! New archaeological illustration drop at #DrawingDiggingForBritain!!
I’ve now caught up on last night’s #DrawingDiggingforBritain and decided to draw the stone anchor found in the River Wear while @toriherridge.bsky.social was filming.
Artefacts including malted grain, a ring cairn, whetstone
With malted grain and a barrel hoop from the oldest whisky maker in the world, today's #DrawingDiggingForBritain had a bit of a theme going on!
A drawing of a bronze Pictish pin head with decorative elements
This gorgeous Pictish pin was found at East Lomond Hill, Fife by a team from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social - a fabulous site and discovery shown on #diggingforbritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social tonight. A birthday offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology #picts #scotland
Sketch of a piece of amber with indentation decoration
Think I might be busy tonight doing other stuff for my birthday so am pre-loading my #drawingdiggingforbritain efforts starting with the beautiful piece of amber found by @jimleary.bsky.social & his team at Skipsea - magical: petrified fire I think! All on #diggingforbritain tonight #archaeology
Watercolour of section of pale yellow bone on left, wtih two holes drilled in the centre. To the right is a copper alloy (pale blue/green) brooch with a central curved pin and thinner sharp wire that would have pierced the cloth, attached to a cross bar of wire twisted around and covered by more slightly-decorated copper alloy.
#ArtDD2026
Roman brooch & Roman/early med(?) whistle.
For #drawingdiggingforbritain and #diggingforbritain, I eschewed the bone box & went for these finds from Broadway.
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I definitely didn’t do this lovely little bone box justice this evening, at least in part because I could barely take my eyes off the screen when it was opened. I hope there will be analysis of the ‘mud’ inside to see if an ointment can be identified. #DrawingDiggingforBritain
Artefacts including sword and bone box
#DrawingDiggingForBritain I gasped when they slid the Roman bone box lid open. I could imagine the Roman lady or her servant using the ointment that was thought to be inside.
A drawing of a Roman box found in a cemetery near Worcester with circular decorations all over it
This charming box excavated at Broadway by Worcester Archaeology - @explorethepast from a Roman cemetery featured in #diggingforbritain tonight - my offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology #roman
#drawing 4821 wall plaster fragments, Romano British, London #DrawingDiggingForBritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch
Not so much #DrawingDiggingForBritain as photoshopping #DiggingForBritain
Drawings of iron Carnyx, boards head; Wooden ladder, stone kiln etc.
So much to see in tonight's #DrawingDiggingForBritain - Athough the Carnyx and Boar's head standard were magnificent, my favourite find was the wooden ladder at Sizewell.
I had a bit of a disaster while #DrawingDiggingforBritain this evening when one of my pens leaked everywhere. Thankfully it narrowly missed last week’s drawing. I loved the cross-Channel connections that this little coin represented.
A sketch of a bronze Roman brooch with the pin pointing down to the lower right corner
Where to start with the Sizewell excavations by @cotswoldarch.bsky.social on #diggingforbritain tonight? So many cool features, deposits and finds excavated and present by my mate Rosanna. I kind of liked this brooch #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology
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An incredible jigsaw lived together by MOLA - Roman painted wall plaster found in London and presented on #diggingforbritain by @megsdigs.bsky.social #drawingdiggingforbritain
