Three men in a line posing for a photograph. Behind are grass covered hills and sheep. The author (on the left) is wearing a yellow waterproof, red fleece and blue jumper with wellies. The person on the right is wearing a multicoloured waterproof jacket, wellies and a red baseball cap. The shepherd in the middle is wearing a sheepskin cloak, wellies and a traditional hat. He is carrying a sturdy wooden staff.

Fifty years (38/50) Here I am posing with a #Romanian #shepherd in the hills of SW #Transylvania during a survey season in 2003. #Geophysics #EarthResistance #archaeology #RomanArchaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social #VoteKris

A man in a blue Denver Broncos tee-shirt with his hand raised in a wave standing in front of a evergreen tree with a wisteria growing up it. There are multiple cascades of purple flowers.

Fifty years (35/50) A friend of mine's Mum wanted to see a photo of the #wisteria growing in our garden, and is also found of getting #selfies from family and friends, so I obliged. #VoteKris @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social #LamerPark Photo taken in 2016.

A man leaning over and squinting at the camera. He is wearing a dark t-shirt, shorts and orange socks. He is applying bright green sun block to his legs and his arms are green from it too.

Fifty years (34/50) I was part of the team working on the Noviodunum Archaeological Project, #Romania. Here I am applying sun block before a day of pick-up survey. The sun block was green when you first put it on then faded so that you were sure you didn't miss a spot. #VoteKris #RomanArchaeology

Black and white image showing a man from the shoulders down wearing a t-shirt and shorts. He is leaning towards the camera. In the foreground is grass and in the background a view of the landscape with trees, hedges and fields.

Fifty years (33/50) Every year I run at least one roll of film through my late friend Kate's #Minolta 7000 starting on her birthday, 18th August. I once tried a #selfie using the self timer but I wasn't sure it was working. Ooops... it was counting down! #VoteKris @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

A young man in a white shirt and tie giving a speech. In the foreground are three women listening.

Fifty years (32/50) I stood for 'Head Boy' at #TheHowardSchool in 1982 as I wanted to give the leavers speech at the end of the year. I lost. Turned out Peter, who won, really didn't want to give the speech, so I got to give it anyway in the summer of 1983. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #VoteKris

A man in a grey t-shirt standing over a yellow line on the ground which marks the Prime Meridian (0 degrees east/west). To the right are a group of people waiting in the queue to take a selfie. Behind is a brick building with three windows and a door.

A young boy standing over a line in the pavement. He is wearing a yellow waterproof coat and a green t-shirt. In the background some people are going into the brick building. On the pavement to the right is the boy's yellow and red rucksack.

Fifty years (31/50) Two pictures of me standing over the #PrimeMeridian at #Greenwich, one taken in the 1970s, one taken in 2015. Both were taken when on a Society coach outing. In the earlier one I just rocked-up and took the photo. In the latter, there was a queue for #Selfies! #VoteKris

A bearded man in glasses with a ginger beard wearing a shirt and cardigan hugging a short lady in a blue dress. In the background are other party guests and a table of drinks. On the right are two legs of a gazebo.

Fifty years (30/50) Here I am at a party at the Old Rectory in Welwyn. I'm hugging Merle Rook who died in 2012. Merle was a lovely person and I miss her enormously. #VoteKris @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social #Welwyn #Hertfordshire

A man kneeling in the middle of the photograph, leaning over the surface with a brush in one hand and a trowel in the other. There is a yellow bucket with a hand shovel to one side. He is kneeling in the middle of an excavation trench with hints of walls and floors around him. In the background is a large spoil heap.

Fifty years (29/50) Just to show I haven't given up digging, here is me in Suffolk last summer cleaning up a surface in the Roman bath house we are excavating there. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @romanpalace.bsky.social #RomanArchaeology #VoteKris #RomanBath #excavation @ehasarch.bsky.social

Three young men in a row holding a young lady horizontally. Everyone is laughing.

Fifty years (28/50) Here is another early selfie. This time taken when in sixth form mucking about with the camera on a tripod. Linda must have been very trusting! @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #VoteKris #TheHowardSchool #WelwynGardenCity #Selfie

In the centre of the photo is a small yellow plastic hut with the door open showing tools inside. Leaning against the hut is Kris wearing a waxed jacket and bright orange waterproof trousers which are covered in mud. In he background is a wooden fence and a house. On the right is a wheelbarrow standing on its yoke and the front of the bucket.

Fifty years (26/50) In 1989-1990 I worked for the Test Valley Archaeological Trust. One site I excavated was at Kings Sombourne where I found an Anglo-Saxon grubenhaus. Some days the weather was less than kind. #MedievalArchaeology #excavation #Hampshire @ehasarch.bsky.social #VoteKris

Black and white photograph. Six children sitting on a sofa having a family photograph taken. The smallest child is the author of the post wearing a woolly knit one-piece outfit. The middle boy is wearing a jumper and the older two boys on the right are wearing shirts and ties. The three elder boys are all in shorts. The eldest sister is holding the baby and looking very elegant with a bobbed haircut. The younger sister on the far left has long hair.

Fifty years (25/50) Who knew that the little baby on his sister's knee was destined to become an archaeologist? The woolly babygrow was almost certainly knit by my Mum. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social #VoteKris

A group of people standing behind a railing smiling at the camera. The man in the middle with a big grey beard and a deer stalker hat is holding up a book. In the background are pictures and posters from a display The grey corrugated steel of a vault can be seen curving overhead.

Fifty years (23/50) Here are some of the authors at the launch of the "Archaeology in Hertfordshire: Recent Research" book in 2015 with the honouree, Tony Rook, holding a copy in the middle. tinyurl.com/4h5hn5z7 #VoteKris @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social @uhpress.bsky.social

A group of six people sitting on hay bales or standing looking at the camera. They are all wearing wellington boots. The bearded man in the middle holds his cup up to the camera and is wearing a Santa hat. In the background are some more hay bales and a piece of agricultural machinery.

Fifty years (22/50) The Society used to have a #BoxingDay walk with mulled wine and mince pies half way round. Here is a group photo from 2005 with (L to R) Jenny Wright, Bryan Scott, the late Tony Rook, Sylvia Rook, the late Jenny Searle and myself. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #walking #VoteKris

A man in a green jumper and a red Santa Hat with "bah humbug" written around the trim. In his hand is the green control unit of a Leica dGPS attached to a black pole. At the top of the pole is the antenna. Also in his hand are two red tent pegs and some yellow survey flags.

Fifty years (21/50) Here I am at Cholesbury putting in grids with a dGPS. I'm wearing my favourite (in fact only!) festive hat. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and have a wonderful day whether you celebrate or not! (Photo: Stuart King) @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social #VoteKris

In the foreground is a man wearing a white hat, white long sleeved shirt and long trousers. His head is down as he concentrates on the machine in front of him which is an earth resistance meter on a frame. There is a long white wire snaking across the image towards the camera. The field surface is rough as it has only just been ploughed. In the middle background is a large flat topped tell. In the far background is a range of mountains.

Fifty years (20/50) Here I am undertaking an earth resistance survey in Iraq in 2014. In the background is a large tell. #geophysics #EarthResistance #archaeology #PrehistoricArchaeology #VoteKris @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social

A man with a grey beard and hair wearing a red t-shirt, khaki shorts, red socks and boots is pushing a magnetometer towards the camera. The mag consists of a frame with none vertical tubes, five of which have a sensor inside. There are two wheels at either end, and a vertical pole in the centre on top of which is a high accuracy dGPS. The grass is the field is yellow due to the drought. The ground slopes from right to left so that the mag is at an angle. In the background are some trees.

Fifty years (19/50). Ideally one should keep the sensors vertical... sometimes it is simply not possible! Here I am pushing the magnetometer at Verulamium in 2022. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #RomanArchaeology #geophysics #magnetometry #Verulamium #VoteKris @hertshistory.bsky.social

A snowy scene. Six frames have been combined so that there are figures crossing the scene from left to right. The person is wearing a red coat and a woolly hat. In the foreground are some ornamental bushes cut into six balls and a cone. In the background a large white painted coach house built in 1761. In the top left corner is the cupula destroyed by the buildings owners in 2021.

Fifty years (18/50) Here is a multiple exposure photograph taken in 2018. In the background is my former home. Sadly Historic England refused to list it, and the owners destroyed the cupula in 2021. I cannot describe how upset I was. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social #VoteKris

Three people standing in a row looking at the camera. The man standing on the left is wearing a grey suit and tie. The person in the middle is wearing a red and blue academic gown over a suit and a stripy tie, The woman on the left wearing and jacket and skirt. There are flowering roses behind.

Fifty years (16/50) Today would have been my Mum's birthday so today's photo is my PhD graduation with Mum and Dad. I wore my old school tie: the #HowardSchool, Welwyn Garden City. The school has long since been demolished and turned into a housing estate. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #VoteKris

On the left of the photo Kris is holding a vintage Pentax 35mm SLR with the index finger of his right hand on the shutter button and his left hand cupped under the lens focussing it. He has a beard and glasses. On the right is the head of a shaggy Shetland pony looking very closely at Kris.

Fifty years (15/50) Kris and a Pony. Here's me trying to take a photo of a #Shetland #Pony with a vintage #Pentax camera. Photo by Ellen. #Hertfordshire #LamerPark #Wheathampstead @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social #VoteKris @currentarchaeology.bsky.social

Three people in a wood. On the left is a young man in a yellow jumper and wellington boots watching. On the right is a bearded man (Tony Rook) with a saw cutting down a small tree. Behind him is a third man in a blue jacket watching.

A 1m wide trench cut across a ditch and bank. The bottom of the trench is white chalk. In the section can be seen the dark fill of the ditch and the white chalk that formed the bank

Fifty years (14/50) Back to the early days. Here I am helping to excavate a section in Well Wood, #Hertfordshire. The wood is next to Chapel Wood where I first excavated in 1976. We were hoping to find some dating evidence. We didn't, if I remember correctly. #VoteKris #MedievalArchaeology #digging

On the left a man with a purple jumper and beard is standing in the dock of the magistrate's court. He is looking at the screen on the right on which is projected he opening slide of his talk entitled "A Palace at Verulamium and other stories." The slide shows the title of the talk, his name, and the logo of St Albans Museums. In the bottom corner of the slide are two people with a GPR (ground penetrating radar). There is lots of wood panelling in the courtroom. In the foreground is a lamp and the tops of some people's heads.

Fifty years (13/50). Today I'm in court! Later today I am presenting at #TAG2025 in #York. The last time I attended #TAG was in the early 1990s and I've never given a paper before. Here, I'm talking about the geophysics project from the dock of the court in @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social #VoteKris

A small figure in a red coat and an orange woolly hat standing in a field almost completely white with snow. He is holding a frame with a grey box on top and spikes on the bottom (an Earth Resistance Meter). There are some ghostly trees in the background just visible through the falling snow.

Fifty years (12/50) #EarthResistance survey at #AlbaIulia, #Romania, 2018. It's hard to follow the guide lines when they vanish into the snow! @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #geophysics @ehasarch.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social #VoteKris

Black and white photograph of Kris holding some tools looking into the camera. He is standing behind a bench with a series of almost complete Roman tiles arranged on it. There is a hand tape he has been using to measure the tile. In the background are the crates and benches from the excavations.

Fifty years (11/50) One of my nerdy interests is Roman ceramic building materials. Here I am processing the tile from a collapsed granary roof at #Posta, #Romania. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social #CBM #RomanArchaeology #tiles #nerd #VoteKris

A black and white photo of a young boy clutching his guidebooks standing between the uprights of one of the trilithions at Stonehenge.

Fifty years 10/50 Having joined WAS as a child, I went on as many WAS coach outings as I could. One of those included #Stonehenge in the days when one could walk around the stones. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social #VoteKris #prehistory #archaeology

Tonight @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social

Dr Kris Lockyear will be giving the following talk:

'My Life in Archaeology: the first 50 years' tonight at the United Reformed Church, Church Road, Welwyn Garden City, 7.45pm free for members / £3 for visitors

#VoteKris #FocusFriday

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Tonight (12/12/25): Kris Lockyear will be speaking on "My life in archaeology: the first fifty years." All welcome. Lecture meeting starts 7.45pm, Welwyn Garden City, United Reformed Church hall. Bring and share Christmas meet-up beforehand, 7.15. All welcome. @ehasarch.bsky.social #VoteKris

A man in a black leather jacket with Khaki trousers and black boots sitting astride a maroon motorcycle. He has a very ginger beard and glasses and is looking at the camera. On the far side of the motorcycle is a black sidecar. In the background there is the front of someone's house.

Fifty years 5/50. I have often travelled to excavations, surveys and events on my motorcycle as I don't drive. I rode to Wroxeter in 1984 on a Honda C70, 145 miles at 30mph. I especially enjoyed riding a combination. Here I am on my Honda Benly with sidecar. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #VoteKris

Amazing photo from @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social Dr Kris Lockyear and a host of famous faces!

#VoteKris #MotivationMonday

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Terry Jones (left) and Kris Lockyear (right) standing in front of the Great Circular Sanctuary at Sarmi. They are holding a replica curved Dacian sword (although it is too small). The curving edge of andesite stones can be seen horizontally running across the image. The vertical wooden posts are a modern reconstruction. There is a random tourist standing in the circle in the background.

Fifty years (4/50) Terry Jones of Monty Python fame and me at #SarmizegetusaRegia, #Romania in 2005. We were filming for his series "Terry Jones' Barbarians". I was one of the experts interviewed about the Dacians. It was a great five days. #archaeology #Dacia #VoteKris @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

Two members of the Community Archaeology Geophysics Group holding up the football goal net while Kris pushes the GPR underneath. In the background two more members of the group are watching along with Fergus, CAGG's watchdog, a cute Westie sadly no longer with us. The wet is damp and drizzly.

Fifty years (3/50). Here I am pushing the #GPR in #Verulamium park during the surveys with #CAGG in 2016. This is the southern side of the town near Watling Street and outside of the line of the 1955 ditch. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social #Geophysics #Hertfordshire #VoteKris