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This year's season of archaeological fieldwork is sadly now over
BUT you can relive the highlights (and see all research updates) at
#Durotriges24
Meanwhile stay tuned for the excitingly inevitable
#Durotriges25
!!
Thank you for following 😊👍
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For those upset that the toppling of a statue of Edward Colston destroyed history, I politely draw your attention to this statue of Nero overthrown and dumped in river in AD 60
It's part of a long British tradition going back 1,960 years. This IS history; this is what we do
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Katrina's found a tiny carved bone needle in the lower fill of an Iron Age pit
The simplest but most exquisite of finds, buried for over two millennia
#Durotriges24
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RIP Victor Ambrus
A true gentleman and an exceptional talent
Farewell my friend xx
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Ever wondered what it's like to walk into a
#Roman
dining room?
Wonder no more
Here
@thenewtsomerset
a bipartite triclinium has been recreated in
#VillaVentorum
to its full glory 🤩
#MosaicMonday
/ early
#FrescoFriday
[Note - sweeping music to hide enthusiastic squeaking 🤣]
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I still haven't recovered from the film 10,000 BC (2008) which had
*checks notes*
an army of woolly mammoths building a pyramid 😱😱😱
Looking forward to my prehistorian friends losing their shit over this. About time they got their Napoleon!
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One of our favourite finds from
#Duropolis
in
#Dorset
is also one of the smallest: an exquisite 42mm long bone needle from the base of an Iron Age storage pit. Love it love it love it 😍😍
#FindsFriday
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A bit early for
#FindsFriday
, Liv has found a near complete Later Iron Age pot in the fill of a pit she's currently digging
Seeing the light of day for the first time in over 2 millennia
We are, of course, all very happy 😊
#Durotriges24
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The Twitter mobile photo crop has gone you say?
Marvellous
Here's a pic of an archaeological find in all its glory - the beautifully decorated Late Iron Age mirror from Langton Herring now in
@DorsetMuseum
photographed by us shortly after discovery in 2010 🤩
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You may ask yourself *What is that beautiful house?*
You may ask yourself *Where does that stairway go to?*
And we would tell you, if only we could get past the angry guard dog 🐕
A tempting view into the House of Paquius Proculus
@pompeii_sites
📷 Sept 2023
#MosaicMonday
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Of course, what you really want to discover in the last hour of the last day of the last week of an excavation is an Iron Age horse burial 🐴
Join us next week for the big dig pack down to find out more
#Durotriges23
#FindsFriday
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A Late Iron Age / Romano British
face carved into an ammonite, the hair styled from the fossilized shell
A
#FindsFriday
/
#FossilFriday
crossover
Found at Great Bedwyn and a favourite find in the always excellent
@WiltshireMuseum
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It's
#HillfortsWednesday
!
Here's the glorious 3ha multivallate Iron Age enclosure of Pilsdon Pen
#Dorset
looking NW 🤩
Entrances at the N, SE and SW and a medieval rabbit warren at the centre
📷 © David Hymans citizen science project
#Airchaeology
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A late Iron Age black-burnished ware bowl with bead rim and pedestal base
Unearthed last week at Winterborne Kingston (and here still covered in Dorset soil)
Complete after 2,000 years in the ground 🤩
#FindsFriday
#Durotriges23
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an archaeologist in possession of a good pair of boots, must be in want of a
#Roman
road
Welcome to
#Herculaneum
🤩
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Two of the smallest (and most delicate) discoveries from our dig at Winterborne Kingston
#Dorset
are these 40mm long Iron Age sewing needles
Carved from animal bone over 2,000 years ago
#FindsFriday
🤩
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Archaeological fact no 71:
Wheelbarrows are surprising comfortable (especially after a long day in the trenches)
#Durotriges21
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The Whispering Knights (an Early
#Neolithic
portal dolmen comprising 4 uprights and fallen capstone), part of the Rollright Stones of
#Oxfordshire
First visit to the site in over a decade. Got a bit excited and did a little dance around them 🕺
Apologies
#StandingStoneSunday
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Over in finds processing, Kel and her team have a very nice, Late Iron Age Black Burnished Ware pot
And (please excuse lapse into Scooby-Doo speak) *dig that groovy decoration* 🤩
Can you believe this has been in the ploughsoil for 2,000 years 🤯
#Durotriges24
#Archaeology
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To celebrate
#FindsFriday
here are 2 examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch 🤩
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham
#Kent
c 1895
© Trustees of the British Museum
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Sarah discovers (and recovers) a small Iron Age bowl from deep down in the pit she's excavating
Away from the reach of ploughing, it has survived intact 🤩
#Durotriges22
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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Hiding in plain sight: the Neolithic statue-menhir of St Marie de Castel
#Guernsey
Discovered beneath the church in 1878, this megalithic goddess now keeps watch over the cemetery
Photographed Dec 2019
#StandingStoneSunday
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It's time for
#hillforts
!! 🥳
Here's the magnificently monumental Western entrance to Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort
#Dorset
:
now (AD 2016) © Jo and Sue Crane
and then (200 BC) © Peter Urmston / English Heritage
Happy
#HillfortsWednesday
#nowandthen
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Happy
#HillfortsWednesday
!
Here's a lavish recreation of Badbury Rings hillfort
#Dorset
@NTKingstonLacy
in its Iron Age heyday by the talented Julia Lillo for an article by Martin Papworth
@NatTrustArch
in vol 34
@AncientHistMag
@Karwansaray
Love it 🤩
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Nothing says it's the end of the week quite like Cupid surfing on a crab
A 2,000 year old image from the richly decorated House of the Vettii
@pompeii_sites
📷 Sept 2023
#Roman
#FrescoFriday
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It's easy to forget that hillforts had a life after the Iron Age
Here's a fine recreation of later activity © Peter Dunn / Historic England
It's Aug 1086 and William I has brought the landowners of England to Old Sarum
#Wiltshire
to swear allegiance to him
#HillfortsWednesday
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Upfront and personal with garden frescoes from the House of the Ceii
@pompeii_sites
First exposed in 1913-14, these vivid scenes of wild hunting on the banks of River Nile are absolutely mindblowing 🤩
#FrescoFriday
#Roman
#Archaeology
#Pompeii
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In AD 54 this bronze portrait of the young emperor Nero was made and set up in Colchester
In AD 60 insurgents removed it and dropped it in the River Alde
In 1907 it was found and went to the
@britishmuseum
In 2021 it came back to life
Think we may need a lie down...
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Despite all the uncertainties in the world, there is one thing you can be sure of
IT’S
#HillfortsWednesday
!!
To celebrate here’s the wonderful Badbury Rings
#Dorset
Epic pic © Guy Edwardes Photography 2017
@guyedwardes
Thread to follow 😊
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To celebrate
#HillfortsWednesday
AND the new exhibition of stunning photographs by
@DavidRAbram
@SalisburyMuseum
here’s a THREAD on one of our favourite hillfort / castle combos:
The glorious Old Sarum
@EHOldSarum
#Wiltshire
🤩
Pic © David R Abram
👇👇
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Today, by coincidence, I'm looking at aerial pictures of the
#Stonehenge
landscape
#MayTheFourthBeWithYou
#StarWarsDay
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A highly polished bone awl / needle found in the top of an Iron Age pit an hour ago at
#Durotriges22
🤩
#FindsFriday
#archaeology
#AwlOrNothing
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It’s
#HillfortsWednesday
and we’re thinking about wonderful Old Winchester Hill
#Hampshire
a hillfort in a
@NaturalEngland
reserve alongside Neolithic and Bronze barrows and later field systems
@sdnpa
A haven of prehistoric tranquillity 😍
📷©
@HistoricEngland
NMR 15393/26
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Heather's found a small blue glass bead in the top of an Iron Age pit
She is happy (and so are we) 😊
#Durotriges24
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Archaeological discoveries like this carved wooden figure make you realise how much prehistoric and Roman artwork has been lost
An absolutely stunning find 🤩
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Entering a recreation of the frigidarium (cold room) of the bathhouse excavated at Bratton Seymour villa
@oatweet
2015-16 🤩
This stunning rebuild
@thenewtsomerset
is as close as we'll ever get to the sights and sounds of
#Roman
Britain without a time machine
#RomanSiteSaturday
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OK, so one thing we weren't expecting to see in the
#Olympic2024
opening ceremony was an Iron Age goddess riding down the River Seine 🤩
All power to
#Sequana
and the
#Sequani
💪
#Paris2024
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Oceanus (or Neptune), with lobsters bursting from his forehead, vomits up two Dolphins
Happy
#MosaicMonday
!
Detail from a 4th century floor from Withington
#Roman
villa
#Gloucestershire
lifted in 1812 and given to the
@britishmuseum
Image © The Trustees of the British Museum
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Covering 12.5ha, the Iron Age hillfort of Hambledon Hill
#Dorset
@nationaltrust
clings dramatically to a chalk spur overlooking Shroton and the Blackmore Vale
It is quite simply magnificent 😍
Pic © Jo and Sue Crane for the Durotriges Project 2016
Happy
#HillfortsWednesday
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Publication of this fantastic new reconstruction of Iron Age Badbury
#Dorset
@NTKingstonLacy
by the talented Julia Lillo for
@AncientHistMag
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@karwansaray
made us think of the pictures of this magnificent hillfort that we love
A top 12 thread for
#HillfortsWednesday
👇👇
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It's the first
#HillfortsWednesday
of 2023 🥳
Here's a gorgeous recreation of Taplow Iron Age hillfort
#Buckinghamshire
@ChilternsAONB
© Mark Gridley / chilterns conservation board 🤩
For more of Mark's work see
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It’s
#HillfortsWednesday
(huzzah!)
Today we’re looking down on the mighty Maiden Castle
#Dorset
@EnglishHeritage
It's impressive today, but how did it look in prehistory?
A thread on our favourite recreations / reconstructions from books, guides and on-site signage 👇👇
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Happy Hillforting Solstice / Saturnalia / Christmas / Yule to you good people of the archaeological Twittersphere from all of us here in the Durotriges Project bunker
#StaySafe
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A short walk through the arched
#Roman
doorway in the apodyterium (changing room) of the well-preserved central baths of
#Herculaneum
/
#Ercolano
, to the mosaic-floored tepidarium (warm room)
A little treat for
#RomanSiteSaturday
😍
🎥 September 2023
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As there's not much going on in the UK right now, why not explore part of
@BignorVilla
with us
Inside this 19th century flint cottage, you'll find a 4th century
#Roman
mosaic, featuring Venus and Gladiators as well as part of a hypocaust
Utterly gorgeous 😍
#RomanSiteSaturday
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Asha has found quite a large amount of Iron Age pottery (including at least 2 bowls in multiple fragments) in the upper fill of a pit that she's currently excavating
She is very happy and so are we 😊
#Durotriges24
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Fresh from the from the ground for
#FindsFriday
, a jolly little Later Iron Age Black Burnished Ware cup
Only slightly damaged 😍
#Durotriges24
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Some freshly excavated, decorated, Iron Age pottery from a storage pit midden deposit at
#Durotriges22
for
#FindsFriday
🤩👍
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These gorgeous tiny glass gaming counters from a group of 24 (6 white, 6 green, 6 yellow, 6 red) were found in a Late Iron Age grave at Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire in 1965 😍
Sadly the rules of the game are now lost
© Trustees of the British Museum
#FindsFriday
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A megalithic goddess for
#StandingStoneSunday
Keeping watch over the cemetery of St Marie du Castel
#Guernsey
, this glorious
#Neolithic
statue-menhir was discovered beneath the chancel floor of the church in 1878
📷 Dec 2019
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Want to travel back in time?
Of course you do
Join us as we enter the College of Augustales in the well preserved
#Roman
city of
#Herculaneum
/
#Ercolano
(complete with sounds of construction)
Absolutely, mind-bendingly stunning 😍🤩
#RomanSiteSaturday
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Sometimes the smallest of small finds are the best 🤩
Chantelle finds a tiny blue glass bead from the top of an Iron Age pit 👍
#Durotriges22
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A happy (if *evil mastermind*) dolphin from a 2nd century floor in a
#Roman
townhouse at Silchester (Insula xxiia)
Found in 1900 and recorded by George Fox, this floor was later reburied meaning the dolphin may yet live on beneath the green fields of
#Hampshire
...
#MosaicMonday
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A Late Iron Age Birdlip Type copper alloy brooch found from the upper fill of a ditch excavated at Winterborne Kingston
#Dorset
in 2017
2,000 years after last being handled, the brooch is still closed, with the pin in the catch-plate 🤩
#FindsFriday
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It’s
#HillfortsWednesday
and to celebrate here’s a short thread on the enigmatic archaeological palimpsest of Belsar’s Hill
#Cambridgeshire
depicted in an epic photograph courtesy and © of James Lancaster /
For more see:
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A translucent blue glass bead, with opaque white circles, photographed at the moment of discovery
Found in the top of a Later Iron Age ditch at Winterborne Kingston
#Dorset
in 2016
A rare, pre-Roman dress item from the land of the Durotriges 😍
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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Restored fragment from the Arch of Claudius, set up in
#Rome
to commemorate the conquest of Britain, depicting members of the emperor’s own Praetorian Guard
From
@MuseeLouvre
on display
@britishmuseum
as part of the 2021
#Nero
exhibition
#ReliefWednesday
#RomanFortThursday
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OMG - look at that
#Roman
archaeological goodness 🤩🤩🤩 !
#HadrianWasHere
We've also reached the foundations on the south side of the Wall. Those stones are looking fantastic!
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Lorraine and Tim find a decorated Late Iron Age bone (weaving?) comb close to the bottom of a prehistoric storage pit
Sometimes the simplest and most personal artefacts from the past are the most stunning 😍
#Durotriges23
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A view down the Via di Mercurio
#Pompeii
, looking SSE across the
#Roman
city from Tower XI yesterday morning
Stunning
Just stunning 🤩🤩
#RomanRoadFriday
@pompeii_sites
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Fresh from the ground, a small needle, made of animal bone 🤩
Found by Lewis in the fill of an Iron Age storage pit yesterday at
#Durotriges23
Last used over 2 thousand years ago
#FindsFriday
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Remembering the 4th century
#Roman
mosaics of Frampton
#Dorset
, excavated by Samuel Lysons in 1796 and thought to have been destroyed but found again in 2019 - huzzah !
Happy
#MosaicMonday
😀👍
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Found in 1796 this gorgeous mosaic came from a bathhouse at Frampton
#Roman
villa
#Dorset
It features Neptune, the 4 winds and some spectacularly grumpy dolphins
Recorded by Samuel Lysons, the floor was backfilled the same year and has sadly never been seen again
#MosaicMonday
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In 1995, a gold signet ring with a reverse engraving (to use as a signature seal) was found near Fishbourne
@Romanpalace
West
#Sussex
The text read TI CLAUDI CATUARI
*Tiberius Claudius Catuarus*
It is one of the most important finds from
#Roman
Britain...
#FindsFriday
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With
#Caratacus
in the news it seems appropriate to gaze at a place that bears his name: the epic 3ha multivallate Iron Age enclosure of
#CaerCaradoc
#ChurchStretton
#Shropshire
🤩😍
Awe-inspiring aerial archaeology for
#HillfortsWednesday
📷©
@HistoricEngland
nmr 21128/02
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A stone (standing) for
#StandingStoneSunday
Recording a distance of 4 miles to
#Lancaster
, this
#Roman
milestone was dedicated to the emperor
#Hadrian
Found in the Artle Beck in 1803 it can now be seen in the always excellent (and free) Lancaster City Museum
@LancasterMuseum
👍
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An archaeological *oh wow* moment to start your day 😁👍
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If you like hillforts (who doesn't?) AND Brochs (natch) here's a wonderful hilloch / brofort combo for
#HillfortsWednesday
Edin's Hall Iron Age broch
#ScottishBorders
in care of
@welovehistory
at the NW corner of an earlier bivallate 0.9ha hillfort 🤩
🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011
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A beautiful watercolour from 1929 of a fragment of 4th C floor from the
#Roman
bathhouse of Lydney
#Gloucestershire
painted by one of the greatest archaeologists of all time: Tessa Verney Wheeler
📷 held by
@SocAntiquaries
#MosaicMonday
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It's
#HillfortsWednesday
(huzzah!)
Here's the multivallate Iron Age enclosure of Badbury Rings
@NTKingstonLacy
#Dorset
looking south to the sea
Part of a glorious painting created in 1914 by the supremely talented George Heywood Sumner 🤩
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That moment when you've just started digging a trench and a visitor eats your finds...🤦♂️
#EdibleArchaeology
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It can be tricky working out what day it is at the moment but we’re pretty sure it’s
#HillfortsWednesday
(huzzah!) - To celebrate, here’s a glorious shot of the lush
#HoningtonCamp
hillfort, a multivallate
#IronAge
beauty in
#Lincolnshire
– Pic © Chris Hainstock (CC BY 3.0)
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And candidate for the best name for a
#Roman
outside of Monty Python's Life of Brian 😳
An altar to Diana and Apollo which was dedicated by Marcus Cocceius Firmus - a Centurion of the Second Augustan Legion. It was found at Auchendavy Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire. Now part of the collections
@hunterian
#EpigraphyTuesday
#RomanScotland
📸 My own.
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OK, so we're not sure if this is (or will become) a *thing* 😀 but if it does, here's our 1st thread for
#RomanFortThursday
This is Lake Farm a legionary fortress near
#Wimborne
#Dorset
Home to the Legio II Augusta and (almost certainly) the future emperor
#Vespasian
👇👇
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Want to see an Iron Age pit in half section?
Of course you do!
Steve has completed work on pit number 2007 and is rightly very pleased (and so are we) 😊
#Durotriges24
#PittyGoodness
#Archaeology
#Dorset
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Our 1st post on
#HillfortsWednesday
is dedicated to the late great Victor Ambrus with these gorgeous paintings of the Late Iron Age / Roman village set within the hillfort of St Gregory's Hill
#Northumberland
His work will live on
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The serpent-haired
#Medusa
from the centre of a 4th century mosaic discovered in 1813
@BignorVilla
#WestSussex
Originally from the apodyterium (changing room) of the baths
Photographed last week for
#MosaicMonday
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We wish you all a Happy Winter Solstice / Saturnalia / Christmas / Yule /
#FindsFriday
from the land of the Durotriges with this festive Romano British reindeeresque brooch
Take care everyone!
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The *Haystack* on
#Ilkley
Moor
#WestYorkshire
(here looking west) is a natural outcrop covered in over 70 Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age engraved cups, grooves and rings
An enigmatic *lying down boulder* for
#StandingStoneSunday
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So, a little while ago we found a thing
Here is the thing that we found
One of the Four Winds in 4th century mosaic form at
#Frampton
#Roman
villa
#Dorset
More on this
@DorsetWildlife
site in the new year in
#BritishArchaeology
@archaeologyuk
+
@aspro_mosaics
#MosaicMonday
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It's not just the mosaics of
#Roman
Britain that have grumpy dolphins 🐬 here are some spectacularly tetchy examples from a floor found in Carthage
#Tunisia
and now on a stairwell in the
@britishmuseum
Happy
#MosaicMonday
!
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High on St Roches Hill
#WestSussex
, a mighty polygonal Iron Age hillfort sits atop a Neolithic causewayed enclosure
Here looking N to the mist swathed Weald in a photo © David R Abram
For more of David’s stunning photos see:
Happy
#HillfortsWednesday
!
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So, we didn’t find a roundhouse this year on
#Durotriges22
☹️
But here’s a splendid reconstruction © Peter Urmston / English Heritage of settlement in the SW corner of Maiden Castle
#Dorset
(a mere 22km from our dig) to remind us what *we could have won* 🤩👍
#HillfortsWednesday
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For the last
#HillfortsWednesday
of the year, here's one of our favourite aerial images of the bivallate Barbury Castle
#Wiltshire
A stunning image ©
@DavidRAbram
from the 2022 exhibition *Ancient Sites from the Air*
@SalisburyMuseum
Proper Iron Age gorgeous for you 🤩👍
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Grace and Hayley have found a fragment of decorated glass bead from an Iron Age pit fill this afternoon
We are all VERY happy 🤩🤩👍
#Durotriges22
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Found in the River Avon near Melksham in 1972, these Early Iron Age copper alloy horse harness fittings (phalerae) were presented to the excellent
@WiltshireMuseum
One had been repeatedly stabbed with a spear (to deliberately break or *kill* it) prior to deposition
#FindsFriday
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This stunning copper alloy
#Roman
auxiliary cavalryman's helmet was recovered from a bog at Witcham Gravel
#Cambridgeshire
and features in the
@britishmuseum
#Nero
exhibition 🤩
The neck guard has 3 bicycle-bell type roundels offering more protection to the wearer
#FindsFriday
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Finger impressed Iron Age pottery (a mark left by the maker over 2,000 years ago) from the top fill of a prehistoric storage pit
#Durotrges22
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It’s
#HillfortsWednesday
!
Here’s the stunning Iron Age enclosure of Flowers Barrow
@DorsetAONB
atop a cliff at the seaward end of a chalk ridge overlooking Worbarrow Bay
@jurassic_coast
2km west of the deserted village of
@TynehamDorset
📷© Jo and Sue Crane 2016
A thread 👇👇
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The one thing I can never get out of my head when watching the film Cleopatra (1963) is that the outfit worn by Richard Burton (as Mark Antony) was reused less than a year later for Sid James in Carry on Cleo 🤯
Whether it was cleaned inbetween movies is not, sadly, recorded...
@Durotrigesdig
@channel5_tv
It’s the tiny tunica / skirts that get me. Richard Burton in Cleopatra must have caught quite a chill.
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Happy
#HillfortsWednesday
!
We’re currently out on fieldwork so here’s one of our favourite
#Wiltshire
hillforts, the marvellous 9.3ha bivallate Bratton Camp 😍
With added bonus: the wonderful white horse of
#Westbury
🐎
📷
@HistoricEngland
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A stunning 📷 of Badbury Rings hillfort (N at top of shot)
@NTKingstonLacy
#Dorset
by and © of
@DavidRAbram
🤩
Displayed in the 2022 *Ancient Sites from the Air* exhibition
@SalisburyMuseum
+ in
@HistoryHit
's 10 Best Historic Photographs of 2020
Happy
#HillfortsWednesday
!
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In its wisdom the completely wonderful
@BBCRadio3
has commissioned a 15 episode series on the Late Iron Age
Oh yes !
*Unearthing Britannia's Tribes* (covering the Cantiaci to Cartimandua, Druids to Durotriges) starts on Monday - Huzzah 😁👍
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Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Dorchester anymore...
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Runner up in the 2020 Historic Photographer of the Year was
@DavidRAbram
with this stunning aerial pic of the multivallate Badbury Rings and Roman road
@NTKingstonLacy
#Dorset
taken as dawn breaks 🤩
(we think it should have won 😁)
#HillfortsWednesday
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A Late Iron Age (Birdlip Type) copper alloy brooch
From the upper fill of a ditch excavated at Winterborne Kingston
#Dorset
in 2017
2,000 years after last being worn, the brooch remains closed, the pin held firmly in the catch-plate
#FindsFriday
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A possible Iron Age deity for
#FindsFriday
This gorgeous Romano-British copper alloy horse-and-rider brooch with red, blue and white enamel inlay was collected by Henry Durden (1807-1892) from Woodyates
#Dorset
© The Trustees of the British Museum 1892,0901.1600
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RIP Albert
#Uderzo
(and thank you)
If people ever ask what first got me into archaeology, I simply say this:
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