Happy #MosaicMonday! Here's Andy and Dave clearing a small part of the late 4th century AD corridor mosaic of Frampton Roman villa #Dorset @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social 📷 August 2019 Drone photo taken during the excavation by @buarchanth.bsky.social

An echo of the *no exit from burial site* sign that used to be at Sutton Hoo

Belatedly... 🐊

A 4th century AD stamp-impressed colour coated New Forest Ware bowl found in a 6th century grave at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in 2014 The heavily worn nature of bowl suggests it was a prized possession A family heirloom? #FindsFriday #Roman #Archaeology

Two phases of coastal defence separated in time by over 1,600 years A section of late 3rd century wall and projecting tower in the SW circuit of Pevensey #Roman coastal fort East #Sussex with a 1940s machine gun emplacement built into the fallen masonry 📷 April 2016 #RomanFortThursday

Atop the Iron Age ramparts of Rawlsbury Camp looking south across the Blackmore Vale #Dorset One of our favourite spots to just stop, sit and contemplate the world 😍 📷 August 2018 #HillfortsWednesday

⚠️ Want to see more Durotriges Big Dig Iron Age #archaeology? ⚠️ Of course you do !! Catch *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders* with @rakshadigs.bsky.social and us on Channel 4 this Saturday 8 August 7pm 👍 Salamanda Media Bournemouth University 👇👇👇👇

Small fragment of #Roman mosaic recovered by William Shipp from Tarrant Hinton villa in 1845 (label still attached) A tiny reminder of a lost masterpiece for #MosaicMonday On display in the ever excellent Museum of East Dorset #Wimborne Minster 📷 April 2025

Saw the brilliant #Unearthed by the #WomenofDorset at the Lighthouse Poole last night Congratulations to all involved! Great to see our Iron Age burial sk04 brought to life 😍 In the play, it's the fictional Sam who finds her In real life it was Kelsie Whitwood Hannah Mccaully and Tracey Minall 👍

A stone slab carved with daggers and triangular axe-heads Found in a burial mound somewhere near Badbury Rings hillfort #Dorset in 1845 The only similar Early Bronze Age carvings in Britain come from the sarsens of Stonehenge © The Trustees of the British Museum Acc No 1892,0901.293 #Findsfriday

We NEVER talk of the spaceship beneath Stonehenge

The talented illustrator / scholar Peter Connolly is remembered for his reconstructions of ancient armies But did you know that he frequently managed to get himself in the picture? Usually as an Iron Age chieftain, king or druid 😆👍 #FindingConnolly #Archaeology #HillfortsWednesday #AncientBlueSky

An undeniably dramatic (if archaeologically unproveable) depiction of a full-scale Iron Age attack on the east gate of Danebury hillfort #Hampshire We love the Iceni-style carnyx and boar standard 🤩 © Peter Connolly 1977 (from *The Celts* - MacDonald's Peoples of the Past) #HillfortsWednesday

Small part of a 4th century AD #Roman mosaic depicting a face (probably one of the Four Winds with a conch shell) from Frampton villa A fragile fragment of an antique work of art, buried for millennia beneath the topsoil of Dorset 📷 Aug 2021 #MosaicMonday

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Want a book about the end of the southern British Iron Age, the Roman invasion and the greatest king of this island has ever had? If only such a thing existed...🤔 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/caratacus... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social January 2027 #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Thank you to everyone who came to the #AskAnArchaeologist taproom hosted by the excellent Big Dig Brewhouse at Winterborne Kingston (Duropolis) #Dorset You're very wonderful 😍 Thank you also who couldn't attend in person but who asked questions online You're very wonderful too 👍 #archaeology

A rather splendidly chonky triangular baked clay loom weight Photographed as freshly discovered from the top of an Iron Age storage pit at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset Evidence for prehistoric textile production 🤩 📷 July 2024 #FindsFriday

We've dug a few Iron Age pits like this one where the fill comprises multiple thin layers of *highly organic* dark soil which are then almost always covered in a thin deposit of fine chalk rubble Prehistoric toilets ? 🤔

For those who fear the climb to Dinas Brân #SirDdinbych / #Denbighshire here's some pics of the Iron Age hillfort and shattered walls of the 13th century castle #RampartyGoodness 🛩📷 © @drtobydriver.bsky.social Feb 2013 @rcahmwales.bsky.social AP_2013_0996 👞📷 us Aug 2023 #HillfortsWednesday

Glowering down at Llangollen #SirDdinbych / #Denbighshire is the mighty Castell Dinas Brân This 13th century stone fortress, built by Gruffydd Maelor II prince of Powys Fadog, sits directly upon the remains of an earlier Iron Age hillfort 📷 August 2023 #HillfortsWednesday

Playmobil are way ahead of you 🤣

⚠️ DISCOVER THE DUROTRIGES at Wareham Museum #Dorset (free entry) 3D-printed replicas of Iron Age burials created from digital scans taken in the field are now on display 🏺 An accessible hands-on collaboration between Archaeology + National Centre for Computer Animation @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

A baked clay Later Bronze Age loomweight Decorated with the thumb and fingernail impressions of the individual who made it 3,500 years ago 🤩 Photographed as excavated at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in September 2021 #FindsFriday

A great day spent @history-hit.bsky.social HQ chatting with friend of the project Tristan Hughes about human sacrifice and the end of the Iron Age for a *The Ancients* podcast #Archaeology #Prehistory #Durotriges

The Iron Age east gate to Old Sarum hillfort in Wiltshire Reconstructed in dramatic style by Peter Dunn for the English Heritage signboards and official guide Complete with Celtic-style totem poles, ravens, severed heads and a carnyx (or 2) Happy #HillfortsWednesday

Is that awl you found? A Neolithic borer / piercer, a task-specific stone tool, primarily designed to make holes in wood, hides or antler, made of flint over 5,000 years ago Photographed as freshly excavated at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in June #Durotriges26 #FindsFriday #FlintFriday

On the last day of #Durotriges26 site packdown, Dave finishes excavating an Iron Age ditch He records the ditch He then does a happy dance 😊🕺