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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · Nov 18

A simply extraordinary Iron Age staircase, preserved within the wall thickness of the ruinous #Broch tower at Dun Carloway, Isle of Lewis, in the Outer #Hebrides.

The sophisticated pre-Roman architecture here blew me away when I saw it this June - a real bucket-list moment

📷 My own 2024

A stone staircase built of uneven slabs winds its way up inside a dark drystone tower, with steep walls to either side

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 4h

Lil pavement folly that entertains me greatly. A parkland estate for a tiny signpost.

I don’t know how to describe it. A weird section of a kind of ellipse of grass tacked onto a curved piece of pavement. To call it a flowerbed would be misleading. Strident double yellow lines enclose it on the road side. In the middle of the grass stands an upright pole with a tiny sign at the top. Beyond a proper park with fields and trees is visible. I doubt this makes sense if you can’t see the image.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 4h

I was about to say the team responsible must have been super pleased with their day's work 🌳...but the gap in the kerb says otherwise..😬🫣

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 10h

What a joy to be taken around Pen Dinas by @tobydriver.bsky.social as the first stop on the Society of Antiques Annual Wales field trip

Photo of Toby Driver standing on a low Bronze Age barrow in the middle of Pen Dinas hillfort with views over Aberystwyth.

Photo of the path up to Pen Dinas hillfort, a green strip cut into a heather clad hill with the south gateway of the hillfort showing as a cut on the right hand side of the photo and a Wellington monument showing on the skyline. The fort was excavated in the 30s and again in 2023

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 8h

Rock star Vs archaeologist 🤔😄

Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 9h

Sorry for us getting confused again - & I can't play a note of music 🫣

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 9h

Pot of gold!

Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!

Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 10h

A thoroughly enjoyable afternoon leading a tour up Pendinas #hillfort for the Welsh Fellows of the @antiquaries.bsky.social - an opportunity to bring everyone up to speed with the results of our recent #NHLF project, with @rcahmwales.bsky.social & @henebtwa.bsky.social

And it stayed dry! ☀️

A group of walkers on a grassy hillside inside the hillfort

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 17h

Yes both different, but I've no doubt that people from both promontory forts knew and visited each other. Both great sites!

Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 18h

We'll have to catch up about him one day. He really shaped studies at @aberuni.bsky.social

At 26 he spent 2 years at Berkeley, California studying the Hopi people. Made Prof at 28 in Geog & Anth at Aberystwyth, then excavated at Pendinas hillfort 1933-37

Here he is with his fedora..

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 18h

Fabulous!

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 1d

You are warmly invited to The Discovery Programme’s Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025:
"Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain”

It will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of @ucddublin.bsky.social

Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...

Thurs 4 Dec
7.30pm
Online
Free

Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025

The Discovery Programme's annual Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered this year by Prof Joanna Brück of University College Dublin

www.eventbrite.com

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 14d

Spot the archaeologists! This week we've been onsite in Co. Donegal doing UAV survey at sites around St John's Point, funded by an @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social grant.

Here is a cleared shore, traditionally known as the landing place for the medieval Killaghtee church
@edwardpollard.bsky.social

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 1d

I made these for friends last year, but seeing if anyone else would be interested for xmas? They're painted plaster of paris, modelled from real arrowheads.

£35 a set incl. gift box, gift tag & 24hr SignedFor postage (sorry, can only do UK).

(... & there's more artefacts to come!)

#Archaeology 🏺

Rainbow coloured arrowheads on rainbow coloured ribbons.

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Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology @henebtwa.bsky.social · 1d

Senior Archaeologist Chris Matthews has been sprinkling his #Roman magic once again.✨

Our recent excavations in Flintshire have yielded this beautiful brooch along with some weights and a roman coin, so we hope to expand our trenches to find out more in the coming weeks.

#Archaeoleg #Archaeology

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

Hey that's great news 🥳

Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

He was a dapper gent

Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

Blimey! 😮

Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

In the footsteps of Professor Daryll Forde's 1930s excavations of Pendinas #hillfort, #Aberystwyth, this lunchtime, recceing a guided walk

This press photo from 1934 shows the dapper 32 yr old Prof (sitting, right) on the south gate excavation, looking out over the very same view of Penparcau 🛖

A 1934 photo of an excavation in the foreground, held up against the modern day view across a valley & village in the background

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes plants like comfrey and others can cause blisters if you brush against them. Might be something you touched

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

Gwych! Quite a trip 👌

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Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology @henebtwa.bsky.social · 2d

A day all about archaeology, come and talk with experts, have a close up look at new and exciting treasure finds, you can also bring along finds of your own - if you would like to book a slot with Heneb at the PAS finds surgery, follow this link:

heneb.org.uk/event/archae...

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

Looking back to May 2024, cycling the beautiful indented coastline of Harris in the Outer #Hebrides as part of a wider trip through the islands 🚲 👌

#Cycling

A man on a bike looking out over a granite coastline and a small inlet

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

A Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally internal and led to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Brixworth #Northamptonshire

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2d

We're pretty hot on updating @rcahmwales.bsky.social records 😉🔥🔥

Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2d

Up the autumnal backlanes of Ceredigion, mid Wales, this afternoon 🍂🌞

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