Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
@archaedelle.bsky.social
Archaeologist in Wales 🏴 | Finds Officer based in Amgueddfa Cymru 🏛️ | PhD on Iron Age mortuary practices 🛖 | ADHD: expect typos 🥲 | she/her | all views are mine!
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I have worked in Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for over six years, yet I learn something new about our collections every day 🤩
Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!
Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
Beautiful line drawing of a Scottish gold torc (Netherurd, @tessmachling.bsky.social ??) by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s 1958 Scotland Before History (thanks to @gjmichaelson.bsky.social for reminding me of this book!)
#FindsFriday
#FindsFriday
February 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Beautiful line drawing of a Scottish gold torc (Netherurd, @tessmachling.bsky.social ??) by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s 1958 Scotland Before History (thanks to @gjmichaelson.bsky.social for reminding me of this book!)
#FindsFriday
#FindsFriday
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
#HillfortsWednesday
Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales
📸 @drtobydriver.bsky.social
#Archaeology #History #Cymru
Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales
📸 @drtobydriver.bsky.social
#Archaeology #History #Cymru
February 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
#HillfortsWednesday
Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales
📸 @drtobydriver.bsky.social
#Archaeology #History #Cymru
Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales
📸 @drtobydriver.bsky.social
#Archaeology #History #Cymru
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
Some Iron Age ramparty goodness from Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, high above the villages of West #Dorset
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Some Iron Age ramparty goodness from Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, high above the villages of West #Dorset
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
Filming for #DiggingForBritain with the brilliant @toriherridge.bsky.social on the very edge of Buckspool promontory fort, Pembrokeshire, in the heat of August last year 🌞🔥
Perfect viewing tonight for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖🥳
👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Perfect viewing tonight for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖🥳
👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
February 4, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Filming for #DiggingForBritain with the brilliant @toriherridge.bsky.social on the very edge of Buckspool promontory fort, Pembrokeshire, in the heat of August last year 🌞🔥
Perfect viewing tonight for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖🥳
👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Perfect viewing tonight for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖🥳
👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
#findsfriday - the ‘Face of Agamemnon’. A gold funerary mask from Mycenae - probably 16th C BCE. Sadly not the face of the king though. One of those wow moments when you finally see the object that has become incredibly familiar to you from books & stories #archaeology #greekmyths #trojanwar #gold
January 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
#findsfriday - the ‘Face of Agamemnon’. A gold funerary mask from Mycenae - probably 16th C BCE. Sadly not the face of the king though. One of those wow moments when you finally see the object that has become incredibly familiar to you from books & stories #archaeology #greekmyths #trojanwar #gold
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday
January 23, 2026 at 9:53 AM
A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday
I have worked in Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for over six years, yet I learn something new about our collections every day 🤩
Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!
Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!
January 22, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I have worked in Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for over six years, yet I learn something new about our collections every day 🤩
Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!
Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
For #FindsFriday
A copper alloy late Iron Age 15cm high bulls head *fitting* with elongated horns and horn-caps
Looking mournfully at us, wanting to be understood
Findspot unknown, function sadly unknown
Donated to the BM by Salisbury Museum in 1946
© Trustees of the British Museum 1946,1010.1
A copper alloy late Iron Age 15cm high bulls head *fitting* with elongated horns and horn-caps
Looking mournfully at us, wanting to be understood
Findspot unknown, function sadly unknown
Donated to the BM by Salisbury Museum in 1946
© Trustees of the British Museum 1946,1010.1
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 AM
For #FindsFriday
A copper alloy late Iron Age 15cm high bulls head *fitting* with elongated horns and horn-caps
Looking mournfully at us, wanting to be understood
Findspot unknown, function sadly unknown
Donated to the BM by Salisbury Museum in 1946
© Trustees of the British Museum 1946,1010.1
A copper alloy late Iron Age 15cm high bulls head *fitting* with elongated horns and horn-caps
Looking mournfully at us, wanting to be understood
Findspot unknown, function sadly unknown
Donated to the BM by Salisbury Museum in 1946
© Trustees of the British Museum 1946,1010.1
Io, Saturnalia everybody!
December 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Io, Saturnalia everybody!
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
The 15th century ‘Angel Roof’ of St Helen’s Church at Brant Broughton in Lincolnshire. While restored in the later 19th century, the colours are based on extensive traces of the original paintwork. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #BrantBroughton #Lincolnshire #AdventAngels
December 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The 15th century ‘Angel Roof’ of St Helen’s Church at Brant Broughton in Lincolnshire. While restored in the later 19th century, the colours are based on extensive traces of the original paintwork. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #BrantBroughton #Lincolnshire #AdventAngels
Another successful PAS Cymru Finds Day in Aberystwyth yesterday, this time hosted at the @librarywales.bsky.social! 🏴
The history of Ceredigion is enriched with every Finds Day and it’s such a privilege to play a part 🥰
Big thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social for his help on the day!
The history of Ceredigion is enriched with every Finds Day and it’s such a privilege to play a part 🥰
Big thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social for his help on the day!
December 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Another successful PAS Cymru Finds Day in Aberystwyth yesterday, this time hosted at the @librarywales.bsky.social! 🏴
The history of Ceredigion is enriched with every Finds Day and it’s such a privilege to play a part 🥰
Big thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social for his help on the day!
The history of Ceredigion is enriched with every Finds Day and it’s such a privilege to play a part 🥰
Big thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social for his help on the day!
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
For #FindsWednesday A nice surface find of a pebble tool - with percussion damage at both ends - typical of prehistoric finds from other hillforts & promontory forts.
One to document through #PAS on Saturday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & then properly record for this scheduled site
One to document through #PAS on Saturday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & then properly record for this scheduled site
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
For #FindsWednesday A nice surface find of a pebble tool - with percussion damage at both ends - typical of prehistoric finds from other hillforts & promontory forts.
One to document through #PAS on Saturday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & then properly record for this scheduled site
One to document through #PAS on Saturday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & then properly record for this scheduled site
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me.
This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold.
Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD.
Timeless beauty!
📷 Corning Museums of Glass
🏺
This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold.
Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD.
Timeless beauty!
📷 Corning Museums of Glass
🏺
December 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me.
This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold.
Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD.
Timeless beauty!
📷 Corning Museums of Glass
🏺
This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold.
Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD.
Timeless beauty!
📷 Corning Museums of Glass
🏺
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
Really looking forward to giving the Cambrian Archaeological Association Christmas lecture tonight. There may be Druids! Am doing some last minute cramming with the help of some of the usual suspects. Thus I can blame them for any errors! #celts #ironage #veterans #archaeology #wellbeing
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Really looking forward to giving the Cambrian Archaeological Association Christmas lecture tonight. There may be Druids! Am doing some last minute cramming with the help of some of the usual suspects. Thus I can blame them for any errors! #celts #ironage #veterans #archaeology #wellbeing
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
Appros of nothing, The Sussex mammoth Map www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... 🦣🏺
Sussex Ice Age Map - Google My Maps
Mapping Pleistocene Sites and Neanderthal Artefacts in Sussex
www.google.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Appros of nothing, The Sussex mammoth Map www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... 🦣🏺
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
For me, Ancient Music Ireland playing the Loughnashade horns were the highlight of my night.
Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!
Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
For me, Ancient Music Ireland playing the Loughnashade horns were the highlight of my night.
Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!
Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
@archaedelle.bsky.social the CAS lecture was excellent. The range of your study and different results were fascinating plus you totally threw me with mummification! Thank you for answering me.
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
@archaedelle.bsky.social the CAS lecture was excellent. The range of your study and different results were fascinating plus you totally threw me with mummification! Thank you for answering me.
All I want for Christmas is the abolition of the term ‘fibula’ (brooch), or worse: ‘fibula brooch’
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
All I want for Christmas is the abolition of the term ‘fibula’ (brooch), or worse: ‘fibula brooch’
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales.
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales.
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
Do join us at our free online symposium tomorrow from 10am!
You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
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You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
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November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Do join us at our free online symposium tomorrow from 10am!
You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
ID: 364 396 620 178 1
PC: bG2gD3ZU
You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
ID: 364 396 620 178 1
PC: bG2gD3ZU
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
On a chilly morning such as this, let’s imagine ourselves as a Hadrian’s Wall soldier starting his shift in one of the turrets, checking his section of wall, & then upwards on watch duty.
Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow!
#RomanFortThursday
Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow!
#RomanFortThursday
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
On a chilly morning such as this, let’s imagine ourselves as a Hadrian’s Wall soldier starting his shift in one of the turrets, checking his section of wall, & then upwards on watch duty.
Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow!
#RomanFortThursday
Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow!
#RomanFortThursday
Reposted by Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️
It’s horrid & cold & barely light out there - so warm yourselves around the glow of this Roman cavalry horse chamfron at @vindolandatrust.bsky.social based on one found in the excavations. Bronze dazzling as gilt & leather smooth as caramel, this is the accessory every little pony wants this Xmas.🎄
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s horrid & cold & barely light out there - so warm yourselves around the glow of this Roman cavalry horse chamfron at @vindolandatrust.bsky.social based on one found in the excavations. Bronze dazzling as gilt & leather smooth as caramel, this is the accessory every little pony wants this Xmas.🎄