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Dr Toby Driver
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🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account

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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
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Why was everyone in *Civilisations: Rise and Fall* dressed like they were in a 1950s Hollywood epic?

Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch

Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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
The famous picturesque Hafod Arch above Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion 🥰

Built by Thomas Johnes of Hafod to celebrate the Jubilee of George III's accession in the early C19th, & now a notable climb for all local #cyclists

📷 My own, Saturday
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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NEWS: We’re delighted to announce that Inmos Microprocessing Factory in Newport (Richard Rogers & Partners, 1982), one of the most innovative industrial buildings of the late 20th century, has been Grade II* listed following an application by C20 and C20 Cymru.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/high-te...
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Down the autumn backlanes from home yesterday 🍂 - good for the soul👌

📷 Near Talybont, Ceredigion, Cymru/Wales
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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After some kick back for posting too many Roman pictures (not naming names @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🙄) I’ve had to post pictures of Carn Liath broch to even out the Iron Age balance.
Note to self - no more backlit selfies (🎶oooh-oooh me ears are alight🎶)
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of decorative Roman cavalry horse chamfrons from @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social until people start blocking me.

Have some.

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November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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! 🧐
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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From Heel to Eternity on #StandingStoneSunday

Gazing down the Avenue, past the Heel Stone sarsen, to distant Stonehenge #Wiltshire, as the sun begins to set on a cold November afternoon

📷 2025
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Un vídeo con escenas da historia de Galicia e algunhas máis que non estaban no fío. Gozade como mínimo o mesmo que gocei eu facéndoo.
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Landscape of the Early Bronze Age miners..⛏️

Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills

Incredible🤯

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November 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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À La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz (Ille-Et-Vilaine), l'Inrap a mis au jour en 2022 les vestiges d'une importante occupation gallo-romaine comprenant un vaste sanctuaire.

Vidéo complète 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFJ...
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Did not want to go for a run. Went. Rewards level: enchanted forest.
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ran a 10 miler in the Elan Valley today, which was challenging, but it was a delight to come home through the great Victorian dams with the last of the autumn colours hanging on 🍂
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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An intentionally destroyed #BronzeAge #sword found in a burial at Blaubeuren-Asch. Bronze Age weapons deposited in burials were often bent or hacked into pieces before placed into the grave, in this way they 'died' with the owner. Dating 9th century BC.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

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November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Ystum Cegid Isaf: A photo from 2024, one of a few rescued from our 'plugole' which is where where failed uploads end up. More mystery photos from the plugole here - can you identify any of them?. Situated within dry stone walling between two farmer’s fields.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Ideal Christmas presents for lovers of Hadrian's Wall and walking in the historic landscapes of northern England.
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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📣🎄Cambrians’ Christmas Lecture 2025 📣🎄

🧙'The Druids’ Sacrifice: Discovering Iron Age Wales on Military Land'🧙

By Richard Osgood (Senior Archaeologist, DIO)

Online via Zoom: Thursday 4th December at 7.00 pm

This is a members-only event. Why not join us?

cambrians.org.uk/cambrians-ch...
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Great to see the good people of Meifod Local History Society last night for a talk on the hillforts of Wales🛖

Great Comms from the organisers leading up to the talk ✔️
76 people out despite the freezing weather ✔️
Projector & laptop already sorted ✔️🥳
Biscuits & raffle ✔️

www.meifodhistorygroup.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Jackdaw dawn, Ceredigion
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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The base of a 2,000 year old, Late Iron Age Durotrigian style Black Burnished Ware bowl from Winterborne Kingston #Dorset

A series of squiggles were scored into the fabric prior to firing - decoration, doodle or pot-makers mark?

📷 during cleaning in June 2013

#FindsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#FindsFriday looking down on a mighty spearhead, chariot fittings & tools 🥰 from the Iron Age votive lake deposit at Llyn Cerrig Bach on Ynys Môn/Anglesey - now on display in St Fagans Museum

Hear about new discoveries on 4 December at the Cambrians Xmas lecture🥳

cambrians.org.uk/cambrians-ch...
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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RIP Mani. Here's a poster from the time the Stone Roses played Aberystwyth...
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM