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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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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 47m

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 · 1h

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..

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

Fabulous!

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 18h

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

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 13d

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 · 23h

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 · 16h

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 · 17h

Hey that's great news 🥳

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

He was a dapper gent

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

Blimey! 😮

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

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 · 22h

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 · 23h

Gwych! Quite a trip 👌

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

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 · 1d

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

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

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

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

The 10.7ha univallate Iron Age glory of Segsbury Camp (aka Letcombe Castle) Oxfordshire

Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍

www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...

Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

The grass covered ramparts of a hillfort bisected by a modern road from the air looking to the cloudless sky of the horizon

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Cambrian Archaeological Association @cambriansarch.bsky.social · 3d

*Please book by the 12th October*
The final Walk and Talk of 2025 will be on October 19th at Buckholt Bryngaer Hillfort, Mon. - Jan Bailey (Walk) and Katie Churchill (Hilltop tour).
Come and learn about this fascinating multi-period site!
Info: bit.ly/46HA1pG
Booking: [email protected]

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Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social · 2d

Kororipo pā, commanding #Kerikeri basin. It is effectively a promontory fort, w. the inlet on three sides. From here Ngāpuhi Rangitira (chief) Hongi Hika mounted many successful campaigns, armed with muskets gained through trading w. Europeans. #Aotearoa #NewZealand #HillfortsWednesday
📷 my own.

Replica stockade and tower, at the neck entrance to the Pā.

The view across the basin, with the Stone Store - New Zealand's oldest surviving stone building - plainly visible. It was part of the second Church Missionary Society station in the country.

The main bank and ditch defences, with the interior and further defences beyond.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 2d

Remains of the Mary Rose - Henry VIII’s warship that sunk in July 1545 at the Battle of the Solent. Raised in 1982, the ship is located and preserved at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard site. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #MaryRose #Portsmouth

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

Some difficult views there about the potential future of Scotland's incredible heritage...

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

Castell Bryn-Gwyn: The hillfort is defended by a bank and ditch and accessed by a causeway. #HillfortsWednesday Excavations have revealed that it has a long history dating back to the Neolithic period when it was created as a henge. 📷 Horatio More: http://www.megalithi...

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

Read more detail here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/305429

English – Coflein

coflein.gov.uk

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