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Richard Osgood
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Archaeologist
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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
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Am enjoying ‘The House of Wolf’ by Sir Tony Robinson. Saxon spear for effect! A Viking appears called Martin Hennig. The only Martin Henig I know is Oxford Rev Prof Martin Henig. A lovely gentle soul who’d be the worst raider: I saw him fall off a punt! REALLY hope he was Sir Tony’s inspiration
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Seriously looking forward to hearing the amazing @richardosgood.bsky.social talk about an incredible year of archaeological discoveries on the Defence lands of Wales 👌

See more at: @cambriansarch.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Rubbish news about Mani. The Stone Roses were definitely one of the soundtracks of my Uni days. Very sad. #stoneroses
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Very much looking forward to this evening and hoping last hashtag doesn’t lead me to dark places.. @profaliceroberts.bsky.social !! #archaeology #heritage #domination
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month. Time to remember. #armisticeday #liverpool
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Not Forgotten #remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
As the autumn storms kick in, this dramatic image of the windmill at Great Bardfield in Essex was taken from the site of the p47 excavation we accomplished in the summer
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Moonlight illumination of Romanesque magnificence at Winchester
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
#inktober2025 31) Award. This Atlantic Star medal was found by one of the Op Nightingale team at RAF Valley just over a week ago. One wonders on the recipients’s experiences & their reactions on realisation of its loss. Been slack with inktober this year but hope you’ve enjoyed the doodles I put up.
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
#inktober2025 30)Vacant. I visited the Nabatean city of #petra in Jordan last century and, like many a traveler before me, found the great Treasury to be vacant. The city looks as though it was etched into caramel. The treasures had sadly gone & the city was now empty and vacant. #heritage
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#inktober25 28)skeletal - a skeleton of a skeleton - depicted at the gloriously macabre Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh. Time respects no monument even to time passing itself.
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
#inktober2025 27) Onion. The Reigate Witch bottle. This still-sealed Onion bottle (made around 1688) was found in 1993 in Reigate and contained 9 brass pins, urine, fabric fibres, and some human hairs. A perfect thing on the run in to Halloween 🎃
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#inktober2025 26) Puzzling. Sticking pot sherds back together to show how the vessel once looked is a tricky puzzle. The results can be grand. We excavated this collared urn with @wessexarchaeology.bsky.social at Netheravon in 2015 www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/recordi... #archaeology #bronzeage
October 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#inktober2025 25) Inferno. The doom painting of St Thomas’ church, Salisbury. A mouth of hell and demons that even Dante would have been proud of. Decided to add colour wash to emphasise the toasty nature of the scene. Oh and thanks to @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for the kick up the 🍑 x #heritage
October 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The last Op Nightingale project of 2025 was sensational. We aimed to find more of the Llyn Cerrig Bach hoard AND SUCCEEDED! All finds are subject to treasure assessment so no images yet bar this ww2 medal & toy truck! #anglesey #druids #ironage #celts #heritage #archaelogy #veterans #wellbeing
October 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Operation Nightingale& @richardosgood.bsky.social made the mistake of inviting this lot to Anglesey for Operation Ex Druid Sacrifice again & they’re beside themselves, they haven’t even slept.
Right, get in the car & if there’s any fighting we’re coming straight back home again
#PlaymobilInfestation
October 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Tomorrow we embark on the last Op Nightingale fieldwork for 2025, back to the sacred lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey, last refuge of the druids. Will we find more of this incredible Celtic assemblage as we did in 2024? Watch this space….! #archaeology #celtic #anglesey #veterans #wellbeing
October 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
So she’s finally unveiled! A statue of the author Jane Austen now resides in the cathedral close at Winchester with her hand resting on a book on top of her 8-sided writing desk at Chawton in Hampshire. It’s is the 250th anniversary of her birth. She is buried in the cathedral. #janeausten
October 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
#inktober2025 14) Trunk. The burial of a woman from Bronze Age Denmark at Borum Eshøj. She was buried in a tree trunk coffin with a panoply of accoutrements from bronze discs & neck/arm rings to a comb , pottery vessel and box. She was in her preserved clothing and even hair remained. #archaeology
October 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The new MOD sanctuary magazine is out and it’s rammed with archaeology!! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68e501...
October 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
#inktober2025 12)shredded- it’s your own fault. I warned you. It’s not ME that was late in giving second dinner…. (Ps possibly my least fave Cure track. But it’s the Cure so…lovecats all round)..
October 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#inktober2025 11)Sting. Quick one today as I’ve been out at a lovely folklore, art and archaeology session. Everything is about balancing risk and reward - for every sting there is the chance of honey!🍯
October 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM