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Richard Osgood
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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
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A new milestone with a yellow arrow below a blue field with radiating yellow lines (like a scallop shell) the text star the bottom says ‘Galicia’ - a stone and flint wall as backdrop A milestone with pebbles at the. Saw. The nearest face has an etched map of the British Isles with the European mainland on the other side. A path, grassy area and gravestones as background A flat tomb slab with leaves on it. An etched crucifix at the top and legend below it stating ‘here lie the remains of five individuals who lived between the 12th and 15th Centuries and were originally buried at Hyde Abbey’. Local legend has it that King Alfred’s bones were also found and re-interred here. A radiocarbon date for one element of remains DID yield a Saxon date but DNA matching isn’t possible… A gravestone with amazing human face in the middle and a cherub to the left. Another cherub (largely eroded) to the right. The church of St Bartholomew’s is in the background with its flint walls and a fine window
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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
The cover of a book with the words ‘the house of wolf’ in gold. Overlain by a real Saxon iron spear Photo of a man in glasses with white hair, a Christian priest’s dog collar, and purple jumper holding a white document. This is reverend Professor Martin Henig from Oxford
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
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Rubbish news about Mani. The Stone Roses were definitely one of the soundtracks of my Uni days. Very sad. #stoneroses
A painting with colourful swirls in the style of Jackson pollock. From a Stone Roses album cover
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A cathedral covered in swirling purple and blue lights with the silhouette of a First World War soldier statue in front. Winchester The buttresses on the side of Winchester cathedral flooded with blue and purple lighting The arches of Winchester Cathedral with blue, purple and yellow lighting
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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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
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The 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month. Time to remember. #armisticeday #liverpool
A bronze relief of a small girl with a skirt and bobbed haircut kneeling to lay a bunch of flowers by a gravestone with a horse on it A bronze relief of three mourning women in 1920s costume A bronze relief of three mourning adults and a child A bronze relief with a series of gravestones and two legs. The gravestone has the emblem of the ‘Liverpool Pals’ on it
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Not Forgotten #remembrance
British soldiers carrying a coffin covered with a Union Flag. This was part of a First World War burial in 2025 The grave of Charles Osgood - from the Hampshire/Wiltshire border. A grave of a German Jewish soldier from the First World War. A hand laying pebbles on the top and a Star of David on the headstone A burial party of soldiers in kilts carrying a coffin with a Union Flag on it at Loos in France
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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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
A white windmill against a dramatic dark sky
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Moonlight illumination of Romanesque magnificence at Winchester
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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#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.
A sketch of a medal in the shape of a star with a suspension loop at the top.
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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#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
Ink sketch of the treasury building at Petra in Jordan with a classical portico carved into the solid rock
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#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.
Sketch of a skeleton at greyfriars Kirk
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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#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 🎃
A sketch of a late 17th century ‘onion’ bottle which held items associated with witchcraft
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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#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
A sketch of a pile of decorated Bronze Age pot sherds A Bronze Age collared urn in shade with a black background. Found at netheravon photo (c) Wessex Archaeology
October 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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#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
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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
A lake with reeds and bushes - this is Llyn Cerrig Bach A hand in a black glove holds an orange toy truck A hand holds a Second World War medal in the shape of a star A man in green costume holding an ancient brass trumpet with a boars head and claret coloured decorations. The lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach as background with a grey sky
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
Playmobil Asterix Gauls on a copy of A Find of the Early Iron Age From Llyn Cerrig Bach by Sir Cyril Fox.
October 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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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
Display boards talking about the discovery of the hoard at Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey A lake with reeds A hand holding a bronze terret ring A pair of hands holding a horse bridle
October 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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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
A blue/green statue of a woman looking to the right wearing a hat and with a crucifix around her neck. Jane Austen statue in Winchester A hand on top of a book which also has a writing quill feather. On top of a 12 sided desk. This is the Jane Austen statue in Winchester A blue/green statue of a woman looking to the front wearing a hat and with a crucifix around her neck. Jane Austen statue in Winchester A plaque in Winchester noting Jane Austen’s death at this house on 18 July 1817
October 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#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
A sketch of a skeleton in a tree runoff in lying over back still in clothing and with a number of grave goods including a circular bronze disc over her waist.
October 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The new MOD sanctuary magazine is out and it’s rammed with archaeology!! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68e501...
A stag facing left with golden background. This is the cover of the 2025 Ministry of Defence Sanctuary Magazine
October 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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#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)..
Sketch of a hand with three bleeding claw marks and a smug looking tabby cat behind
October 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#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!🍯
Sketch of a bear eating a honeycomb with a bee poised to sting it on the nose
October 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM