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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 16h

I love to read “excavations in 2025”.

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

We've finally made it to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖

Here's a reconstruction of Buckspool coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire, a craggy limestone headland defended by a set of intermittent banks & packed with house platforms 😮

Excavations in 2025 revealed a wealth of Roman finds 🏺

📷 My own

Drawing of a coastal fort seen from the air with many roundhouses inside & smoke rising

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 16h

🔥 NEW VIDEO : OUT NOW 🔥

A long time in the making - it is a deep-dive into 'The Devil's Arrows' the 2nd largest standing stones in the British Isles, but bigger than Stonehenge! They're strange...

It's a hoot! Link: youtu.be/WshfMm15Jv8

#archaeology #prehistory 🏺

Britain's LOST Prehistoric Wonder (that's bigger than Stonehenge!)

YouTube video by Adam Morgan Ibbotson

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 10d

Something new for #StandingStoneSunday - a little bit of artsy photogrammetry...

This one of the Devil's Arrows' central stone, Yorkshire. 2nd tallest standing stone in the British Isles. 🤩

#archaeology #prehistory #Yorkshire

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 10d

Something new for #StandingStoneSunday - a little bit of artsy photogrammetry...

This one of the Devil's Arrows' central stone, Yorkshire. 2nd tallest standing stone in the British Isles. 🤩

#archaeology #prehistory #Yorkshire

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 14d

Highly recommend this YouTube documentary by Elephant Graveyard. One of the best ever made...

Perfectly describes the Joe Rogan fanbase’s slide into anti-intellectual cultism. ☠️

Link: youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 14d

A photo of a crop mark at the Devil's Arrows, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire. 🤔🤔

This may just be a 'superhenge' - a rare kind of Neolithic monument most famously found at Stonehenge: Durrington Walls.

Except this one is bigger...

#archaeology #LiDAR

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 17d

Glorious.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20d

The southern stone of the Devil's Arrows 👿 - the 2nd tallest standing stone in the British Isles.

Nobody knows how old it is, but it probably dates to the Neolithic, so time time between 4000 and 2500 BC...

#archaeology #prehistory #ancient #Yorkshire🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20d

Nope.

Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20d

Keen eye.

Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20d

If a change to crops makes them indistinguishable, what does that tell you?

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20d

That’s a risk you’ll have to take Megan…

Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20d

Fun camera game -

Guess which one of these photos was shot on a £4000 Canon camera, and which is from an Iphone... 📸🤳

💰 Guess down below, and be in for a chance to win my hand in marriage. 💰

#photography #camera #archaeology 🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20d

time time? At least you know I don't use AI...

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20d

The southern stone of the Devil's Arrows 👿 - the 2nd tallest standing stone in the British Isles.

Nobody knows how old it is, but it probably dates to the Neolithic, so time time between 4000 and 2500 BC...

#archaeology #prehistory #ancient #Yorkshire🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 21d

Aerial archaeology people - I want opinions...

Natural paleochannels, or some kind of enclosure. Around 180m across, and sitting one field south of Cumbria's 3rd largest standing stone... 🤔🤔

#archaeology #LiDAR #prehistory #history 🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23d

And if anything, a redhead would have made a far greater influence…

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23d

The YouTube algorithm is a STINKER at the moment…

Seriously, how could anyone pass on such an alluring, lovely thumbnail as this. 🤢🤮

LINK, if interested: youtu.be/IZFLAnyyTvM?...

#archaeology #YouTube #history 🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 24d

🌟 SURPRISE - NEW VIDEO- OUT NOW 🌟

The Mystery of Lindow Man - Britain's 2,000-Year-Old Murder Case

Something new - a thorough deep dive into a small topic, rather than a crashcourse on a massive landscape! Wish me luck!👻

LINK: youtu.be/IZFLAnyyTvM

#archaeology #YouTube 🏺

The Mystery of Lindow Man - Britain's 2,000-Year-Old Murder Case

YouTube video by Adam Morgan Ibbotson

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 24d

🌟 SURPRISE - NEW VIDEO- OUT NOW 🌟

The Mystery of Lindow Man - Britain's 2,000-Year-Old Murder Case

Something new - a thorough deep dive into a small topic, rather than a crashcourse on a massive landscape! Wish me luck!👻

LINK: youtu.be/IZFLAnyyTvM

#archaeology #YouTube

The Mystery of Lindow Man - Britain's 2,000-Year-Old Murder Case

YouTube video by Adam Morgan Ibbotson

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · Sep 8

What’s worse, is there’s nothing merry about them.

They clearly know they’re spreading bunk, and knowingly exploit the hopeful and naive. And they do it while biting the hand that ffed them.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · Sep 8

Rewatched one of my older videos on the so-called "Muddy Boots Argument". Lesser viewed (never knew how to title it), but one of my better videos in hindsight..

Tying Graham Hancock to the Romantics - and featuring the great @flintdibble.bsky.social! 💫

Link if you missed: youtu.be/9k7OiaegOqY?...

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · Sep 7

I absolutely hate AI image generation. But look how good this new Google Gemini image editor is! 🪙

Take your crusty old bronzes, and make them shine again!

#Archaeology #AI

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Cheers Paul.

I’ll take that uncertainty to assume it’s an extremely rare and important Iron Age ceremonial jug or something.

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