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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 3h

That sounds like a threat 😆

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16h

For #HillfortsWednesday, here's Segsbury Camp (also known as Letcombe Castle) #Oxfordshire

A gloriously tactile painting of the hillfort by the supremely talented @annadillon.bsky.social from 2010

annadillon.com/segsbury.html

For more of her amazing work see: annadillon.com 😊👍

A painting of the grass and tree covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with brooding clouds in the distance

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 3h

Just been on a great date with a woman who works at the Zoo. Think she might be a keeper.

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 7h

I decided to be a field archaeologist at 5 after visiting the Coppergate excavations. I started digging at 15 but by early 20s realised digging + a family wouldn’t work, so I segued into an academic role where I could at least still train.

I’m still a digger.

Is it okay that women had to leave?

Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 12d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

www.cambridge.org

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

A 6th century pillar at St Llawddog's #Cilgerran #SirBenfro with a Latin inscription:

TRENEGUSSI FILI MACUTRENI HIC IACIT

'Trenegussus son of Ma(r)cus Treni, here he lies’

and one in og(h)am:

TRENAGUS MAQI MAQITRENI

'Trenagus son of Mac-Treni’

📷 Aug 2015

#EpigraphyTuesday #TombTuesday

A stone grave marker inscribed in Latin stands in a grass covered cemetery

A stone grave marker with church in the background

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 17h

For comedic value?

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 1d

#ThickTrunkTuesday
May have lost a bit of its middle, but an undeniably thickly trunked, several hundred year old olive tree by the #Roman city/archaeological park of Egnazia, Puglia.
Still thriving, and one amongst many.

Gnarly old olive tree with hollowed out trunk in late summer leaf.

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 17h

Thinking of you, Lorna

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 17h

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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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 18h

a man in a suit says i couldn 't agree more

ALT: a man in a suit says i couldn 't agree more

media.tenor.com

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 18h

Brighton next Tues, body willing

a woman wearing a pink head scarf and a red hat is sitting in a room .

ALT: a woman wearing a pink head scarf and a red hat is sitting in a room .

media.tenor.com

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 18h

6 for me, as long as my body can keep it's shit together

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Steve H @darkhawk71.bsky.social · 1d

#ArtistFave15 day 7
#MusicChallenge

New Model Army - Between Dog And Wolf

"And if I could only choose one moment to last forever
I would be here with you in the place between dog and wolf"

youtu.be/b7fLun3JPjE?...

Between Dog and Wolf

YouTube video by New Model Army - Topic

youtu.be

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 1d

Given I have been teaching students about Lipo's walking moai for nearly 10 years, I do wonder how this is 'news'

But I'm delighted to see it getting more airtime. It's a brilliant piece of work

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 1d

Easter Island's statues actually 'walked,' and physics backs it up.
phys.org/news/2025-10...

Easter Island's statues actually 'walked,' and physics backs it up

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and on-the-gro...

phys.org

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 18h

"Ghosts, gods and C20 wreckage". Perfect that, Matt

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 1d

If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 18h

Current Status: Brassneck!

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 1d

#inktober2025 7) Starfish. Starfish sites were decoy installations built across the UK in WW2 to confuse bombers. lit at night to replicate failed street blackoutsHow effective they were is open to debate. There is a good one in the Mendips for Bristol & this one at Doncaster. #heritage #archaeology

A sketch of a brick built structure with sloping concrete central opening and lintel. a tree to the left

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 1d

That old trope. I'm ashamed of the narrative certain elements in this country seems so keen to project about ourselves at the moment.

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 1d

Block and report.

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 1d

So their "logic" is only British people can work on British archaeology, which by it's very core is the story of migration?
No words

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ. This is someone you know professionally?
They should be ashamed. I'm so sorry. Hope that you are ok.
Your work is fantastic

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

Random acts of senseless beauty #84

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations, Francis. Looks great

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

I’m pleased to say you can now pre-order my next book, ‘Fairies: A History’ (out in February 2026) from
@politybooks.bsky.social. Thank you to Jeremy Harte, Simon Young, Jo Hickey-Hall and Owen Davies for such generous endorsements! 🌿📚 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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