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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 · 22m

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

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

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

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 1d

*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 · 9h

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 · 11h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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

English – Coflein

coflein.gov.uk

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 10h

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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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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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 23h

Even this theft doesn't make the main national BBC 6pm news... Incredible 😓

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

Looks like proper archaeology

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

Take care of yourself.

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

Brilliant news..so far 🤞

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

We need an urgent change of tide & politics in Britain. So sorry this is impacting you

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

A real beauty

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

Yes - top policing work

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 1d

YES!!! Now keep everything crossed they can find the gold!
🙏🤞🙏🤞

#Archaeology 🏺

www.south-wales.police.uk/news/south-w...

St Fagans burglary update: Two men arrested

www.south-wales.police.uk

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

Wow that's rough. Hopefully you can report it?

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

How very strange! Two opposing opposite views 🤦

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

Blimey - an entire year when he's not allowed to get the flu..😬

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

That's a really impressive scan. I was last there on my bike in 1989

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 1d

West Kennett Long Barrow, July 2023. #TombTuesday

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1d

A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil.
The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD

On display at Römermuseum Xanten.

📷 me

🏺#archaeology

A detailed bronze sculpture of a face with wide eyes and flowing, wavy hair radiating outward resembling snakes, displayed in a glass case under museum lighting.

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