Did you miss AARG 2025 in Trondheim, or do you want to re-live the highlights? You're in luck! ๐
We are delighted to announce a selection of presentations from AARG 2025 are now available on our YouTube Channel ๐19 videos are available, with more coming soon!
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Black and white aerial photo looking down on a ploughed white field set within the ramparts of a roughly rectangular Roman fort with trees in the background
The heavily ploughed interior of Hod Hill #Roman fort, early September 1949
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
ยฉ Historic England see:
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...
#RomanFortThursday
We have a brand new series of Digging for Britain ready for your delectation, and an expanded team of expert presenters bringing you the latest on a range of exciting discoveries from across the UK.
ยฉ CC-BY K. Bondar et al. AARGnews 71 (2025)
ยฉ CC-BY K. Bondar et al. AARGnews 71 (2025)
AARGnews Spotlight: ๐ฃDrone-based magnetometer survey๐ฃ
How do you speed up a geophysical survey of an archaeological site? By using an aerial platform!
In a study supported by an AARG Fund grant, Kseniia Bondar et al describe their use of a UAV mag to survey 2 Roman forts in Ukraine #geophysics
The impressive Bohemia museum in Pilsen is in view infront of a clear blue sky
๐จSpecial Announcement! ๐จ
AARG are delighted to announce that AARG 2026 is confirmed for 10th-12th September inโฆPilsen, Czechia! ๐
The meeting will take place at the impressive Museum of West Bohemia!
Further details and a call for papers will be communicated soon. For now, save the date! ๐
The Iron Age โBattersea Shieldโ which was found in the River Thames at Battersea in 1857. Dating to around 350-50 BC, the shield is now part of the collections at the British Museum. ๐ธ My own. #FindsFriday #BatterseaShield #IronAge
Two sets of dome-shaped game pieces are displayed on a gray surface, with each set containing 10 pieces. The arrangement of the pieces is loose.
Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones.
Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare.
Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD.
๐ท Landesmuseum Wรผrttemberg
๐บ #archaeology
students sat in a lecture room attending a workshop. Some are looking at laptops, some at the screen behind the camera
students sat in a lecture room attending a workshop. Some are looking at laptops, some at the screen beyond the photo
a group of people stand on a woodland trail on a fieldtrip listening to the tour leader talk
eight people smile for the camera beside a screen promoting the TRAIL event
Last week AARG supported 5 members to attend a TRAIL (Training and Research in the Archaeological Interpretation of LiDAR) workshop in Slovenia. Attendees enhanced their knowledge of LiDAR and machine learning. Thanks to ลฝiga Kokalj from ZRC SAZU for an excellent event!
#LIDAR #ALS #AI #archaeology
Absolutely ๐
Magic! Would love that so much!
A figure photographs a rocky headland in a storm
The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday ๐ฅณ๐ป
Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop โฐ๏ธ๐ฎ
In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social
๐ท Yesterday
Loved this episode! The @durotrigesdig.bsky.social is still top of my bucket list, must get down next summer
#Archaeology #Durotriges #IronAge
The scrub and partially tree covered ramparts of an oval Iron Age hillfort from the air, its centre covered in green grass and surrounded by ploughed fields with a tree lined railway and a modern road flanked by houses at the bottom of the picture
The Iron Age hillfort of Spettisbury Rings (Crawford Castle / Castle Ring) #Dorset
This mighty 2ha univallate enclosure is today largely hidden behind the old railway and modern village of Spetisbury. Most people driving on the A350 are unaware of it
๐ท ยฉ Jo and Sue Crane 2016
#HillfortsWednesday
Oval intaglio engraved with a skeletal human figure resting on an amphora and holding a jug, carved in translucent amber-colored stone.
Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper
#RomanArchaeology
Two copper alloy brooches with double-headed, long-eared, hare-like ends, inlaid with red and blue enamel decoration, both stained green after centuries in the soil
Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday ๐
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895
ยฉ Trustees of the British Museum
#Roman #Archaeology
The historic Vivian Slate Quarry in Llanberis, Gwynedd, rises out of dense autumn woodland with its narrow galleries visible ๐ฎ๐
Now a scheduled monument, the quarry forms part of the Welsh Slate World Heritage Landscape
๐ท My own, last weekend
๐ค coflein.gov.uk/en/site/40571
The engraved entrance stone to the famous Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange at County Meath in Ireland. ๐ธ My own. #TombTuesday #Newgrange #Prehistory #Ireland
I love Sandi! How exciting ๐คฉ
Oh wow, going to give this a go! I photographed some cup marks from Northumberland and some Norwegian rock art this year, wonder how they would turn out
Late to the party, can you add me in? ๐ซ
Ooh wow. Like a mini surface or terrain model?
Oooh that's Sunday morning's reading sorted!
A tubby blue female staffie called Edie sits next to her owner in a field, both are looking into the distance. Edie wears a red harness and tartan collar and her familiar wears a green wax coat and yellow bobble hat.
A moment of mindfulness this morning with my rescue staffie Edie. The beauty of the Peak District never fails to captivate us.
#mindfulmoment #peace #mindfulness #mentalhealth #peakdistrict
A semicircular piece of bone with multiple rings inscribed into it, held upright in a museum stand
#FindsFriday This curious bone object is apparently the back of a comb ๐ค
It was found in an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery near the Thames, from the 5th or 6th century AD
Now in the Museum of Reading
๐บ #archaeology #museums #heritage
A low circular wall inside multiple grass covered ramparts with trees in the distance, as seen from the air
If you like hillforts AND brochs (and who doesn't?) here's Edin's Hall #ScottishBorders a Late Iron Age #broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside the NW corner of an earlier bivallate 0.9ha #hillfort
Beautifully captured in this kite photo ยฉ Hamish Fenton 2011
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Happy #HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday oldie but Goldie!
This is British Camp in the Malvern Hills, an Iron Age hillfort built in 4 phases during the 1st millennium BC. The hillfort had 4 gateways and was populated by dozens of hut circles.
#Archaeology #History
The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort plus foundations of stone built prehistoric structures looking down from the air
Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses
Proper lovely ๐
๐ช ๐ท ยฉ Hamish Fenton 2011
For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html
#HillfortsWednesday
It is Wednesday & so it is time for our weekly #hillfort clip. This time we have the Laws of Monifieth, an extraordinary site not far from Dundee. The site incorporates an Iron Age Broch, a stone walled fort that predates the Broch & an ancient cup & ring marked stone - see zurl.co/9HPpS
LiDAR DTM visualisation of Uffington IA Hillfort showing the univallate rampart enclosures and ridge and furrow earthworks
A historical black and white aerial photograph of the IA Uffington Hillfort, taken from AARGnews issue 68. Extract from a scanned image downloaded from the US Geological Survey EarthExplorer website.
On this wonderful #HillfortsWednesday we look back at issue 68 of AARGnews where our Editor's Picture focussed on Uffington Castle - an Iron Age univallate hillfort. Environment Agency LiDAR shows incredible detail, including medieval ridge and furrow within the hillfort itself!
An upland hillfort seen from the air with strong earthworks defining the defences
Let's hear it for the minor chiefs for #HillfortsWednesday who didn't quite have the resources or followers to build Maiden Castle ๐ค๐
The pretty stunning but little known Fan hillfort, commanding hill country between Llanwrda & Talley, Carmarthenshire, with a bold gateway approach ๐
๐ท RCAHMW 2014
