Dan Herbert

Congratulations on this @drclairenolan.bsky.social
Excellent stuff and thoroughly deserved

Well all prehistoric monuments are the same aren't they?

#TombTuesday
Little is left of the cairn at Pierowall, Westray #Orkney, due to quarrying, but this ornately carved lintel stone did survive. Discovered in 1981 by a digger driver, it has similar carvings to those in the Boyne valley tombs, #Ireland. It is on display at the Westray museum 📸 mine.

Cup-marked kerb stone of the north-east burial cairn at the Clava Cairns - a wonderful Bronze Age cemetery near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #ClavaCairns #Archaeology #Highlands

A pile of Harry Price biographies and autobiographies.

When you send an email to some folks in Leeds that begins,

"I know what I'm about to write is going to sound crazy, but I'm really hoping you might be able to help me..."

... you know you're back in Harry Price Land. 😂

#Archaeology 🏺 #HarryPrice

Greyscale diagram of northwestern Europe with arrows detailing movement and interaction of material cultures linked to Bell Beaker and Corded Ware around the Rhone-Rhine corridor.

I put this figure of Needham's model of a Bell Beaker/Corded Ware fusion into PowerPoint, and I kid you not the auto-generated caption was 'Map of the Battle of Brexit'.

@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

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British Iron Age gold coins worth £33,000 sold to US collectors The collection was found in a field near Bury St Edmunds features distinctive horse designs

At least this records that folks were appalled by the sale...

#Archaeology #Treasurw #Detecting 🏺

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16th-century watercolor illustration of Stonegenge by Lucas de Heere, made for an early guidebook for England. Watercolour painting of the Stonehenge monument with the surrounding ditch. A person id depicted lying on a green hill in the foreground. Another person stands by one of the stones and anoth (slightly our of proportion) rides a horse in the middle of the stones.

The Age of Stonehenge: 8th lecture down, 2 more to go. Today we covered the Early Bronze Age, how tin and copper mining in Britain and Ireland possibly drove the development of the Bronze Age proper across Europe, and how this enmeshed Britain births the ultra-blinged 'Wessex Culture'.

View from my sofa 🙂

Sadly, just as Hitler did.

What a fantastic photo.
Belated Happy Birthday too, Toby.
Hope you had a great day

A tall cairn under excavation with a chapel against a blue sky

#TombTuesday Another year older for me today 😮🥳 so a good opportunity to look back at one of my early digs

Second season of excavation at La Hougue Bie Neolithic passage tomb, Jersey, digging the great cairn below the summit chapel

Great days - beer, beaches & camping under the stars

📷 My own

Photo at night looking down a long hall with vaulted ceiling and stone flagged floor. It's very gothic. Arches and columns are on both sides.

Moody night photo of a gothic exterior of large hall, taken side on, showing finials and a large bird sculpture silhouetted against a dark cloudy sky.

Back in Cambridge again for the final #ExcavatingGarrod project meeting (on this grant at least!), with Emma Pomeroy and @toriherridge.bsky.social

Archaeologists Discovered a 5,000-Year-Old Tomb Filled to the Brim With Ancient Treasures Researchers think it will provide new information on ancient customs.

See now these people aren't confused or baffled because they are "researchers" not archaeologists.
⚠️Trigger Warning⚠️ Article contains #ArcheologyBingo references to Treasure and Stonehenge

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La Guillotine blond, 8.5%. Triple-fermented. Very dry, reminiscent of Duvel but the hops overwhelm everything. Slightly sour, metallic aftertaste. More IPA than Abbaye. Not a fan. Great label though. 4.8/10

...and the broch tower's correct title in Gaelic 👌

Is there more exciting road sign in western Scotland?! 🤔🧐

A stone tower, part collapsed, on a rocky coastal headland

Going Hebridean for this week's #HillfortsWednesday

There was nothing quite like the spectacular Dun Carloway broch on Lewis when I biked to it in 2024 😮

This well-built double-skinned drystone tower must have been a bewildering sight to any hillfort builder of the south. Extraordinary!

📷 My own

Oof. That's a bit good

Painting of grass covered Iron Age earthworks topped with timber palisade with people congregating within the entrance way and, in the distance, dramatic white clouds in a grey sky

Happy #HillfortsWednesday!

Here's a recreation of the Iron Age double ramparts defining the west end of Hengistbury Head (once #Hampshire then #Dorset now @bcpcouncil.bsky.social)

Prehistoric trade centre and gateway to the world

A wonderful painting © Judith Dobie for the HH Visitor Centre

For #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating some of the incredible women in archaeology and heritage who have inspired the CBA team. From pioneering researchers to community archaeologists and communicators. 👉 shorturl.at/S1Err

💬 Who has inspired you in archaeology? Tell us below.

A vivid orange sunset

The last of the sun on Cardigan Bay tonight 🌞🌞

Photo in mono of a large gothic style window, looking out onto old rooftops.

Photo of wooden panels with graffiti carved in. One says POTTER 1860. Another says R. BARKER.

Photo of low-lit graffiti on wooden windowsill. An apparent date 1777 is visible.

Photo of a lot of graffiti in different hands on a windowsill. Names and dates but not easily legible.

🗃️ Happened to spend a couple of hours working in Charles Darwin's old school room today. Wooden panelling absolutely covered in children's graffiti, hope someone's done research on this!

A black & white line drawing/engraving of a pig headed trumpet raised above a spear carrying army.

For #FindsFriday this gorgeous depiction of the Deskford carnyx by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s Scotland Before History, 1958.
Found c.1816 Near Deskford, just south of the Moray coast, it dates to the later 1stC AD, deposited in a bog c.2/3rdC. Now in the National Museum of Scotland.
#CarnyxCrazy

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The Viking site and the planning battle brewing over Dublin City Council’s HQ Whenever Pat Wallace walks by Wood Quay in Dublin’s city centre, he is immediately transported back to the happiest days of his life.

Prof Aidan O’Sullivan,
“I would propose that a way of honouring [Viking Dublin dig] would be to ensure that National Museum is properly resourced in terms of staff & facilities to enable people to truly start to tell the incredible stories that are there in the collections and archives.”
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New Model Army tickets booked!
#HappyPlace

The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands [OFFICIAL VIDEO] YouTube video by Sub Pop

I've just discovered The Gutter Twins.
Why did no one tell me about this before?
youtu.be/yEUmdjgW-r0?...

NEW MODEL ARMY .. ACCORDING TO YOU YouTube video by keith lawrence

"Spring comes like a kiss upon the mouth
Soft and sweet with all the power of the earth behind....'

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Such a great picture this. I particularly like the bloke having a wee in the tower, the really drunk bloke being held up by the gate and the bloke at the bottom with the massive loaves of bread on the back of his horse