Richard Osgood

A carved stone head in a glass. Are with reeds and a green background to either side

A carved stone face with eyes nose and mouth visible. The mouth has a hole in the upper right lip (as we look) perhaps for offerings

#findsfriday the astonishing, enigmatic Hendy Head from Anglesey now in Oriel Môn - found in a ploughed field overlooking the Menai straits and thought to be Late Iron Age. Did this Celtic god oversee the a Roman attack on the Druids and an end of the old ways? #celts #ironage #druids #anglesey

Mosaic of a First World War tank with a crown above it and the motto ‘Fear Naught’ below

A view of a Cromwell tank

A view of a Cromwell tank in Polish markings

A side view of a Cromwell tank

An unusual entry for #mosaicmonday but you’ll forgive me given my employers! This tank is depicted in the floor of the @tankmuseum.bsky.social in Bovington, Dorset. Dad trained here in c1943 (probably in a Cromwell) - visiting the museum with his son years after must have been very odd indeed.

Celtic cross at Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire

The cliff’s with the sea braking against them at buckspool fort Castlemartin

St Govan’s chapel, Pembrokeshire

Sunset against the cliffs at Castlemartin

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus.
Happy #stdavidsday to all my Welsh friends (and those who live there or studied there with me!) - some lovely Welsh pics 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #wales

Wonderful stuff. Hoping for a long-lasting link with this special place

A Chinese dragon in a shopping centre, Winchester, Hampshire 2026

A Chinese dragon in a shopping centre, Winchester, Hampshire 2026

A Chinese dragon in a shopping centre, Winchester, Hampshire 2026

A Chinese dragon in a shopping centre, Winchester, Hampshire 2026

I seem to be trapped in a sub-Tolkien world… if it’s not Druids I’m seeing dragons everywhere…. I mean even in Winchester! #dragon

A wooden box with four lumps of rusty iron sitting on cotton wool. An explanatory note with handwriting is pasted in the u sets die of the raised lid of the box - this mentions that they are ships rivets from Sutton Hoo given by Edith pretty to Vincent Redstone

A drawing of an iron ship’s rivet with the caption ‘3. Ship nail: River Kings in a book by Cat Jarman

A black and white photo (c) British Museum of the excavated shape of the Sutton Hoo ship

For #findsfriday - a small box with iron ship’s rivets. These were given by Edith Pretty to Vincent Redstone to show success in the discovery of the Sutton Hoo ship. I have drew a similar rivets - a Viking one from Repton featuring in ‘River Kings’ by Cat Jarman. #viking #saxon #suttonhoo

And noting your interests I was pleased with the T20 result largely because of the innings by by county’s @somersetccc.bsky.social Tom Banton

It’s the cafe royale on princes street. Lots of other lovely windows - well worth a visit

A stained glass window showing a man in cap and blue shirt with white trousers holding a rugby ball on the left and a man in blue blazer and cap with white pads and red sash holding a cricket bat on the right.

On an incredibly rare day where Scotland face England at both rugby 🏉 and cricket 🏏 this is probably the only opposite ever get to post this rather splendid stained glass window in Edinburgh of Scottish representatives of each sport. #heritage

A view of Hillfort banks and ditches in the sun

A trig point in a Green field

Banks and ditches of a hillfort with clouds

A ln etching of a hillfort plan in ‘Ancient Wiltshire’ by Richard colt Hoare. This is Battlesbury Camp

#hillfortwednesday - miraculously an hour of sun on Salisbury Plain today enabling a condition survey of Battlesbury Hillfort. Not looking bad and the views were grand. Colt Hoare’s plan in Ancient Wiltshire still works. #archaeology #wiltshire #ironage #celts

That is a really lovely page - super that it has all sparked the mojo again too! I must think the same..

Fab! You can’t beat a Bronze Age Axe - love it

#drawing 4842 #drawingdiggingforbritain perfect practice for sketching at the British Museum tomorrow with Urbansketchers London #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

Shame…. I could see another venture…. 😂

Toby - do you know if they were found on the MOD estate or is it just off?

That would have been Andrew and my former colleague Martin, Jane. I do work on Burrow Island nearby still!

I forgot too - blame the rugby!!

A sketch of five human faces in outline

Well done to my lovely friends that presented #diggingforbritain - I end my #drawingdiggingforbritain sketches with a salute to them @toriherridge.bsky.social, Rosanna, Stuart, @megsdigs.bsky.social & (of course) @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Don’t we live on an incredible isle eh? #archaeology

A sketch of Roman coins, jet pin and spindle whorls

A sketch of Roman pot sherds Roman coins, spindle works and a jet pin against a background of cliffs sea and two curious circular structures

So that is the last of this series of #diggingforbritain you may not be surprised that I’m drawing the Buckspool fort which we dug with @henebtwa.bsky.social Channelling my inner Rose Ferraby with a collage of finds - Thanks to @toriherridge.bsky.social for being fab! #drawingdiggingforbritain

Artefacts including stone hand tool and Roman swords.

Nearly missed tonight's #DrawingDiggingForBritain - fascinated by the analysis that showed that a stone hand tool was used for grinding tin.

Brilliant and you did our buckspool site too yay!

It’s brilliant that you manage to do so much Wendy- these are great. Fern is lovely

Drawings of Roman Stylus, prehistoric fossil fern and tree, paw print on tile etc.

Absolutely blown away by the fossil fern remains and intrigued by the iron-age dogs #DrawingDiggingForBritain

Great image - love seeing the depictions of excavation work in progress . Fascinating site too

Skull of a young man (17-24 years old) from a mass grave dating to the ninth century. The individual had survived an earlier trepanation and was around 1.9m tall #DrawingDiggingforBritain

Along with dogging for….

Hahahah I’m sure I’ve almost done that in times past!!

Drawing of a human skull facing left with a circular hole on the left side. Elements of the skull held in place by tape

Trepanned skull from Wandlebury in Cambridgeshire excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit and featured on #diggingforbritain this evening. An early medieval offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain

A drawing of a small metal bird

A tiny Roman bird figurine (possibly a hawk) from excavations by Archaeoscan at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire featured on #diggingforbritain as an offering for to ight’s #drawingdiggingforbritain

Have to admit that Roman finds are fun!