🚨Call for Papers
#UISPPXXIWorldCongress2026
Our session on #protourbanism in #europeanarchaeology is open for abstract submissions. Join us 31 Aug - 4 Sep in Poznan, Poland. Abstracts due 20 March
@jodarchaeology.bsky.social
Hill fort painting by Anna Dillon
Work in progress. Oil on board. Can you guess the hill fort? This will be on show at my studio in early May for Oxfordshire Artweeks.
34 month PDRA position on my Roman Britannia: Mobility and Society project, based with fab project co-lead Dr Sophy Charlton at @york-bioarch.bsky.social - come join our interdisciplinary Cardiff-York team and reshape narratives of the Roman period in Britannia.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT035/p...
Historic Environment Scotland is looking for a new Digital Documentation Officer. F/T. Permanent Role. Stirling, Scotland.
#HeritageJobs #DigitalDocumentation
Painting of two cloak wearing men with horses approaching a timber gate, with observation tower above, being opened by two shield carrying men whilst two men, a boy and a dog watch from the ramparts above
The late 5th c AD SW gate of Cadbury Castle hillfort #Somerset
Based on Leslie Alcock's 1968 excavation
Splendidly recreated with elevated platform in a painting © Peter Dennis for *British Forts in the Age of Arthur* by Angus Konstam @ospreypublishing.bsky.social 2008 🤩
#HillfortsWednesday
Two Roman lead pigs on a forklift in a farmyard
This was the scene when I arrived to collect the lead pigs from the landowner in Oct 24, for safe transfer to the National Museum 😮
It's not often Roman finds are so heavy they're carried on a forklift
The pigs are extraordinary..each weighed around 85kg & had to be lifted by two people 💪
📷 TD
forgot #HillfortsWednesday 😵💫
This evening I will be talking about the development of densely populated Bronze Age hillforts in Ireland and Temperate Europe for @tuatha.ie @neiljackman.bsky.social, a topic which has recieved some press after our @antiquity.ac.uk paper on Brusselstown Ring, a massive 41ha site with 600+ houses!
😂 it is quite close to the upland earthen cursus of Broomy Law, and you can see the souther terminal from the site….this is such an unusual enclosure that I would not be surprised if it was Neolithic, but then again, Iron Age people in Scotland did many strange things too!
We spent a great day yesterday on a hilltop littered with hillforts! On White Hill, south of Biggar, Scotland, there are palisades, earthen ramparts, and one of the strangest forts I've seen in a while - an 11 hectare elongated enclosure overlooking a group of possible henges #HillfortsWednesday
Come work in the research team @socantscot.bsky.social on our ScARF project!
We are looking for 3 new people to help us complete the last of the regional archaeological research frameworks for Scotland.
Closing date the 8th March 2026
#HESFunded #Archaeology #HeritageJobs #Scotland 🏺
What a great day of weather we had....no one could take poor photos working in that! Love the Polaroid's!
Come join our Ecologies of Governance team: we have a 30 month fieldwork based PDRA advertised @newcastleuni.bsky.social as a part of our AHRC funded project. Will work at Rendelsham, Dunadd, Navan Fort, Llangorse, Milfield royal palace sites for project. Pls RT: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM271/f...
Last few days to vote in our Current Archaeology Awards 2026! Visit www.archaeology.co.uk/vote to choose the people, projects, and publications you think deserve to win this year. Voting closes on 9 February.
Museum job alert!!
Assisstant Curator Renaissance and Early Modern History at National Museums Scotland
Full time but temporary (mat leave cover)
Closes 18 Feb so don't dilly-dally
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/829206
Come join the Ecologies of Governance team, working with Andy Seaman, Duncan Wright, Rich Madgwick and me on our AHRC project. 30 month Palaeoecology postdoc to work on our five case study landscapes based at QUB - Archaeology at Queen's www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ146/p...
Toby & Tori in high Vis at the edge of a coastal blow hole
Filming for #DiggingForBritain with the brilliant @toriherridge.bsky.social on the very edge of Buckspool promontory fort, Pembrokeshire, in the heat of August last year 🌞🔥
Perfect viewing tonight for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖🥳
👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Our thanks to Dr Paddy Gleeson for his amazing talk on the landscapes of kingship in early medieval Ireland last night. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/qc6r49z....
@papgleeson.bsky.social
#IrishArchaeology
#UlsterArchaeology
Topographic map of part of the Baltinglass landscape, County Wicklow, overlaid with illustrations of prehistoric features in the landscape, such as two Bronze Age hillforts and the Sruhaun cursus, aligned with the autumn equinox sunrise.
In Neolithic Ireland, many monuments were orientated towards the summer solstice sunrise, perhaps to celebrate growth and life #CelebrateLife
Some however, align with the autumn equinox sunrise, the end of the growing cycle. Did they symbolise death?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
The main building and tower at the University of Glasgow surrounded by trees.
Historic places are vital for mental health, according to research by @uofgussp.bsky.social, @imadgination03.bsky.social and Historic England.
Familiar historic places provide emotional stability – helping people to function and thrive in everyday life.
More: gla.ac/4qQ0CIZ
🚨 Call for Papers!
XXI UISPP Word Congress, Poznán, Poland. 31 Aug - 4 Sept 2026.
Our ( @jodarchaeology.bsky.social ) session proposal focusing on #protourbanism in #prehistoric #europe has been accepted! Register and submit your paper topic for our session here: uispp2026.syskonf.pl
Hugely excited to finally have this up 😁
Was incredibly lucky to catch up with @drtobydriver.bsky.social & have a chat about all things #Hillforts & Wales 🏴
You can catch that here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
📷 Foel Drygarn, Pembrokeshire
Just the great chapter titles alone have me excited to read this….HYPERPREHISTORY!!
Title page of manuscript for a book called Urban Deep Time
Contents page of manuscript for a book called Urban Deep Time
Doing final edits on the text of my forthcoming book, Urban Deep Time: the contemporary archaeology of prehistory. Hopefully it should be out by the end of the year, published by Bloomsbury. #UrbanPrehistory
Tomorrow is the last day to vote for our book on Baltinglass and the Prehistoric Hillforts of Ireland, which has been nominated for Book of the Year in the 2026 Current Archaeology Awards! www.archaeology.co.uk/vote
Featuring the #KelvinWheelies skatepark excavations in episode 1!
Wicklow hill fort identified as oldest prehistoric ‘proto-town’ in Ireland
Tonite! #KelvinWheelies 🛹🤟🏻
Topographic map of two hills in the Baltinglass landscape. Overlaid annotations show the extents of the fort and enclosures surrounding it.
Brusselstown Ring is one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, enclosed by ramparts that encompass both the hill itself and the Neolithic enclosure of Spinans Hill 1 #HillfortsWednesday
Hillforts that span more than a single hilltop are incredibly rare.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
