From my last visit there I saw the Hillfort is in great danger of falling into the sea eventually!
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From my last visit there I saw the Hillfort is in great danger of falling into the sea eventually!
I had to endure a bit of Harassment in the Workplace this week!
#valleyofstones #Dorset
How is the nuclear power station?
Not very good having a Nuclear Power Station just down the road!
Archaeologists Ruby, Sandi and Meg, all smiling in the sun
Archaeologists Raksha and Lewis at work
Archaeologists Sandi and Bron happy by the site hut
Archaeologists Kel and Sandi examine some finds laid out on a table in the sun
Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25
If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand
www.channel4.com
The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm
Enjoy 😊
Why you will never see me and Sandi Toksvig in the same room together!
Breezy walk on Hive Beach Sunday afternoon.
A cave lion jaw with two exposed teeth still in the ground
The news is out! On Wednesday I found this unsuspecting looking bone under a nodule. We thought it was a baby mammoth scapula.
This morning we realised it was the jaw of a cave lion. An incredible team effort to expose, identify, and conserve this incredibly rare specimen 😍🦣🦁💗
#TuskForce
Thanks for the ice creams Sally, much appreciated
@scaramucci.bsky.social hopes you enjoyed @chalkefestival.bsky.social your talks were very well received.
Loving the new law that once we reach +28° all archaeological digs must provide ice creams and lollies! 😎🍦
#Archeology #Digs
#ValleyofStones #BigDig
#Durotriges
A soldier standing at ease - Otto May. Us Army
A folded peace of metal with writing on it - the dog tag of Otto May
A smiling American soldier in uniform. Richard Blake.
A young American soldier in uniform with the patch of a screaming eagle on his left shoulder to the right of the image. This is Carl Fenstermaker, one of the two pathfinders of Easy company, 506th parachute infantry regiment - 101sr Airborne. One of the so-called ‘Band of Brothers’
In 1944 Otto May (F Co), Richard Blake (A Co) & Carl Fenstermaker (Easy Company) 506thPIR, 101st Airborne were all about to play their part in that Day of Days.They took off on this night in readiness for DDay. Our dig team found the dog tags of all 3 men at Aldbourne, Wiltshire. They all survived
A large boulder on top of three other stones with the sea in the background and pink foxgloves to the left in the grass. This is Chun quoit burial chamber in Cornwall
The Men-al-Tol: a stone alignment in Cornwall. A standing stone at the front and then a circular stone with central perforation behind it and another standing stone behind that. Hills in the background
A standing stone in the foreground and a circular stone with central perforation to the left. Dark cloudy skies. This is the Men-al-Tol in Cornwall
Three large stones with a boulder on top within a grassy field and with a blue sky with clouds. This is the Chun Quoit in Cornwall - a prehistoric burial chamber
A day amongst prehistoric stones in Cornwall - the remarkable Chun quoit, and Men-al-Tol.
Archaeologists excavating sections across a v shaped Prehistoric ditch
Archaeologists excavating sections across a v shaped Prehistoric ditch
Life's a ditch
A lovely Early Iron Age ditch
#Durotriges25
Quite impressed with the slick set up, but wouldn’t want to be there when it’s really busy! #Stonehenge
Not been for over forty years, they wouldn’t let me climb on them this time!
Ok this is fun! David Willey, former curator of the Tank Museum in the UK, now has back garden chats YouTube channel. In this first episode he talks about a book by Canadian wartime photographer Ken Bell. 🇨🇦🇬🇧 #histbookchat
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Historical highlights from our recent tour of Ireland
The Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum then on to Londinium.
The Portway uncovered.
I love a good castle.
I can thoroughly recommend the @nationaltrust.bsky.social guided tour, which includes the new Kings’ Tower observation platform at Corfe Castle.
#Dorset
A circle of large stones in a grassy field
This small circle of stones in the Valley of Stones is the remnants of a bronze or iron age house. The house itself would have been built out of wood, just using the stones for additional external support.
#25sarsensofchristmas #dailysarsen
#sarsen #valleyofstones #FarminginProtectedLandscapes
Back in the Office for a few days. Valley of Stones. #Dorset
#Sarsen #ValleyofStones
Looking down on the Tower of London from the Walkie Talkie Building, Sky Garden.
#London
Glorious sunshine up on the South Dorset Ridgeway this week.
Bronkham Hill, Sink Holes and Hardy Monument.
I think someone has pulled the plug out of West Bay Harbour
This Churchill AVRE is still proving to be a tough cookie! 😆
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A handsome looking fella.
Last night I was sat on a Roman Mosaic listening to top Historian @holland-tom.bsky.social talking about Gladiators and the Colosseum of Rome. Brilliant! #History #Romans #Gladiators
@theresthistory.bsky.social
Just down the road from me.