A fine example showing how archaeological earthworks are progressively obliterated from the landscape surface by agricultural ploughing. Clockwise from top right we have well-preserved (in woodland), partly ploughed out, then totally erased. Gaer Hill, near St. Arvans, S. Wales

Taking in the local culture #SAA2024

Been busy this week prepping for this lecture on how LBA people buried their dead in Scotland. A lot of more sites known now than previously realised and a diverse range of practices. A fun foray outside my usual comfort zone of metal deposition.

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I tried to break the mould with a red-headed female leader showing the architect around a newly built hillfort in 2021; child and dog in attendance...

Miranda Aldhouse-Green for me 🥲

That amazing paper you spent years on? That amazing breakthrough you had? Very likely you built this following the work of others (very few exceptions), just as others will build off yours. Science is a continuum. Want to leave a lasting legacy in science? Be generous & be kind.

📢In time for #HillfortsWednesday , the new iteration of the Research Framework for Late Bronze & Iron Age Wales has been launched online:
archaeoleg.org.uk/pdf/review2024…

Huge thanks to all the individuals and organisations who helped bring this new document together 👏

📷 Caerfai 2021

Hey everyone, I put a lot of work into putting together my archaeology presentation on Joe Rogan

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#TombTuesday Evening sunlight last week on the spectacular #Neolithic tomb of Maen Ceti or Arthur's Stone on Cefn Bryn, Gower.

Twin chambers were formed by hollowing out the ground beneath a massive glacial erratic, which subsequently split sometime in the past.

📷 My own

Can we stop calling National Museum Wales ‘an attraction’. We are not at risk of losing a theme park here. We are at risk of losing an institution that offers free education to millions of people and showcases Welsh culture and the National Treasures of Wales to the world.

Desperately sad news.
Museums are treasure houses of objects and knowledge, founts of inspiration for future generations, places of wonder - and research. Places that invite us to see ourselves in a deep, wide context.
Our society and culture is impoverished if we lose them.

Classic serpents from Aberlemno for #standingstoneSunday

This site is going to be the one talked about in British prehistory for years and years. And the way it was excavated and published and their social media output will serve as a model. In awe

Always thinking about the Roman epitaph plaque written from the perspective of a little white dog named Pearl, who slept on a mattress and was beloved by her family 🥺 #NationalPetDay

British Museum accession no. 1756,0101.1126

⌛️1st-2nd century AD

britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…

a crab pot you can drink from with your lover .......