Archie Robson

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[Tony Collins @tontytrains]

Who says nothing exciting ever happens in London?

[Durham Archaeology @ArcDurham]

In 2023, Archaeological Services DU were commissioned to excavate Flass Well, Durham, marking 50 years' preservation of Flass Vale!

The @archaeologyuk #FestivalOfArchaeology theme was 'Archaeology & Community', so we'd love to share more about this 👇:
https://t.co/mXhQkZEqaV

[John Castling @JohnCastling]

We’re back on site at Auckland Castle with some finds to handle and some digging to see! We’ve got some family-friendly activities too. And volunteer Martin has taken over where Stephen was digging yesterday and has added some medieval green glaze pottery🏺 to Stephen’s handle.

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

A carved Portland Stone column base, taken from a Late #Roman longhouse and reused in the flue of a 5th century kiln

📷 2011 Winterborne Kingston #Dorset

#StandingStoneSunday #MakeDoAndMend #Archaeology

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Manatees being feed sweet potatoes, while looking like sweet potatoes

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Sorvagsvatn, the lake that hangs over the ocean. Faroe islands

[Underwater Cultural Heritage Of Stone Fish Weirs @Stonefishweirs]

One of the earliest #fishweir examples in #Canada from the archaeological record of fish weir is the #Mnjikaning #FishWeirs in #LakeSimcoe in #Ontario, which have been carbon dated to 5,000 years ago. 1/8

[The Lithic Studies Society @LithicSociety]

1/2 The LSS is pleased to announce our first social media takeover with the project Mesolithic Deeside.

Swipe the images to learn more about this fantastic project.  We hope you enjoy learning about us and what we do.  We can be found on Facebook – search for Mesolithic Deeside

[Andra Meneganzin @AndraMeneganzin]

OUT NOW!

Much controversy still surrounds #Neanderthal #aesthetic sense & engagement w aesthetic practices. In this paper, Anton Killin and I delineate major skeptical arguments & argue that they miss the mark for empirical & theoretical reasons 🧵

https://t.co/d7oHCDoX8N

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

Two baked clay spindlewhorls and a fossil sea urchin (echinoid) placed together at the base of an Iron Age storage pit over 2,000 years ago 🤩

Recorded last week at #Durotriges24

#FindsFriday #FossilFriday #FridayFinds #Archaeology #Archeology #Dorset

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

2. This Roman mosaic discovered in Antakya, Turkey, was so well-made that it maintained the wave effect of an earthquake without breaking the pattern.

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

Just what every dig needs to find on the last full day of excavation

An Iron Age cow burial

#Durotriges24 #FindsFriday

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

BBC viewers will have spotted me having a nap - it's been a long night after a long 14 years...

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

World's oldest cave art found showing humans and pig https://t.co/Uqq3sfqHzT

[Adhi Agus Oktaviana @AAOktaviana]

Ouu new publication https://t.co/Jpq3P7WhNR

[PAKEP @PAKEP_KSA]

New Paper Out! This paper, led by @jane_cmcmahon, is on the Standing Stone Circles, a form of Neolithic domestic structure found in #AlUla. Read for free: https://t.co/xLKPHx9xds Since identifying these structures in 2018, we have excavated lots of them-here is what we found 1/10

[Archie Robson @ArchieRobson5]

@martaguardamino congrats!!

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

An early start to #FindsFriday as Jon spots this beaut of an Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged projectile point / arrowhead

Gert lush 🤩

Another hint of pre Iron Age activity at #Durotriges24

[Chris Gerrard @cmgerrard1]

A team of trainee moles were helping out on site late last week. Turns out they enjoy defining construction cuts for 17th century walls. Less good on earlier layers. What creatures have you had on your archaeological excavation? @ArcDurham @aucklandproject

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

Over in finds processing, Kel and her team have a very nice, Late Iron Age Black Burnished Ware pot

And (please excuse lapse into Scooby-Doo speak) *dig that groovy decoration* 🤩

Can you believe this has been in the ploughsoil for 2,000 years 🤯

#Durotriges24 #Archaeology