I've learned today that players in Valheim are noticing their boats missing or flying. The truth - birds (like seagulls) are landing on boats and a bug accidently places the boat under bird control - which means the bird lands on a boat and flies away with it, stealing it.

However you may feel about the Romans, you have to admire the cojones it took to build Isca Augusta smack dab in the middle of several prominent (and scrappy) Iron Age settlements 😬 Here is a view of Twmbarlwm hillfort from the amphitheatre! Quite a statement #RomanFortThursday

Happy Spooky season to fellow zooarchaeologists. Whilst many use this season to look at terrible fake bones I want to highlight some real scary bones. Such as this parasphenoid which looks like a witches broom

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary c. 500,000-300,000 year-old Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell. The shell’s central placement has often been described as an example of early artistic intent. Aesthetically pleasing to our modern eye, recent

A long-awaited revised book will offer an up-to-date account of the Neolithic period in Wales through a detailed exploration of its chambered tombs and monuments nation.cymru/news/new-book-…

Until tonight I was not aware that there is a popular singer called Celeste. Until tonight, 5 lovely women from Liverpool weren't aware that there is a French avant-garde post-hardcore, post-black metal band called Celeste. Sadly for them I was not the one at the wrong gig.

On the following Thursday 28th November I'll be delivering an in-person talk about my Logaston Press book & selling & signing books 📚 Sarnau lies on the A487 north of Cardigan, Ceredigion - in the shadow of the second largest hillfort in the county: the famous Castell Nadolig!

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Perfect time to be playing Valheim I guess

I think we need to consider more of this type of archaeology on display

I loved doing this do much

If any Romanists can help me, I would like a tiny nugget of information about the new "mega fort" that was discovered in Pembroke, I've seen news articles and a go fund me but no papers or anything (yet!)

I think being terrible at CV writing is part of my nature

Have you seen the Mari Lwyd out and about? The Mari Lwyd was once a lively tradition of welcoming the Welsh Hen Galan (or 'the old new year') and has been resurrected in some parts of Wales. The Mari Lwyd - a horse's skull - was carried on a pole and decorated with rosettes

saving this for a cosy day in