Human sacrifice

A very real (if less palatable) side of the Iron Age, discussed from the perspective of banjo enclosures and hillforts in our new OPEN ACCESS article in the Society of Antiquaries of London journal

#HillfortsWednesday

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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An incredibly lovely coin just out! Could it be more American?! 🇺🇸 #bandofbrothers #archaeology #wellbeing #veterans #Aldbourne #diggingbandofbrothers

I don’t know what my partner is so worried about with this whole “working from home” thing but he passed this off to me yesterday 😬🤭 #WWII

Come visit us this Sunday! ☺️Can’t make it? Keep up with the dig online by searching the hashtag #DiggingBandOfBrothers

The first mother-daughter burial from the Roman period found in Austria

arkeonews.net/the-first-moth…

About halfway on our donation goal for our June dig. Any help would be amazing!

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If you want a bit more info on the group, the dodecahedron and our excavation have a read here;

theconversation.com/beautifully-cr…

Norton Disney History + Archaeology Group #archaeology #funding #dig #dodecahedron

Question for the masses! Does anybody know of any Iron Age burials found around Scamblesby, Lincolnshire? #bioarchaeology #osteology #IronAge #archaeology BABAO

if we can outlaw the sale of elephant ivory in this country (as the government did in 2022) then we could outlaw the sale of human body parts

The new tent has been purchased!! May is loaded with digs from prehistoric Kent to the classic #BandofBrothers to Roman Northamptonshire with mosaics and a hypocaust (stay calm Durotriges Project). Now just need to reach my ultimate dig tent goals… anyone have an oak desk?

📢Career development opportunity at Durham University Durham Archaeology! They're looking for a Career Development Fellow in Museums & Heritage. If this sounds like it might be you, check out:
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Right everyone. We need you help. These small balls (seeds?) have come out of the environmental sampling undertaken from some First World War training trenches in Sherwood Forest. They float, many are charred but we havent been able to identify them as normal botanicals. Sale 5mm

I’m really stoked about all this #prehistoricarchaeology on display at the moment.. 🤭Must Farm and #StarCarr exhibits, the final year at Ness of Brodgar Excavation, and #GrimesGraves re-opening this weekend! What a summer folks!

It's back...
Medieval England's worst ever depiction of St George and the dragon?
Probably...
Marsham, Norfolk.
#StGeorgesDay

No way!! Another one!! 🍀

#earbone #cremationburial #osteoarchaeology #archaeology

Currahee!!

Today’s #mysteryfind is this gorgeous bit of metal (found on a Roman site!)

Anyone have any ideas on what it could be? A small portable spoon perhaps?? 🤭

#romanarchaeology #romanobritish #fieldwork #archaeology #metaldetecting

Finding an incus in a cremation burial is the osteology equivalent to a needle in a haystack #earbones #osteoarchaeology

Come see what Forestry England, Nottinghamshire CC and Operation Nightingale have been up to at Sherwood Pines and Clipstone Camp First World War training area. her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/whats-new/fore…

Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park! 🥳🎉🎂

Today marks 73 years since the official designation of the #PeakDistrict as the UK's first ever National Park. 💚

📷 1960s Dovedale Historic England loveEXPLORING.com