Do you want a quick stroll over the wildflower-strewn Burren grassland to see Creevagh wedge tomb for #TombTuesday? Of course you do! 🎥 my own, 2 weeks ago #Ireland

We are delighted to welcome Gwilym Hughes as our CAA President for 2024/2025! Gwilym, brought up in Radyr and Creigiau near Cardiff, has had a rich and varied career in archaeology, and is currently the head of CADW for the Welsh Government. More here>bit.ly/3PXSS4G

For those asking, the ‘fierce backlash last night’ entailed two information requests to our press office. One from the Daily Mail and one from the Daily Telegraph. Please remember to vote in this year’s National Trust AGM.

The main target of today’s expedition was this, however - an excavated Roman bathhouse in a corrugated iron bunker under the A1(M) near Welwyn. And this is a place with which I have a special connection… (thread)

For #StandingStoneSunday Early Medieval Inscribed Stone at St Cadfan's church Tywyn 2 a cross-carved stone pillar with roman-letter inscriptions Both sides of the stone are inscribed with a total of four inscriptions, which are the earliest known examples of written Welsh

Demonstrating the all-terrain versatility of the lightly armoured Bren gun carrier, the 9th Battalion Gordon Highlanders practice their driving skills between the Ring of Brodgar megaliths #Orkney 📷 Lt. Taylor 18 June 1941 Imperial War Museums cat no H 194110589 #StandingStoneSunday

1/2 A very enjoyable walk and talk yesterday with Gwilym Hughes, our President, and Diane Williams, who opened our eyes to the historic sites of #Barry We visited prehistoric barrows, Roman and medieval sites & saw the development of Barry as a dock and later tourist haven 👇

It's #MosaicMonday so we're sharing our polychromatic first century hunk of floral gorgeousness. Why? Because we love you, that's why. 😚

#MosaicMonday in the flesh today! A lovely visit to the brilliant Corinium Museum (highly recommend!), on our way to a much-needed spa break in the Cotswolds!

#ChesterMarathon training 🏃 is continuing with some longer 18 & 21 mile runs done but my legs complaining. My old #Saucony trainers gave up, so lovely new ones have just arrived 🥰. Reckon I might need to source some new legs too before the big day..😬🤞#running

Srnorty here thinks that the reason we don't find prehistoric stone tools is because they get eaten by plants Srnorty needs to do some reading if he doesn't want to look like an idiot on the internet. Don't be like srnorty

An Evening in Memory of Dr Eileen Reilly, with the launch "Dirt, Dwellings and Culture: Living Conditions in Early Medieval Dublin (Archaeopress, Oxford)" UCD Moore Auditorium, O'Brien Science Centre East, UCD with a lecture on Viking Dublin 7-10pm, Thursday 12th September 2024

Knockeen Portal Tomb County Waterford 📷July 2024 #TombTuesday

Chûn Quoit was the first ever Dolmen I encountered. My portal into prehistor, remaining my favourite, forever megalithic structure. A charismatic Early Neolithic monument, standing in this moorland landscape, overlooking the sea, for over 5,500 years. #TombTuesday #Archaeology

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In 1937, Alan Sorrell, working with Mortimer Wheeler, created this dramatic image of a #Roman attack on the East gate of Maiden Castle for the Dec 4th 1937 issue of *The Illustrated London News* It was one of Sorrell's first archaeological reconstructions #HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday It would be great to visit all coastal hillforts by sea, but it's not always possible Therefore it was good to get offshore of Aberystwyth last week for a sea-level view 🌊of mighty Pendinas hillfort by kayak 🛖 My tour, 28th Sept 👉 cambrians.org.uk/walks-and-talk…

An incredible hillfort on the Isle of Arran in Western Scotland sitting on top of a distinctive set of igneous columns that project out into the Firth of Clyde. It is an unusually big fort for this part of the world at over 4.5 hectares. #Hillfortswednesday

Speeding along the beautiful Dyfi Estuary by train this morning en route to York for the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG) annual conference - the first in the UK for a decade. Looking forward to catching up with all things #flying #aerialphotography #remotesensing #drones #als 🍻

#RomanFortWednesday 🧐. Yes - those substantial earthwork terraces in the field behind Caersws (Caer = fort) railway station, #Montgomeryshire, as the train pulls in, are indeed the impressive defences of a C1st AD Roman fort. #Seenfromthetrain #TransportforWales #Roman