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For #WorldBookDay, ASE are delighted to launch our new Open Access book titled ‘Out of the Weald: The Secret Weald’ 📗🎉 Read all about our excavations from this part of the Sussex landscape (for free!) here: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1016… UCL Discovery UCL Institute of Archaeology #ASESpoilheapOA

Dammm! That's a nice bit of flint 🤤

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Louise Rayner as the new Archaeology South-East Director! We're looking forward to this new chapter under Louise’s guidance, and are excited to share more from her in the future🤩

For #FindsFriday, we’re sharing this recycled disc broach found in a 5th-7th century grave in Eastbourne ♻️ Did you notice the small hole on the edge of the artefact? This is because it was formally a pendant, but was reused as a broach! 📿

Today, as part of pride month, we’re celebrating our LGBTQIA+ archaeologists! 🌈 Some of them have shared their stories over on our blog. Read them in full here: ucl.ac.uk/archaeology-so… #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQIAplus #Pride2023 #Archaeology

We recently discovered one of the largest handaxes ever found in Britain on an excavation in Kent! This mysterious Ice Age giant is a whopping 29.6cm long and could be over 300,000 years old! ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/jul/… #MaritimeGiantHandaxe UCL Institute of Archaeology The Thinking Schools Academy Trust MaritimeAcademyTSAT

Watch Letty Ingrey, lead archaeologist on the #MaritimeGiantHandaxe research, talk to ITV Meridian about this find of a lifetime. Watch from 21:05, available until 6pm ish today (7 July) itv.com/news/meridian/…

The #MaritimeGiantHandaxe is this week’s #FindsFriday! Letty Ingrey gives us a whistle-stop tour of what we know (and don’t) about this mysterious Ice Age giant... Read the story on UCL News: ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/jul/… Read the paper Internet Archaeology: intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue6…

This #FindsFriday, we’ve got a quiz! 💭 These are two microscopic photos of finds from our Wickhurst Green excavations… but what are the artefacts they depict?🤔 Put your thinking hats on and cast your answer in the poll! We’ll reveal the truth later today...

#FindsFriday These Saxon brooches look very similar at first, but there are some design differences – can you spot them? 👀🔎 They were likely imported to Eastbourne from East Kent, indicating that there were personal relations between these Saxon communities and the Kentish ones

Not sure what to study at uni? Maybe you like history but also science and technology, perhaps you want to do something practical? Why not #ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology & check out the BA Archaeology with Placement Year UCL Institute of Archaeology! ucl.ac.uk/prospective-st… UCL Social & Historical Sciences

I've been meaning on getting my hands on this since a departmental boardgame event with Bournemouth Arch & Anth about a year and a half ago 😆 Any other archaeology folk played this fantastic game? 🎲 #ArchaeologistsWhoGame

#FindsFriday Introducing finds from our NEW book on excavations at Pocock’s Field, Eastbourne! 🥳🆕 These intricate glass beads - buried in a double inhumation radiocarbon dated to 370-170BC – are discussed in detail in our monograph here: onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/product-catalo… 📖

Where does trick-or-treating come from? 🎃🍬🍭 Follow this thread to find out as this Halloween, ASE’s Historic Buildings Archaeologist Dr Michael Shapland is here to tell you about the origins of the practice, and how people in the past might have deterred evil spirits…

Mystery boulder 🪨

#FindsFriday This Iron Age coin looks quite different to the ones we use today, doesn’t it? 🪙 Iron Age coins often depict abstract motifs, and this one is no different. On the obverse is a head facing right, and on the reverse is a bull. Can’t see it? Check the annotation 👀

Our NEW book on Excavations in #Lewes, East Sussex, is OUT NOW! 🙌To celebrate, Elke, our Finds Officer, has picked out her favourite three finds from the whole publication: a bone pin-beater for textile working, a colourful brooch, and a bone shoe skate! ⛸ #FindsFriday

Wahay, I made a thing for work! Please go and like the thing! 😃