Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from Iron Age Britain! 🤩 This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with flattened base and spiral decoration, was perhaps used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago. Found in 1965, when gas works disturbed a richly-furnished cremation

From Oldham -> Shoreditch -> Stalybridge -> Birkenhead, my Great-Grandad (1878-1940) moved a lot. Losing his Mum at a young age, he fought and laboured to survive. Find out more about his fascinating life through my ever-growing genealogical research here: wikitree.com/wiki/Munt-459

Made up to see my contributions published in the latest issue of the fantastic British Archaeology Magazine ArchaeologyUK. I co-authored the Youth Advisory Board Strategic Aims article, and edited some of the wonderful finds for the Piermaster's Green Excavation article!

We're going to be celebrating LINDOW MAN in a special day of talks and art at Manchester Museum on 20th June! Hear from leading researchers on bog bodies and peat, & from poets & artists including sculpture exhib. Book your free tickets here: tickettailor.com/events/cahaeun…

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/… bit.ly/3QN4cU6

Tickets are still available for our Iron Age Lives conference, hosted on 7th June at the University of York in collaboration with the Prehistoric Society. Head over to prehistoricsociety.org/events/2024-06…… to book your place!

This is so true! It's well established that many different variations of gender existed in the near & distant past, across the world... To define past genders by bones really is showing a massive amount of ignorance of the wide spectrum of evidence. That's why we don't do it!

Wow. 🤯What an amazng day COMMIOS Prehistoric Society #IronAgeLivesconference with colleagus from CELTUDALPS & MPI-EVA Leipzig. Thanks so much to all our speakers and attendees, & our chairs Prof. Mel Giles & Rachel Pope 🕊️🇵🇸. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 😊

We're very excited about our Student and Early Careers Conference 2024 on the 24th of July as part of the #FestivalOfArchaeology. 1/2 Register: archaeologyuk.org/youth-engageme… #IronAgeBritain #Identity #Cemetery #typology #Archaeology

Our speaker, Jess Hornby has an MA in Archaeology and will be starting her PhD in Iron Age Archaeology in October 2024. Jess is a Youth Advisor for the Council of British Archaeology. She is also a Volunteer Support Assistant for Chapter One UK. 2/2

Starting off #ECArch2024 with a paper from the ArchaeologyUK Youth Advisory Board CIfA Early Careers SIG #FestivalOfArchaeology

Panel 2 starting off with Jess Hornby on Iron Age identity #ECArch2024 CIfA Early Careers SIG

Delighted to share that our #Atlas of #Hillforts online database is up & running again! #maps #archGIS #prehistory #openaccess hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk

The next EC Conference talk from Jess Hornby (she/her) explores the 'time-slice' approach to Iron Age studies in Britain, offering new insights into burial trends and identities, and exploring temporal, site-specific and regional trends. Watch the full talk 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=Awo54u…

Was so delighted to have the opportunity to speak at the Early Careers Conference about my upcoming PhD research! 💖