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Announcing our Autumn 2024 production, touring across Dorset and the South West... FORT by Tabitha Hayward 1am. An Iron Age hillfort in North Dorset. Fifteen-year-old best friends, Viv and Daisy, wait for a ghost. Dates and casting tba, so keep watch 👻 #haveyouseenthisghost

Aquae Sulis around the 3rd century, nowadays the city of Bath in England.

Out now in 🅰ntiquity Journal! Looking at evidence that not everyone in early med England was buried in a cemetery, and that alternative Iron Age forms of disposal in the landscape persisted into the Roman period and beyond... cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The ritual amalgam of the Tyne Gap frontierland: a Roman pagan altar repurposed as a baptismal font, Haydon Old Church.

essay on relic belief and skepticism in the late antique/early medieval west now up on s*bst*ck. wrote this for my master's. link in bio; no paywall!

Look what book came early 😍 some really interesting bits in here

This striking Iron Age bone comb was made from a horse metapodial bone, recovered during excavations by Wessex Archaeology at Harwell, Oxfordshire. The seemingly human face that looks back at us is a highly unusual form of decoration for this object type & period! #WildWednesdays

The steps leading down to Burghead Well - a rock-cut chamber filled by a natural spring, situated within the Pictish fort at Burghead in Morayshire. Theories abound concerning its use, but it may have had a spiritual or religious significance. #StaircaseSaturday 📸 My own.

'Prayer Stone’ • Inis Mór This small stone was found at Temple Breccan on Inis Mór. The stone bears an Irish inscription: OR[ÓlT] AR BRAN N AILITHER 'Pray for Bran the Pilgrim'. It is likely to date to between the 8—10th century. On display in the National Museum of Ireland

This looks interesting, it's interesting to think about what the overlap between mortuary architecture and practices is with late temple/shrine architecture. I'd love to compare this to Blair's Anglo-Saxon pagan shrines and their prototypes. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

An excellent lecture by Kenny Brophy on *Housing the future dead: the new British wave of long barrow construction* at the 2024 Bournemouth Arch & Anth Prehistoric Society annual Pitt Rivers lecture tonight (with a nice tribute to the late great Tim Darvill at the beginning) #Archaeology

Hexham heads archival footage recovered 💀 youtube.com/watch?v=J4WXop…

Ponders... Has anyone exhaustively mapped all the Churches across the UK that are home to / or give house-room to Roman Altars'?

Pádraigín Riggs about the storyteller Tomás Ó Cathasaigh in The Irish Times: irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri… The volume Sgéalta ó Thomás Ó Cathasaigh will be the subject of the Irish Texts Society’s Annual Seminar: 9 November UCC Ireland Dept of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC

Exhibition features lesser known folklore figures buff.ly/40v5MiW

Fort Sunday 10th November 2024, 4pm theallendale.org/tickets New play on Dorset hillfort to tour ahead of its London premiere bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24698336.…

🏛 I had the pleasure of getting a tour of the Uncovering #Roman Carlisle project at Carlisle Cricket Club, where the brilliant team are excavating an enormous administrative building with huge bath-house, roads, and a fascinating monumental area that might include large shrines!

#RomanSiteSaturday The nymphaeum (shrine to a water nymph) at Chedworth roman villa in Glos. A spring was channelled into an octagonal basin [sound on] which then supplied the villa's kitchen, baths and... 1/2

As today marks the start of Chinese Year of the Snake... it's a good time to show off perhaps our most enigmatic sculpture - the serpent stone. Both the Chinese and the Romans associated snakes with prosperity, among many other things.