My favourite finds so far from this year’s dig of the #Roman bathhouse at #Carlisle Cricket Club. A huge intaglio depicting Mars and a teeny bone die. #findsfriday #romanbritain #archaeology #diggingforbritain
So, I let the experts watch #DiggingForBritain and asked if they knew what the dodecahedron thing is, and they laughed and said,
“Yeah! Of course we do!”
“Will you tell me?” I asked.
“No.” they said. “It’s too obvious.”
#PlaymobilInfestation
If you enjoyed seeing the gold pendant, with possible Christian symbolism, from our cemetery site near Winchester on #DiggingForBritain , here's an Anglo-Saxon sword from the same site for #FindsFriday ! 🧵
Prof Alice Roberts💙
What happened to the tons of stuff left on field after Waterloo? Read my paper here. Includes first publication of account by earliest post-battle visitor known to have written about it (he was from Glasgow). Waterloo Uncovered Scottish Centre - War Studies/Conflict Archaeology #DiggingForBritain
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
As promised, a bit more on results of Waterloo Uncovered project which featured in #DiggingForBritain . Not all battlefield graves pillaged for fertiliser or sugar. At Mont St Jean, Wellington's main field hospital, we are excavating a unique burial complex. Scottish Centre - War Studies/Conflict Archaeology Dr Stu Eve 1/3
Were all the bodies buried after Waterloo? No! A lot of them were burned. Read about clearing the battlefield dead in my downloadable paper from Journal of Conflict Archaeology
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Waterloo Uncovered UofG Humanities #DiggingForBritain
The new series of #DiggingForBritain featuring Warham Camp will be broadcast on 9th January or catch it on iPlayer from today. #theAliceRoberts @RestorationTrust Cambridge Archaeological Unit
Art and creativity were at the heart of the project add to that with #drawingdiggingforbritain
This Lincolnshire's #findsfriday - as seen on #diggingforbritain - a fabulous #dodecahedron dating to the #Roman period. These enigmatic objects are hollow with 12 sides, each face is a pentagon with equilateral sides, pierced with different sized holes Portable Antiquities LIN-BC9890
Prof Alice Roberts💙 Richard Osgood Not having an artistic bone in my body, & feeling very left out seeing all the wonderful artwork inspired by #DiggingForBritain , I offer instead a replication of the drone footage of the ditch excavation at Warham Camp in playmobil.
On Yogi’s walk today - we have been watching the new series of Digging for Britain. We off to find some stone circles and, maybe, hidden treasure. #DiggingForBritain
I’ve enjoyed watching #DiggingforBritain for many years, but this is the first time I’ve joined in #DrawingDiggingforBritain . It has been a lovely, positive start to the new year for me, and it’s been so nice to see everyone’s drawings after each episode. I’m going to miss it.
.Prof Alice Roberts💙 it must have been hard to narrate this. Especially including images of ancient erections that have since fallen into disrepair. #DiggingForBritain
Summer days: getting to the bottom of the inner ditch of Warham Camp - see #DiggingForBritain tonight BBC2 8pm
#DiggingForBritain tonight BBC2 at 8pm (on iplayer now) you get a few minutes of me & Jim Keyte (Arup) at the end of the episode talking to Prof Alice Roberts💙 about an Iron Age burial from Cotswold Archaeology Oxford Archaeology excavations National Highways: South-West A417 Missing Link project
I love this! A moment in time. A thumbprint preserved in some daub from a medieval building at Skipsea.
The builder’s thumb the same size as mine!
More on this 1000-year-old building in the next series of #DiggingforBritain
#FindsFriday
