Dr. Adelle Bricking 🎃

I have worked in Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for over six years, yet I learn something new about our collections every day 🤩 Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!

🚨 Upcoming Archaeology Day! 📍 St Fagans National Museum of History 🗓️ Saturday 14 November ⏰ 10:00-16:00 🎟️ Link below - see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archaeolog... @henebtwa.bsky.social

#FindsFriday heading north this morning to the magical island of Ynys Mon/Anglesey to continue the search around Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake with Op Nightingale & good friends & colleagues @richardosgood.bsky.social & @archaedelle.bsky.social 🧙

#HillfortsWednesday High up on the mighty Ysgyryd fawr/Skirrid ridge hillfort yesterday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & Kate Churchill 🤩 The long ridge-top hillfort has remnants of surviving gateway stonework & commands unparalleled views across the hills & valleys of Monmouthshire 📷 My own

Had a lovely day visiting sites in Monmouthshire with @drtobydriver.bsky.social and @churchillarch.bsky.social Our 1st stop was prompted by an interesting artefact reported to PAS Cymru, and the 2nd was Ysgyryd Fawr to check out the Iron Age earthworks still visible along the trail 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #archaeology

How did prehistoric cultures perceive remarkable natural stones in the landscape? I came across this incredible perched glacial erratic nr Cregennan Lakes yesterday in upland Gwynedd which closely resembles some regional Neolithic tombs 🧐 One for #TombTuesday 📷 My own

We also have more details on the Bulford pit alignment in Wiltshire, and articles on Butser, anthropomorphic figurines, Linear B Tablets, cartoons, etc etc!! So much to read... and all FREE! Enjoy! 2/3

"‘Kerry Cow’ bones revealed as ancient bear remains, challenging long-held theory on farming’s arrival in Ireland & Great Britain" In an *EXCLUSIVE* article for PAST 113, we hear from UCD team carrying out analysis on Ferriter's Cave. www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications... 1/3 #Archaeology

An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!

Europa 2026, in honour of Prof. Penny Spikins, York Univ & online, Sat 6th June! Tickets £20-£40 Speakers: Richard Wilson, Robert Ashby, Jenni French, Chris Stringer, Matt Pope, Sylvia Bello, Professor Penny Spikins Details & booking: #Archaeology 🏺 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...

Thanks for the capturing the moment I stood in a hypocaust @bristolboy99.bsky.social and Linda!!

I finally did it I finally stood in a hypocaust!!! 📍 Lydney Park, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers: Europa 2026❗️ @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social 🧐 Theme: What can we learn from Neanderthals? 📍 Location: University of York 🗓️ Date: Saturday 6 June 🚨 Abstract deadline: Sunday 5 April We’d love to highlight ECR research! Please share with any Neanderthal fans in your networks!

Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales. Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

6th century mosaic of a child playing chariot racing from the Great Palace at Constantinople. Pushing wheels on sticks represents the chariot and four horses. Part of the collections at the Great Palace Mosaic Museum in Istanbul. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday

Beautiful line drawing of a Scottish gold torc (Netherurd, @tessmachling.bsky.social ??) by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s 1958 Scotland Before History (thanks to @gjmichaelson.bsky.social for reminding me of this book!) #FindsFriday

#HillfortsWednesday Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales 📸 @drtobydriver.bsky.social #Archaeology #History #Cymru

Some Iron Age ramparty goodness from Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, high above the villages of West #Dorset Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland We love it here 📷 Feb 2023 Happy #HillfortsWednesday !

Filming for #DiggingForBritain with the brilliant @toriherridge.bsky.social on the very edge of Buckspool promontory fort, Pembrokeshire, in the heat of August last year 🌞🔥 Perfect viewing tonight for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖🥳 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#findsfriday - the ‘Face of Agamemnon’. A gold funerary mask from Mycenae - probably 16th C BCE. Sadly not the face of the king though. One of those wow moments when you finally see the object that has become incredibly familiar to you from books & stories #archaeology #greekmyths #trojanwar #gold

A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday

For #FindsFriday A copper alloy late Iron Age 15cm high bulls head *fitting* with elongated horns and horn-caps Looking mournfully at us, wanting to be understood Findspot unknown, function sadly unknown Donated to the BM by Salisbury Museum in 1946 © Trustees of the British Museum 1946,1010.1

Io, Saturnalia everybody!

The 15th century ‘Angel Roof’ of St Helen’s Church at Brant Broughton in Lincolnshire. While restored in the later 19th century, the colours are based on extensive traces of the original paintwork. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #BrantBroughton #Lincolnshire #AdventAngels

Another successful PAS Cymru Finds Day in Aberystwyth yesterday, this time hosted at the @librarywales.bsky.social! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The history of Ceredigion is enriched with every Finds Day and it’s such a privilege to play a part 🥰 Big thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social for his help on the day!

For #FindsWednesday A nice surface find of a pebble tool - with percussion damage at both ends - typical of prehistoric finds from other hillforts & promontory forts. One to document through #PAS on Saturday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & then properly record for this scheduled site

Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me. This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold. Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD. Timeless beauty! 📷 Corning Museums of Glass 🏺

Really looking forward to giving the Cambrian Archaeological Association Christmas lecture tonight. There may be Druids! Am doing some last minute cramming with the help of some of the usual suspects. Thus I can blame them for any errors! #celts #ironage #veterans #archaeology #wellbeing

Appros of nothing, The Sussex mammoth Map www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... 🦣🏺

An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts

#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌 A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters 📷 Dr Adelle

@archaedelle.bsky.social the CAS lecture was excellent. The range of your study and different results were fascinating plus you totally threw me with mummification! Thank you for answering me.

All I want for Christmas is the abolition of the term ‘fibula’ (brooch), or worse: ‘fibula brooch’

No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻

Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales. I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳 @findsorguk.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐

Do join us at our free online symposium tomorrow from 10am! You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http... Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in ID: 364 396 620 178 1 PC: bG2gD3ZU

On a chilly morning such as this, let’s imagine ourselves as a Hadrian’s Wall soldier starting his shift in one of the turrets, checking his section of wall, & then upwards on watch duty. Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow! #RomanFortThursday

It’s horrid & cold & barely light out there - so warm yourselves around the glow of this Roman cavalry horse chamfron at @vindolandatrust.bsky.social based on one found in the excavations. Bronze dazzling as gilt & leather smooth as caramel, this is the accessory every little pony wants this Xmas.🎄

Seriously looking forward to this with the renowned @richardosgood.bsky.social 🔥🧙💯

The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🍻 Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮 In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 📷 Yesterday

Friendly reminder, if you see someone this Halloween wearing the plague doctor with the bird beak mask costume, you have to ask them what they are supposed to be and if they then say they're a medieval plague doctor... it's your duty to correct them ;)

you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ... *opens manilla envelope* ... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ... *slides 8x10 photo across table* ... you wore the tutti frutti

Free lecture tonight! No need to book! ⏰ Tuesday 21 Oct 17:00 BST 📍 Online or in person (Society of Antiquaries of London) www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...