Cotswold Archaeology

(1/2) #Bristol & #Gloucester Archaeological Society is 150 years old!🎉 To celebrate, a day of talks will take place in #Bristol and #online, on 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝟭𝟬𝗮𝗺 - 𝟰.𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺📍 Book your 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 ticket via the link⬇️ And see the comment below for info on talk topics 👇🏻 #BristolMuseums #Archaeology

(2/2)Talks will cover aDNA and isotope studies, how developer-funded archaeology has transformed our knowledge of #Bristol and #Gloucestershire history, insights into Chedworth #Roman villa, and more! Click the link for the full agenda ➡️🔗 tinyurl.com/BGAS150Sympo... #Archaeology #History #Heritage

(1/3) We've been working with @museumofgloucester.bsky.social the past 3 months, with the help of 40 dedicated volunteers giving more than 2,100 hours of their time (well done, team! 👏), to reduce 1,200 archive boxes by almost 50%! #Archaeology #Heritage #Volunteering #Archive #Museum #Collections

(2/3) Across the country, there's a crisis facing many museums: they are close to capacity and, in some cases, have already reached it. Gloucester is no exception. Our Archives team ensured collections were carefully reviewed, catalogued, and repacked – literally working one box at a time!

(3/3) We've not only increased valuable storage space, but rediscovered important artefacts previously overlooked, to bring them back into the spotlight! Follow the link to the full story 🔗 cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/store-to-sto... @heritagefunduk.bsky.social #Gloucester #NationalLotteryHeritageFund

Today’s #Inktober prompt is #DAPPER and our amazing illustrator Charlie has created this fabulous #illustration of two cheeky chaps greeting each other through the veil of time. When past meets present as often as we do, you can’t help but tip your hat 🎩 #Inktober2026 #Archaeology #CAArchTeam

(1/2) Meet Field Archaeologist, Libby 👋 Libby has #TourettesSyndrome. Read her article, where she discusses its effects, the day-to-day challenges, misconceptions and the benefits, and what advice she would give to those supporting someone with the condition... #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth

(2/2) Click the Link to read Libby's Article! 🔗 cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/working-in-a... #NeurodiversityAwareness #Archaeology #MindsOfAllMinds #InclusiveWorkplaces #DiverseMinds #Tourettes

(1/3) Did someone's mattock break?! 👀 How did it end up buried under all this soil? Surely it's one of ours... but it can't be... can it? 🤔 This very familiar-looking tool is actually a #Roman mattock! #Archaeology #Gloucestershire

(2/3) The Romans probably developed these tools from military entrenching tools. This example, found on the site of a Roman villa, may have been used to cultivate vegetable plots, or to dig and maintain boundary ditches and trackways...

(3/3) We wonder if the Romans ever imagined that, 2,000 years later, we'd be using the very same tools to re-excavate their boundary ditches and trackways! Follow the link to view the find in 3D in our Virtual Museum: cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/museum/matto... ⛏️

Today’s #Inktober prompt is #DAPPER and our amazing illustrator Charlie has created this fabulous #illustration of two cheeky chaps greeting each other through the veil of time. When past meets present as often as we do, you can’t help but tip your hat 🎩 #Inktober2026 #Archaeology #CAArchTeam

Meet Leanne, who has #TouretticOCD. In her video, she explains how she manages intrusive thoughts and anxiety, and how others can better understand it. Over the next 2 weeks, we'll challenge stereotypes and celebrate neurodiverse strengths. Join us as we share what makes neurodivergent minds 𝘵𝘪𝘤.

Meet Leanne, who has #TouretticOCD. In her video, she explains how she manages intrusive thoughts and anxiety, and how others can better understand it. Over the next 2 weeks, we'll challenge stereotypes and celebrate neurodiverse strengths. Join us as we share what makes neurodivergent minds 𝘵𝘪𝘤.

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻!🗣️ Many archaeologists have taken their first steps with us over the years. Want to see where they are now? cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/work-experie... Ready to follow in their footsteps? Apply here: cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/work-experie...

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻!🗣️ Many archaeologists have taken their first steps with us over the years. Want to see where they are now? cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/work-experie... Ready to follow in their footsteps? Apply here: cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/work-experie...

Today’s #inktober prompt is not ‘confused’… but we are! 🫠 It's the typical archaeology experience. We all know the one: archaeologists assemble, ready to ponder the features before them. The questions mount, building to... ‘𝙙𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙤, 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜’ #Inktober2026CONFUSED #InktoberCONFUSED

Today’s #inktober prompt is not ‘confused’… but we are! 🫠 It's the typical archaeology experience. We all know the one: archaeologists assemble, ready to ponder the features before them. The questions mount, building to... ‘𝙙𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙤, 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜’ #Inktober2026CONFUSED #InktoberCONFUSED

From #CASiteTeam's Rory, this #Inktober2026 masterpiece is inspired by prompt 10: Mystical✨ East Anglia's Black Shuck legend is that of a red-eyed spectral hellhound, roaming the countryside, filling onlookers with impending doom 🫣 Be careful when driving the #Suffolk lanes – you might get a fright!

From #CASiteTeam's Rory, this #Inktober2026 masterpiece is inspired by prompt 10: Mystical✨ East Anglia's Black Shuck legend is that of a red-eyed spectral hellhound, roaming the countryside, filling onlookers with impending doom 🫣 Be careful when driving the #Suffolk lanes – you might get a fright!

Goods news! The 150th anniversary of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society has resulted in the BGAS150 Symposium on the 7th November in Bristol. Some great speakers and free! www.bgas.org.uk/projects/cal...

Travel through 6,000 years of history & explore the landscape around the Sizewell C project with our new Story Map! We're sharing some of our emerging ideas from the #OCAArchTeam excavations over on the Suffolk coastline. Take the tour here👉️ tr.ee/SZC-through-time @cotswoldarch.bsky.social

We are delighted to share that @cotswoldarch.bsky.social have just completed a new and exciting project, creating a pottery type series for Wiltshire, dating from 400AD to the 1700s

***Stop Press*** A rather incredible piece of news just in. The Crick has examined the DNA of the two individuals in a Saxon burial at Cherington in our dig with @timeteam.bsky.social & @cotswoldarch.bsky.social & found that they were BROTHER & SISTER. Astonishing what science can do now.

From beads to brooches, we're talking all things bling 📿 The #OCAArchTeam working across Sizewell C have been uncovering little links to the people of the past through the items they may have worn as jewellery. Take a peek here: tr.ee/OCA-jewellery @cotswoldarch.bsky.social

#archaeology #thomashobbes #philosophy #philsky @cotswoldarch.bsky.social

You're excavating a #Roman pit in #Bedfordshire… and find this Late #Neolithic beauty staring back at you 🤯 Gabbro axeheads were exchanged across the British Isles but this was already 2,000 years old when it was buried. It isn't residual, so, was it treasured as 'an antique from prehistory'...? 🤔

Where to start with the Sizewell excavations by @cotswoldarch.bsky.social on #diggingforbritain tonight? So many cool features, deposits and finds excavated and present by my mate Rosanna. I kind of liked this brooch #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology

We are not over this archaeology site...✨Not even close✨ Check out our latest #OCAArchTeam blog post featuring one of the most substantial scientific excavations of a Roman cemetery found in Britain in recent years. 🔗 tr.ee/WyMd1b @nationalhighways.bsky.social @cotswoldarch.bsky.social

Must admit I’m becoming a little chariot obsessed these days. Mainly Iron Age… but for #mosaicmonday how about this rather magnificent example from Boxford excavated by my friend Matt with @cotswoldarch.bsky.social & volunteers in 2019 - before we’d even heard of Covid. #roman #archaeology #chariot

Hear from our specialists who are working to burrow deeper into the stories that these objects can reveal: oxfordcotswoldarchaeology.org.uk/news/wonderful-wood/ @cotswoldarch.bsky.social #OCAArchTeam #suffolkhistory #archaeology

Voting is open in the annual awards from @currentarchaeology.bsky.social including the chance to vote for @cotswoldarch.bsky.social 'Straight to the point: investigating Roman swords and extensive settlements in the Cotswolds' in the Rescue Project of the year category and. . .

On the latest episode of #DiggingForBritain, explore the discoveries uncovered by the #OCAArchTeam working on excavations ahead of @sizewellc.bsky.social 📺 14th January - 9pm | BBC Two Available on iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pl59 #Suffolk @cotswoldarch.bsky.social

A rather lovely Roman figurine from Penrith for #drawingdiggingforbritain excavated by @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and @cotswoldarch.bsky.social and featuring @noddinggoth.bsky.social - a really special Roman cemetery on #diggingforbritian

Did last week's episode of Digging for Britain leave you craving more? Then you're in luck, as the #OCAArchTeam will be back on your screens this Wednesday at 9pm to explore our excavation work along the Suffolk coast as part of @sizewellc.bsky.social @cotswoldarch.bsky.social

'The find, which dates to the 6th or 7th century, comes with extraordinary grave goods such as swords and shields, while the horse burial is remarkably similar to the one found at Sutton Hoo’s Mound 17.' A day's ride from Sutton Hoo... Exciting stuff from @cotswoldarch.bsky.social.

Tonight on #Hiddenwonders we go to Essex join a mission to recover the remains of 2nd Lt Lester Lowry a project run by @cotswoldarch.bsky.social on behalf of the DPAA 9pm More 4 or catch-up up on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD #Archaeology #WWII #History #Aviation #Militaryhistory

Among the vast range of finds uncovered by OCA archaeologists as part of work for @sizewellc.bsky.social, are 2 brick clamps which offer a possible insight into medieval construction & some of England's earliest bricks 🧱 #OCAArchTeam @cotswoldarch.bsky.social #suffolkhistory #medieval #LeistonAbbey

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Take a look at our excavations along the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project in Cumbria🚗! @cotswoldarch.bsky.social @nationalhighways.bsky.social 🔗 youtu.be/zxnpMl7Ku0o