Dan Herbert

Someone has been doing great work clearing vegetation from the prehistoric entrance graves on Kittern Hill (Gugh, Scilly). One of life's greatest pleasures is crawling into an ancient tomb, don't you agree? #TombTuesday

#TombTuesday Small but perfectly formed 🥰 The diminutive Poulnabrone dolmen in the Burren of western Ireland, seen in summer 2023 with an Alpine carpet of wildflowers at its base💐 Did the original Neolithic builders ever think their family tomb would become world famous? 📷 My own

Ballowall Barrow: in the old days the miners used to see strange lights here - fairies! #TombTuesday

#MosaicMonday Part of the Roman mosaic found at Hinton St. Mary, Dorset 4th Century AD. Now at the British Museum. #History #artwork #Archaeology

Introducing the ‘spokeometer’ to show the progress being made on the appeal for £5000 to enable veterans to build an Iron Age chariot with Time Team at the wonderful Butser Ancient Farm . Still plenty of time to donate!! gofund.me/def2eb4ac

Detail from a 4th century AD mosaic floor at Littlecote Roman villa in #Wiltshire showing pieces of tesserae cut from reused stamp-impressed box flue tile 📷 May 2015 #MosaicMonday

In 1881, when Sir Edmund Antrobus (3rd Baronet) asked his architect JJ Cole to survey the condition of Stonehenge for him, Cole erected some scaffolding against stones of the outer circle so he could climb up and take photos.

Let's start with compulsory drug-tests for MPs then shall we?

Warning: Contains baffled experts.

An image that appears in my head every time someone say "I don't like The Devil's Quoits. They aren't authentic, as they've been reconstructed." @martynjb.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social I love that random ladder #StandingStoneSunday

Good to see the family output still getting traction on social media #Herberts #Family

Romano-Celtic stone head found at West Denton close to Hadrian’s Wall in 1969. Now in the Great North Museum, Newcastle. This one is clearly trouble at night, hence the restraining bars. #StoneHeadSunday

#Evolution

Current Status: If anyone needs me I'll be trying to change the clock on the cooker for the rest of the day

Happy #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The - ahem 🧐 - decorated stone pillar from Rhosmeirch, Ynys Mon/Anglesey, in private ownership but on display in Oriel Môn Thought to be Iron Age it is unusual for Wales. The central band has parallels with belts on European Iron Age statues 🤔 📷 My own

For #RomanSiteSaturday a walk through the remarkable Ravenglass bathhouse in Cumbria, on a lovely day last month.

A life-size #Roman marble head found in #Sussex now in the British Museum (1961,1103.1) Our report identifying it as Agrippa Postumus, youngest grandson and adopted heir of Augustus, is open access thanks to @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy #StoneHeadSunday

“He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say, ‘Tomorrow is St Crispian:’ Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say, ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’” 1415 #OTD #Agincourt #HenryV #PlaymobilInfestation

That’s the common theme in what I’m writing I think. White mid-upper class academic men are allowed to have flaws, allowed to do (actually terrible) things, and have them forgiven/forgotten. But for w-class men (Bill Varley), women (Maud Cunnington), MOC (Arday) one mistake or flaw is unforgivable.

I see your Norfolk horse and I raise you a disarticulated Oxfordshire horse (albeit without plastic heads on wooden poles)

The splendidly maintained remains of the stoking-area to a 3rd century #Roman bathhouse with main flue and relief arch together with ghostly attendant 👻 Preserved in a concrete bunker beneath the busy A1(M) at Welwyn #Hertfordshire 📷 January 2026 @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social #RomanSiteSaturday

I do believe it’s one of @danherb10.bsky.social favourite nights of year (they do come round quickly nowadays) when Obelix visits every stone circle to correct the time. Busy night! #ClocksGoBack #TheTimesTheyAreAChangin #PlaymobilInfestation

Duncan @theduncanmackay.bsky.social be like

#CrimesAgainstSocialMedia

If only it had been Edward the Confessor, that would have been particularly useful to me for reasons I can’t specify right now.

The 8 hectare multivallate hillfort of Eggardon @nationaltrust.org.uk #Dorset is a muscular piece of Iron Age engineering The majority of hollows still visible inside the enclosure, however, appear to be post medieval quarry pits A spectacular kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2012 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday

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All pubs should have a crafty nook for 1

Current Status: Off to the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture Annual Lecture with The Psychedelic Furs.

Welcome to the official CRSBI BlueSky! Swipe to learn more about the history and progress of the Corpus project. --- #medieval #romanesque #sculpture #art #churchphotography

Need to up your game @tessmachling.bsky.social. @worldofwoe.bsky.social is getting the blows in early

ALWAYS RE-POST VINEGAR TOM

Ere @danherb10.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social Went to the doctor with a headache and nausea He said: I can’t find anything wrong, must be the drink! I said: don’t be embarrassed doc, I’ll come back when you’re sober.

Upright slabs of Lewisian gneiss at Calanais - this isn’t even the main circle. An amazing megalithic landscape! #StandingStoneSunday

A Celtic conundrum for #StoneHeadSunday A 22cm high limestone carved head from Bath (AQUAE SULIS) #Somerset With no context, it’s difficult to say much about this other than it looks Romano Celtic Could it be the goddess Sulis? From the Legg Bequest © Trustees of the British Museum 2013.8017.71

Some of the best archaeological finds are the smallest, simplest and most personal Late Iron Age decorated bone weaving / personal grooming combs like this are among our favourites 😀 Found in Wookey Hole Caves #Somerset and now in Wells and Mendip Museum 📷 August 2026 #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday undated stone head from Ynys Môn/Anglesey, which nonetheless has unusual ear holes & what appears to be a torc carved beneath its chin - both features one would not expect in a modern carving Looks OK as an Iron Age/RB head 🧐🤔 On display at the excellent Oriel Môn 👌 📷 My own

Two of the Lewis Chessmen currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Discovered in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the chessmen date to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen

Gorgeous day on Dartmoor today, introducing our first year students to stone rows, cairns, cists, stone circles, hut circles, settlements, and reaves. Thanks to National Park archaeologist Lee Bray for sharing his expertise with them!

Oops, I did it again... (Kasteel Brune, Augustijn Grand Cru, Triple Karmeliet, Delirium Christmas, Chimay Green, Waterloo Triple, Trappistes Rochefort 8, and 3 kegs of Spaten Oktoberfest. Should get me through to the weekend, hopefully) @danherb10.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

Good choices! I tried and then realised that I probably need more musical variety in my life... 🤔🤣🤣)

Whilst it's nice this #Romanfortthursday to have news of another Roman fort in Wales we of course already have a Roman fort in Wales with strong folklore connections to Magnus Maximus / Macsen Wledig at SEGONTIVM (Caernarfon) So not sure what the news story is 🤷‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...