Dr Toby Driver

Walking around the famous Neolithic portal dolmen at Pentre Ifan, Nevern, Pembrokeshire 🤩 for #TombTuesday This extraordinary structure looks so different from every angle 🎥 My own, 2023; no sound

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

Keep an eye on the moon tonight, it’s the full Hunter’s moon and reached its peak in the early hours of this morning. 🌕 The name traditionally reflects the time of year when people prepared for winter by hunting and preserving food. Look towards the autumn sky to catch the moon glowing. ✨

Missed this for #StandingStoneSunday 😮 #StonehengeAnything

#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

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!

The Milestone which sits alongside the Stanegate Roman Road at #Vindolanda fort is one of the very few stones still in its original location out of thousands which must have existed across the UK #archaeology #HadriansWall

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

Shrewsbury's modernist Market Hall clock tower rising above the Victorian streets yesterday as the storm cleared 🌞 I always call it the Thunderbirds tower 🧐 Have a great week everyone 😊 📷 My own, yesterday

How lucky are we? It's #StuffedSoldierSaturday! Mannequins used to be a museum favourite but, sadly, are falling from favour. Here's one of the best (sadly, now gone): the pre-Flavian #RomanCavalry eques at Corinium Museum in Cirencester (GBR). Disturbingly real if you saw it in the (horse) flesh.

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Back in Wales again after two years (although in the north this time) here’s one from Waun Mawn in the Preseli Mountains on a subdued sunset on Halloween 2024. #StandingStoneSunday

Avebury. Theatre before theatre. #standingstonesunday

Scarification on the face of Long Meg, Cumbria. Neolithic/Bronze Age rock art, including spirals, concentric circles, cup and ring marks and geometric shapes on the side that faces her circle of Daughters 📸 Sept 25 #StandingStoneSunday

Great news towards the reopening of our brilliant county museum, Amgueddfa Ceredigion 🥳 @carriecanham.bsky.social www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/2666347...

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

Ok. Slight changes to blocking rules. Anyone posting about stones being moved, or referring to Stonehenge whilst posting pictures of Avebury, or calling it Stone Henge will get a dad joke a day for the next 6 months

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

A cool model of the theatre of Clunia Sulpicia in northern Spain, one half as it once looked and the other as it was before excavation in the early 20th century 📍 Burgos Museum, Spain 📸 Me 🏺 #RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology

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

Marathon Eryri sadly cancelled today; clearly a v tough call for the brilliant organising team late on Friday afternoon 😔 Shocking weather in the Snowdonia mountains yesterday with surface flooding & branches & debris across the roads..🌧️🌪️ Heading off to run 26.2 miles on a low route this morning

Caernarfon under a full moon tonight 🥰 Marathon Eryri sadly cancelled tomorrow due to storm weather 😔🌧️🌪️, so planning an alternative lowland run instead - as we're here 😊

Some gorgeous, decorated glass beads, one complete (18mm diameter) and three fragmentary, from Glastonbury Iron Age Lake Village Showy and eye-catching jewellery from over 2,000 years ago now in the Glastonbury Tribunal Museum #Somerset 📷 August 2026 #FindsFriday

We've all had days like these...😮😅 📷 Spotted today

Hillfort above Gilman Point nr Pendine, Carms. As seen at v low tide on a beach walk from Amroth inc petrified tree remains and wrecks at Marros and fine rock pooling at Ragwen Point. Also cup and ring site nearby. #HillfortsWednesday

For #RomanFortThursday here’s a smaller fortlet on top of Penycrocbren hill, Dylife in Powys, Mid Wales. It lies next to a Roman road over the ridge & north of the linear remains of early lead mines. To the west is a gibbet site on a Bronze Age burial mound. The fortlet dates to the 2nd c.

Remains of a Roman bathhouse, added to the interior of Caernarfon (SEGONTIVM) Roman auxiliary fort #Gwynedd in the 3rd century AD Excavated by Mortimer and Tessa Verney Wheeler between 1921-23 Sadly missed by most modern visitors to the town 📷 Aug 2008 #RomanFortThursday

One of the more remote fortifications in Britannia for #RomanFortThursday The earthwork remains of a Roman watchtower on the rocky summit of Penbrynyreglwys, above Carmel Head on NW Anglesey, commanding the northwest seaways of Wales overlooking Holyhead harbour 📷 My own last week

When it comes to archaeological landscapes, there are few places in Ireland that can compare to Rathcroghan, County Roscommon, the ancient royal capital of Connacht. At the centre of this image you can see the enormous earthwork enclosure known as Relignaree (Reilig na Rí – the graveyard of Kings).

OPEN ACCESS: Society Publications Celebrate International Open Access Week by reading 'Scottish Historical and Archaeological Internet Reports', selected editions of the 'Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland' or one of our varied e-books: www.socantscot.org/publications/ #OAWeek

All pubs should have a crafty nook for 1

ICYMI: FAIR and Open CHERISH: data and outputs from terrestrial laser scanning and uncrewed aerial vehicle digital photogrammetry surveys of coastal heritage sites in #Ireland (Data Paper in Internet #Archaeology with data available at @dri.ie) doi.org/10.11141/ia....

Today I think of my terrified grandmother who lived in Treharris. A year earlier, at age 14, she lost her mother to cancer and left school to take care of her siblings. Her father and brother walked to Aberfan to dig the children out. She was terrified that her father was going to die.

I bought your book so I could immediately devour the bits about Tre'r Ceiri, but I'm enjoying the rest of it too!

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

Hooray it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳 This is the final approach through the gateway passage of Tre'r Ceiri hillfort, Gwynedd 😮🫣 This powerful, long-lived hilltop defended town dominated the Llyn Peninsula, home to the Gangani or 'Geese People' 🪿🪿⚔️ It was partly restored in the 80s & 90s 📷 My own

Sometimes I resent having to write women back into our disciplinary history (wondering what I might have achieved for prehistory itself in the time spent). But this work is important too. It’s important to know the mechanisms used to exclude women from society. And how they gained access anyway.

Our last walk and talk of 2026!! We would love if you joined us 🍂. Date: Saturday 24th October 2026. Snailbeach Leadmining Landscape, Shropshire. Leader: Henry Owen-John More info and booking here >>https://cambrians.org.uk/walks-and-talks-programme-2026/

Remarkably sophisticated construction over 5,500 years ago inside the chambers of Stoney Littleton Long Barrow, which contained the remains of possibly three generations of a family. Absolutely stunning place. #TombTuesday

Twenty years to recover: the July 2026 wildfire devastated 100 hectares at RSPB Minsmere and Dunwich Heath, Suffolk. The reserve has reopened but some paths remain closed. Minsmere aerial image #Minsmere #Suffolk #AerialPhotography #RSPB

#TombTuesday I had my first ever ascent up the spectacular Duggleby Howe last week, a giant Late Neolithic mound built of chalk rubble in the rolling Yorkshire countryside, dominating the head of the Gypsey Race river Antiquarian excavations revealed numerous skeletons 💀 📷 My own

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

A small but rather effective detail from a 4th century #Roman mosaic depicting a stylised 4 petal flower in a circular compartment Originally part of a floor in a heated winter dining room @bignorvilla.bsky.social West #Sussex 📷 April 2023 Happy #MosaicMonday 😊

Light finds a Way - Callanish #StandingStoneSunday #isleoflewis

For #RomanSiteSaturday I give you the splendid Corbridge late 2nd/3rd century granaries, one of my favourite views of Roman Britain.

The vaulted medieval ceiling of Norwich Cathedral - glorious! 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #NorwichCathedral

Expertly built drystone wall, Cwm Cywarch, Eryri/Snowdonia - The end wall of a partly collapsed cottage, showing all the rock spalls & thought processes of the original builder 😮👌 📷 My own, Saturday

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

The Cove at Stanton Drew. Three huge Neolithic stones, one recumbent, that may have formed the entrance of a long barrow 4,500 years ago, though this theory hasn’t been proven. Now in the pub garden of the Druid’s Arms #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday with the sarsens of West Kennet long barrow at sunrise See more of our adventures around ancient places in the UK 🇬🇧 >>> www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The view from the summit of Aran Fawddwy mountain in Eryri/Snowdonia earlier today 🤩 A grand panorama looking south, taking in the Breiddin hills at Welshpool to Pen y Fan in the Beacons 👌 📷 My own