🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
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Dr Toby Driver
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#Cycling the simply incredible Gorges de la Nesque yesterday in Provence, France - a giddying drop into limestone forests with a mountain road engineered through the rock, and vultures (yes, really) soaring above 🤩
Huge cave systems & rock shelters are everywhere in the escarpments 😮
📷 My own
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Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
Here's the small but perfect Iron Age hillfort of Mistleberry on the #Dorset side of the border with #Wiltshire
Lightly covered with trees, wild garlic and bluebells, it was first recorded by George Heywood Sumner in 1911
It is also utterly magical 😍
📷 April 2021
When we're making large amphorae ⚱️🏺we make a section and let it dry a little before adding the next section. The Roman potters in Southern Spain or N Africa would have had the assistance of warm dry winds, so here is our electric Sirocco in action. #Archaeology #pottery
My #HillfortsWednesday 'Out of Office' 🧐 remains on while I am in France, carefully & accurately researching the origins of the ancient Gauls... 🤨🤔
So here we go. Headlined by most media (but not all, see below) as “Wow, we never knew a stone at Stonehenge came from Scotland, and now we know it got there in a glacier”, this story began today with a press release from Curtin University, Australia 1/20
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I had so much fun bringing this thing to Sark. We all had a go on it during our break times.
It will take me more practice to get it to Diodorus Siculua' standard: 'for when they blow upon them, they produce a harsh sound, suitable to the tumult of war.'
Cleaning two Iron Age roundhouse gulleys in Trench S at #Durotriges26 as rhe rain, hail and thunder diverts to the north...
...for the moment at least 🌧⛈️
#Archaeology
#OldGods on the climb through the forested foothills of Mont Ventoux yesterday
A bold, rusty stag to greet weary travellers 🦌
📷 My own, yesterday
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St. Lythans burial chamber. 6000BC Excavations in 2012 discovered that the original burial mound was 12m wide and 30m long. It is similar to nearby Tinkinswood and many others across #Wales and southwest #England.
📸 My own.
#Neolithic #Prehistory
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New research by Curtin University has revealed how one of Stonehenge’s most mysterious stones was likely transported hundreds of kilometres across Britain t ...
