Dan Herbert
@danherb10.bsky.social
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Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
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Hypocaust remains from the Commanding Officer’s House (Praetorium) at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #ChestersRomanFort #HadriansWall
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Hypocaust remains from the Commanding Officer’s House (Praetorium) at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #ChestersRomanFort #HadriansWall
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2 high profile Neolithic stories in the media today. Yet again focused on the Stonehenge landscape & Orkney. As usual everything in between receives a fraction of the investment, time & media coverage. Neolithic studies in Britain is no better balanced now than it was 50 yrs ago
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
2 high profile Neolithic stories in the media today. Yet again focused on the Stonehenge landscape & Orkney. As usual everything in between receives a fraction of the investment, time & media coverage. Neolithic studies in Britain is no better balanced now than it was 50 yrs ago
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Guardian of the gate
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Guardian of the gate
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A brief visit to the Caiy Stane in South Edinburgh today.I left the back of a van in the photo for scale.
@stoneclub.bsky.social
@megalithic.bsky.social
@stoneclub.bsky.social
@megalithic.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Repeat after me: artificial, made by humans, human-made, not natural
Novel scientific method proves pit circle near Stonehenge was man-made, say researchers
Novel scientific method proves pit circle near Stonehenge was man-made, say researchers
Archaeologists use multiple types of geophysics equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary structure’
The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.
While the architects of Stonehenge had the heavens in mind when they built the great stone monument in Wiltshire, the team believes the makers of the Durrington pit circle may have been more interested in an underworld. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Repeat after me: artificial, made by humans, human-made, not natural
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Inside the extraordinary Llys Llywelyn medieval court, reconstructed from excavated C13th foundations nr Rhosyr on Ynys Môn/Anglesey at St Fagans National Museum of History.
An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey
📷 My own, Tuesday
An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey
📷 My own, Tuesday
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Inside the extraordinary Llys Llywelyn medieval court, reconstructed from excavated C13th foundations nr Rhosyr on Ynys Môn/Anglesey at St Fagans National Museum of History.
An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey
📷 My own, Tuesday
An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey
📷 My own, Tuesday
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The beautiful cover art for a tourist booklet, Tynedale and the Roman Wall, produced by British Railways (the Railway Executive N.E. Region) in 1950.
It lies on a copy of the 1964 edition of the OS map of Hadrian’s Wall.
#RomanFortThursday
It lies on a copy of the 1964 edition of the OS map of Hadrian’s Wall.
#RomanFortThursday
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The beautiful cover art for a tourist booklet, Tynedale and the Roman Wall, produced by British Railways (the Railway Executive N.E. Region) in 1950.
It lies on a copy of the 1964 edition of the OS map of Hadrian’s Wall.
#RomanFortThursday
It lies on a copy of the 1964 edition of the OS map of Hadrian’s Wall.
#RomanFortThursday
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I adored this book and its glorious illustrations
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I adored this book and its glorious illustrations
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Its always nice to see the actual hard copy !
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Its always nice to see the actual hard copy !
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This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
'The dig team at the Ness, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles, are not revealing what they believe the find to be until more work is done.
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
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The irony being that all these publications are owned by the biggest scroungers of them all, tax-dodging billionaires. The shills who scribble in them really are scum of the worst kind.
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The irony being that all these publications are owned by the biggest scroungers of them all, tax-dodging billionaires. The shills who scribble in them really are scum of the worst kind.
She stares at the screen, at the little words of green
Tries to remember what to do next......
Tries to remember what to do next......
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
She stares at the screen, at the little words of green
Tries to remember what to do next......
Tries to remember what to do next......
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So which story is better, the one where you announce you’re not going to announce anything or the one where you announce that your previous announcement wasn’t wrong? 🤔
Huge Neolithic structure found in Stonehenge landscape
A study has confirmed 16 pits were dug close to the Stonehenge more than 4,000 years ago.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
So which story is better, the one where you announce you’re not going to announce anything or the one where you announce that your previous announcement wasn’t wrong? 🤔
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Honoured to have contributed to this awesome volume! Well done to @justrena.bsky.social and @saveknockiveagh.bsky.social!
Here it is.
The newborn book.
My thanks as always to #Trivent Publishing for a beautiful job.
trivent-publishing.eu/home/214-404...
The newborn book.
My thanks as always to #Trivent Publishing for a beautiful job.
trivent-publishing.eu/home/214-404...
Knock Iveagh: Memory and Materiality in a Community Landscape Cover eBook
Edited by Rena Maguire, Veronica Kelly, Arlene Pattison, Anne Harper
Publication date: September, 2025
Pages: 159, 29 images
ISBN 978-615-6696-92-2 Paperback, €31.00
ISBN 97...
trivent-publishing.eu
September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Honoured to have contributed to this awesome volume! Well done to @justrena.bsky.social and @saveknockiveagh.bsky.social!
Very happy to have received confirmation that I've been awarded Associate Fellowship Of Higher Education.
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Very happy to have received confirmation that I've been awarded Associate Fellowship Of Higher Education.
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Carved in Stone is a comprehensive setting guide for early medieval Pictish society, and as such my work on it was wide and varied and included illustrating real artifacts, speculative penannular brooch designs, and even the animals that would have inhabited their world.
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Carved in Stone is a comprehensive setting guide for early medieval Pictish society, and as such my work on it was wide and varied and included illustrating real artifacts, speculative penannular brooch designs, and even the animals that would have inhabited their world.
Reassuring that yesterday's budget has returned the political narrative to its usual theme.
Tories and the right wing press have gone back to attacking those on benefits rather than asylum seekers.
Tories and the right wing press have gone back to attacking those on benefits rather than asylum seekers.
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Reassuring that yesterday's budget has returned the political narrative to its usual theme.
Tories and the right wing press have gone back to attacking those on benefits rather than asylum seekers.
Tories and the right wing press have gone back to attacking those on benefits rather than asylum seekers.
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#MosaicMonday
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum.
#History #art #Archaeology
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum.
#History #art #Archaeology
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#MosaicMonday
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum.
#History #art #Archaeology
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum.
#History #art #Archaeology
By Toutatis, fear not everyone. Getafix arrived in the post today.
Magic potion production can commence straight away.
(@theduncanmackay.bsky.social does this sort of thing far better than me)
Magic potion production can commence straight away.
(@theduncanmackay.bsky.social does this sort of thing far better than me)
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
By Toutatis, fear not everyone. Getafix arrived in the post today.
Magic potion production can commence straight away.
(@theduncanmackay.bsky.social does this sort of thing far better than me)
Magic potion production can commence straight away.
(@theduncanmackay.bsky.social does this sort of thing far better than me)
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The impressive, multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Cadbury Castle encloses a roughly triangular hill above the river Yeo in #Somerset
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The impressive, multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Cadbury Castle encloses a roughly triangular hill above the river Yeo in #Somerset
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
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To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
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For a chilly 🥶 #HillfortsWednesday I thought everyone could warm their toes on this Iron Age fire, crackling & smoking inside the Bryn Eryr roundhouse at St Fagans Museum yesterday 🥰🔥
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
For a chilly 🥶 #HillfortsWednesday I thought everyone could warm their toes on this Iron Age fire, crackling & smoking inside the Bryn Eryr roundhouse at St Fagans Museum yesterday 🥰🔥
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
Thetford Castle just visible through Sunday morning's torrential rain.
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Thetford Castle just visible through Sunday morning's torrential rain.
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
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Another hilltop 360 for #HillfortsWednesday, this time from Mither Tap, Bennachie, Aberdeenshire, taken 2 weeks ago. I do declare that each Scottish hillfort I ascend is windier than the last, & this was definitely windier than Eildon Hill, which was pretty windy, tbf.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Another hilltop 360 for #HillfortsWednesday, this time from Mither Tap, Bennachie, Aberdeenshire, taken 2 weeks ago. I do declare that each Scottish hillfort I ascend is windier than the last, & this was definitely windier than Eildon Hill, which was pretty windy, tbf.