Dr Toby Driver
@drtobydriver.bsky.social
🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
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An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
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A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
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Yesterday, a chance for me to take an image I've had in mind for months- Matthew and Michael in homage to Richard and Dic Bach
An incredible end to an incredible tour. Back to where it all started in Pontrhydyfen, Burton's birthplace- incredible stuff from Matthew Rhys as Burton
An incredible end to an incredible tour. Back to where it all started in Pontrhydyfen, Burton's birthplace- incredible stuff from Matthew Rhys as Burton
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yesterday, a chance for me to take an image I've had in mind for months- Matthew and Michael in homage to Richard and Dic Bach
An incredible end to an incredible tour. Back to where it all started in Pontrhydyfen, Burton's birthplace- incredible stuff from Matthew Rhys as Burton
An incredible end to an incredible tour. Back to where it all started in Pontrhydyfen, Burton's birthplace- incredible stuff from Matthew Rhys as Burton
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1. Vindolanda fort and vicus a decade ago. It’s a Stanegate fort. Earlier forts lie beneath the later fort of Coh IV Gallorum (built 3rd C AD).
2. Housesteads/Vercovicium fort on #HadriansWall, constructed between AD 122-130.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own
2. Housesteads/Vercovicium fort on #HadriansWall, constructed between AD 122-130.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
1. Vindolanda fort and vicus a decade ago. It’s a Stanegate fort. Earlier forts lie beneath the later fort of Coh IV Gallorum (built 3rd C AD).
2. Housesteads/Vercovicium fort on #HadriansWall, constructed between AD 122-130.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own
2. Housesteads/Vercovicium fort on #HadriansWall, constructed between AD 122-130.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own
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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A rainbow at Foel Drygarn yesterday (25.11.25) for #HillfortWednesday #scape
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBluesky
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
A rainbow at Foel Drygarn yesterday (25.11.25) for #HillfortWednesday #scape
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBluesky
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This is one of monumental entrances to the Iron Age oppidum near Huelgoat in Brittany that is known as the Camp d'Artus, the 'Camp of Arthur'. The defences make use of natural rock formations, but also consisted of a man-made ramparts. #HillfortsWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This is one of monumental entrances to the Iron Age oppidum near Huelgoat in Brittany that is known as the Camp d'Artus, the 'Camp of Arthur'. The defences make use of natural rock formations, but also consisted of a man-made ramparts. #HillfortsWednesday
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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
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
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Why was everyone in *Civilisations: Rise and Fall* dressed like they were in a 1950s Hollywood epic?
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Why was everyone in *Civilisations: Rise and Fall* dressed like they were in a 1950s Hollywood epic?
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻
The famous picturesque Hafod Arch above Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion 🥰
Built by Thomas Johnes of Hafod to celebrate the Jubilee of George III's accession in the early C19th, & now a notable climb for all local #cyclists
📷 My own, Saturday
Built by Thomas Johnes of Hafod to celebrate the Jubilee of George III's accession in the early C19th, & now a notable climb for all local #cyclists
📷 My own, Saturday
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The famous picturesque Hafod Arch above Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion 🥰
Built by Thomas Johnes of Hafod to celebrate the Jubilee of George III's accession in the early C19th, & now a notable climb for all local #cyclists
📷 My own, Saturday
Built by Thomas Johnes of Hafod to celebrate the Jubilee of George III's accession in the early C19th, & now a notable climb for all local #cyclists
📷 My own, Saturday
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NEWS: We’re delighted to announce that Inmos Microprocessing Factory in Newport (Richard Rogers & Partners, 1982), one of the most innovative industrial buildings of the late 20th century, has been Grade II* listed following an application by C20 and C20 Cymru.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/high-te...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/high-te...
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
NEWS: We’re delighted to announce that Inmos Microprocessing Factory in Newport (Richard Rogers & Partners, 1982), one of the most innovative industrial buildings of the late 20th century, has been Grade II* listed following an application by C20 and C20 Cymru.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/high-te...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/high-te...
Down the autumn backlanes from home yesterday 🍂 - good for the soul👌
📷 Near Talybont, Ceredigion, Cymru/Wales
📷 Near Talybont, Ceredigion, Cymru/Wales
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Down the autumn backlanes from home yesterday 🍂 - good for the soul👌
📷 Near Talybont, Ceredigion, Cymru/Wales
📷 Near Talybont, Ceredigion, Cymru/Wales
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After some kick back for posting too many Roman pictures (not naming names @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🙄) I’ve had to post pictures of Carn Liath broch to even out the Iron Age balance.
Note to self - no more backlit selfies (🎶oooh-oooh me ears are alight🎶)
Note to self - no more backlit selfies (🎶oooh-oooh me ears are alight🎶)
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
After some kick back for posting too many Roman pictures (not naming names @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🙄) I’ve had to post pictures of Carn Liath broch to even out the Iron Age balance.
Note to self - no more backlit selfies (🎶oooh-oooh me ears are alight🎶)
Note to self - no more backlit selfies (🎶oooh-oooh me ears are alight🎶)
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I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of decorative Roman cavalry horse chamfrons from @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social until people start blocking me.
Have some.
1/
Have some.
1/
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of decorative Roman cavalry horse chamfrons from @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social until people start blocking me.
Have some.
1/
Have some.
1/
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales.
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales.
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳
@findsorguk.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐
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From Heel to Eternity on #StandingStoneSunday
Gazing down the Avenue, past the Heel Stone sarsen, to distant Stonehenge #Wiltshire, as the sun begins to set on a cold November afternoon
📷 2025
Gazing down the Avenue, past the Heel Stone sarsen, to distant Stonehenge #Wiltshire, as the sun begins to set on a cold November afternoon
📷 2025
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
From Heel to Eternity on #StandingStoneSunday
Gazing down the Avenue, past the Heel Stone sarsen, to distant Stonehenge #Wiltshire, as the sun begins to set on a cold November afternoon
📷 2025
Gazing down the Avenue, past the Heel Stone sarsen, to distant Stonehenge #Wiltshire, as the sun begins to set on a cold November afternoon
📷 2025
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Un vídeo con escenas da historia de Galicia e algunhas máis que non estaban no fío. Gozade como mínimo o mesmo que gocei eu facéndoo.
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Un vídeo con escenas da historia de Galicia e algunhas máis que non estaban no fío. Gozade como mínimo o mesmo que gocei eu facéndoo.
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Landscape of the Early Bronze Age miners..⛏️
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
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Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Landscape of the Early Bronze Age miners..⛏️
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
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À La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz (Ille-Et-Vilaine), l'Inrap a mis au jour en 2022 les vestiges d'une importante occupation gallo-romaine comprenant un vaste sanctuaire.
Vidéo complète 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFJ...
Vidéo complète 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFJ...
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
À La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz (Ille-Et-Vilaine), l'Inrap a mis au jour en 2022 les vestiges d'une importante occupation gallo-romaine comprenant un vaste sanctuaire.
Vidéo complète 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFJ...
Vidéo complète 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFJ...
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Did not want to go for a run. Went. Rewards level: enchanted forest.
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Did not want to go for a run. Went. Rewards level: enchanted forest.