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Dr Toby Driver
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🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · Nov 18
A simply extraordinary Iron Age staircase, preserved within the wall thickness of the ruinous #Broch tower at Dun Carloway, Isle of Lewis, in the Outer #Hebrides.

The sophisticated pre-Roman architecture here blew me away when I saw it this June - a real bucket-list moment

📷 My own 2024
A stone staircase built of uneven slabs winds its way up inside a dark drystone tower, with steep walls to either side
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1h
Glad to be of assistance 😊
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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 3h
Fantastic to see the third review of the Research Framework for the Archaeology Wales completed yesterday.

Really important documents, ensuring that we get the best out of Welsh Archaeology.

I was lucky enough to pull together the minor refresh of the Neo and EBA theme.

Congrats all!
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 4h
The entrance to Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn, with its three concentric stone walls. Dating from around 3500-2400 BC, the ‘Maeshowe-type’ cairn is built into the side of Wideford Hill, near Kirkwall in Orkney. 📸 My own #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Orkney
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 4h
Always wanted to get to Barnenez but haven't made it yet
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 4h
For #TombTuesday the enormous & unusual Trevethy Quoit Neolithic tomb in Cornwall

In common with several other tombs it has a small door or portal cut in the front slab & a hole piercing the towering capstone

📷 My own, May 2021
A large stone chamber tomb with an angled capstone
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 14h
A song title detested by asthmatics 😉
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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 14h
The new MOD sanctuary magazine is out and it’s rammed with archaeology!! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68e501...
A stag facing left with golden background. This is the cover of the 2025 Ministry of Defence Sanctuary Magazine
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 15h
Hope it was a good day 👌
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d
Close up of the central panel in a late 4th century AD floor, #Roman townhouse at Colliton Park #Dorchester

The design, a stylised flower surrounded by guilloche, is simple but highly effective 😍

Excavated 1937-8, it's today protected by Dorset council and Dorset Museum

📷 Sept 2014

#MosaicMonday
Roundel in a Roman mosaic floor featuring a stylised flower surrounded by interlocking guilloche
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 23h
Castilly Henge: The recent excavation at Castilly Henge has now finished, with finds including fragments of Neolithic flint tools and post-medieval pottery.
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 23h
Pendinas #hillfort at Aberystwyth (marked by the distant Wellington Monument), basking in the autumn sunshine yesterday 🍂🌞

Seen across the former salt marshes along the Afon Ystwyth from Tanybwlch to the south

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A great hill in the distance across a salt marsh with a dead tree in the foreground
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1d
Having a great time looking through everyone's memories of watching the Mary Rose being raised.

So much truancy!
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d
Remember it well being live streamed on ?Blue Peter..& the horror when the cradle 'dropped' 😮
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d
It'll be good to see the TROTS out. No less frightened here 😄. Go for it next year
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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 1d
A transient baseline from Aran Fawddwy.
At the rear right, the highest peak is Moel Hebog (‘Hill of the Hawk’). At the rear left, the most prominent peak is Moel Ysgyfarnogod (‘Bare Hill of the Hares’), in the Rhinogs. In the foreground, the inversion has filled Cwm Wnion. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#442Mountains
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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to finally get my hands on The Hillforts of Iron Age Wales by @drtobydriver.bsky.social Blimey, it’s a handsome book. No sticky fingers allowed…
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d
That's great Stuart! 🥳 I really hope you enjoy delving into it 🛖
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d
That diagonal bar was great - hanging over Aber too
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d
An update on last week's theft.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police checked museum security week before gold jewellery stolen
Officers were
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d
Want to see celebrity baker Paul Hollywood in a black wig riding a chariot whilst wielding his huge gladius?

Then wait no more

#Cobi #Roman #PerfectForChristmas
Roman chariot with rider and horses toy in packaging Model of celebrity baker Paul Hollywood in wig and Roman armour wielding a sword probably
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RobertM 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇱🇹 @skumber.bsky.social · 1d
Kilclooney dolmen Ireland #standingstonesunday
A large neolithic stone structure in Ireland. The Kilclooney Dolmen.
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d
Fab autumn afternoon in the west for a longer run 🍂🌞.

Tapering down now to the #EryriMarathon in Snowdonia in two weeks time 🤞

#running
An autumnal road through sun dappled trees
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 2d
Tingwall Standing Stone on Shetland. The stone is also known as the ‘Murder Stone’, and is connected with the death of Lord Skaldale by his cousin the Earl of Orkney in the late 14th century. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Shetland
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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 2d
Gloaming tones engulf Tyrrau Mawr (‘Big Towers’), part of the Cadair Idris range, as a temperature inversion blankets the Mawddach Estuary. #442Mountains
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