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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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.
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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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New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Festival of Lights at Longleat. One for @clonehenge.bsky.social to enjoy.
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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My first online talk for nearly a year will take place tomorrow evening (Tue 25 Nov). It will look at how we can use archives, archaeology and dendrochronology to date ancient buildings.
This will be a brand new bespoke talk & I hope you can join us...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
This will be a brand new bespoke talk & I hope you can join us...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
My first online talk for nearly a year will take place tomorrow evening (Tue 25 Nov). It will look at how we can use archives, archaeology and dendrochronology to date ancient buildings.
This will be a brand new bespoke talk & I hope you can join us...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
This will be a brand new bespoke talk & I hope you can join us...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
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Portraits on a 4th century #Roman mosaic from Hinton St Mary #Dorset
Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds
If so, these are possibly:
Notus the South wind bringer of autumn
Boreas the North wind bringer of winter
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy #MosaicMonday
Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds
If so, these are possibly:
Notus the South wind bringer of autumn
Boreas the North wind bringer of winter
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy #MosaicMonday
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Portraits on a 4th century #Roman mosaic from Hinton St Mary #Dorset
Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds
If so, these are possibly:
Notus the South wind bringer of autumn
Boreas the North wind bringer of winter
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy #MosaicMonday
Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds
If so, these are possibly:
Notus the South wind bringer of autumn
Boreas the North wind bringer of winter
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy #MosaicMonday
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Recent trip to Boscawen-ûn, that quartz stone was more glittery and gorgeous than ever. Whatever the weather, it picks up the light. #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Recent trip to Boscawen-ûn, that quartz stone was more glittery and gorgeous than ever. Whatever the weather, it picks up the light. #StandingStoneSunday
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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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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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Something a lot of people don't realise is that, if something is illegally detected (so detected where finder doesn't have permission from landowner), the landowner still gets the 'reward' money from the find - in fact sometimes 100% of 'reward' money!
Cont'd
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
Cont'd
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Something a lot of people don't realise is that, if something is illegally detected (so detected where finder doesn't have permission from landowner), the landowner still gets the 'reward' money from the find - in fact sometimes 100% of 'reward' money!
Cont'd
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
Cont'd
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
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I think the Spanish ambassador comes up every year on the anniversary of her death to lay a wreath as part of the Katherine of Aragon festival. I love that she’s honoured now with the courtesy she didn’t receive towards the end of her life.
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I think the Spanish ambassador comes up every year on the anniversary of her death to lay a wreath as part of the Katherine of Aragon festival. I love that she’s honoured now with the courtesy she didn’t receive towards the end of her life.
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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/
A Herbert and a Aragon
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A Herbert and a Aragon
The #Romanesque majesty of Peterborough Cathedral
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The #Romanesque majesty of Peterborough Cathedral
Flag Fen
Just such a fantastic site.
Just such a fantastic site.
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Flag Fen
Just such a fantastic site.
Just such a fantastic site.
Spent the weekend in either Prehistory, the Romanesque or the pub.
That's the trinity for me
That's the trinity for me
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Spent the weekend in either Prehistory, the Romanesque or the pub.
That's the trinity for me
That's the trinity for me
