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
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
Pinned
Dr Toby Driver
@drtobydriver.bsky.social
· Nov 18
#HillfortsSunday 🤔😉
It was great chatting to Derek Brockway about the #hillforts of Lampeter for BBC Wales' Children in Need 🛖
You can watch again on catch up from 28:00 minutes in!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
It was great chatting to Derek Brockway about the #hillforts of Lampeter for BBC Wales' Children in Need 🛖
You can watch again on catch up from 28:00 minutes in!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#HillfortsSunday 🤔😉
It was great chatting to Derek Brockway about the #hillforts of Lampeter for BBC Wales' Children in Need 🛖
You can watch again on catch up from 28:00 minutes in!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
It was great chatting to Derek Brockway about the #hillforts of Lampeter for BBC Wales' Children in Need 🛖
You can watch again on catch up from 28:00 minutes in!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
A glimpse through the topsoil of #Stonehenge for #StandingStoneSunday
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A glimpse through the topsoil of #Stonehenge for #StandingStoneSunday
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
An #Egyptian glass inlay of a jackal. Jackals were linked with the dead, because they were present in the desert regions near to the cemeteries. The most popular jackal-shaped god was Anubis, the god of embalming. Dating 5th -1st c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
🏺
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
🏺
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
An #Egyptian glass inlay of a jackal. Jackals were linked with the dead, because they were present in the desert regions near to the cemeteries. The most popular jackal-shaped god was Anubis, the god of embalming. Dating 5th -1st c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
🏺
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
🏺
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
In the early hours of this morning, following 119.6mm of rainfall in 12hrs, the River Monnow burst its banks and flooded Monmouth. The usual river level is just under 2m, this morning it was 6.63m- even higher than the record-breaking level during the floods in 2020 (6.57m). Absolutely devastating.
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In the early hours of this morning, following 119.6mm of rainfall in 12hrs, the River Monnow burst its banks and flooded Monmouth. The usual river level is just under 2m, this morning it was 6.63m- even higher than the record-breaking level during the floods in 2020 (6.57m). Absolutely devastating.
#StandingStoneSunday The mighty Devil's Chair entrance stone at Avebury henge, Wiltshire. One of a handful of original stones that was never toppled by villagers
Coming from west Wales, the enormous scale of this monument & its megaliths is always a shock to the system 🤯
📷 My own, Oct 2023
Coming from west Wales, the enormous scale of this monument & its megaliths is always a shock to the system 🤯
📷 My own, Oct 2023
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
#StandingStoneSunday The mighty Devil's Chair entrance stone at Avebury henge, Wiltshire. One of a handful of original stones that was never toppled by villagers
Coming from west Wales, the enormous scale of this monument & its megaliths is always a shock to the system 🤯
📷 My own, Oct 2023
Coming from west Wales, the enormous scale of this monument & its megaliths is always a shock to the system 🤯
📷 My own, Oct 2023
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
Thinking of adopting Taskmaster contestant-style outfit for book events next year. Possibly a 70s WHSmith uniform.
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Thinking of adopting Taskmaster contestant-style outfit for book events next year. Possibly a 70s WHSmith uniform.
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
From Bronze Age Wales, the spectacular Mold Cape! 🤩
An incredible ancient feat of sheet-goldworking, beaten from a single gold ingot some 3,600 years ago!
The extraordinary embossed decoration is said to mimic strings of beads.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
An incredible ancient feat of sheet-goldworking, beaten from a single gold ingot some 3,600 years ago!
The extraordinary embossed decoration is said to mimic strings of beads.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
From Bronze Age Wales, the spectacular Mold Cape! 🤩
An incredible ancient feat of sheet-goldworking, beaten from a single gold ingot some 3,600 years ago!
The extraordinary embossed decoration is said to mimic strings of beads.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
An incredible ancient feat of sheet-goldworking, beaten from a single gold ingot some 3,600 years ago!
The extraordinary embossed decoration is said to mimic strings of beads.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Autumnal calm after the storm on the west coast of Wales this morning, looking towards Bae Ceredigion/Cardigan Bay 🌞🌊
#Ceredigion
#Ceredigion
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Autumnal calm after the storm on the west coast of Wales this morning, looking towards Bae Ceredigion/Cardigan Bay 🌞🌊
#Ceredigion
#Ceredigion
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
Lead ingot stamped with the name and titles of #Roman emperor Domitian, found in 1735 on Heyshaw Moor #NorthYorkshire and now in the excellent Craven Museum #Skipton
Made in AD 81, *BRIG* on the side records it was mined and taken from the land of the #Brigantes
📷 Aug 2022
#FindsFriday
Made in AD 81, *BRIG* on the side records it was mined and taken from the land of the #Brigantes
📷 Aug 2022
#FindsFriday
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Lead ingot stamped with the name and titles of #Roman emperor Domitian, found in 1735 on Heyshaw Moor #NorthYorkshire and now in the excellent Craven Museum #Skipton
Made in AD 81, *BRIG* on the side records it was mined and taken from the land of the #Brigantes
📷 Aug 2022
#FindsFriday
Made in AD 81, *BRIG* on the side records it was mined and taken from the land of the #Brigantes
📷 Aug 2022
#FindsFriday
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
Three of the log boats discovered during the Must Farm palaeochannel excavations are going on display at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Nine boats were found with dates ranging from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rare Bronze Age log boats on display in Peterborough first
The boats
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Three of the log boats discovered during the Must Farm palaeochannel excavations are going on display at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Nine boats were found with dates ranging from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
The Iron Age ‘Battersea Shield’ which was found in the River Thames at Battersea in 1857. Dating to around 350-50 BC, the shield is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #BatterseaShield #IronAge
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The Iron Age ‘Battersea Shield’ which was found in the River Thames at Battersea in 1857. Dating to around 350-50 BC, the shield is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #BatterseaShield #IronAge
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
I highly recommend this incredible Christmas lecture 😉🎄🎄
A chance to spend a year in one night with the Royal Commission's survey team, while leaving enough time to also attend the @cambriansarch.bsky.social Christmas lecture later in the same evening!
A chance to spend a year in one night with the Royal Commission's survey team, while leaving enough time to also attend the @cambriansarch.bsky.social Christmas lecture later in the same evening!
🎄 Tickets for our Christmas event are going fast! 🎄 Over 100 gone since Monday afternoon. Book now to join us as we celebrate and share the amazing discoveries of 2025… including a buried Roman temple! 🏛️✨ zurl.co/DSJZz
#Discovering #Wales #CItyOfLiterature
#Discovering #Wales #CItyOfLiterature
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I highly recommend this incredible Christmas lecture 😉🎄🎄
A chance to spend a year in one night with the Royal Commission's survey team, while leaving enough time to also attend the @cambriansarch.bsky.social Christmas lecture later in the same evening!
A chance to spend a year in one night with the Royal Commission's survey team, while leaving enough time to also attend the @cambriansarch.bsky.social Christmas lecture later in the same evening!
As another autumn storm rages, here is the gaunt skeleton of the impressive Cornish engine house at Bottalack Tin Mine, St Just, #Cornwall, in a brief weather window last week. Quite a view!
Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk
📷 My own
Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk
📷 My own
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
As another autumn storm rages, here is the gaunt skeleton of the impressive Cornish engine house at Bottalack Tin Mine, St Just, #Cornwall, in a brief weather window last week. Quite a view!
Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk
📷 My own
Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk
📷 My own
What's that? 🤔
You wanted an isolated Cornish boulder shaped like a dog's head? Of course.. 😊🐶
📷 Gwennap Head, West Penwith, last week
You wanted an isolated Cornish boulder shaped like a dog's head? Of course.. 😊🐶
📷 Gwennap Head, West Penwith, last week
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What's that? 🤔
You wanted an isolated Cornish boulder shaped like a dog's head? Of course.. 😊🐶
📷 Gwennap Head, West Penwith, last week
You wanted an isolated Cornish boulder shaped like a dog's head? Of course.. 😊🐶
📷 Gwennap Head, West Penwith, last week
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
And now, live from Scotland, for #RomanFortThursday,
“You can’t park there, mate!”
I can confirm that Ardoch Roman Fort is extraordinarily wet this morning, and best viewed from the car. If that were possible.
“You can’t park there, mate!”
I can confirm that Ardoch Roman Fort is extraordinarily wet this morning, and best viewed from the car. If that were possible.
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
And now, live from Scotland, for #RomanFortThursday,
“You can’t park there, mate!”
I can confirm that Ardoch Roman Fort is extraordinarily wet this morning, and best viewed from the car. If that were possible.
“You can’t park there, mate!”
I can confirm that Ardoch Roman Fort is extraordinarily wet this morning, and best viewed from the car. If that were possible.
Grateful for a break in the weather to carry out a priority #UAV survey for Cadw at an industrial site this morning in Ceredigion: a former silver-lead mine
#ancientbluesky #drone @rcahmwales.bsky.social
#ancientbluesky #drone @rcahmwales.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Grateful for a break in the weather to carry out a priority #UAV survey for Cadw at an industrial site this morning in Ceredigion: a former silver-lead mine
#ancientbluesky #drone @rcahmwales.bsky.social
#ancientbluesky #drone @rcahmwales.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
The remains of the Roman fortlet at Kinneil, near Bo’ness on the Antonine Wall - the only example of an Antonine Wall fortlet which is still visible. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanScotland #Kinneil #AntonineWall
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The remains of the Roman fortlet at Kinneil, near Bo’ness on the Antonine Wall - the only example of an Antonine Wall fortlet which is still visible. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanScotland #Kinneil #AntonineWall
Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists and Game Designers Collaborate to Create “Basically the Best Book on the Picts Ever Written” - Dig It!
Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts is an illustrated and comprehensive book for anyone interested in Scotland’s past, including those who play tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). Fol...
www.digitscotland.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
And now, live from Scotland for #HillfortsWednesday, the dominating, brooding presence of Eildon Hill North from the fort site of Trimontium - the two other Eildons are behind it, giving Tri-Montium (Three Hills) its name.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
And now, live from Scotland for #HillfortsWednesday, the dominating, brooding presence of Eildon Hill North from the fort site of Trimontium - the two other Eildons are behind it, giving Tri-Montium (Three Hills) its name.
The M&S Christmas window display is a bit of a surprise this year...🤔🎄
I will not rest until I have an identical display of reproduction Roman cavalry kit displayed next to my desk.
The horse mask…🤩
#LifeGoals
Awesome Trimontium Museum.
The horse mask…🤩
#LifeGoals
Awesome Trimontium Museum.
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The M&S Christmas window display is a bit of a surprise this year...🤔🎄
Reposted by Dr Toby Driver
A dramatic recreation of Medmenham Camp hillfort #Buckinghamshire, its Iron Age inhabitants seeking shelter as snow sets in
Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022
www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m...
For more see:
www.jennieanderson.co.uk
#HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing
Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022
www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m...
For more see:
www.jennieanderson.co.uk
#HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A dramatic recreation of Medmenham Camp hillfort #Buckinghamshire, its Iron Age inhabitants seeking shelter as snow sets in
Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022
www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m...
For more see:
www.jennieanderson.co.uk
#HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing
Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022
www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m...
For more see:
www.jennieanderson.co.uk
#HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing
We've all made it through the week to another #HillfortsWednesday 🥳
The supremely strong gate into Trevelgue Head defended promontory islet, Newquay, Cornwall 😮- a bridge was always necessary to cross the raging tides below
The fort enclosed a massive barrow & metal ores
📷 Lou Barker, last week
The supremely strong gate into Trevelgue Head defended promontory islet, Newquay, Cornwall 😮- a bridge was always necessary to cross the raging tides below
The fort enclosed a massive barrow & metal ores
📷 Lou Barker, last week
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
We've all made it through the week to another #HillfortsWednesday 🥳
The supremely strong gate into Trevelgue Head defended promontory islet, Newquay, Cornwall 😮- a bridge was always necessary to cross the raging tides below
The fort enclosed a massive barrow & metal ores
📷 Lou Barker, last week
The supremely strong gate into Trevelgue Head defended promontory islet, Newquay, Cornwall 😮- a bridge was always necessary to cross the raging tides below
The fort enclosed a massive barrow & metal ores
📷 Lou Barker, last week