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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#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...
Cheers! Butty chilling for later
November 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Cheers! Butty chilling for later
#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
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
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
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
These are the storm seas which protected the inner fort from the mainland last week 🌊🌊 - pretty wild!
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
These are the storm seas which protected the inner fort from the mainland last week 🌊🌊 - pretty wild!
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
#TombTuesday A fitting place for the dead 💀: an early Bronze Age cairn- possibly the furthest west on the British mainland - sited close to the sea on Mayon Cliff above Sennen, West Penwith, Cornwall
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
#TombTuesday A fitting place for the dead 💀: an early Bronze Age cairn- possibly the furthest west on the British mainland - sited close to the sea on Mayon Cliff above Sennen, West Penwith, Cornwall
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
Next week on Thursday 20th November at 7.30pm I'll be talking to the Meifod Local History Group, nr Welshpool, about the Hillforts of Iron Age Wales 🛖. All welcome! 😊
For more information see: www.meifodhistorygroup.co.uk
@logastonpress.bsky.social
For more information see: www.meifodhistorygroup.co.uk
@logastonpress.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Next week on Thursday 20th November at 7.30pm I'll be talking to the Meifod Local History Group, nr Welshpool, about the Hillforts of Iron Age Wales 🛖. All welcome! 😊
For more information see: www.meifodhistorygroup.co.uk
@logastonpress.bsky.social
For more information see: www.meifodhistorygroup.co.uk
@logastonpress.bsky.social
It was a delight filming with Derek Brockway & the BBC Cymru/Wales team this summer at the #hillforts of Long Wood, Lampeter, for Children in Need
Looking forward to seeing the show broadcast next week on BBC 1 Wales on 11th Nov at 8pm
@rcahmwales.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Looking forward to seeing the show broadcast next week on BBC 1 Wales on 11th Nov at 8pm
@rcahmwales.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It was a delight filming with Derek Brockway & the BBC Cymru/Wales team this summer at the #hillforts of Long Wood, Lampeter, for Children in Need
Looking forward to seeing the show broadcast next week on BBC 1 Wales on 11th Nov at 8pm
@rcahmwales.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Looking forward to seeing the show broadcast next week on BBC 1 Wales on 11th Nov at 8pm
@rcahmwales.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#StandingStoneSunday chancing across the Merry Maidens stone circle in West Penwith, #Cornwall, as we dropped down to Newlyn was a real delight.
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#StandingStoneSunday chancing across the Merry Maidens stone circle in West Penwith, #Cornwall, as we dropped down to Newlyn was a real delight.
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
The old lane to the coast path at dawn...
Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The old lane to the coast path at dawn...
Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
#HillfortsFriday 🧐🤔
The enormous & majestic Treryn Dinas coastal promontory fort, West Penwith, Cornwall 🤩, seen with a dawn sun rising through cloud.
Home of the magical Logan Rock, perched high on a wall of granite at the heart of the liminal outcrop
📷 Yesterday
The enormous & majestic Treryn Dinas coastal promontory fort, West Penwith, Cornwall 🤩, seen with a dawn sun rising through cloud.
Home of the magical Logan Rock, perched high on a wall of granite at the heart of the liminal outcrop
📷 Yesterday
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
#HillfortsFriday 🧐🤔
The enormous & majestic Treryn Dinas coastal promontory fort, West Penwith, Cornwall 🤩, seen with a dawn sun rising through cloud.
Home of the magical Logan Rock, perched high on a wall of granite at the heart of the liminal outcrop
📷 Yesterday
The enormous & majestic Treryn Dinas coastal promontory fort, West Penwith, Cornwall 🤩, seen with a dawn sun rising through cloud.
Home of the magical Logan Rock, perched high on a wall of granite at the heart of the liminal outcrop
📷 Yesterday
St Michael's Mount nr Penzance
Diodorus Siculus (60-30BC); ‘The inhabitants of Britain who live on the promontory called Belerion [Cornwall] are friendly to strangers.. they work the tin… and convey it to an island.. called Ictis… (where) the merchants buy the tin from the natives
📷 Yesterday
Diodorus Siculus (60-30BC); ‘The inhabitants of Britain who live on the promontory called Belerion [Cornwall] are friendly to strangers.. they work the tin… and convey it to an island.. called Ictis… (where) the merchants buy the tin from the natives
📷 Yesterday
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
St Michael's Mount nr Penzance
Diodorus Siculus (60-30BC); ‘The inhabitants of Britain who live on the promontory called Belerion [Cornwall] are friendly to strangers.. they work the tin… and convey it to an island.. called Ictis… (where) the merchants buy the tin from the natives
📷 Yesterday
Diodorus Siculus (60-30BC); ‘The inhabitants of Britain who live on the promontory called Belerion [Cornwall] are friendly to strangers.. they work the tin… and convey it to an island.. called Ictis… (where) the merchants buy the tin from the natives
📷 Yesterday
#AdoorableThursday Looking out to the sea from the ancient doorway of St Winwaloe's, the 'Church of the Storms', on western Lizard, #Cornwall
📷 Yesterday
📷 Yesterday
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
#AdoorableThursday Looking out to the sea from the ancient doorway of St Winwaloe's, the 'Church of the Storms', on western Lizard, #Cornwall
📷 Yesterday
📷 Yesterday
The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🍻
Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮
In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social
📷 Yesterday
Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮
In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social
📷 Yesterday
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🍻
Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮
In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social
📷 Yesterday
Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮
In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social
📷 Yesterday
Ah! The delights of coastal fieldwork in the driving rain & wind of winter. It doesn't get better than this 👌🌧️🌪️
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Ah! The delights of coastal fieldwork in the driving rain & wind of winter. It doesn't get better than this 👌🌧️🌪️
#TombTuesday one of the mighty (they are huge!) coastal barrows dominating the north coast of Cornwall at Newquay
This one was enclosed - & no doubt revered - by Trevelgue Head coastal promontory fort, while several others stand nearby. A number were lost during C19th improvements 😟
📷 Yesterday
This one was enclosed - & no doubt revered - by Trevelgue Head coastal promontory fort, while several others stand nearby. A number were lost during C19th improvements 😟
📷 Yesterday
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
#TombTuesday one of the mighty (they are huge!) coastal barrows dominating the north coast of Cornwall at Newquay
This one was enclosed - & no doubt revered - by Trevelgue Head coastal promontory fort, while several others stand nearby. A number were lost during C19th improvements 😟
📷 Yesterday
This one was enclosed - & no doubt revered - by Trevelgue Head coastal promontory fort, while several others stand nearby. A number were lost during C19th improvements 😟
📷 Yesterday
#HillfortsMonday 🧐🤔 ending the day at the enormous Trevelgue coastal promontory fort, Newquay in Cornwall.
A complex set of defences enclosing a substantial Bronze Age barrow & metal resources
A complex set of defences enclosing a substantial Bronze Age barrow & metal resources
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#HillfortsMonday 🧐🤔 ending the day at the enormous Trevelgue coastal promontory fort, Newquay in Cornwall.
A complex set of defences enclosing a substantial Bronze Age barrow & metal resources
A complex set of defences enclosing a substantial Bronze Age barrow & metal resources
...and the Wickerman vibe at the end...🫣😬
November 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
...and the Wickerman vibe at the end...🫣😬
It's #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The triple stone alignment of Harold's Stones, Trellech, is depicted as a relief carving on Lady Probert's sundial of 1689, now in the local church
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It's #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The triple stone alignment of Harold's Stones, Trellech, is depicted as a relief carving on Lady Probert's sundial of 1689, now in the local church
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159
Obligatory #Halloween haunted face in pine cupboard door for anyone who subscribes 😉😱
#HappyHalloween
#HappyHalloween
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Obligatory #Halloween haunted face in pine cupboard door for anyone who subscribes 😉😱
#HappyHalloween
#HappyHalloween