Dr Frankenstein/Oscar Isaac = Lovejoy/Ian McShane

Not quite a #RomanFortThursday. Ground photographs from a recent survey of three temporary Roman army camps ESE of Bayir #Jordan @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social See the original report paper: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @antiquity.ac.uk

2/2 The mound & outer ditches were levelled without investigation in the late 2000s. Here visible on a Infoterra/Blusesky image from 2005 via Google Earth Pro. For more info, including links to Combermere Abbey, a late C12 coin hoard + pos Roman origins: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/brow...

1/1 The site of Newhall Tower #Cheshire on a new Airbus satellite image from 17 August 2025 via Google Earth Pro. The circular site of a mound- presumably the site of the tower first documented C13 belonging to the de Audley family- is visible as a cropmark.

One of a number of Bronze Age ring ditch cropmarks at University Parks @ox.ac.uk visible on the ground in parched conditions today. Many of these features can be seen on recent aerial + satellite imagery (eg Apple Maps) as weather extremes become more common #climate @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

Sections of a Roman road system in W #Iraq. A c75km section of this road linking #Hit to #Damascus, in part lined by clearance cairns, still survives with some damage from recent dirt tracks. The region was surveyed by Aurel Stein & #RAF in 1939: www.flickr.com/photos/apaam... #APAAME Source: Google

1/ Satellite imagery covering #Gaza has recently been updated on Google Earth, with imagery as recent as 1 Dec '24 for the NE part of the Strip- thanks @godin.bsky.social @bellingcat.com for flagging the update.

The shape reminds me of the visible sections of the angular fort which we interpreted as Iron Age below the small Roman fort at Charterhouse-on-Mendip. No sign of any Sarsen stones though: historicengland.org.uk/research/res...

For the #osint community. Does anybody know what this facility is in NW Saudi Arabia? Lat/Long 26.450112 37.204609

Castle Ring #hillfort on the Stiperstones #Shropshire, with the hillfort at Earl's Hill visible (to the right) in the 1st image. Our rapid survey in 2003-4 identified hut platforms at the S end of Castle Ring at an intervisible point with Earl's Hill doi.org/10.5284/1011...
#HillfortsWednesday

My first trip to the #Stiperstone Hills #Shropshire since my first job as an archaeologist working on a survey there 21 years ago. Fantastic day in spite of the Storm Éowyn winds, although did not quite make to the possible stone row we found north of the Paddocks. Report: doi.org/10.5284/1011...

First hunting kite remotely documented in 2024 @eamena.bsky.social Source: #GoogleEarth #Airbus

Recent satellite imagery updates on Google Earth provide coverage for #Gaza for various dates in October 2023. While this imagery provides a glimpse of the damage that had occurred in the early stages of the #Israel military campaign, it minimises the level of devastation over the past 12 months.