Dr Toby Driver

#FindsFriday A little gem from the British Iron Age 🥰: a divination spoon - one of a pair unearthed near Crosby Ravensworth in 1869 There are only 17 pairs of these incredibly rare magical tools from Britain, Ireland & France 🧙 📷My own, on display in the British Museum

#HillfortsWednesday Just before Christmas, our survey team carried out a new drone survey of the dramatic St David’s Head coastal promontory fort, Pembrokeshire, working with the National Trust in Wales and the National Park.

Winter on Bae Ceredigion/Cardigan Bay this morning 🌨️❄️🥰 #Cymru/#Wales

@Trierarch81 The unsettling design of the face (it's not a drunken Bacchus) together with the private, hidden nature of some of the temple rituals at Aquae Sulis, a large outdoor altar specifically for sacrifice, plus the nature of many curses cast into the springs, justify 'dark' I think 🤔

The tombstone of Gaius Calpurnius Receptus, a priest of Sulis-Minerva who may have carried this tin mask during rituals. Although I’m not quite sure why Dr. Driver called these “dark rituals”.

@AlabasterMiss I won't share on here, but up North

@Toby_Driver1 Which show are you going to?

Suede, Maximo Park & Gene tickets scored! That was stressful...

@AlabasterMiss Bonkers. Still sounds fresh

@Toby_Driver1 I can't believe A Certain Trigger is20!

@DoodyDerek5852 @theAliceRoberts What a delightful ray of sunshine you are 😊😊🌞🌞🙄

Hippy revisionism from @theAliceRoberts? You decide. A Humanist-lite cheerleader (her morality doesn’t extend to protecting the human child in the womb). She also supports & promotes “trans rights.” And all this, with a West Country accent & polychromatic hair.

This fine example of an Iron Age fluted stele stands by the west gable of the chapel of Ste-Tréphine in Ste-Tréphine (Côtes-d’Armor). It is 2.5m tall and has a flattened top. This card by Hamonic in St-Brieuc c.1903.

Dry weather exposes archaeological secrets at National Trust monasteries independent.co.uk/news/science/a…

@Glyndle Expensive..but it blew me away. Incredible archaeology & excellent interpretation

@Toby_Driver1 I have been living about 10 miles from Bath for the last 19 years but I have never been to the Roman baths. I really must visit.

Incredible Chepstow Castle today, clinging to the precipitous edge of the Wye Gorge with the original hall begun a year or two after the Battle of Hastings 😮 Always an incredible visit. Oh..and the oldest castle door in Europe 🤯

At the extraordinary #Roman baths & sacred temple complex of Aquae Sulis, #Bath yesterday for the first time since 1991 🤯 One of the most important #Roman religious complexes in northwest Europe, and still functioning as a hot spring 🔥. Incredible place 🥰 📷 My own

FRENS. THIS IS IT. IT'S HAPPENING. But we need your help for the #BigBrochBuild! We are set to purchase this site to build our broch. We have launched a CrowdFunder where YOU can help us achieve this: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/buy-the-broc… Please help us if you can - and RT too!

@SueDCHA @CountyClareIre Castell Henllys has a partial reconstruction of a gateway, but nowhere in Britain am I aware of a full tower build like this

@Toby_Driver1 @CountyClareIre Looks fascinating! Must put it on my list to visit. Can Castell Henllys do something similar?

#HillfortsWednesday Making an entrance in the Irish Iron Age 😮 The impressive reconstructed gateway into the Crannóg at Craggaunowen, Co. Clare, gives a very good impression of what many small hillforts in the Iron Age west may have looked like 🤔🛖 📷 My own, 2023

The restorative powers of a Bank Holiday by the sea (1958) Father in particular seems to have … blossomed John Bull Magazine Artist: G Critchlow

Seeing some politicians competing for just how brutal they can be to vulnerable minorities - I can’t help comparing that to 16th and 17th witch trials. It’s so depressing.

@IncitatusAlpha @arthistorynews People also wished for maladies to be healed...

@Toby_Driver1 @arthistorynews 2000 years ago the wishes were on lead and were not nice

We should do this at Bath.