Dr Tiffany Treadway

Hiya! Like #bog bodies and #experimentalarchaeology ? Then make sure to check out mine and Clement's EXARC publication! exarc.net/issue-2021-3/e…

Another #ScotArchMonth post highlighting our most recent Scottish archaeology title by @nomadic_treads! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

If Iron Age torcs float your boat, you might also enjoy @nomadic_treads' upcoming book 'Iron Age Wetland Deposition'. Available soon! This is the debut title in our new Archaeology of Prehistoric Ireland and Britain series 🎉 @NWilkinBM @JessHSmyth @pre_historian #FindsFriday

Merry Christmas from all of us at the museum! @PontyMuseum

Diolch i bawb a fynychodd ac a gefnogodd #WineandWreath yn @pontymuseum neithiwr! Cymaint o dorchau hyfryd a gwenau syfrdanol i gyd-fynd! Thank you to all who attended and supported #WineandWreath at @pontymuseum last night! So many lovely wreaths & stunning smiles to match!

@Tess_Machling @LeMoustier I think it has to do with the fact that the Roos Carr and others like it (e.g. Strata Florida) have perforated holes which allows for interchangeable parts whereas this is absent for Ballachulish, &missing post puberty features which is why it has been interpreted as a young girl

@LeMoustier @nomadic_treads might have thoughts.

📢TREASURE FOUND ON ANGLESEY This is the first hoard of Iron Age gold coins to have been discovered in Wales. The coin hoard comprising fifteen gold coins known as staters was discovered in Llangoed Community, Anglesey. More: museum.wales/news/1330/TREA…

What an exciting day on Monday. So pleased to confirm the 2024 Rhondda Cynon Taf Eisteddfod will be hosted in Pontypridd and Ynysangharad War Memorial Park. It’s our time to shine Rhondda Cynon Taf! #Steddfod2024 More information here: orlo.uk/FKfp2

‘To see a world in a grain of sand’ — William Blake. This is a microscope’s view of a pinch of the stuff on every beach.

We are now open on Saturdays! Pontypridd Museum will be open every Saturday 10-4, from this weekend (15th July 2023) until Christmas 2023. You’ll be able to visit our temporary exhibitions, permanent displays and the newly reopened shop each Saturday.

Thank you for the tag @EmmaTollefsen ❤️ 7 interests: Hiking /walking Travelling History Art Baking Reading Plants 7 friends: @Curator_Amanda @ClareParry_ @emma_newrick @_lizziehoward @BenPJMorris @mokkerheim @archaeoholz

Happy #Solstice! The Nebra Sky Disc is considered to be the oldest known material representation of cosmic phenomena in the world, dating around 1600 BC. On display at Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle. Further information: landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/nebra-sky-d…

Mae’n Llwybr Celf Ponty penwythnos yma! Ar gyfer eich ymweliad cyntaf ar y llwybr, dewch i @pontymuseum i weld gwaith Steven Morris yn y digwyddiad rhad ac am ddim hwn. #Pontyarts #PArtofPonty #Localartists @PontyTC @YourPontypridd @UniSouthWales

The Bass of Inverurie, standing within a cemetery at the southern end of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire: all that remains of a motte and bailey castle built by the Earls of Garioch in the 1100s and used by Robert the Bruce in May 1308. More pics and info: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverurie/bass…

@the_other_kim Congratulations Dr!

Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up over @UndisScot image. Castle seized by MacDonald family in 1452 to annoy King James II of Scots in his War with the Black Douglases. #UrquhartCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

The Sweet Track is a 5830 year old Neolithic timber walkway, located in the Somerset Levels in England, discovered in 1970.

#StoneWorkSunday #CortesDePedra to cut the stones to make the granite blocks for the wall in the background, the builders would either find natural fissures or create new incisions by placing dry wood wedges under pressure&then soaked in water to expand causing the rock to split

#RomanSiteSaturday 1st c Roman theatre in the heart of Lisbon. Thought to be constructed during Augustus reign & renovated under Nero’s. It would have held ~5,000 spectators at the height of use. It fell into disuse around the 4th c, buried by an earthquake, & rediscov in 1960s

A copper celestial globe by Christoph Schissler the Elder made in 1575, Augsburg, Germany. It is important not only for its scientific value but also it’s rarity. It is the oldest and only known type of 16th c globe in Portugal #findsfriday #Sintra #NationalPalace #history