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Thinking back to February when a team from @bumaritime.bsky.social and @nattrustarch.bsky.social excavated and lifted a piece of a 17th cargo vessel (the Fame of Hoorn) from the sand of Studland Bay #Dorset

With children's play shovels 👍

#FindsFriday #Maritime #Archaeology

Dancing the stone

Research by Fiona Colbert @bournemouthuni.bsky.social on the Bronze Age so-called *dancing stones* using timelapse photography

"No instructions, no context, just bodies and feet" 💃🕺

Featured in this month's British Archaeology magazine

#KeepDancing #Archaeology

A curious Celtic conundrum for #HillfortsWednesday

A male mustachioed head said to have been found at Maiden Castle hillfort in #Dorset

Is it Iron Age? 🤔

Part of the Rodney Legg collection

📷 © Trustees of the British Museum 2013.8017.106

Date unknown, importance unclear, investigation ongoing

Thinking back to February when a team from @bumaritime.bsky.social and @nattrustarch.bsky.social excavated and lifted a piece of a 17th cargo vessel (the Fame of Hoorn) from the sand of Studland Bay #Dorset

With children's play shovels 👍

#FindsFriday #Maritime #Archaeology

Terrific to welcome #ProfMichaelDooley Dorset Lord Lieutenant to our HQ in #Poole where we work in partnership with @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social clearing on #maritimescience

Another great find from the sea

Heather and Liv from our maritime unit discovered this grindstone during a circle search near the 13th century Mortar Ship Wreck

Such stones were rotated to sharpen tools and are known from the 9th century

Could this be contemporary with the wreck?

#FindsFriday

Dancing the stone

Research by Fiona Colbert @bournemouthuni.bsky.social on the Bronze Age so-called *dancing stones* using timelapse photography

"No instructions, no context, just bodies and feet" 💃🕺

Featured in this month's British Archaeology magazine

#KeepDancing #Archaeology

For the #Stonehenge area, there is new imagery on Google Earth from August this year showing lots of #archaeology. Pits for missing stones at #Stonehenge plus the barrows just to the SW. Read this thread for more examples ... 1/8

Huge congratulations to two of our students, Niamh and Liv, on reaching some fantastic milestones while diving on the medieval Mortar Wreck 🥳

Niamh 50 dives
Liv 75 dives

Exploring history and experiencing the past from a whole new perspective 🏺⚓️

#ArchaeologicalDiving @bumaritime.bsky.social

An excellent day spent celebrating the life, work and legacy of Ivan Donald Margary, unsung hero of 20th century archaeology, history and heritage at the @cbasoutheast.bsky.social and #SussexArchaeologyandHistory conference

Is that @curatorrob.bsky.social trapped in a Fishbourne wildlife park ??

Another great find from the sea

Heather and Liv from our maritime unit discovered this grindstone during a circle search near the 13th century Mortar Ship Wreck

Such stones were rotated to sharpen tools and are known from the 9th century

Could this be contemporary with the wreck?

#FindsFriday

Huge congratulations to two of our students, Niamh and Liv, on reaching some fantastic milestones while diving on the medieval Mortar Wreck 🥳

Niamh 50 dives
Liv 75 dives

Exploring history and experiencing the past from a whole new perspective 🏺⚓️

#ArchaeologicalDiving @bumaritime.bsky.social

And now onto Maiden Castle as @durotrigesdig.bsky.social takes the new archaeology intake round the ramparts of Dorset's mighty Iron Age hillfort (with added Roman temple)