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Dr Toby Driver @Toby_Driver1

Also find me on BlueSky & Instagram. Aerial archaeologist at Royal Commission, Wales | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Personal Account.

Joined October 2016
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Dr Toby Driver@Toby_Driver1
15 Nov 2024
#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
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Winter on Bae Ceredigion/Cardigan Bay this morning 🌨️❄️🥰 #Cymru/#Wales
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Temple Bar Farm@fodderforfoodys
30 Aug 2025
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Dr Toby Driver@Toby_Driver1
15 Nov 2024
#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
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Frenchpostcardsofmegaliths@PhilWat09037421
29 Aug 2025
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.
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ChesterArchSoc@ChesterArchSoc
27 Aug 2025
Dry weather exposes archaeological secrets at National Trust monasteries independent.co.uk/news/scien…

Dry weather exposes archaeological secrets at National Trust monasteries

This summer’s hot weather is offering a glimpse into the hidden pasts of some of the country’s oldest, most treasured buildings

independent.co.uk
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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 🤯
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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
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Caithness Broch Project@TheBrochProject
27 Aug 2025
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-… Please help us if you can - and RT too!
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Helen Day@LBFlyawayhome
25 Aug 2025
The restorative powers of a Bank Holiday by the sea (1958) Father in particular seems to have … blossomed John Bull Magazine Artist: G Critchlow
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#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
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Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦@arthistorynews
26 Aug 2025
We should do this at Bath.
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@historyinmemes
26 Aug 2025
2000-year-old Roman bathhouse in Algeria still in use today
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Dr Matt Pope@MatthewPope
26 Aug 2025
Carl Spitweg's 1848 painting of The First Railway. Just 8 years before the discovery of the Neanderthal human, this image of human progress, subterranean worlds and mythic beings resonates. 🏺🦣
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Angela O'Brien
@GrecianGirly
25 Aug 2025
The Lion Gate at the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece. Dated to 13th century BCE. 📷 me
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Dr Francis Young
@DrFrancisYoung
26 Aug 2025
HMV started earlier than I thought
Following Hadrian
@carolemadge
26 Aug 2025
For #InternationalDogDay 🐶 this incredible mosaic floor from Alexandria with the depiction of a dog seated next to a gilded vessel. This Ptolemaic mosaic was made using the opus vermiculatum technique (small, closely set tesserae). Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum.
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Derek Brockway - weatherman@DerekTheWeather
25 Aug 2025
Hawarden, Flintshire recorded nearly 30°C today making it the warmest August bank holiday Monday on record in Wales. Although the bank holiday in August only started in 1971. Previous highest 26.5°C at Crossway, Monmouthshire on 26/08/1991.
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#TombTuesday A bucket-list visit yesterday to the incredible atmospheric long barrow at Stoney Littleton in Somerset 😮🥰 Here one can enter the sacred underground space of the #Neolithic farmers 5,500 years ago... 🎥 Enjoy the journey! @EnglishHeritage @somerset
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Derek Brockway - weatherman@DerekTheWeather
21 Aug 2025
Beautiful day for filming the remains of an iron age hill fort with @Toby_Driver1 near Llangybi, Ceredigion. Wonderful views of the Teifi Valley.
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Castle Hunter 🏰@castlehunteruk
7 Apr 2025
New history book 📚 picked this up awhile ago in Wales but looking forward to it, precursors to castles 😃
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Durotriges Project@Durotrigesdig
11 Dec 2024
This dramatic, if forgotten, image of Iron Age people building a timber-laced *Stone Fort in Scotland* was made by Alan Sorrell It appears in Barbara Green's 1968 book *Prehistoric Britain* We don't know if it depicts a particular hillfort but we love it 😍 #HillfortsWednesday
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Durotriges Project@Durotrigesdig
27 Nov 2024
For more #HillfortsWednesday fun (especially concerning Woodbury hillfort #Dorset) why not pop over to our other social media platform where you'll find even more ramparty goodness 😊 Details here 👇👇👇
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