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Socks and sandals; proof the Romans were at it long before Gen Z, especially in chilly North East Britannia. This little razor handle with herringbone pattern sock and ‘solea’ sandal was found in the River Tees near Darlington and now lives in Durham Archaeology Museum. #FindsFriday

#HillfortsWednesday 🙄

The huge Bronze Age walled settlement of Grimspound looking a bit like an alien landing site in yesterday’s evening light on Dartmoor. Remains of some of the 24 stone roundhouses visible. #HillfortWednesday (sort of) #Dartmoor

Down Tor stone row, also known as Hingston stone row, Dartmoor. 157 stones over a length of about 350 metres. 📸 from early May when there was still some actual green grass on the moor #StandingStoneSunday

An unknown horned fertility god sacred to a local tribe in the North East of Britannia, according to the Durham Archaeology Museum. To be honest I’m getting serious Donnie Darko do NOT mess with this bunny vibes #FindsFriday

Now that is a fine door. With extra curly curlicues because why not. Wells cathedral, Somerset #AdoorableThursday

Bit late this morning, had to trawl the archives for this one. Comar Wood Dun, an Iron Age fortified enclosure overlooking Glen Affric in the highlands. 📸 from when we did the splendid Affric Kintail Way in ‘24 #HillfortsWednesday

Detail from the 14th century windmill frieze, Rievaulx Abbey museum. A man leads his mule laden with sacks of grain towards a windmill. Abbey tenants were obliged to use the abbey flour mill. #ReliefWednesday

The two Neolithic chambered tombs at Dyffryn Ardudwy, overlooking Cardigan Bay in Gwynedd. The smaller dolmen is the earlier one, both would have been covered in mounds originally #TombTuesday

15th Century carved head, possibly from a tomb, with fragments of original paint and gilding. From the museum collection at Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire #MedievalMonday #MondayMood

The Grey Wethers, Dartmoor. Two large and impressive Bronze Age stone circles side by side on a roughly North South axis with fairly uniformly sized stones around 1 metre in height. There’s a long and complicated legend involving sheep. #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor

A lovely find from SHARE Roman Villa dig. From my amateur Googling it’s an Urbs Roma bronze follis, thousands of which were minted by Emperor Constantine on the founding of Constantinople. I got to gently brush some Devon dirt off it with a toothbrush 🤓 #FindsFriday

Ramparts of Brough Law hillfort, Northumberland. Iron Age with huge double stone ramparts and a mighty view 📸 March 26 #HillfortsWednesday

Today I have a live feed #MosaicMonday! The wonderful SHARE Roman villa mosaic being carefully cleaned before its lifted over the next couple of days. I’m busy finds cleaning today

The small Bronze Age round barrow of Little Blakey Howe, North York Moors, in evening colours. Marked TD on its north west side, the possibly ancient stone was repurposed as a boundary marker in the C18th, though Thomas Duncombe may have been compensating for something #StandingStoneSunday

Going to be a bit too hot again today so here is a cool #FindsFriday, a very early medieval ice skate! Made of polished bone between 1000 and 1200 CE, it would have been strapped under the shoe. Part of the new exhibition set up by MA students at Durham Archaeology Museum

Magnificent sinuous ironwork on the door to the vestry, Ripon Cathedral #AdoorableThursday

Arches of the Triforium seen through a window on the East front of Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire #WindowsOnWednesday

The plateau of Roulston Scar Iron Age hillfort, seen from Sutton Bank, Yorkshire. Dating from 400 BCE, a huge univallate promontory 60 acre hillfort, which took advantage of the natural rock escarpment. The views of the Vale of York are spectacular #HillfortsWednesday

Anyone else not getting their posts with #hashtags loaded to the hashtag feed? Kind of annoying