First ACTUAL slot prior to the Duritriges project! Another interesting Ironage site! From the Durotriges tribe in the south, back up north to the Coritani tribe!

It's not nice putting sections through baked clay... it could have gone allot worse, though! #Archaeology #IronAge

Digging for Britain | The Durotriges Story is NOW LIVE on our Youtube Channel.

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Give the previous Episodes of the Making History Podcast a watch!

SNEAK PEEK BELOW!

Welcome back to the Durotriges Dig trench

Now, what's happened since we've been away? 🤔

#Durotriges23

For #HillfortsWednesday here’s a rather lovely recreation of a Late Iron Age village set within the hillfort of St Gregory's Hill #Northumberland N'land National Park 🤩

🖼 by the late great Victor Ambrus for the 2006 book *Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park*

Preparations are starting now for the 2023 Durotriges Project Big Dig 🎉🥳

For all the latest archaeological updates follow the hashtag:

▶️ #Durotriges23 ◀️

Here (for video diaries) and over at Durotriges Project (for general news)

Stay tuned to see what we find this year!

Setting up on site for #Durotriges24 and the essential infrastructure is arriving

#Portaloo
Knowing my fate is to be with you

The land of the Durotriges. I’ve been so lucky to spend a couple of days up here this week. #durotriges23

Preparations are being made for the 2024 Durotriges Big Dig 😃

For all the latest archaeological updates follow

👉  #Durotriges24   👈

both here (for dig video diaries) and Durotriges Project (for the latest Late Iron Age news)

What will we discover this year?

Stay tuned....

Bronze Age burials

The discovery includes the burial of an adult male in a tightly packed grave alongside collared urns, indicating the transition from the Neolithic period to the Early Bronze Age, making it approximately 4000 years old.

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Is it a Durotriges silver Celtic stater c.58-50 BC I have unearthed this afternoon? If you know please comment below. #durotriges #celticcoin #silverstater #metaldetecting #xpdeus

That's my week digging on the Durotriges big dig done. Finished up the week with a section drawing and plan of my pit. It's been an honour, and I have met some wonderful people!

Back to the clays and silts of the northern commercial excavations for me!

#Durotriges23

#RomanFortThursday & Hod hill in Dorset where the wavy Durotriges ramparts make a stark contrast to the neat gemoetric lines of the later Roman defenses in the Northwest corner of the Hillfort

#RomanArchaeology

Early afternoon at Badbury Rings, an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east #Dorset England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. 1/

The beautiful land of the Durotriges #Durotriges23 #Durotrigesproject

The Belgae and The Durotriges
12th and 13th Celtic tribes of Britain.
Both situated on the south coast of Britain, or Albion as it was called then.
Both tribes are part of the larger Atrebates and continental Belgic tribes of Europe.

A gorgeous blue glass bead from a Late Iron Age farmstead at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset

Photographed as freshly excavated in 2016

We don't get many fashion accessories from the Durotriges but when we do they are utterly stunning 😍

#FindsFriday

For some reason (I can't think why) it seems appropriate to retweet this today...🤔

#HillfortsWednesday

Badbury Rings. One of Dorset's finest ancient sites. It is just 5 miles from my front door. This was the site of one of the battles between the romans and the Durotriges. A roman leader stated that the Durotriges were one of the Brythonic tribes to put up a formidable resistance.

A wonderfully tactile, middle Iron Age decorated *Glastonbury Ware* bowl for #FindsFriday

Found during excavations at Mill Plain (now the Avon Industrial Zone) Christchurch #Dorset

On display in the wonderful Red House Museum and Gardens

Hoping we find something similar on #Durotriges24 🤞

Our Tim, sectioning his pit that look like it may intersects my ditch… dam you Durotriges tribe…what going on #Durotriges23 #Durotrigesproject