Isle of Wight Archaeology
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Isle of Wight Council Archaeology & Historic Environment Service. We manage the Isle of Wight HER and provide advice on archaeology and the historic environment
#FindsFriday
Iron knife with bone handle inscribed with ring and dot decoration, and knurled headed copper alloy pommel. From a context dated c AD 290-320 in the ditch at Rock Roman Villa, #Brighstone, #Isle of Wight. See #NHLE 1008304 shorturl.at/sKuOw
On display at Newport Roman Villa.
Iron knife with bone handle inscribed with ring and dot decoration, and knurled headed copper alloy pommel. From a context dated c AD 290-320 in the ditch at Rock Roman Villa, #Brighstone, #Isle of Wight. See #NHLE 1008304 shorturl.at/sKuOw
On display at Newport Roman Villa.
October 2, 2026 at 8:24 AM
#FindsFriday
Iron knife with bone handle inscribed with ring and dot decoration, and knurled headed copper alloy pommel. From a context dated c AD 290-320 in the ditch at Rock Roman Villa, #Brighstone, #Isle of Wight. See #NHLE 1008304 shorturl.at/sKuOw
On display at Newport Roman Villa.
Iron knife with bone handle inscribed with ring and dot decoration, and knurled headed copper alloy pommel. From a context dated c AD 290-320 in the ditch at Rock Roman Villa, #Brighstone, #Isle of Wight. See #NHLE 1008304 shorturl.at/sKuOw
On display at Newport Roman Villa.
Lynchets and hedgerows, remnants of strip fields at Chillerton #IsleofWight, #MedievalMonday
September 21, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Lynchets and hedgerows, remnants of strip fields at Chillerton #IsleofWight, #MedievalMonday
The Longstone, Mottistone this morning. #StandingStoneSunday
#IsleofWight #Neolithic #archaeology #NationalTrust
#IsleofWight #Neolithic #archaeology #NationalTrust
September 20, 2026 at 10:32 AM
The Longstone, Mottistone this morning. #StandingStoneSunday
#IsleofWight #Neolithic #archaeology #NationalTrust
#IsleofWight #Neolithic #archaeology #NationalTrust
#ThrowbackThursday #IsleofWight
Newport #Roman Villa was discovered 100 years ago in 1926 and excavated by architect/antiquarian Percy Stone.
This Saturday there is free admission to the villa 10am-2pm for #HeritageOpenDays with guided tours from our museum colleagues. See shorturl.at/AEuSx
Newport #Roman Villa was discovered 100 years ago in 1926 and excavated by architect/antiquarian Percy Stone.
This Saturday there is free admission to the villa 10am-2pm for #HeritageOpenDays with guided tours from our museum colleagues. See shorturl.at/AEuSx
September 17, 2026 at 8:39 AM
#ThrowbackThursday #IsleofWight
Newport #Roman Villa was discovered 100 years ago in 1926 and excavated by architect/antiquarian Percy Stone.
This Saturday there is free admission to the villa 10am-2pm for #HeritageOpenDays with guided tours from our museum colleagues. See shorturl.at/AEuSx
Newport #Roman Villa was discovered 100 years ago in 1926 and excavated by architect/antiquarian Percy Stone.
This Saturday there is free admission to the villa 10am-2pm for #HeritageOpenDays with guided tours from our museum colleagues. See shorturl.at/AEuSx
Tomorrow we shall be at Newport Minster #IsleofWight for ‘History on your doorstep’. Come and say hello if you’re passing by St Thomas’ Square, doors will be open!
#HeritageOpenDays shorturl.at/32HM8
#HeritageOpenDays shorturl.at/32HM8
September 11, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Tomorrow we shall be at Newport Minster #IsleofWight for ‘History on your doorstep’. Come and say hello if you’re passing by St Thomas’ Square, doors will be open!
#HeritageOpenDays shorturl.at/32HM8
#HeritageOpenDays shorturl.at/32HM8
#ThatchThursday St Agnes Church Freshwater #IsleofWight, our only thatched church. Designed by Architect I. Jones. Built 1908 using reused stone, timber-framed roof covered with Norfolk Reed. 📷 from George Powell’s 'Island Thatch' albums held in the #HistoricEnvironmentRecord
September 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
#ThatchThursday St Agnes Church Freshwater #IsleofWight, our only thatched church. Designed by Architect I. Jones. Built 1908 using reused stone, timber-framed roof covered with Norfolk Reed. 📷 from George Powell’s 'Island Thatch' albums held in the #HistoricEnvironmentRecord
#ThrowbackThursday
Excavation of a #BronzeAge bowl barrow on Newbarn Down #IsleofWight in 1931. Photo from the #IoW #HistoricEnvironmentRecord
See #HistoricEngland #NHLE shorturl.at/vFYFV.
Excavation of a #BronzeAge bowl barrow on Newbarn Down #IsleofWight in 1931. Photo from the #IoW #HistoricEnvironmentRecord
See #HistoricEngland #NHLE shorturl.at/vFYFV.
September 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
#ThrowbackThursday
Excavation of a #BronzeAge bowl barrow on Newbarn Down #IsleofWight in 1931. Photo from the #IoW #HistoricEnvironmentRecord
See #HistoricEngland #NHLE shorturl.at/vFYFV.
Excavation of a #BronzeAge bowl barrow on Newbarn Down #IsleofWight in 1931. Photo from the #IoW #HistoricEnvironmentRecord
See #HistoricEngland #NHLE shorturl.at/vFYFV.
Early Bronze Age handled Beaker bowl excavated from a barrow near Nunwell #IsleofWight by Capt. J. Thorp in 1882. Found with a crouched male inhumation. Now in the Isle of Wight Museum Collection. See shorturl.at/38cpZ, shorturl.at/nyVK9, shorturl.at/ssfLA
#FindsFriday #BronzeAge #Beaker
#FindsFriday #BronzeAge #Beaker
August 28, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Early Bronze Age handled Beaker bowl excavated from a barrow near Nunwell #IsleofWight by Capt. J. Thorp in 1882. Found with a crouched male inhumation. Now in the Isle of Wight Museum Collection. See shorturl.at/38cpZ, shorturl.at/nyVK9, shorturl.at/ssfLA
#FindsFriday #BronzeAge #Beaker
#FindsFriday #BronzeAge #Beaker
On #InternationalDogDay
Cast copper alloy long-nosed hound figurine of Roman, possibly fourth century, date. Thought to have perhaps been a votive offering.
Reported to the #PortableAntiquitiesScheme (see shorturl.at/9fCpC) and acquired by the Isle of Wight Museum Service.
#IsleofWight #Roman
Cast copper alloy long-nosed hound figurine of Roman, possibly fourth century, date. Thought to have perhaps been a votive offering.
Reported to the #PortableAntiquitiesScheme (see shorturl.at/9fCpC) and acquired by the Isle of Wight Museum Service.
#IsleofWight #Roman
August 26, 2026 at 1:49 PM
On #InternationalDogDay
Cast copper alloy long-nosed hound figurine of Roman, possibly fourth century, date. Thought to have perhaps been a votive offering.
Reported to the #PortableAntiquitiesScheme (see shorturl.at/9fCpC) and acquired by the Isle of Wight Museum Service.
#IsleofWight #Roman
Cast copper alloy long-nosed hound figurine of Roman, possibly fourth century, date. Thought to have perhaps been a votive offering.
Reported to the #PortableAntiquitiesScheme (see shorturl.at/9fCpC) and acquired by the Isle of Wight Museum Service.
#IsleofWight #Roman
August 21, 2026 at 11:08 AM
From the #IsleofWight #HistoricEnvironmentRecord
Late medieval double flue up-draft kiln excavated 1967-68 at Knighton. Produced both sand-tempered pottery vessels including pitchers and dishes, and roof tiles. See Fennelly 1969: shorturl.at/ggsvi
#medievalarchaeology #medieval #pottery
Late medieval double flue up-draft kiln excavated 1967-68 at Knighton. Produced both sand-tempered pottery vessels including pitchers and dishes, and roof tiles. See Fennelly 1969: shorturl.at/ggsvi
#medievalarchaeology #medieval #pottery
August 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM
From the #IsleofWight #HistoricEnvironmentRecord
Late medieval double flue up-draft kiln excavated 1967-68 at Knighton. Produced both sand-tempered pottery vessels including pitchers and dishes, and roof tiles. See Fennelly 1969: shorturl.at/ggsvi
#medievalarchaeology #medieval #pottery
Late medieval double flue up-draft kiln excavated 1967-68 at Knighton. Produced both sand-tempered pottery vessels including pitchers and dishes, and roof tiles. See Fennelly 1969: shorturl.at/ggsvi
#medievalarchaeology #medieval #pottery
#TidalTuesday #IsleofWight
Before the pier was built, #Ryde was inaccessible to ships at low tide. In his ‘Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon’, Henry Fielding in 1754 writes ‘there was, at low water, an impassible gulf… of deep mud, which could neither be traversed by walking or swimming.
Before the pier was built, #Ryde was inaccessible to ships at low tide. In his ‘Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon’, Henry Fielding in 1754 writes ‘there was, at low water, an impassible gulf… of deep mud, which could neither be traversed by walking or swimming.
August 18, 2026 at 9:46 AM
#TidalTuesday #IsleofWight
Before the pier was built, #Ryde was inaccessible to ships at low tide. In his ‘Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon’, Henry Fielding in 1754 writes ‘there was, at low water, an impassible gulf… of deep mud, which could neither be traversed by walking or swimming.
Before the pier was built, #Ryde was inaccessible to ships at low tide. In his ‘Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon’, Henry Fielding in 1754 writes ‘there was, at low water, an impassible gulf… of deep mud, which could neither be traversed by walking or swimming.
Remains of the 13th century tower of St Helen’s Church, #IsleofWight which served parish and priory during the medieval period. Mostly lost to the sea, the remains were repurposed in the 18th century as a sea mark, shown as "White Tower" on 1780s chart. #MedievalMonday #MaritimeMonday #MapMonday
August 17, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Remains of the 13th century tower of St Helen’s Church, #IsleofWight which served parish and priory during the medieval period. Mostly lost to the sea, the remains were repurposed in the 18th century as a sea mark, shown as "White Tower" on 1780s chart. #MedievalMonday #MaritimeMonday #MapMonday
#WaterTowerWednesday #EastCowes #IsleofWight
Water from wells at the engine house in Pumphouse Lane was pumped to the water tower that stood near the top of Victoria Grove, built to provide a head of water at the top of the town. Demolished in the early 1980s after being derelict for some years.
Water from wells at the engine house in Pumphouse Lane was pumped to the water tower that stood near the top of Victoria Grove, built to provide a head of water at the top of the town. Demolished in the early 1980s after being derelict for some years.
August 12, 2026 at 10:08 AM
#WaterTowerWednesday #EastCowes #IsleofWight
Water from wells at the engine house in Pumphouse Lane was pumped to the water tower that stood near the top of Victoria Grove, built to provide a head of water at the top of the town. Demolished in the early 1980s after being derelict for some years.
Water from wells at the engine house in Pumphouse Lane was pumped to the water tower that stood near the top of Victoria Grove, built to provide a head of water at the top of the town. Demolished in the early 1980s after being derelict for some years.
#MapMonday. John Speed’s 1611 map of #Newport #IsleofWight printed as an inset to his map of the Island in ‘The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine’. The town centre still retains its medieval street pattern today.
See shorturl.at/0kYow, shorturl.at/rZKhs and shorturl.at/8QqDK
See shorturl.at/0kYow, shorturl.at/rZKhs and shorturl.at/8QqDK
August 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
#MapMonday. John Speed’s 1611 map of #Newport #IsleofWight printed as an inset to his map of the Island in ‘The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine’. The town centre still retains its medieval street pattern today.
See shorturl.at/0kYow, shorturl.at/rZKhs and shorturl.at/8QqDK
See shorturl.at/0kYow, shorturl.at/rZKhs and shorturl.at/8QqDK
On #FindsFriday, pencil drawing by our incredibly talented former colleague Frank of an #IronAge stater of Verica which was found on the beach on the north west coast of the #IsleofWight in 1975 and donated to the #IOW museum collection.
August 7, 2026 at 9:11 AM
On #FindsFriday, pencil drawing by our incredibly talented former colleague Frank of an #IronAge stater of Verica which was found on the beach on the north west coast of the #IsleofWight in 1975 and donated to the #IOW museum collection.
For anyone watching the racing at Cowes Week, check out the 4 lion statues on the Esplanade and at Egypt Point, erected in 1894 by the West Cowes Local Board of Health as part of the esplanade improvements. Two are Grade II listed, see #HistoricEngland #NHLE 1222859 & 1267595
#IsleofWight #CowesWeek
#IsleofWight #CowesWeek
August 4, 2026 at 10:23 AM
For anyone watching the racing at Cowes Week, check out the 4 lion statues on the Esplanade and at Egypt Point, erected in 1894 by the West Cowes Local Board of Health as part of the esplanade improvements. Two are Grade II listed, see #HistoricEngland #NHLE 1222859 & 1267595
#IsleofWight #CowesWeek
#IsleofWight #CowesWeek
‘Noah’s Nuts’: organic and gravel sediments laid down by the Old Western Yar now sometimes exposed in the eroding cliff face along the #IsleofWight SW coast. Funded by Historic England we obtained C14 dates of c8000 cal BC for hazelnuts from these deposits #archaeology #nature #FestivalofArchaeology
July 31, 2026 at 10:09 AM
‘Noah’s Nuts’: organic and gravel sediments laid down by the Old Western Yar now sometimes exposed in the eroding cliff face along the #IsleofWight SW coast. Funded by Historic England we obtained C14 dates of c8000 cal BC for hazelnuts from these deposits #archaeology #nature #FestivalofArchaeology
#IsleofWight #FestivalofArchaeology #Archaeology #Nature #TidalTuesday
The #submergedforest at Wootton-Quarr is dated by dendrochronology to 3463-2694 cal BC with an earlier floating sequence of 268 years. Trees grew under increasingly stressful conditions due to rising sea-levels.
shorturl.at/lVxrm
The #submergedforest at Wootton-Quarr is dated by dendrochronology to 3463-2694 cal BC with an earlier floating sequence of 268 years. Trees grew under increasingly stressful conditions due to rising sea-levels.
shorturl.at/lVxrm
July 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM
#IsleofWight #FestivalofArchaeology #Archaeology #Nature #TidalTuesday
The #submergedforest at Wootton-Quarr is dated by dendrochronology to 3463-2694 cal BC with an earlier floating sequence of 268 years. Trees grew under increasingly stressful conditions due to rising sea-levels.
shorturl.at/lVxrm
The #submergedforest at Wootton-Quarr is dated by dendrochronology to 3463-2694 cal BC with an earlier floating sequence of 268 years. Trees grew under increasingly stressful conditions due to rising sea-levels.
shorturl.at/lVxrm
#FestivalofArchaeology, #Archaeology and #Nature; as it’s #MosaicMonday, here are dolphins on a floor at Combley Roman Villa, #IsleofWight #NHLE 1010002 shorturl.at/5gMB4
July 27, 2026 at 9:42 AM
#FestivalofArchaeology, #Archaeology and #Nature; as it’s #MosaicMonday, here are dolphins on a floor at Combley Roman Villa, #IsleofWight #NHLE 1010002 shorturl.at/5gMB4
Today is #FestivalOfArchaeology #AskAnArchaeologist day. We’re here to answer any questions about #IsleofWight #Archaeology.
July 24, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Today is #FestivalOfArchaeology #AskAnArchaeologist day. We’re here to answer any questions about #IsleofWight #Archaeology.
#FestivalOfArchaeology #Archaeology #Nature
At Rock Roman Villa pellets from a barn owl nesting in the building when it was ruinous in the 4th century contained bones of bats, mice, shrews, birds and amphibians, giving clues to the environment in which it foraged. Report in #IsleofWight HER.
At Rock Roman Villa pellets from a barn owl nesting in the building when it was ruinous in the 4th century contained bones of bats, mice, shrews, birds and amphibians, giving clues to the environment in which it foraged. Report in #IsleofWight HER.
July 22, 2026 at 9:25 AM
#FestivalOfArchaeology #Archaeology #Nature
At Rock Roman Villa pellets from a barn owl nesting in the building when it was ruinous in the 4th century contained bones of bats, mice, shrews, birds and amphibians, giving clues to the environment in which it foraged. Report in #IsleofWight HER.
At Rock Roman Villa pellets from a barn owl nesting in the building when it was ruinous in the 4th century contained bones of bats, mice, shrews, birds and amphibians, giving clues to the environment in which it foraged. Report in #IsleofWight HER.
Reposted by Isle of Wight Archaeology
Our landscapes hold thousands of years of stories.
Old hedges, seeds, rivers, ruins, and woodlands can reveal how people and nature have shaped one another, and what that shared past can teach us about caring for places today.
👉https://www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/archaeology-and-nature.html
Old hedges, seeds, rivers, ruins, and woodlands can reveal how people and nature have shaped one another, and what that shared past can teach us about caring for places today.
👉https://www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/archaeology-and-nature.html
July 21, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Our landscapes hold thousands of years of stories.
Old hedges, seeds, rivers, ruins, and woodlands can reveal how people and nature have shaped one another, and what that shared past can teach us about caring for places today.
👉https://www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/archaeology-and-nature.html
Old hedges, seeds, rivers, ruins, and woodlands can reveal how people and nature have shaped one another, and what that shared past can teach us about caring for places today.
👉https://www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/archaeology-and-nature.html
Galleries caused by beetle larvae on a medieval ash stake from a post alignment on Binstead Beach #IsleofWight #FestivalOfArchaeology #archaeology #nature
July 21, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Galleries caused by beetle larvae on a medieval ash stake from a post alignment on Binstead Beach #IsleofWight #FestivalOfArchaeology #archaeology #nature
#FestivalofArchaeology #ArchaeologyandNature #KneppAccord
Archaeology can help us to understand the environmental history of places and the roles that different people have played in shaping environments over time.
Archaeology can help us to understand the environmental history of places and the roles that different people have played in shaping environments over time.
July 20, 2026 at 10:44 AM
#FestivalofArchaeology #ArchaeologyandNature #KneppAccord
Archaeology can help us to understand the environmental history of places and the roles that different people have played in shaping environments over time.
Archaeology can help us to understand the environmental history of places and the roles that different people have played in shaping environments over time.