A hypocaust in Houseteads in snow #RomanFortThursday
January 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A hypocaust in Houseteads in snow #RomanFortThursday
I do love standing in a hypocaust! Do you know where this one is?
September 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I do love standing in a hypocaust! Do you know where this one is?
Look! It's me talking about hypocausts to @experimentalkearns.bsky.social from @butserancientfarm.co.uk, while calling her "Mate" too much.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m8e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m8e...
July 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Hypocaust remains from the Commanding Officer’s House (Praetorium) at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #ChestersRomanFort #HadriansWall
September 24, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Hypocaust remains from the Commanding Officer’s House (Praetorium) at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #ChestersRomanFort #HadriansWall
The remains of a late 3rd century AD hypocaust at Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex. The palace burnt down before the hypocaust and room could be finished. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
January 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The remains of a late 3rd century AD hypocaust at Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex. The palace burnt down before the hypocaust and room could be finished. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
And only 5 million of them were about people wanting to stand in our hypocaust.
October 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
And only 5 million of them were about people wanting to stand in our hypocaust.
Immediate and unrestricted hypocaust-standing privileges awarded to all three of these. ✅
Now it's official, I can tell you my totally thrilling news!
I will be presenting Digging for Britain, along with my co-presenters Meg Russell and Rosanna Price.
Dream team, and a dream come true!
Happy Friday everyone!
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
I will be presenting Digging for Britain, along with my co-presenters Meg Russell and Rosanna Price.
Dream team, and a dream come true!
Happy Friday everyone!
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Digging for Britain returns to BBC Two and iPlayer with a new presenting team
Digging for Britain set to return to BBC Two in early 2027 with a new presenting team led by Dr Tori Herridge
www.bbc.co.uk
June 6, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Immediate and unrestricted hypocaust-standing privileges awarded to all three of these. ✅
I finally did it
I finally stood in a hypocaust!!!
📍 Lydney Park, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social
I finally stood in a hypocaust!!!
📍 Lydney Park, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social
May 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I finally did it
I finally stood in a hypocaust!!!
📍 Lydney Park, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social
I finally stood in a hypocaust!!!
📍 Lydney Park, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Who's a good boy? Paw print 🐾 on a hypocaust tile from the East Bath at ancient Roman Cemenelum (Nice, France)
April 27, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Who's a good boy? Paw print 🐾 on a hypocaust tile from the East Bath at ancient Roman Cemenelum (Nice, France)
Please find a hypocaust 🤞
(please, please, please)
We've been very good 😇
(please, please, please)
We've been very good 😇
We're hosting Erin and Will today (from @buarchanth.bsky.social). They're surveying our Formal Garden using ground penetrating radar.
Can't wait to see what they discover. Probably a previously unknown hypocaust. 🤞
Can't wait to see what they discover. Probably a previously unknown hypocaust. 🤞
April 7, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Please find a hypocaust 🤞
(please, please, please)
We've been very good 😇
(please, please, please)
We've been very good 😇
Standing in a hypocaust
May 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Standing in a hypocaust
Remains of a hypocaust system from the West Baths - part of the Roman bathing complex at Bath. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanBath
September 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Remains of a hypocaust system from the West Baths - part of the Roman bathing complex at Bath. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanBath
April 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hypocaust
They're going to find a hypocaust 🤞
They're going to find a hypocaust 🤞
April 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Hypocaust
They're going to find a hypocaust 🤞
They're going to find a hypocaust 🤞
Lovely lovely hypocaust 😍
Even if access to it is (sensibly) denied
📷 Today at the excellent Chedworth #Roman villa #Gloucestershire
@nationaltrust.org.uk @nattrustarch.bsky.social
#HypocaustGate
More next week for #MosaicMonday 👍
Even if access to it is (sensibly) denied
📷 Today at the excellent Chedworth #Roman villa #Gloucestershire
@nationaltrust.org.uk @nattrustarch.bsky.social
#HypocaustGate
More next week for #MosaicMonday 👍
August 24, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Lovely lovely hypocaust 😍
Even if access to it is (sensibly) denied
📷 Today at the excellent Chedworth #Roman villa #Gloucestershire
@nationaltrust.org.uk @nattrustarch.bsky.social
#HypocaustGate
More next week for #MosaicMonday 👍
Even if access to it is (sensibly) denied
📷 Today at the excellent Chedworth #Roman villa #Gloucestershire
@nationaltrust.org.uk @nattrustarch.bsky.social
#HypocaustGate
More next week for #MosaicMonday 👍
#HillfortsWednesday #HypocaustGate Barcombe Hill taken from the Pre-Hadrainic Hypocaust at Vindolanda
September 16, 2026 at 8:06 AM
#HillfortsWednesday #HypocaustGate Barcombe Hill taken from the Pre-Hadrainic Hypocaust at Vindolanda
hits including:
I Wanna Hold Your Hypocaust
I Saw Her Standing There [in the Hypocaust]
Maxwell’s Silver Hypocaust
Why don’t we do it in the Hypocaust?
Fool on the Hypocaust
Lucy in the Hypocaust with Durotriges
etc etc.
I Wanna Hold Your Hypocaust
I Saw Her Standing There [in the Hypocaust]
Maxwell’s Silver Hypocaust
Why don’t we do it in the Hypocaust?
Fool on the Hypocaust
Lucy in the Hypocaust with Durotriges
etc etc.
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 PM
hits including:
I Wanna Hold Your Hypocaust
I Saw Her Standing There [in the Hypocaust]
Maxwell’s Silver Hypocaust
Why don’t we do it in the Hypocaust?
Fool on the Hypocaust
Lucy in the Hypocaust with Durotriges
etc etc.
I Wanna Hold Your Hypocaust
I Saw Her Standing There [in the Hypocaust]
Maxwell’s Silver Hypocaust
Why don’t we do it in the Hypocaust?
Fool on the Hypocaust
Lucy in the Hypocaust with Durotriges
etc etc.
The hypocaust at Rockbourne Roman villa in Hampshire.
Just think of that warm underfloor heating!
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 my own
Just think of that warm underfloor heating!
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 my own
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Doing a tour of Hadrian’s Wall and today it was the Roman fort at Chesters. A beautiful site and a lovely hypocaust to stand in 😀 @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
June 28, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Doing a tour of Hadrian’s Wall and today it was the Roman fort at Chesters. A beautiful site and a lovely hypocaust to stand in 😀 @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
The hypocaust at Rockbourne Roman villa in Hampshire.
Just think of that warm underfloor heating!
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 my own
Just think of that warm underfloor heating!
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 my own
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The hypocaust at Rockbourne Roman villa in Hampshire.
Just think of that warm underfloor heating!
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 my own
Just think of that warm underfloor heating!
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 my own
Hypocaust remains from the Commanding Officer’s House (Praetorium) at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #ChestersRomanFort #HadriansWall
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Hypocaust remains from the Commanding Officer’s House (Praetorium) at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #ChestersRomanFort #HadriansWall
Contrasting hypocaust styles at the same site, the Roman Town House in Dorchester. I like the more freeform one
#RomanSiteSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
January 17, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Contrasting hypocaust styles at the same site, the Roman Town House in Dorchester. I like the more freeform one
#RomanSiteSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Cosplay archaeologists while gardening this morning.
I'm convinced I have samian ware and hypocaust tile here thus solving the mystery of Chessington's lost villa.
I'm convinced I have samian ware and hypocaust tile here thus solving the mystery of Chessington's lost villa.
September 27, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Cosplay archaeologists while gardening this morning.
I'm convinced I have samian ware and hypocaust tile here thus solving the mystery of Chessington's lost villa.
I'm convinced I have samian ware and hypocaust tile here thus solving the mystery of Chessington's lost villa.
Gorgeous photo!
They’re like two different worlds in so many ways! We feel it even more when we light our hypocaust and you leave a smoky roundhouse and arrive in a room with a warm mosaic floor and invisible heat! #hypocaust
They’re like two different worlds in so many ways! We feel it even more when we light our hypocaust and you leave a smoky roundhouse and arrive in a room with a warm mosaic floor and invisible heat! #hypocaust
Afternoon sunlight on the reconstructed #Roman villa at the incredible @butserancientfarm.co.uk 🏛️
It's particularly potent that one can compare roundhouse living from the Iron age with the formal decor & rooms of a villa - side by side. What a strange culture shock for the Romano-British! 😮
📷 TD
It's particularly potent that one can compare roundhouse living from the Iron age with the formal decor & rooms of a villa - side by side. What a strange culture shock for the Romano-British! 😮
📷 TD
October 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Gorgeous photo!
They’re like two different worlds in so many ways! We feel it even more when we light our hypocaust and you leave a smoky roundhouse and arrive in a room with a warm mosaic floor and invisible heat! #hypocaust
They’re like two different worlds in so many ways! We feel it even more when we light our hypocaust and you leave a smoky roundhouse and arrive in a room with a warm mosaic floor and invisible heat! #hypocaust
Is the hypocaust on?
November 15, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Is the hypocaust on?