Adam M Ibbotson
Author, filmmaker, and champion of pop-archaeology. Windermere, UK ⭐️ Senior Lecturer at Shap University.
- Boltby Scar, an Iron Age fort on North Yorkshire's Hambleton Hills, features ramparts, ditches, and two earlier round barrows 🌟 Part of the Cleave Dyke System, digs suggest a Late Bronze / Iron Age date (900-700BC) with multi-phase development. #HillfortsWednesday #archaeology #history
- The 'Silver Hill Round Barrow' is a large Bronze Age mound on Yorkshire's Hambleton Hills, where a 1864 excavation found a central burial with a bone ring. It predates and is integrated into the 'Hesketh Dyke', possibly marking a very old boundary... 🤔 #archaeology #TombTuesday
- The so-called ‘Nelson Stone’, next to Swainby Shooting House in the N. York Moors 💫 - The lettered column is 18th c., while the stone behind it may be as old as prehistory… #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology
- 🌟OUT NOW: 'Did this Book RUIN Archaeology?' 🌟 An exploration of the so-called 'muddy boots' argument and W.G. Hoskins. With SURPRISE guest, the great Flint Dibble (@flintdibble.bsky.social), of all people! Very happy with this one, so please do give it a watch :) LINK: youtu.be/9k7OiaegOqY?...
- Thank you for the shout out Adam! This is spot on!
- Wow, thanks! Ideas of Landscape was the first book I read for my masters degree, way back when. It left such a lasting impact, it inspired the PhD I’m currently doing.
- New video RELEASING TODAY at 5.15pm! 🌟 - An exploration of W.G. Hoskin's positive impact on archaeological theory - and how his popular idea of 'muddying your boots' may have unintentionally fuelled many theories... including "pseudoarchaeology". - #youtube #archaeology #history
- Can any pottery people on here identify what this may be? Found close to a possible Romano-British earthwork. #archaeology #pottery
- Studfold Gate Stone Circle, Cumbria, UK 💂♂️ - A very wide, and very dilapidated (probably Bronze Age) stone circle. Most of it is buried in a bog, and invisible to all but the local frogs... #archaeology #prehistory #Cumbria #megalith
- Which begs the question was it deliberately built in a bog or have environmental conditions changed since its building? (Probably one we can’t answer I suppose)
- With some research we can answer that! Though, I highly doubt it! 😝
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View full threadyours is better... Looks like you're up Black Hambelton btw...
- I am!
- Blown away with the success of my latest video - I managed to do the unthinkable, and make a film on environmental issues, without annoying everyone! 🌲🌲🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲 Link, if you haven't seen it: youtu.be/IZFSbZbV-vk?... #YouTube #archaeology #history #reforestry #rewilding
- The bold and beautiful Urra Moor Dyke, overlooking Bilsdale in the North York Moors! - Not a hillfort - but we sadly have a dearth here in Yorkshire / Cumbria! So this is among the best you get... - #hillfortwednesday #archaeology #prehistory #history
- This 4000+ year old burial mound, marks the highest point in the North York Moors. One of the remotest I've happened upon in Yorkshire... - A big hill, with a massive prehistoric barrow on it! 🌟 #TombTuesday #archaeology #prehistory #history
- Grey Croft Stone Circle, Sellafield, Cumbria 🇬🇧 - You can see the stacks of Sellafield Nuclear Plant in the background... a stark reminder of how far humanity has pregressed, or sunk, in the last 5000 years. 🤨 - #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #Cumbria #history #AtomFall
- Have you ever encountered such impressive Neolithic rock art? 😵💫 I surely haven’t! Dating back to around 3800 - 3200 BC, it’s located just near the Thimbleby Nine Stones in the North York Moors. #archaeology #art #history
- The Rudston Monolith, the tallest ancient standing stone in the UK! 🌟🤔 It's massive! #archaeology #history #Yorkshire #StandingStoneSunday
- Do we know how much there is underground? I'm assuming there's a buried section that's keeping it upright.
- Antiquarians did some digging and said ‘as deeps as it stands’ - but sounds like BS to me…
- What are the chances of THIS... 🤯🤯 I planned this section to have 1000 words, so wrote for around 2 hours. When I finish, I check the word count, and it's EXACTLY 1000 words. My fiances was like "yeah that's cool". No appreciation of the unlikelihood of this occuring...
- 🚨 ALERT 🚨 I’m working on a video about the ‘Muddy Boots’ - the idea that you need to have visited a place to speak confidently about it. I’m looking for collaborations, anyone who publicly champions that idea to get an opinion interview from! #archaeology #history #YouTube
- 🌟 Castlerigg Stone Circle, Keswick, UK 🌟 Believed to originate around 3200 BC, this ancient site is thought to be one of Europe's earliest stone circles. It's also quite picturesque. #lakedistrict #history
- God touching Great Langdale, Lake District, UK ☀️ #landscapephotography #LakeDistrict #UK #photography
- ⭐ Rydal Cup Marks, Lake District, Cumbria, UK ⭐ A dense collection of Neolithic cup marks, located deep into private land, just south of Grasmere. They possibly date to between 3800 and 3200BC! #archaeology #history #prehistory #Cumbria #UK #travel
- ⭐ The 'Dovedale Settlement,' near Brothers Water in the Lake District, UK ⭐ Likely an Iron Age or Roman defended settlement. A nearby burial cairn suggests earlier occupation, and the settlement's bank outside its ditch might indicate it was a converted henge from around 3200 BC. 😍 #archaeology
- An artwork of the lost henge cropmark at Bootle - or as I call it: "The Millom Lines" 🫢 One of nine cropmark henges along the southwestern coast of Cumbria, with inner post sockets and a wide bank. They've never been excavated... 🫣 #archaeology #prehistory #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
- 🌨️❄️Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cumbria, UK ❄️🌨️ Been tasked with artsy covers for work (of Arabian Bronze Age Tombs, believe it or not...), so got back into it! If the YouTube gets going, I'll sell some prints 🤠 #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #Cumbria #history
- Pssst...yeah you mate...interested in Alasdair Whittle's new paper on the interconnectivity between Britain and Ireland 6000 years ago, during the development of the Neolithic? It's niche but rich stuff. I'll do you a deal, mate. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Funnily enough, that’s exactly what I’m interested in.
- The Grasmere Rock Art - at Broadgate Park and Allen Bank 😍 The perfect Neolithic site for the hapless romantic, these beauties possibly date between 3800 and 3200 BC, and are associated with the nearby polished stone axe factory at Langdale... #history #archaeology #prehistory
- A map of all known megalithic sites in Cumbria, UK 💫 What do you notice? I see something strange occuring in the east... 🤔🤔🤔🤔 #archaeology #history #LakeDistrict 🤩
- May be over for me on Twitter (X), everything I post now gets flagged as hateful… Broken mess of an app.
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View full threadYou make great videos. Much appreciated.
- Thanks!
- Picking on Elon? He's so sensitive to perceived slights.
- Possibly something I liked? No idea, I’m certainly not hateful.
- Weird? Tho whatever RIP twitter, it's a cesspool
- The perfect excuse to rip off the plaster and find greener pastures…
- Just hit 1,000,000 views on YouTube! 💫 Woo! - I almost can’t believe some people manage that in a single video! 🤩 🌟 ⭐️ #YouTube #video #archaeology
- ✨ NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW! ✨ What REALLY Happened to Britain's Forests? - A brief exploration into prehistoric deforestation in the British Isles, and how much of our bald landscapes are actually archaeological! Link: youtu.be/IZFSbZbV-vk?... #archaeology #history #youtube
- The Thimbleby Nine Stones - a stone row / avenue in the North York Moors. 🌟 🇬🇧 🌟 #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #yorkshire #history
- A Neolithic 'stone ball' 🏐 found in northwest England. It is a type of artifact typical of north Scotland, pretty out of place... Looks a bit like a rear end in a thong. 🩲 🌟⭐️🌟⭐️ Tullie Museum, Carlisle #archaeology #prehistory
- Blown away by WC21’s new video on ‘Stainton Fell Long Barrow’! ⭐️ A very remote site that’s so rarely visited, and never-before photographed… Link to full video here: youtu.be/pXqoDh-Hn-s?... #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #history #LakeDistrict 🤩
- A sneaky little rock art post… North York Moors, UK 🇬🇧 #archaeology #prehistory
[This user deactivated their account]- NICE ONE - that’s right! Pretty impressive spot actually.
- Milo Rossi @miniminuteman.bsky.social & myself will chat pseudoarchaeology live at 8:30pm UK/4:30pm EDT tomorrow (Friday March 28th) We react to our "debate" with pseudoacientists on Piers Morgan Uncensored (released beforehand) about new pyramid conspiracy BS www.youtube.com/live/28wbNL7...
- Exciting - Piers Morgan’s YouTube is a guilty pleasure, and so is archaeo-debunking! Match made in heaven!
- NEW VIDEO OUT NOW - A long-overdue deep-dive into the landscapes around the Thornborough Henges. 🌟⭐️🌟⭐️🌟 Don't worry, I address the ridiculousness of "the Stonehenge of the North" in the first two minutes... #archaeology #youtube #prehistory #stonehenge youtu.be/9ilUucy_bXE?...
- Can’t believe I missed this Prehistory Guys interview with the great Kenny Brophy! A perfect explanation of the dominance of the Stonehenge / Orkney narrative 🌟 I made a similar argument here: youtu.be/A50S6-InHg8?... #archaeology @prehistoryguy.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
- Link to their full interview here: youtu.be/f6yQcGzqccg?...
- Working on a full video on the Thornborough Henges at the moment. Very happy with the intro so far 🙂. (I also like showing off what amazing sights I have in my doorstep...) #archaeology #Yorkshire #YouTube
- on my doorstep*
- While all you sit around debating silly things like Stonehenge - snore - and how Atlantis isn't real, I am busy brushing up on cyber-anthropology IN the mindscape. We are NOT the same... 😌 #archaeology #academia (this is a joke)
- Who’d have thought, putting my ugly mug on a thumbnail makes such a difference… 🥲 #youtube
- 🌟 EVERYONE 🌟 Reminder to pick up a copy of the NEW 2nd Edition of Cumbria's Prehistoric Monuments. THE definative guide to the topic - and all around great book (if I do say so myself). I want a copy on every shelf in the English speaking world by 2027... #author #archaeology
- This 19th-century drawing shows a large stone circle with many standing stones, set against a backdrop of hills. It is tentatively identified as Castlerigg, Cumbria. What do you think - Castlerigg, or is there another stone circle you think it looks more like?
- Perhaps @adamibbotson.bsky.social could shed some light on its location.
- That is 1-zillion percent Castlerigg. Without doubt.
- You either die the lovely Shap Avenue man, or live long enough to become the “Riddled with Tapeworms” man… 🪱 #youtube #archaeology
