We have had a fabulous start for the kickstarter for printed versions of the Rhynie big book, but we need MORE! Please support our project by buying yourself a printed copy of the Rhynie monograph! You have till 6th December to do so! www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

For #HillfortsWednesday here's an old favourite, a view of the timber laced rampart at Castle Law, Abernethy under excavation. Photographed by P M Macintyre in 1898. 📸HES www.trove.scot/place/27917

The fort of Brae Brough, on Hoy, in Orkney, is a short distance north of the famous rock stack of the Old Man of Hoy. The fort is almost a rock stack itself with a 325m vertical drop along it’s seaward side. www.trove.scot/place/1480 #HillfortsWednesday 📸 HES

Welcome to Peeblesshire Archaeological Society's new Bluesky page! We're very much looking forward to telling you more about PAS & keeping you up to date with the Society's activities, events & lecture programme. Please follow us and, better still, share your own archaeological interests with us.

I try to avoid politics, but criticism of the Israeli state for its genocidal milliary actions in Palestine is not antisemitic. UN experts have called it a genocide. It is a fact. We can all see this.

Information about our upcoming dig at East Lomond with the Falkland Stewardship Trust - there are a series of free talks on the archaeology of East Lomond as part of our mini festival of archaeology and the open day for the dig will be 12th July. Come along and find out more!

Join us at Aberdeen Archaeology! www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/departments/archaeology

In Fife, @mafs-scot.bsky.social‬ are excavating the 12th-century Lindores Abbey, which has a long tradition of distilling 🥃 Visit the site from 21 June to 4 July or head to their Open Day on 3 July for site tours and a showcase of the finds: www.digitscotland.com/events/monas... #ScotlandDigs2025

Our next #TrimontiumTalk is Thurs. 12 June – not to be missed! Hillfort expert Strat Halliday, will talk about Hillforts, Settlements & Ancient Geography. In person & online -recording will be available. Thinking of becoming a member? Members enjoy all TrimontiumTalks free, year-round! #Hillforts

For anyone interested in Iron Age / Early Med forts in Scotland (hillfort being a non-preferred term in Scotland), I'd like to highlight this talk by Strat Halliday. Strat worked through all the forts in Scotland as part of the Hillforts Atlas and is one of the foremost experts on the subject.

#IronAgeBuildings #IronAgeWednesday 🗻 The Eildon Hills, where the Selgovae hillfort once stood on Eildon North.  It housed over 300 roundhouses. Tomorrow, 12 June, join Strat Halliday - hillfort expert - for a talk on Iron Age settlements! zurl.co/bxydb Photo: Cicerone webpage. zurl.co/aZAGh

Tynron Doon, in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, commands a spur of Auchengibbert Hill and has at least three lines of massive ramparts and ditches with ramparts standing up to 6.5m height and rock cut ditches from 7 to 15m in breadth. #HillfortsWednesday canmore.org.uk/site/65300/t... 📸 HES

There are just 20 days left until Canmore is retired. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, or directly to the trove team at [email protected].

The bivallate Iron Age Oldbury hillfort lies 5 km west from Avebury in Wiltshire. Its defenses enclose 9 ha. There is also a hill figure of a white horse cut to the chalk on the northern side. The only excavation was in 1930 and the latest survey in 2004. #HillfortWednesday

Arbory Hill Fort, in South Lanarkshire, is one of the higher forts in Scotland. The inner stone-walled rampart has been inserted into the earlier bi-vallate fort, and the outer ramparts contain at least five entrances. #HillfortsWednesday canmore.org.uk/site/47427/a... 📸HES

Woden Law in the Scottish Boarders is a complex Iron Age fort with multiple phases of construction and remodeling and the fort is associated with earthworks outside the fort. The fort's relationship to these remains a question to be answered. canmore.org.uk/site/58068 #HillfortsWednesday 📸HES

Our next Trimontium Talk is coming up on June 12th! Join us for Hillforts, Settlements and Ancient Geography with Strat Halliday @ 7:30pm. Taking place both in person and online. ... Visit the link below to book your spot! 🌟 zurl.co/8tOLA

This is a really useful thread with valuable examples of differences in service. For those that can't feedback via the trove feedback form I will be screenshot posts and feeding them back to the Trove team. To help find them it would be useful if posts contained the word Trove. Thanks.

#hillfortsWednesday Bessie's Hillfort, Eskdalemuir. I don't know who Bessie was, but she kept a tidy little set of ramparts with some scooped platforms inside. Best seen as here, from the Late Iron Age settlement enclosure on the hill above.

Here is your periodic reminder that Canmore is soon to be switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.

Looking down from the rampart of Burnswalk, D&G, to the roman camp to the south of the fort. The Roman ballista platforms can be seen set in front of entrances which are wide enough for 40 people. This location on the rampart has been found to be saturated with lead shot. #HillfortsWednesday 📷my own

UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The important work of our French archaeological colleagues is at risk. Their expert-led, progressive national & regional approach to archaeology, typified by @inrap.fr, is threatened by funding cuts. Everyone, please stand in solidarity & sign this petition & please share!🏺 chng.it/jzFsMpXw8h

Please welcome the NTS Archaeology team and give them a follow.

There are now only eight weeks until Canmore is switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.

There's an exciting FTA opportunity to join us at HES as Senior Cultural Resources Advisor for our sites & monuments in the North Region The role involves providing archaeological, historic building & historical advice, & undertaking research. More info tinyurl.com/26bfbe6a 👇some of those sites👇

To deny the existence of trans people in law is to deny the reality of life.

Honestly, such grim news from UK Supreme Court. We're going the way of US & everyone should be concerned. Just let people live their quiet lives - just like they did before Wicked Witch & her flying goblins got all exercised about things that don't concern them. Thoughts & big hugs to all xx 🏳️‍⚧️

For #HillfortsWednesday here is Carnac, Moredun aka Moncrieffe Hill or Moredun Top. Located near to Perth in Scotland the fort comprises at least four phases of construction. canmore.org.uk/site/28025 📸 HES.

I visited the extraordinary Iron Age dun site of Bonnach Mor in Argyll last week which is located on a rock platform next to an incredible basalt dyke. Here is a very quick attempt at a reconstruction to give an idea of how it may have looked. canmore.org.uk/site/22579

A prehistoric headliner for #ADoorAbleThursday. Featuring a nice jamb (side bit of a door) and the drawbar (squared hole in wall thickness by door through which you’d draw a bar behind the door to secure it - basically an early form of locking!)

The hillfort of Dunadd this evening #HillfortsWednesday #Argyll #Scotland

Iron Age door jamb and bar-hole from the dun, Druim An Duin, #Argyll, #Scotland today.

For #HillfortWednesday here is today's photo of the Iron Age / Early Medieval fort of Dun Chonallaich from the fort of Creag a'Chapuill, Argyll, Scotland.

I think I might be the last king of the day. #Argyll #Scotland

The summit of the Iron Age Dun at Bonnach Mor, Argyll, which incorporates a huge basalt dyke, that runs from the dun to the sea. What a beautiful day to visit. So lucky ☺️

Here's another reminder to try out the Canmore replacement www.trove.scot and to feedback your thoughts and comments while it is still in beta.

Law Hill, Arnbathie near Scone in Scotland. View looking north over the ramparts to the chevaux de frise – stones set on edge supposedly designed to disrupt infantry and cavalry. canmore.org.uk/site/28116 📸 My own #HillfortsWednesday

Want access to cutting-edge Scottish archaeological research? Hear the latest on the Ness of Brodgar, a Bronze Age hoard, Perth’s lost priory and more at Archaeological Research in Progress online and in Edinburgh on 3 May. Tickets now on sale: bit.ly/ARPConferenc... #ARP2025

Do you use Historic Environment Scotland's data? If so you need to know that Canmore is being retired this June. Trove (www.trove.scot) is replacing it and is now online in beta. Please try it out and feedback your comments here: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/heritage/470...

900+ women working in archaeology, history and heritage between 1870-1950 👏🏼👏🏼

I founded and chair an "elite law firm" and we are not in retreat. I have spoken with many other "elite" firm leaders that are staffing up. What the WSJ means is large corporate law firms. Please do not confuse quality with cowardice.

Way to go Matt Ritchie... Forestry Land Scotland get another innovative piece of interpretation. Marcus Abbot has excelled in this visually stunning remaking of a Clyde cairn youtu.be/JQp1ymngyLk?...

The ramparts of Preston Cleugh in the Scottish Boarders. Also known as Bunkle Edge. The fort is close to the road and easy to access but it is heavily overgrown with bracken so, make sure to visit in the winter if you want to see anything! #HillfortsWednesday www.trove.scot/place/58616 📷 My own

Very much looking forward to hearing from @joanavaldez.bsky.social and learning about Scottish rock art this evening ... wine poured, snacks made (technically opened but meh).

Hownam Law in the Cheviots hills, to the south of the Tweed basin and also to the south of the Scottish Boarders. At 8.8ha it is the seconds largest fort in the county. It has between 110 to 187 recorded roundhouses within a single rampart and ditch. #HillfortsWednesday 📷 My own