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This huge Neolithic tomb survives today due to whiskey! 🥃 After excavation in the 1930s this hangar was built to protect it, paid for by local man Walter Grant, who owned the whiskey distillery in Kirkwall! 📍Midhowe Cairn, Rousay, Orkney, Scotland #TombTuesday 📸 Me #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

The remains of Cairn Holy II - one of two Neolithic chambered cairns which overlook Wigtown Bay in Dumfries & Galloway. The Clyde-type chambered cairn was traditionally thought to be the tomb of Caldus, the mythical Scottish King. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Archaeology

For #TombTuesday... Haroldstown Portal Tomb, Co Carlow, Ireland Image: 2022 Infrared #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Landscape #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Carlow

#MedievalMonday This spire and cross marks the spot where Joan of Arc was burned to death by the English on 30th May 1431 She was 19 📍 Place du Vieux-Marché, Rouen, France 📸 Mine #history #photooftheday #archaeology 🏺

#StandingStoneSunday Callanish II and the ruined farm buildings that pepper this landscape 📸 Mine #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

Apparently it's #WorldHippoDay! 🦛🦛 Let's celebrate with this #Egyptian carving of a Hippo, made 5.000 years ago from calcite. Hippopotami were associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth. On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 📷 me 🏺

#StandingStoneSunday #Stunday Doon Standing Stone 2, Sligo, Ireland There are two standing stones in adjacent fields here - posted one last week, this is the other #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #Landscape #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Sligo

The Nine Stones of Winterbourne Abbas

*Academic sells history off to the highest bidder* There, BBC, we sorted that headline for you If he truly feels *a connection* to the find, as the article claims, would he not have donated it to a museum? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some of the remaining stones of Mitchell’s Fold Stone Circle in southwest Shropshire, near the village of White Grit. Dating to the Bronze Age, there were possibly 30 stones at one time; only 15 are now visible. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Shropshire

An Angel from the ‘Wirksworth Stone’ - sculptured stonework from St. Mary’s Church at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Comprising of biblical scenes & figures, the stone dates from the 7th to 9th centuries, and may have originally been used as a coffin lid. 📸 My own #StoneworkSunday

Iron Age hoard to go on public display this summer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love among the Heretics! This piece of carnelian has been carved in the shape of Akhenaten (the 'heretic pharaoh') kissing his wife Nefertiti c.1340BC, Ancient Egypt 📍In the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, Cambridge 📸 Mine 🏺 #FindsFriday #archaeology #vday #valentinesday #photooftheday

❤️Love tokens? Two heart shaped lithics. First, polished pink granite, flat on reverse. Second a naturally occurring heart shaped piece of flint-collected for it's symbolic meaning? Age uncertain, Neolithic onwards. #Archaeology #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Love #Wirral

The remains of the 12th century chapel on St. Ninian’s Isle in Shetland. The site is famous for its hoard of Pictish silver which was discovered in 1958.📸 My own. #StNiniansIsle #Shetland

#hillfortwednesday - miraculously an hour of sun on Salisbury Plain today enabling a condition survey of Battlesbury Hillfort. Not looking bad and the views were grand. Colt Hoare’s plan in Ancient Wiltshire still works. #archaeology #wiltshire #ironage #celts

Massive congratulations to the Oued Beht Archaeological Project team, whose research was awarded a 2025 Field Discovery Award at the Shanghai World Archaeology Forum! Read their prize-winning research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

A magnetometry survey of Abbotsbury Castle hillfort #Dorset has shown that there are, in the SE corner of the enclosure, a series of Iron Age roundhouse platforms with collapsed daub walls, postholes and storage pits 🤩 11 have so far been identified © Dave Stewart 2014 #HillfortsWednesday

Fragment of the Ur-Nammu stele from Bronze Age Mesopotamia, depicting a person playing cymbals #ReliefWednesday Evidence of cymbal-playing has also been found in the Indus Valley and Arabia, indicating musical traditions were shared around the Gulf. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

A weekend double (or triple!) feature in Cambridge. Join us on one of our two tours (Saturday: Power, Women and Queer History; Sunday: Original Uncomfortable Cambridge) and then head over to the Museum of Cambridge for their new exhbition, "Making Angelina: The World of Helen Craig." Link in bio 🔗

#TombTuesday Here around 900AD, in this triangle of stones, a viking woman was buried ...right in front of the Iron Age Broch of Gurness in Orkney The Vikings may have chosen this spot specifically due to the ruins of the broch and the power that came with them 📸 Me #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

#TombTuesday - a quiet morning at Callanish before the tourists arrive in June 2024, with my cycling buddies giving me a moment.. Marvelling at the miniature chambered tomb which sits at the heart of the stone circles & alignments, crammed between the tallest central stones 😮 📷 My own

STOP PEERS BLOCKING THE #ASSISTEDDYINGBILL The behaviour of peers has been utterly appalling. It shows contempt for democratic process, public will, as well as indifference to the pleas of terminally ill people. Support freedom of choice. Sign the petition! 👇 humanists.uk/2026/02/06/p...

#OnThisDay in AD 1897, a British raid destroyed and looted Benin City, wiping out the Benin Kingdom. Now, excavations at the Oba's historic palace site shed light on architecture, artisanal practice, trade, diet and more in pre-colonial West Africa. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.

Reposting for #SundaySheep. (Stones + Sheep = 🥰)

It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl. 🏈🦉 #SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026

Who has been out seeing stones and ancient sites this weekend? Here are two sights from today but can you name them?

#StandingStoneSunday During construction of this bridge "a causeway of ancient origins but unknown age" was discovered underwater Could that be the ancient route used by Neolithic peoples to reach this stone circle? 📍 Callanish VIII, Bernera island, Scotland 📸 Me #archaeology #photoftheday 🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday The bathhouses of Mactaris, Tunisia, with it's lovely mosaic floor and archways still intact 📸 Mine #archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺

Some of the surviving third century walls of Caistor Roman Town (Venta Icenorum) in Norfolk. The town was established in around AD 70, and served as the principal centre for the region. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain

#FindsFriday A huge hollow gold torq from the Snettisham Hoard, dating to about 70 BC in the Iron Age It may have been part of royal treasure of the Iceni tribe! Found in Norfolk, England, in 1948 📍 Seen in Norwich Castle Museum 📸 Mine #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

The history of evolutionary ideas about chins took me to Darwin, Pliny the Elder, Stephen Jay Gould, and Theodore Roosevelt. It's an irresistable subject that has befuddled scientists all this time. www.johnhawks.net/p/what-the-h...

One of the surviving ramparts of Burghead Fort - a Pictish promontory fort in Moray. The fort was occupied between 6th and 10th centuries AD, and was a major centre of Pictish power. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Burghead #Picts

#RomanFortThursday: a #Roman dagger and and two dagger sheaths, both elaborately decorated with inlays (silver, brass, enamel). Found in the Roman fort at Ehingen-Risstissen, dating 1st century AD. On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen 🏺 #archaeology

Butterfly #archaeology for #WesternMonarchDay 🦋 The moth/butterfly (motjala) motif appears in rock art in the Flinders Islands Group, Australia. Collaboration between academics and the islands' Traditional Owners helps protect this cultural heritage 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

An iron dagger (with wooden handle) and iron scabbard (with gold and silver inlay) found in the 1960s excavation of the mid 1st c AD #Roman fort at Waddon Hill #Dorset Hopefully not used on any of the Durotriges ! 😬 Now in the fantastic Bridport Museum 📷 Feb 2023 #RomanFortThursday

A fascinating patchwork of building materials in the wall of St Leonard's Church, Southminster, including recycled Roman tiles, medieval flint and modern brick. #WallsonWednesday

"Mount Misery" (or Mount Maesry), the jumbled remains of a Neolithic tomb on the island of Sanday in Orkney, Scotland In more recent times the inner chamber was used a potato store! #TombTuesday 📸 Dan Lee #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

#TombTuesday... Annaghmare Court Tomb - A closer view of some of the drystone-walling and one of the larger stones defining the court Annaghmare Court Tomb, Armagh, Ireland #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #photography #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #CloseUp #Armagh

This week is the #TapatiFestival, a celebration of the culture and traditions of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Long thought to have spread from West Polynesia with the first settlers, radiocarbon dates suggest some ritual practices originate on the island. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

#HillfortsMonday 🤔 Simply delighted to receive author copies of the 3rd impression of #Hillforts today 🥳🛖 A huge thank you to everyone who has brought a copy since it launched in Oct 2023 🙏 It includes amazing new images & also some minor updates - I do listen to those emails & reviews 🥰 Enjoy!

The fact peers ideologically or religiously opposed to the #AssistedDyingBill have made it almost impossible for it to pass should be recognised as a national tragedy and a crisis for our democracy. Time matters to terminally ill people. It should for the Lords too. observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...

Our online course 'Introducing humanism: non-religious approaches to life' led by writer, broadcaster, and humanist Sandi Toksvig is available and free to access for everyone. 🎉 Start learning with Sandi today. @humanismedu.bsky.social

Claims that Gen Z is the new ‘spiritual generation’ are a myth, driven largely by a Bible Society report based on weak and misleading data. When you look at robust, independent evidence, the story falls apart. 🧵 www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

For #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... Kilfountan Cross Pillar, Kerry, Ireland This slender standing stone had/has an ogham inscription and is elaborately carved Image: 2018 infared #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Kerry

The Blind Fiddler #StandingStoneSunday

This one never gets old. We all need a good laugh these days.

This is my watercolour of Mên-an-Tol, a Neolithic or Bronze Age monument in Cornwall. Thought to be the remains of a stone circle or tomb, climbing through its circular stone is said to cure illness. The original work is now available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI #StandingStoneSunday