Really interesting project by @sgsah.bsky.social funded #PhD candidate Cameron looking at #Neolithic Narratives. If you've been to #Orkney please do take part and help shape the future of how these sites are accessed and presented.

The third and final article in the Archaeology of Scotland's Natural Larder series is now available on the Dig It! website.

North Ronaldsay's sheep are renowned for their unusual diet of seaweed—but their eating habits aren't a new phenomenon 🐏 By analysing over 100 Neolithic sheep teeth, archaeologists have shown that sheep in Orkney were grazing on seaweed over 4,500 years ago: www.digitscotland.com/the-archaeol...

“7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region's first farmers” Tom Metcalfe Live Science. apple.news/AaM4xDInWSNS...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

A Neolithic winter. The Knap O'Howar on a snowy Papay day in January. A fastness in time, caught. #Papay #neolithic #archaeology #orkney

The recording of Friday's seminar, on "Traders and Produce in Early Modern Orkney" is now online.

First mentioned in Roman sources over 1,700 years ago as a collective name for troublesome, barbaric peoples, the Picts went on to become the dominant kingdom in northern Britain 💪 On 12 February, explore their southern kingdoms at this online event: www.digitscotland.com/events/east-...

I am so flipping delighted for @archaeoholz.bsky.social. We have been study buddies for years. After all the 1000's of limpet shells she's measured over the past 4 years, she more than deserves her doctorate 🤣😂!! #Congratulations Kween 🐚🍾🥂🎉 #Orkney #Archaeology #ThinkUHI #SGSAH #Shells

On June 11, 1725, the notorious Orcadian pirate John Gow faced his fate at the Execution Dock in Wapping, London. Read more on the John Gow Heritage Trail #Orkney now in @orkneycom.bsky.social blog. tinyurl.com/24ukfysj

Read @thinkuhi.bsky.social UHI PhD candidate Tara Athanasiou recent article in the Journal of Medieval History published by Taylor & Francis reviewing UHI INS Visiting Professor Judith Jesch book 'The Saga of the Earls of Orkney'. tinyurl.com/322u762z

When in Rome... #Archaeology #Roman #Italy

If you are near Thurso 7pm 16/02/26 Stephen Barnaby INS graduate invites you to a lecture at the Nucleus: The Nuclear and Caithness Archive 'Bishops, Butter and Beer Cellars: The Role of Caithness in the Demise of the Northern Scottish Norse Jarldoms'

Special offer on #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney extended to the end of this month! shop.orcadian.co.uk/product/sign...

A bit of a quick screenshot, amazing aurora tonight..

#Aurora #MerrieDancers #NorthernLights #Sutherland #Scotland

Apparently today is #BlueMonday well check out the #Blues in this picture. No filters, just the amazing #Orkney sky, the #Sea and the beautiful #Broch of Gurness, with the island of Rousay in the distance. #IronAge #Summer

It's not an aggressive hand gesture sent from the distant past, but rather a comb with broken-off teeth from the eponymous Ertebølle shell midden. Neergaard (1900) found the object itself to be 'probably the most charming of all the [Ertebølle] combs', but he is super underwhelmed by its decoration

#StainedGlassSunday Sunshine through the beautiful southwest windows of @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social Kirkwall #Orkney #Scotland illuminating the columns in the nave.

#SuperSeabirdSunday A bazaar of guillemots on a ledge at the Brough of Birsay #Orkney, although as this is a breeding colony, it's a loomery of guillemots apparently!! #Scotland 📷 mine all mine, taken in 2023!

Professors Mike Parker Pearson and Niall Sharples – of Stonehenge and Maiden castle fame, respectively – are among the speakers for our new season of free online seminars.

Date for your diary..... @thinkuhi.bsky.social Free online Public Seminar Series 'Early Modern Hunting in a Highland Context: Conclusions from a Study of the Breadalbane Estates' by Ian MacLellan. ➕7.00pm 26th March 2026. Register: tinyurl.com/5b57zbu5

Learn more about @northernpicts.bsky.social at @britishacademy.bsky.social on 21st May www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

PALaEoScot is in Orkney this week working with Dr Ben Elliott sampling bone from early Mesolithic site, Tarradale. Project PhD student Tayla Sanders is looking at mammalian faunal biodiversity in Scotland at the end of the Ice Age and during the Mesolithic - watch this space!

Archaeologist to lead Inverness YAC excavation (Invitation to tender) Inverness Young Archaeologists Club Salary: £6000 (Maximum budget) see main text Closing Date: January 23, 2026 Location: near Dingwall www.bajr.org/job-ad/archa...

🚨 #Roman villa alert! 🚨 📰 Ground Penetrating Radar has revealed a >500 sq m, well-preserved villa in South Wales, with potential to teach us a huge amount about life from the 1st all the way to the 5th century AD 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I didn't know that Babycham was perry until I moved to Somerset. Did The Wurzels ever do a song about it?

FOI requests show that in 2024/2025, payments to individual finders & landowners for 'Treasure' rewards cost us £7,280,321.26 1/2 bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/t... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

We had a question about research into sites that share dramatic hilltop locations with TV masts. Maybe someone knows more but it’s a good way to show how to use our new search features to find these. 1/

My inaugural #SuperSeaBirdSunday image. Taken by me at the Castle of Burrian, Westray #Orkney in 2023. It's the perfect spot for puffin watching! IMHO, it's also the best picture I have ever taken! I bet @adammarkham.bsky.social will have some amazing images.

The dates for our 2026 excavations have now been set.

Bluesky is alive with the sound of Carnyx this morning, and this is a splendid thing

Want a heritage job? In beautiful usually-there’s-not-this-much-snow #Orkney? As part of our community project to reopen the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles to visitors, we now have three paid positions advertised for 2026. For more info follow the link. Applications close 5pm, 18 January. 🏺

Not left the house today, head down writing, but gosh, it's beautiful outside. #Snow #Sutherland #Scotland #PhDLife

This summer, investigations unearthed evidence that a hillfort in Dumfries & Galloway may have been besieged by an invading Roman force 1,900 years ago ⚔️ Experts say the new data from Burnswark Hill "challenges long-held assumptions about Scotland’s past": www.digitscotland.com/five-of-scot...

“I see the birds have flown…” 🕊️ The attempt by King Charles I to arrest five MPs during a sitting of the Long Parliament in January 1642 was a tipping point in England’s descent into civil war. 📷: @johnbeardy

Post a book quote you love. The Twits by Roald Dahl #bookchallenge #booksky #booklovers

#Snow #Sutherland #Scotland #DaftDog #Walkies Someone is enjoying the weather!

How exciting, the #Medieval sandstone head found at the @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social excavation at Skaill Farm, Rousay #Orkney made the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social list of fascinating finds of 2025 #Archaeology #ThinkUHI #UHI www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seve...

#Snow #Sutherland #Scotland #WeatherWarning The Emigrants monument, a glorious sky, peaty river ice, and the old A9 bridge over the river Helmsdale #UKSnow 6/10

We are snowed in! The A9 is closed, roads impassable, #Snow higher than the front door (at least 6 inches), but we are all good. Keep safe and warm, everyone. #Sutherland #Scotland. #WeatherWarning

4 inches og #Snow since 10am this morning, #ThinkUHI ruler for scale! More to come as an Amber warning is still in place! #Snow #Sutherland #Scotland #WeatherWarning

Great blog post by @jaztherunologist.bsky.social about our #runic adventures in Orkney in October earlyrunes.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...

#Snow #Sutherland #Scotland #WeatherWarning

Happy New Year from #Orkney Wonderful #Hogmanay concert earlier today at @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social by Jennifer Wrigley, Laurence Wilson and the Reel Fiddlers to get us in the right mood. #HappyNewYear #2026

Last #Sunset of 2025 over #Sutherland #Scotland. #HappyNewYear, everyone, have a happy and healthy 2026. Lang may yer lum reek. #Hogmanay

Tractor Run in Kirkwall #Orkney 29 Dec. Credit to nephew Sweyn for video showing my 1st cousin once removed and his son driving past St Magnus Cathedral. A 2nd cousin once removed is one of the organisers. #FamilyHistory

#Sunset over the Strath of Kildonan #Sutherland #Scotland

#StandingStoneSunday One of the Achnavanich monoliths complete with #Soltice offerings. Taken a year ago today at the horseshoe shaped stone "circle" near Thurso. #Caithness #Scotland #Neolithic

#Reddeer in the mist. Glen Loth #Sutherland #Scotland