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Sneaking Rispain Camp in for #HillfortsWednesday as it is not listed on the Atlas, and we define it as a settlement - but the ditches are absolutely MASSIVE First thought to be a Roman site, then medieval it was revealed as Iron Age following excavation in the 1970s Photos from my visit yesterday

#TombTuesday yesterday I was at Cairn Holy I & II with a colleague and we met a very cute beltie calf

I've been lucky enough to have a copy of this since December. It's a brilliant and fascinating publication, and I'm still swooning over the design and type setting - it really is worth getting a copy of!

Our next seminar is tomorrow (03/02). Martin Carruthers is venturing south to tell us all about the excavations of Iron Age households at The Cairns #broch & settlement 18:00 hours in the Usha Kasera lecture theatre, Old College

Todays walk around southwest #Edinburgh took me to two standing stones The Buckstone is likely medieval but could be older The Caiystane is prehistoric and in the care of @nts-archaeology.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday @stoneclub.bsky.social @secretedinburgh.bsky.social

Not quite a #hillfortswednesday but in the shadow of a fort and 17th century battlefield are the Neolithic timber halls and palisade of Doon Hill. Excavated in the 60s, in the 70s the outlines of the structures were laid out in coloured concrete - a pioneering approach inspired by the Danes

Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?

Made a few improvements to my online portfolio to provide more context with my reconstruction images. I'll include more paradata with the projects I post in future. With so many now questioning image authenticity because of AI, I feel it's more important than ever to declare my sources & references.

The north gateway into Bremenium Roman fort (aka High Rochester) for #RomanFortThursday. Situated on Dere Street, for two centuries this was the most strategically important fort north of Hadrian's Wall. Its name means 'place of the roaring stream'.

WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY ✨ I nearly didn’t go out 2nite. The odds felt slim… but you’ve got to be in it to win it. A quick check of the stats, alerts & cloud cover around 19:30 & I thought, if I can reach the Keswick Stone Circle by 20:30, there might just be a gap...then BINGO #Aurora #Northernlights

Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday

Jan 13: Feast of Kentigern, ‘hound-lord’, (Mungo) (c.†614), bishop of Glasgu (Glasgow), which he is said to have founded. He was a contemporary of Riderch I, king of Alt Clut (Dumbarton Rock). He is thought to be the ‘Conthigirnus’ whose obit appears in the Annales Cambriae. #medievalsky

Our next talk is on Tuesday 13/01 at 18:00 in the Usha Casera Lecture Theatre L Teufel: “A multi-period settlement next to the River Spey”. C Hatherley: “The Roman Villa Estate at Necton, Norfolk” C Cockburn: “Excavation results from two possible Roman Temporary Marching Camps near Edinburgh”

The snow allowing the faint traces of a #Roman granary building at Rough Castle to be seen

Let's take a moment to think about all those people who chose today to announce the fact they didn't discover a carnyx. 🙏😢🥰 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A great range of topics for the remainder of the @firstmillennia.bsky.social seminar series. Lots of Iron Age goodness, with sites, finds, hoards and a whole culture!

A Hogmanay wander with pals to see the Fingask Long Barrow. Still needs some time for the landscape to settle, and sadly the interior was gated off so we couldn't see the full majesty of its construction (see interior images in the link below) www.stonespecialist.com/news/stone-p... #TombTuesday

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Very nice bit of analysis. I'm guessing the mint might have been in Edinburgh Castle "It was minted in Edinburgh, so it's the first time that we have Scottish coinage being minted in what was a core part of the Scottish kingdom." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Inviting light in to the darkest day with a very appropriate #archaeology tealight holder #solstice

Blessed Solstice! From tomorrow the days begin to get longer again blog.historicenvironment.scot/2023/12/the-...

Clubbiedean Fort: An Iron Age fortification on the shore of Clubbiedean reservoir a few km SW of Edinburgh. #HillfortsWednesday Consisting of an inner and outer rampart, each with external ditch and a possible entrance to the south. More 1/

Traces of Neolithic feasting, possible evidence of a Roman siege, and an amulet once thought to be imbued with supernatural power are just some of Scotland's top archaeological discoveries from 2025 🤩 Dig into our list of finds spanning 6,000 years of history: www.digitscotland.com/five-of-scot...

Two for #TombTuesday Holm of Papay South - Chambered cairn as seen by the birds of Winter and the birds of Summer. (Holmie sheep in formation. #Papay #Orkney #neolithic

Thinking of studying for a PhD? I'd be happy to hear from anyone considering research into British or Irish prehistory, monuments, radiocarbon dating, heritage. Part-time, distance options. There are funding schemes here at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social - but be quick, deadlines are in Jan/Feb!

Congratulations to @crookston.bsky.social

Our next seminar is tomorrow - 2nd December with the superb @archaeonado.bsky.social on his recent research into Whithorn 6pm in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre

Was a privilege to be invited to attend yesterday to the opening/reveal of the new mosaic installation in the well at Glasgow Cathedral. The project highlights the oft overlooked feature which is integral to the story of St Ketigern and Glasgow itself More info etc www.aproxima.co.uk/the-well

Hoping for aliens/pirate treasure/ancient magical balls

Afternoon fellow heritage-folk. Does anyone have access to J.M Lindsay's 1975 paper "Charcoal iron smelting and its fuel supply; the example of Lorn furnace, Argyllshire, 1753–1876" in the Journal of Historical Geography? Would be much appreciated if anyone can share a copy!

Just to show that HES staff and Employees continue to do serious and well needed work On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, here is the story of Margaret Hall's Cairn, Edinburgh. blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/11/marg... thank you

Given the awe this has given me in 2025, I can hardly begin to imagine what people in the past must have thought when they heard such a thing

Very nice to see this take/interpretation on Y Gododdin at Edinburgh Castle - Castle of Light tonight

Guess who has just spent 15 minutes trying to get in to a livestream for a lecture that is actually tomorrow. Just as well I decided to not go along in person!

"Ancient well hidden for centuries in Glasgow Cathedral crypt is being reawakened" Musicians, artists and archaeologists to collaborate on the interpretation of the well in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral, connected with the site's founder St Mungo. Read more here👇 www.classicfm.com/music-news/a...

Had a great day with the team visiting the Govan Stones, hearing all about the work that Govan Workspace are doing to create a viable future & getting a tour from Prof Driscoll himself. Make sure you visit when they reopen in 2026 thegovanstones.org.uk #TombTuesday (given the Govan Sarcophagus)

Ballymeanoch #StandingStoneSunday

Our next seminar is Tuesday 4 November at 6pm Peter Guest will be talking on 'Feeding the Roman Army in Britain ' Once again the seminar will take place in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh.

Turns out on this day in 2014 I was at Hambledon Hill with @nts-archaeology.bsky.social and @nattrustarch.bsky.social #HillfortsWednesday

Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses Proper lovely 😍 🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011 For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html #HillfortsWednesday

Heading through to Glasgow Cathedral later today to see what is found at the top of the well by Clyde Archaeology. The archaeology of tourism and contemporary ritual offerings?

Our first seminar of the season is tomorrow, Tuesday 7 October at 18:00 Tanja Romankiewicz will be presenting on '"Another Wall of Turf": the Antonine Wall in the context of Roman turf building' Please note that in a departure from the norm we are in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre

Bad, enraging, archaeological process Bad, enraging, use of archaeology It's the duty of all #archaeologists to condemn this nationalistic use of #archaeology by Israel to support it's genocidal, warmongering aims www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Save the dates for FMSG 2025-26 👇

Sept 16: Feast of Nynia (Ninian) (C5th), British bishop and apostle associated with early church Candida Casa / Hwit Aerne, 'White House’, (Whithorn, Galloway). His shrine remains a popular pilgrimage-place. 📸AOC Archaeology #medievalsky

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