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

Draft chapters for the South West Scotland Archaeological Research Framework are now live and we'd love your feedback! You can comment directly on the framework through the ScARF website. More info about the drafts and our commenting feature can be found in our latest newsletter: bit.ly/42hUYVx

For #RomanFortThursday the spectacular earthworks of Ardoch Roman Fort likely dating to the mid-2nd century AD The Romans repeatedly used the area as a halting-place on a major axis of communication may be gauged by the number of temporary camps which have been detected in the fields to the north

Just back from the amazing Friends @crookston.bsky.social Castle fun day at the castle As you can see the crowds were amazing, queuing to get in with nearly 1000 people attending, twice the expected number. Part of 3 days of community engagement, including the geophysical survey of the castle

Great to see this Castle Studies Trust funded project at Historic Scotland's (and @nts-archaeology.bsky.social) Crookston Castle underway

#OTD 28 August 1571, Marye, lady Seton, the earl of Huntlye, Sir James Balfour, William Maitland of Lethington, and Marie Fleming make and sign an inventory of jewels in Edinburgh Castle

#ManuscriptMonday + #MusicMonday : Bagpiping piggy! 🐷🎶 Illustration in a ca. 16th c. Irish illuminated manuscript: Dindshenchas, RIA MS D ii 2, f.34r. @ria.ie : www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_D...

Historic Environment Scotland have just published published Conserving our Underwater Heritage. Non statutory guidance note. www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and...

One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s loststonesofasda.wordpress.com Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire

Three entries for #ADoorAbleThursday this week, all from the cloister of the Cluniac priory in Carennac which I visited earlier this week. The fledgling Swifts? were having a well deserved rest on the hood moulding of the door into the church

Ok so it's not prehistoric but it is stone and it is standing, and it is Sunday. I did some very rough and ready Structure from Motion after my visit to St Orland's Stone the other week. Really helped pull out the detail of the carvings #StandingStoneSunday

Lovely to see dendrochronology and community research going hand-in-hand to solve this mystery www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.  news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2... 🏺

#AskAnArchaeologist Day is on Bluesky this year! 🏺 Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries. @archaeologyuk.bsky.social