Hadrian's Wall Day 2: East Wallhouses to Chollerford Sheep marking out the vallum; the ditch; a Roman Altar at St Oswald's which was used as an early medieval cross base;the wall at Planetrees

Day 1 walking (most of) Hadrian's Wall. From the Tyne (Newbury) to East Wallhouses. I should point out that the Super Nintendo is not built in to Hadrian's Wall but in to a modern wall beside it

My new #UrbanPrehistory blog post reporting on the horrible fate of the Bogleys Stone of Fife - Barn Storm. This contains a trigger warning for anyone who thinks our heritage - and megaliths - matter. With thanks to Sam McKeand theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/b...

Back home after a few brilliant days at PARIS6. With colleagues from HES we showcased some of the work and research we carry out to preserve the archaeological resource of our estate. The two days were an inspiring range of presentations, discussion and chat with colleagues from across Europe!

Castle Howe Hillfort at Little Langdale in the Lake District. The fort guards the Wrynose Pass, and possibly dates to the Iron Age. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Cumbria

Great to see @eddiecstewart.bsky.social talk for @eafsarch.bsky.social featured in @edinburghminute.com this morning. Free, but ticketed: Wicked Wild Wastes Glencoe and Rannoch Moor 17th - 18th Centuries Date: 13 may • 19:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wicked-wil...

This is such a fabulous find. I love the focus on where it was made - frontiers were full of people who were not soldiers. I write a little about these bowls in my new book - published next week - in a chapter about the craftsmen and women at Hadrian's Wall www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Our final seminar is tomorrow (05/05) and is the annual 'finds medley' featuring three speakers: Dawn McLaren on artefact deposition at Black Loch of Myrton Leanne Demay on materialising identity at Burghead Gemma Cruikshanks on metalworking at St Moluag's, Lismore 6pm in the Usha Kasera LT

A lovely role for someone! - Lecturer in Archaeology at UHI in Kirkwall, Orkney: myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

Had an inspiring and uplifting day at #CIfA2026. Lots of excellent presentations on a huge range of topics and a concluding with a very good panel discussion on the present & future of archaeology in Scotland. Just a shame we didn't get to see the highlights of the last 30 years in Billy Joel style

What is needed is a reappraisal of working conditions and re-evaluation of the role of field archaeologists and their conditions

In an industry where almost half of the archaeologists are women , the retention rate of experienced practitioners is low

Can confirm that they’re still talking about inferior copper ingots

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

Come along to our seminar TODAY to hear more about this astounding discovery

Great opportunity to learn more about dendro and historic woodworking with two of the experts in Scotland

Our next seminar is on Tuesday 7 April at 18.00. Sophia Adams will be talking about the extraordinary finds in the Melsonby Hoard "Accumulating wealth: the growing story of the Melsonby Iron Age hoard" For this seminar we return to the Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre in Old College

Kinneil House *re-opens!* with #HistoricScotland this Saturday 21 March - self-guided indoor tours, 10am-3pm + outdoor guided walk at 12 noon + see museum in probably its last fortnight of Council management - all *free* for this week’s #HippFest Silent Film Festival kinneil.org.uk/2026/03/17/k...

Cats being cats in Medieval times - one walked across this tile mid-production and the maker decided to fire it anyway Taken at Glenluce Abbey in 2017 #TilesOnTuesday

#AdoorableThursday The very narrow south door on Cruggleton Kirk

We're doing it again!! ☺️ As part of the work that Tertia Barnett and I are doing with @scarf-scot.bsky.social, we'll be running another event to celebrate rock art research and launch brand-new sections of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework. 1/

Our next seminar is this coming Tuesday 03/03 at 18:00. We have a change of venue, it will be held in **Lecture Theatre A, 40 George Square** Andrew Fitzpatrick “La Tène: everything you wanted to know but never felt strong enough to ask”

Join the ScARF team! We are looking to hire two ScARF Research Officers and a ScARF Research Manager to help deliver our final two regional research frameworks. Apply by 11:59pm on the 8th of March 2026. More information: socantscot.org/news/#appoin... #HESSupported

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!