South Uist or the Caribbean? Plus beach-ready sheep 🐑

Still so grateful to be working in Uist with the team behind this @egalarch.bsky.social - stay tuned for Barra and Harris Unearthed!

Everyone needs to be surrounded by friendly Uist ponies at some point in their lives #uibhist #scotland

Duolingo has entirely sussed out my profession and my enthusiasm for it #archaeology #gaelic #gàidhlig

Will miss everyone at @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social hugely, but delighted to be continuing as a member of their #archaeology strategy committee - from Burnswark fieldwork to surveying other not-Mons-Graupius locations (Uist?), it’s going to be a fab archaeology-filled year!

Ferry booked, bags (not) packed… Very excited that in a week’s time I’ll be heading to South Uist, to start a new role with @uhinwh.bsky.social on the Barra and Harris Unearthed digital archaeology project! A wee bit more info on the project here: www.uhi.ac.uk/en/media/new...

The Caithness Broch Project x @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social crossover we didn’t know we needed #brochs #scotland #archaeology

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...

A chilly and snowy New Year’s Day walk to Caisteal MacTuathal #hillfort in #Perthshire, complete with prehistoric rock art nearby #archaeology

Crop marks reveal the #Roman fort of #Trimontium 🌾 Set beside the River Tweed and below the #Eildon Hills, it housed thousands at its height, including soldiers, civilians, women, and children. The site was first identified in the 19th century and excavated by James Curle between 1905 and 1910.

Not every day that you are faced with a complex Atlantic roundhouse on a beer mat #archaeology #brochs #duns #glenelg 🏺

Twas the last #HillfortsWednesday before Christmas When all through Dorset Not a rampart was stirring Not even the sinuously muscular multivallate eastern circuit of Eggardon Iron Age hillfort (here captured from the road that skirts its NE side in Feb 2020) Happy Holidays everyone !!

Plea to stop using prehistoric monuments & peoples as a sub for present-day national identities. Past peoples are not ‘ancestors’, they had no idea of the concept of a nation-state & this archipelago has seen a lot of traffic since the last ice age

Watching the #NewgrangeSolstice livestream from Perthshire this morning and looks like the weather might be on their side! #archaeology #solstice 🏺

Reunited with a roundhouse model I made for an undergraduate #archaeology of architecture course at @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social 7 years ago (!) ago, so had to experiment with the Christmas tea lights 🎄🛖🏺

This is so lovely to hear, @archaeolu.bsky.social and I were delighted to receive so many positive comments after our session - but really it was all down to our amazing contributors (I especially enjoyed Sir Richard’s guest appearance - especially the hat - in Harold’s talk)!

And definitely feeling more inspired (and informed) after @claireboardman.bsky.social and @reallycal.bsky.social’s session on what #archaeology and #heritage can offer to nature-based responses to climate change - thanks for letting me talk about OS maps and machine learning with #MapReader #TAG2025

What a fantastic conference @tag2025york.bsky.social, rounded off with the incredible presentations in our session on #storytelling as creative #archaeological practice! Huge thanks to our speakers and to all the organisers and volunteers for a monumental effort #TAG2025 #yorkTAG 🏺

100% agree - we were blown away by the variety, depth, and sensitivity of all of our speakers! So excited to see what #storytelling can continue to offer to #archaeology in future #TAG2025

A fun #archaeology finds session with @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social this week, featuring the classic games of ‘what part of a tractor is this’ and ‘where do I put this priority button’ #romans #scotland #metaldetecting 🏺

The Long Neolithic persists in a legion of ways, but its lithic manifestations and undismissable earthworks have peculiar power to infect the imagination. For it is harder to anchor folklore to ditches and droveways than it is to a stone. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Really important stuff - #archaeology is far from ‘safe’ even when it remains buried… But these conversations need to happen in collaboration with nature-based approaches to #peatland restoration, at multiple scales, and across traditional borders #peatbogs

For many years I’ve walked past Edinburgh’s Festival Square jokingly wondering why there are several oversized #Neolithic carved stone balls… Only to discover today thanks to @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social that they are indeed modelled on them theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/p...

Just over a week until @tag2025york.bsky.social! Excited to speak about #landscape change and conservation with maps and machine learning (@kmcdono.bsky.social, @david-alexander.bsky.social and team!), and to explore creative interpretations of our pasts through #storytelling @archaeolu.bsky.social

Weekly dose of inspiration from yesterday’s conference on #peatlands, co-hosted by the Consulate General for Ireland, UoE, ECCI, and @crossborder.bsky.social - highlighting amazing and ongoing collaborations across the arts/humanities and sciences, and the impact of research across borders

For anyone who missed this the other day - naidheachd sgoinneil do chànanan na h-Alba! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #gàidhlig #scots

And here is the conference’s webpage hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Looking forward to your paper proposals!

📣 Call for Papers! International Research Network on Quarries and Rock-cut Sites, third conference. The deadline is 31 December 2025 for conference on 14-15 May 2026 at University of Edinburgh. The four wide-ranging themes offer broad scope from #archaeology, #geology, #history, #envhums 🏺

Loch an Eilein and Loch Morlich were showing off their best sides too #aviemore #highlands #scotland

Annual Thurso-Edinburgh family gathering in Aviemore this weekend, joined by the Ayrshire branch this year too 🙌 Pizza night for 25 people became a game of car-based Tetris #aviemore #pizzariach

NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses! Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Yessss @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social so well deserved! 👏👏👏

Finally managed to pop into St Giles at the weekend with @archaeolu.bsky.social to check out the Edinburgh First Burghers exhibition before it closes at the end of the month - very cool work by the team behind it and nice to see some familiar faces! #edinburgh #archaeology #medieval #bioarchaeology

Fantastic and fun session chatting all things rock art with @joanavaldez.bsky.social for the November meeting of Edinburgh’s online @prehistorygroup.bsky.social yesterday 🌀 #rockart #archaeology #prehistory

Yesterday @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social was at the annual Edinburgh, Lothians and Borders Archaeology Conference to share our thoughts on working with metal detectorists towards more holistic understandings of landscapes - lovely to see lots of familiar faces and to hear all your enthusiasm! 🏺

And we *may* have the tabletop replica Roman ballista with us (no promises I’m afraid - but I have heard great things about its marshmallow-launching capabilities) #romans #archaeology

Looking forward to the Edinburgh, Lothians and Borders Archaeology Conference (ELBAC) tomorrow at @qmuniversity.bsky.social - we’ll be there with @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social presenting work on the integration of systematic metal detecting into #archaeological practices at Newstead #Roman fort

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

This is such a fab way of communicating #archaeology and allowing us to be creative with in the past - “leaning into uncertainty” as a positive thing, as @archaeoplays.bsky.social articulated so well at @scotarchforum.bsky.social a few weeks ago 🏺 #storytelling

One of the best #hillforts near our fantastic @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social museum and #Roman fort site - where we do lots of community archaeology! Great views from all the Eildons too #scottishborders

Particularly liked this sign post in Strathdon today...

Very few things rival #Caithness skies

There's still time to submit an abstract for the 2026 International Network on Quarrying and Rock-cut Sites conference 🏺 #archaeology Call for Papers deadline 31 Dec 2025, conference 14-15 May 2026 in Edinburgh. Includes a theme on the intersection of quarrying, rock-cut sites and rock art!

Looking forward to attending the Edinburgh engagement event for CCP-AHC tomorrow at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social - an opportunity to start discussions about the future of sustainable HPC use in archaeology and beyond #digitalhumanities

Seems all us Scots have either run away north to Orkney/Shetland or started incessantly building bridges up the east coast - sounds all right actually

This was such a great watch! Especially lovely to see the emotional side of our work as archaeologists, remembering that behind every object and place are people and stories - and of course presented brilliantly by #SandiToksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social #archaeology

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching