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

Maps silence and they other, what is 'off the map' is as important as what is 'on the map'

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

Not every day that 2 K. Lilley's also share scholarly interests! So glad that @kirstylilley.bsky.social and @profkdlilley.bsky.social have connected, and through MapReader no less :)

Sad to be saying goodbye to Belfast after a brilliant two-day workshop exploring AI in visual and textual analysis, organised by the Digital Scholarship Hub at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social - huge thanks to the organisers for the invitation to present our #MapReader LCCM work #digitalhumanities

Incredible prehistoric archaeology on the outskirts of Belfast - Giant’s Ring (with a dolmen!) #archaeology #prehistory #Belfast #Ireland

Belfast’s version of Scotland’s Irn Bru vending machines

Requiem for a hillfort Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows 📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️ 📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002 #HillfortsWednesday

More archaeology in the news that the @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social archaeology team are involved with! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #archaeology #romans #ironage #scotland

Great talk by Luke Barry @rubiconarchaeology.bsky.social for #SAF2025 on the power of social media for reaching new audiences! Kenneth and I from the Caithness Broch Project chatted about building #brochs and community resilience for their fab podcast The Shindig last year youtu.be/_adQApclNOI

I wrote a thing on the @softwaresaved.bsky.social blog about HPC & MapReader + the new "Collaborative Computational Project for Arts, Humanities, and Culture" in the UK (showcasing work by @kirstylilley.bsky.social & Rosie Wood, among others!) www.software.ac.uk/blog/high-pe...

For anyone at @scotarchforum.bsky.social this weekend, I’ll be on the stalls for the Caithness Broch Project and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social and keen to chat about everything from community archaeology with metal detectors to planning permission for a broch! #archaeology #scotland #broch #romans

Broch-tastic news. Taking experimental #archaeology to the extreme! Such a fantastic project, great news for #Caithness and Scottish archaeology. #IronAge #Broch #Scotland www.northern-times.co.uk/news/scotlan...

Stressful day yesterday. One of the smaller, shyer parts of Stonehenge drank too much and got “lost”. We finally found it, looking rather disorientated in this random field 100+ miles away. Now finally been loaded into van ready to be transported home. Everyone tired and emotional but v relieved.

We will, we will Broch you #IronAge #archaeology 👇👇 www.bbc.com/news/article...

📰 Whilst searching for the remains of a 400-year-old castle at Derrygonnelly, Northern Ireland, archaeologists have discovered a "mind-blowing" 8,000-year-old Mesolithic settlement! 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Come and hear about our work with @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social bringing together archaeologists, metal detectorists, and our inspiring community volunteers for new ways of studying past (and present) landscapes at SAF 2025!

Brochs brochs brochs #archaeology #caithness #brochs www.bbc.com/news/article...

We’re so excited to be one step closer to building a broch! #archaeology #caithness #scotland #broch

Swapping Roman archaeology for northern lights chasing in Aberdeenshire with @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social #aurora #scotland #northernlights #archaeology

Calling all rock enthusiasts! Come join us in Edinburgh next year #archaeology #rockcut #quarries

The world needs more Google reviews of stones like this one

🏺 Always intrigued about potential that such things existed in prehistoric settlements. Identifying multi-storey buildings from stone remains are one thing, but organic superstructures might not preserve. e.g. what if these Neolithic house models aren't symbolic, but show real architecture?

Our brains are wired to feel good when we see the fractal patterns of trees. Make some time for tree gazing if you can. It will be worth it. Photo: Mike Selby

Archaeologists mildly disappointed by trench full of postholes with nothing in them.

A beautiful article about writing about archaeology - with so much to say about factual storytelling and documentary-making more generally. (I’m off to chat with my friend, the Cheshire Cat).

That certain portal tombs have fallen down and been rebuilt by the local communities around them is not a failing of the Long Neolithic, but a sign of its success. The stones are so alive among their neighbours, they will not see them tumble. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

⚠️DEADLINE EXTENSION⚠️ Did you miss the deadline for submitting your abstract to TAG? Not a worry! Due to popular demand we've extended our submission deadline another two weeks! The final deadline is now the 18th of August. Check the website for more info: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

How brilliant is this www.weregildcalculator.com

I love the bilingual signage at Rough Castle Roman fort in Scotland - England and Latin of course, handy if any ancient Roman soldier happens to be walking their dog in the area...also useful if you have ever wondered how to say 'car park' in Latin. #RomanFortThursday