...and in great news - this is what £250,000 can buy you in a museum. We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔 #Archaeology 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Proper treat yesterday listening to Dr Ana Vale of Uni of Porto speaking on her incredible research into social lives in Late Prehistory. Thank you to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @lesleymcf.bsky.social for the invitation, the Carena Institute for Sustainable Archaeologies is up and running 🌟

Five MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduates will be showcasing their work at the Northlight gallery, Stromness, from November 14-25, 11am to 4pm.

As it's Richard Jefferies' birthday (born #OTD in 1848), here's an extract from a piece he wrote for The Graphic in 1877 about flint: "all along the vast caravan route, so to say, of the human race… in cave and mound, and river, the chipped flint is found, the stamp, as it were, of [man's] presence"

Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...

Central Devil's Arrow, Boroughbridge #photography

Another session working with Ronald Morris’s rock art archive in the HES search room. There are probably 5,000 to 7500 individual archive items pertaining to 2000+ rock art sites across Scotland. All uncatalogued & unscanned. Huge research potential! Images all (c) HES

Honestly. We all need to read this. The amount of money apparently being spent, which could instead be being invested in our museum services is horrific. Next figures from DCMS/PAS are due in the next month or two. How bad will they be? #Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs #Detecting

The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age. #Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology

A thread following yesterday’s Neolithic Studies Group fantastic conference in London on the theme of kinship in the Neolithic of Europe. Over 150 folk in the room or online, and many, many friendly faces. Watch out for news of our 2026 events!

What a fantastic day yesterday was! Such a rich set of data and perspectives on kinship. I learnt so much. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Also good showing from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social with my paper, and Sophie Charleton speaking later on about the curious site of Banbury lane.

The best conference session in the history of TAG will take place on Monday 15th December at the University of York called 'Time-Layered Narratives: Engaging Non-Specialists with Temporally Complex Sites' tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/

It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help. Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology survey.app.do/archaeologis...

Josh Pollard kicking off today’s Neolithic Studies Group conference on the theme of kinship #NSGKinship

This seems doubly risky given the penalties for damaging an ancient monument on the schedule of the 1882 Act 🙈

“The circle sits beautifully within a vertical landscape. Tower blocks, the cathedral spire..the obelisks of the Victorian cemetery, even the wind turbines on surrounding hills, all seem to mirror the stones." A lovely read on Sighthill's nod to prehistory from Peter Ross' book Upon a White Horse.

@plasmatron.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social FYI. That article is in the Herald today, as I mentioned. Thanks again for being part of it.

Three Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest

BBC News - Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Your regular reminder that the Weird and Wonderful playlist from the BBC Archive is an absolute treasure trove of folk horror news reports. This one just got posted.

Roman potters mass produced Lamps & Deitity figurines in pottery Workshops across the Empire. 🏺#AncientBluesky #Archaeology In my next session at the Roman Army Museum I'll be giving you the chance to create your own using authentic methods and replica moulds. BOOK NOW! share.google/hSTds6ZQzpQh...

Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕 Find out more⬇️ https://bit.ly/43ivms8.

In other words a waste of precious time for most academics. But this is what we’re judged on.

The govt is revoking the A303 (Amesbury to Berwick Down) Development Consent Order 2023, ie it's closing down the Stonehenge tunnel. A reminder that despite reports citing only vocal tunnel opponents (such as below), it had much backing, including among archaeologists www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

2025 Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History! Catriona M.M. Macdonald, The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History. Edinburgh: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., 2024. ISBN: 9780859767200. Congratulations, Dr. Macdonald! 🏆🎉 Read the jury's citation: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottis...

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

The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge

Just published and available open access here: www.sidestone.com/books/place-... #archaeology

SEMINAR 27th Feb 16:15pm the Meadows LT ‘States of mind: rethinking the story of the early state in light of recent excavations at Shakhi Kora & survey in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region, Iraq’ @claudiaglatz.bsky.social  @uofglasgow.bsky.social 📷 Ⓒ Sirwan Regional Project @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Digs in the Highlands have found material remains connected to the 1692 Mort Ghlinne Comhann (Glencoe Massacre) ⚔️ On 20 October, join @archscot.bsky.social to discover the artefacts revealing how people lived in the glen before, during and after the tragedy: www.digitscotland.com/.../an-archa...

This will be a fascinating talk tomorrow, 3pm BST. It's online, free but registration is required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-archaeo...

Yeah it's only matter of time before they decide archaeology is the reason for the housing crisis, too. Build baby build until we have no past, no future... What a present.

Popped into Govan Old. The Pictish sarcophagus is looking great. I signed my books in their excellent gift shop. Perhaps pick up a Christmas present while helping @govanstones.bsky.social fundraising?

'Animating the Dead: An #Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in #Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county. Available to pre-order now. #BronzeAge #Prehistory

Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla... #OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

Thread of the week! Superb!

I have strong feelings about stratigraphy. I have stronger feelings about the schematic examples that we use to teach stratigraphy. Artefacts shouldn't float in the middle of the layer, for example. No colour-coding, obscure symbols to indicate difference, etc. #archink #archink2025 #inktober +

OK I’ve got this thing in my office. What should I do with it?

🎯 Our #totaliser reaches 83%! Can YOU help us get over the line? 🎯 tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

Animate it with augmented reality

OK I’ve got this thing in my office. What should I do with it?

Good turnout on a dreich night for a talk I did this evening on the archaeology of the @glasgowgardenfestival.org project to the Bearsden & Milngavie Heritage Society. Nice to see so many familiar and friendly faces!

Always a pleasure to visit the incredible Ballochmyle rock art panel in Ayrshire. I visited today with the Dundonald Castle YAC and the kids enjoyed doing some rock art recording! This is truly a hidden gem of Scottish archaeology.

Everyone should have a lunchtime megalith

I can’t believe Peter Cushing made Star Wars and Shock Waves in the same year. Two fascist roles!

Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.

First week of term, first year of study, evening teaching, from Birkbeck to British Museum, from gallery to study room, from Neolithic Cumbria to Bronze Age Cambridgeshire through the connection of Langdale stone, from gold cup to gold-makers hoard.