🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Photos of a HUGE early medieval posthole, complete with stone packing and an IMMENSE piece of quartz, are emerging from the dig in Govan Old's 1,500-year-old churchyard. More when we get it... 📷 Bex - Grave Sight Photography

"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time. 🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without

The UK spends proportionately less on HE than many comparable countries. And yet it has internationally excellent universities that yearly attract 100s of 1000s of students from around the world. Meanwhile, government treats the sector with a mix of indifference and hostility. I don't get it.

It’s at utter farce that such research is funded or even carried out when we can’t even effectively conserve many declining species on this diseased rock of ours. Leave what’s gone, gone. Use your research skills for something that’s actually going to make a positive difference to real problems.

Have Disney pulled the Indiana Jones movies for being mean to nazis yet?

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Fabulous early Bronze Age ‘beaker’ found in the C19th near Lochgilphead. Roughly 4000 years old and still impressive. (Kilmartin museum)

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Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Website updated! (still need to add my Hearth of Science prehistory project with Pete Hommel to the Collaborations page...) www.rebeccawraggsykes.com

Quite excited to hear that tickets for Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026 are now available! My archaeology quest/dream/thingy began just after the event this year, so really looking forward to attending my first one next year! #Derbyshire #archaeology chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...

Only thing better than Christmas Day? Radiocarbon dates day!! 🧪🔬🧫

My latest #urbanprehistory blog post (no. 182!) concerns a mysterious tiled mural of passage grave art to be found in #Belfast city centre. If anyone has any more information about the tiles, or the motifs depicted, I would love to hear from you. theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/p...

My latest #urbanprehistory blog post (no. 182!) concerns a mysterious tiled mural of passage grave art to be found in #Belfast city centre. If anyone has any more information about the tiles, or the motifs depicted, I would love to hear from you. theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/p...

What is this? @yogoldsmith.bsky.social informed us that it's an inflatable #Stonehenge prop in front of the Chinese theater as a tie in for Spinal Tap 2! We want one!

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

#UrbanPrehistory @ Stockholm’s Tunnelbana stations @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

YO, MY ARCHY PEEPS Anyone wanna still be an ostrich and pretend that archaeology/Heritage isnt political? Anyone wanna pretend that heritage resources wont be weaponized to advance a fascist political agenda? Wake the fuck up or get your ostrich ass roasted. Get out there and fix it.

The time is nigh! Something new is coming. It’s in the woods. It’s coming! Send us your submissions! Articles! Photo diaries! Reviews! Enthusiasms! Unexpected Tales! UFO Sightings! Favourite Stones! Whatever takes your fancy! Email us via our contact form on the website, or slide into our DMs 😉

Excited to speak at the fabulous Wigtown Book Festival this year! Hear how we squeezed the 656-page excavation monograph plus new analysis into a 36-page guidebook. Cold Case Reopened: Whithorn's Origins Explained: 1 October, tickets still available! tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events...

Okay, I think the first teaching of later prehistory in Britain is by P.G.H. Boswell at Liverpool from 1917. From Pamela Smith, early prehistory is first taught by Alison Quiggin in Homerton College, Cambridge by 1912.

It can be a struggle to work out if what is being depicted is the Wicker King, the Lumbering Man or even one of the Children-Made-of-Thorns. It can be even harder to work out if the intent was ward or summons. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1981

I refuse to talk of portal tombs 'haunting the landscape'. They are part of the Long Neolithic and the Long Neolithic is still living in the now. These are not dead echoes, but ongoing transmissions we interact with. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday #LongNeolithic

your periodic reminder that “archaeology isn’t political” is a political statement

I went on a really enjoyable visit to my colleague James O’Driscoll’s excavations at Burnswark today. It felt like most of the @uofglasgow.bsky.social archaeology department were there at the same time! What a stunning site.

Interested in experimental archaeology & material culture? This online graduate certificate at UCD is just the best fun - and you can do it from your own home! hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...

It’s shite but gloriously so. And the Morricone score is wonderful.

They’re doing archaeology on skateparks, bro, time comes for us all.

Fun and frolics in the Late Neolithic, setting the two metre high granite statue-menhir of Castel #Guernsey upright A lively recreation by Brian Byron for the Culture and Leisure Dept #Guernsey / Guernsey Museum signboard #StandingStoneSunday

Stone pilgrims – whether archaeologist, ley hunter, lithically -entranced traveller – talk of alignments, arrangements. We build worlds, project narratives from their positioning. We need to talk more of the intimate relationships they have with each other. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Following this excavation project in (almost) real time is such a treat! A glimpse into the 🏺🏢 #archaeology of the contemporary present:

Skate #parkaeology

skateboarding is old enough that there are archeological digs to uncover skateparks!

Do you like free workshops and performances? Longsword demonstrations? Dressing up? Then we've got the event for you! Join us for an event celebrating the historic Magna Carta on 12 September! www.sal.org.uk/event/age-of...

🪨 ⛏️ #Broch aye the noo! Very exciting to contribute to Caithness Broch Project's site fundraiser and can you, too, by clicking below! Team Broch are great, so you can be sure any contribution will provide a brilliant community heritage asset for generations! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/buy-the-br...

We backfilled the #KelvinWheelies trenches today. It’s been an amazing few days of skateboarding archaeology & I want to thank our awesome team, Kieran of Archaeology Scotland, Glasgow City Council, our funders @socantscot.bsky.social and the legend that is Jamie Blair of Clan Skates. 🛹

@uofglasgow.bsky.social the perfect backdrop for the #KelvinWheelies mobile archaeology tool store and office!

#KelvinWheelies - nice piece recorded today dai.ly/x9pm268

Yes we have found a hologram of Denis Law in Trench 6. Total archaeology!! #KelvinWheelies

Yes we have found a hologram of Denis Law in Trench 6. Total archaeology!! #KelvinWheelies

Another lovely peat core this time from Thorne Moors! So far we have collected over 60 cores on this project over the last few months, which is quite an achievement.

Not much posting today as we were so busy with visitors on site today. But the team have done an awesome job exposing several sections of the concrete runs & bowls at #KelvinWheelies!

So grateful I could join in the #KelvinWheelies for two days. Had an amazing time digging out Trench 3 (pictured) with an amazing team of volunteers and Glasgow Uni students. Amazing to fully expose a small part of the Skate Park structure and get a beautiful section of how it was filled in 1983!

This is a truly beautiful section! It’s cut through the Cobra slalom run at #KelvinWheelies. Hats off to @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social for overseeing a cracking piece of archaeology in this trench!

Is this a first for an archaeological toolkit? #Kelvinwheelies

A colleague of mine just sent me this and I said "Even before clicking, I'll bet that this is @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social ". And I was right. XD The next question was "Did he skate?" So, Kenny, did you catch some air? Pull off a sick grind maybe? ;) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Specialised concrete cleaning tool ready for action today at the #KelvinWheelies skatepark excavations in Glasgow. Let’s get wheels on concrete again! 🛹