Just back from a fantastic Neolithic Studies Group fieldtrip to the beautiful island of Bute. Great company, tolerable weather and some fine megaliths. Topped off with a bonus trip to Ballochmyle rock art panel back on the mainland. #NSGBute2026

Just back from a fantastic Neolithic Studies Group fieldtrip to the beautiful island of Bute. Great company, tolerable weather and some fine megaliths. Topped off with a bonus trip to Ballochmyle rock art panel back on the mainland. #NSGBute2026

📣 2 Free Student Tickets Available for (hybrid) ARP 2026! Courtesy of Clyde Archaeology. Tickets are offered on a first come first served basis - see details and apply here: www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/get-involved... Online tickets for general admission are still available too! #archaeology

Here’s me being grilled by some Glasgow school kids about my excavations at the Kelvin Wheelies skatepark! #KelvinWheelies m.youtube.com/watch?v=PYFl...

Looking forward to speaking about Alfred Nobel’s explosives factory, munitionettes and song birds! Thank you for the invitation to the Buxton Festival, Fringe @enricharch.bsky.social!! Come along if you can. And save Ardeer!!!

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Autumn #WestWoods walk for @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social now online and bookable! Sunday 11 October. You’ll need a packed lunch. We’ll visit the long barrow, Wansdyke, sarsen stone quarries, and Second World War training area. www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

Just want to re-up this fantastic post by @cultarchaeo.bsky.social on best practices for addressing pseudoarchaeological discourse and other misuses of the past, including by the right-wing. bonesstonesandbooks.com/2024/02/02/a...

This is absolutely shocking. What’s happening to the UK’s arts and humanities sector is just criminal. Thinking of all our colleagues there. It feels unimaginable, but it really could be any of us.

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

It's been a couple of months now, but I do have a new book out. If you like stories about archaeology, shadowy organisations, weird old tech, and places behind the world where broken things go, then you're almost certainly going to find something here you like. journalstone.com/bookstore/cr...

And for anyone interested in the pioneering work undertaken by women in archaeology @trowelblazers.bsky.social provide all the information you could possibly want trowelblazers.com

Glasgow #UrbanPrehistory

If we take the stones as having become lithic transmitters of the past, we should not be surprised to find our own attempts at signal-catching sited so close to them. We have always been in the business of broadcasting and receiving messages. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

The shadow of the Long Neolithic stretches out its hand to grasp our imagination. It refuses to let us go. Holds us with a sense of ongoing sacredness. Pulls stories from the then into the now. We are all made citizens of its wonder. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Good news. Offa’s Dyke Journal 7 for 2025 – now out in paperback! And it's proudly open-access, so the new work on frontiers, borderlands and linear earthworks connecting the disciplines of archaeology, history and heritage studies is accessible to everyone

‘Huffity, puffity, Ringstone Round If you lose your hat it will never be found So pull your britches right up to your chin And fasten your cloak with a bright new pin And when you are ready, then we can begin Huffity, puffity, puff…’ — Nigel Kneale, ‘Quatermass’ (1979) #WyrdWednesday

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

#Archive30 #SomethingBig This is the biggest item in the #britishmuseum archive. It’s a phased site plan for an archaeological excavation at Mucking in Essex from the 1970s. Staff feet in the image for scale! #archives

Contemporary archaeology joke from @moderntoss.bsky.social in the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social

👋 Especially interested to hear from professionals (inc non-archaeology) who've read the book recently and noted areas which could do with updating!

I've just posted a new Prehistoric, Bronze Age pottery video on YouTube ⚱️🏺We learn so much from the marks left on pots by the tools and hands of the original maker. #Archaeology #pottery "Barbed Wire, String and Bone - A pot from Sizewell C" youtu.be/-V7Hl7gKOjI?...

🔊Aberystwyth & mid Wales folk - this Saturday afternoon in the National Library of Wales 🛩️

Our heritage is being taken from us and then proferred back in exchange for monies we just don't have. It's not the fault of the Treasure Hunters, but a failure of sector leadership that hasn't caught up with the reality of the problem. 🏺

It's official. The dark side of the moon is 10YR 4\6 Dark Yellowish Brown #ArtemisII

Arrived safely in Stonehenge via Copenhagen.

Pint of Triple Karmeliet followed by a Gulden Draak Quadruple in Au Trappiste, Paris @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social @danherb10.bsky.social

It means so much to present this piece by my late father in the context of @nfsengland.bsky.social. I think he'd love that we are sharing his writing in this context, with thanks to colleagues Sophie Parkes-Nield + @davidwclarke.bsky.social www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk/news/the-gre...

'We bought a tomb' sounds like the start of a horror film, but it's actually the start of a great day out! Orkney's famous Tomb of the Eagles is now wholly community owned, and in one week we're re-opening for our first big season since COVID. Wednesday 1 April at 10am. Not an April Fool's joke 🏺💀🎉

Call for papers for the 2026 Europa, 6th June at Uni of York honouring work of Professor Penny Spikins. The topic will be: What can we learn from Neanderthals? (Please note change in previously advertised title) Further details here: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2026-... #Archaeology 🏺

One of the many mounds of London

I had a lovely time this evening talking to @postmedarch.bsky.social PhD group about my research into shieling practice in Scotland - and our excavations in Glencod - as part of a session on archaeologies of agriculture with Jeff Oliver and Eugene Costello.

Been watching a talk from the British Folklore Society about the 2025 National Folklore Survey For England and discovered that 70% of English people who visit stone circles do it because of something they watched on TV/Film. Doctor Who, Quatermass and Children of the Stones for the win!

Planning for this year's @chalkefestival.bsky.social and getting very excited for June! Tickets on sale, it's an amazing festival with talks, craft, science, songs, food, re-enactment, and it's for everyone: schools, families, and #history fans to the merely history-curious www.chalkefestival.com

We’re excited to announce our next Clyde Valley Symposium will be held in Gourock on the 6th June 2026! You can sign up to attend here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cvarf-symp...

This looks like a fantastic fieldtrip, The @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Balearics trip in May 1982. A week of sun, sangria and megaliths all for less than £300! Materials from the Ronald Morris archive held by HES in Edinburgh. @tessmachling.bsky.social

This looks like a fantastic fieldtrip, The @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Balearics trip in May 1982. A week of sun, sangria and megaliths all for less than £300! Materials from the Ronald Morris archive held by HES in Edinburgh. @tessmachling.bsky.social

Granny Kempock country!

TAG 2026 is go! Excited to be hosting in Exeter this year, 14-16 December. Get those session proposal thinking caps on!

Finally it's #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The decorated Neolithic stones of Barclodiad y Gawres passage grave on Ynys Môn/Anglesey stand under a protective concrete dome on a wild coastal headland Even if locked the incredible art can still be glimpsed inside due to clever up-lighting 👌 📷 Last week

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Weekend watching sorted 🍿 The de Cardi Lecture is now live on YouTube. Dr Anwen Cooper takes us into the world of prehistoric Britain, exploring how past relationships with the natural world can help shape how we think about nature recovery today. 👉

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Amazing #UrbanPrehistory story - East Kilbride man reunited with EBA arrowhead 56 years after he found it! Thanks to Glasgow Life for making it happen I found a 4,000-year-old bronze age arrowhead - 56 years later it found me www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Things are afoot #StonehengeEverything

When have you ever *not* wanted merch with a sketchy looking old hunter in a loincloth and chaps on it??

The Most Terrifying Book I Have Ever Read medium.com/p/the-most-t... #nuclear #BookReview @AnnieJacobsen #politics #life

Otzi the Iceman merch #UrbanPrehistory