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Don't think I've seen this in previous years - an annual round up of #archaeology on the BBC website! Good to see ' #treasure ' not being centre stage for once. ...also interesting to note that cash value is only mentioned in relation to the #detecting finds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

☠️ I'm in a 1,500-year-old graveyard at Govan Old to tell you about ⤵️ A WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY! It's written by me, Dr Tom Horne, and brought to you on Substack by History Hit. Out 2x a week, on Mondays and Fridays, it showcases the most interesting #history and #archaeology from around the globe.

This is getting out of hand. AI making up papers which then get innocently listed with authors' other publications online which then get cited, puzzling authors who never wrote such things …

The Roman dead of Catalonia: An Archaeodeath review of the Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya in Barcelona howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/t...

"Looting with a diploma": the archaeology of imperialism

No further context is necessary... A little image from my TAG 2025 paper.

Archaeology Scotland (@archscot.bsky.social) are a partner organisation on the nature/culture Leven Programme. It's a great team, project and community - apply!

🏺How was #malt discovered? I should've presented this at the World Neolithic Congress last year but was not able to. So I submitted it to PAST, the newsletter of The Prehistoric Society. It was published last month in the November issue. It should be online soon! merryn.dineley.com/2025/12/the-...

Congratulations to all these projects. But I can’t believe the hologram of Denis Law we found in a 1978 concrete skatepark bowl at #KelvinWheelies didn’t make this list!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Usual reminder: decisions like this don't mean that AI can do the job of a human translator; they mean that some C-suite creature who is basically a LinkedIn profile wrapped in ham and an expensive suit has decided it provides an alibi for paying human translators less money for less rewarding work.

Blimey! Just stumbled across a dusty box in my office of my entire collection of Six of One mailings from that time I was in The Prisoner fan club (late 80s into early 90s). No idea I had so much stuff! #ThePrisoner

Who would you meet travelling from one place to the next in 7th-century Pictland? What could you eat at a feast? And what would the bard be singing about? 🤔 Dig into early medieval Scotland with 'Carved in Stone', one of the ideas in our archaeology gift guide: www.digitscotland.com/scottish-arc...

Stocking up! @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social @danherb10.bsky.social

Rather than a demonstration of the incredible developments in scientific understanding of the past, the right wing press & social media actors will use this to further erode public trust in expert knowledge & the importance of telling stories about possibilities www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

rome, despite the challenges offered by its immense archaeological wealth, can build an automated metro. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/passengers-rome-museum-stations-open-metro-archeological-treasures so what is ottawa’s excuse?

Wasn't expecting this: Pope Leo, Amost Archaeologist www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

"Historic Environment Scotland (HES) must put strong controls in place to prevent fraud and ensure value for money after unacceptable weaknesses were found in its governance." Audit Scotland has issued a critical report on troubled Historic Environment Scotland.

This is a fantastic piece about the #KelvinWheelies excavations but also the remarkable story of two other heritage skateparks at Greenfield & West Vancouver. Credit to Cole Nowicki for pulling this together & getting up very early to interview me! www.simplemagic.ca/a-world-wher...

This is a fantastic piece about the #KelvinWheelies excavations but also the remarkable story of two other heritage skateparks at Greenfield & West Vancouver. Credit to Cole Nowicki for pulling this together & getting up very early to interview me! www.simplemagic.ca/a-world-wher...

Nuclear Pictish heritage! A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Dounreay, Caithness Prototype Fast Reactor in 1994, with early medieval Pictish symbols. National Museums Scotland X.2024.249.1 www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

The Oxenham Arms pub in South Zeal, Devon, boasts the unusual distinction of having been constructed by 12th Century monks around a prehistoric standing stone. If you’re lucky and visit at the right time of day, as I did today, you might also see it being recharged with sacred energy by the sun.

Zip up your leathers, stick on your skull helmets, and get ready for Psychomania. ☠️🏍️ Our latest podcast looks at the 1973 cult biker classic that refuses to stay dead. Pls listen and repost. tinyurl.com/PsyMania

Our plans to establish a new environmental #archaeology laboratory in Kirkwall have been #approved by Orkney Islands Council.

Finally got my hands on the physical book for Carved in Stone by Heather Christie @archaeoplays.bsky.social and Brian Tyrrell @stoutstoat.co.uk. Really gives me hope that early medieval archaeology can inspire worlds that are hopeful, empathetic and overall, fun www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...

Hear from the Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) team uncovering Cumbria's prehistoric landscape at the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project with @nationalhways.bsky.social. 🚗 Discover more here: tr.ee/zcnHuf

I forgot that in 2019 I started a whole website about Ludovic Mann, #TheManntheMyth. I had plans to do a podcast & update this regularly. If this gets to 100 followers (from current total of 23!) I’ll revive it and start adding content! #LudovicMann themannthemyth.home.blog

Deadline for contributions to the next issue of Aiste, Celtic and Gaelic's peer-reviewed, open access journal, is 28 February 2026 clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

The Archaeology of 'Skeleton Crew' part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY0N... For my blog post - howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/h...

The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂 Booking available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...

Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...

I forgot that in 2019 I started a whole website about Ludovic Mann, #TheManntheMyth. I had plans to do a podcast & update this regularly. If this gets to 100 followers (from current total of 23!) I’ll revive it and start adding content! #LudovicMann themannthemyth.home.blog

Listen now on your favourite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc, or on our Abarta Heritage website, where you can find shownotes and links to the papers: www.abartaheritage.ie/kinship-cult...

Excellent blog post by the Urban Prehistorian, even though Clonehenge gets quoted! #Stonehenge

The 1105 looks like a ferry crossing for thrill seekers!

First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation. 'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere' theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...

Alcalar Monument 7: Neolithic chambered tomb in the Algarve which was reconstructed in the late 1990s. More photos and information on our page, have you visited? 📷 Maatje More: http://www.megalithi...

R B K STEVENSON AWARD: ‘Revisiting Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney’ by Hazel Moore FSAScot and Graeme Wilson FSAScot (with contributions by Seren Griffiths) Delve into some of the most complete Neolithic stone houses in Northwest Europe in this open access paper: doi.org/10.9750/PSAS...

First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation. 'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere' theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...

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

Empowering Young People Through Archaeology Please contribute to our fundraising appeal, every pound you give will be matched by the Big Give and your help greatly appreciated donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #archaeology #scotland #learning

Illustrated London News 1958. From the fencing behind the car, this might be during the renovations. @stoneclub.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

Great podcast about the excavation of a 1970s Glasgow skate park by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social this summer and a call for more #parkaeology

Lex Lamb and I are in Kirkintilloch this evening giving a talk about before and after the @glasgowgardenfestival.org to the local antiquarian society. Big audience!

Special Sighthill Suburban Sunset! @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social

📣 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 🏺

The stones have been tomb, cattle shelter, childhood dare and ley-hunter nexus. They have been and continue to be anchor for folklore and mystery. To reduce our telling of them to one thing reduces them and the power of the Long Neolithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday