There's still time to sign up for the third annual Clyde Valley symposium! Register for your free place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cvarf-symp...

I had a great time this weekend at @postmedarch.bsky.social presenting on the designing utopia project (excavating an Owenite community in Lanarkshire) with @bromolloy.bsky.social and Kieran Manchip, and hearing amazing research from all the fabulous SPMA-ers!

Great to see @eddiecstewart.bsky.social talk for @eafsarch.bsky.social featured in @edinburghminute.com this morning. Free, but ticketed: Wicked Wild Wastes Glencoe and Rannoch Moor 17th - 18th Centuries Date: 13 may • 19:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wicked-wil...

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I’m excited to share our latest blog post from the GLAS project, based on fieldwork conducted in March at the settlement of Achtriachtan. You can find 'Achtriachtan and the Power of Walking' by Professor Michael Given here: glencoe.glasgow.ac.uk/achtriachtan...

Hoping to see all my post-medieval colleagues in Reading next month! Ps. I will be presenting my paper, 'From plague to pottery to bullets: a post-medieval suburban plot in Tallinn, Estonia' on the final day of #PMAC26

A great article from the BBC on the allocation of our Glencoe 2023 finds to the Glencoe Folk Museum! This gives some wonderful context to the finds, and the redevelopment by the GFM. #TreasureTrove @nts-archaeology.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great news! Following Treasure Trove review the 'Glencoe Hoard' and other finds from the Summerhouse of MacIain excavations will be joining the Glencoe Folk Museum collection. 🙌

I'm excited to share the allocation by Treasure Trove of the finds from our 2023 season at the Summerhouse of MacIain, including the 'Glencoe Hoard', to the Glencoe Folk Museum. You can read about the acquisition and the museum's ongoing redevelopment here: glencoe.glasgow.ac.uk/treasure-tro...

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.

New #UrbanPrehistory blog post - 'Lush prehistory'. Would you like a small cup-and-ring marked stone to be gently rubbed back and forth against your jowls? Well you can now, for £150. Thanks @eddiecstewart.bsky.social! theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/l...

A new fireside tale - traversing the 17th century - from the Glencoe Archaeology Project. I love how these evidence based stories build a world around and animate the archaeological finds.

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You can check out our latest storytelling blog from the Glencoe Archaeology Project here: glencoe.glasgow.ac.uk/the-house-of... This story explores the 17th century tacksman's house in Achnacon, and the biography of this dwelling, its occupants and finds.

… Or you could read about it in this fieldwork article (but miss some of the drama & extended bits of research): doi.org/10.15157/ave... Or if you want to make me really happy, read the article & come hear the paper & ask me oddly specific questions #pmac26

To celebrate the launch of our new Glencoe website we have a blog post for you all - which follows some recent fieldwork by @nts-archaeology.bsky.social and myself to visit a mill stone quarry in one of Glencoe's corries. You can find out here: glencoe.glasgow.ac.uk/oh-schist-a-...

👀 @eddiecstewart.bsky.social's review of Richard Oram's latest, series completing book: tinyurl.com/4vru2tv2

If the finder were an archaeologist this would be an unthinkable story, our training teaches us that artefacts represent a shared past. His training is in documents, he sees objects as something to be auctioned, a source of 'reward' Is this an anomaly? Historian friends, how do you feel about this?

Beautiful day yesterday to go up Meall Mor, beside the NTS visitor centre in Glencoe, to inspect this millstone rough out up at 400m OD in Coire nan Cuilc. Thanks to @eddiecstewart.bsky.social for coming along.

Look what just dropped on the doormat! The latest issues of #CurrentArchaeology and our work on Ben Lomond made it on to the front cover! @currentarchaeology.bsky.social @n-t-s.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social

"I felt the urge to cry out that they could never understand the relationship we hold with this place: a relationship carried not in ownership but in reciprocity, where the land sings through Gaelic names, stories, and memories borne across generations." @eddiecstewart.bsky.social

This clay pipe we found during our 2023 season at the Summerhouse of MacIain in Glencoe is quite on theme for Burns’ night. The pipe was likely left by a 19th century visitor to the site who may have been on a tour of the Highlands: glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2024/01/24/f...

Help us develop a global map of how Burns Night is celebrated! Take Part in The Burns Supper at 225 Years Research Project ⬇️ . There are still tickets for our annual Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference this Sat (17th Jan), held in the ARC: gla.ac/3LaXLe5

It was great to spend a day with such enthusiastic students exploring careers in archaeology and the industrial heritage of North Lanarkshire.

I had a great day out at @nlheritage.bsky.social Summerlee Museum with students from St Margaret’s in Airdrie exploring their industrial collections! We were lucky to get the chance to peak behind the scenes, and get hands on with their collections!

Looking forward to the Robert Burns conference this weekend examing the role of the Burns supper. I'll be giving a talk about our whisky project and the National bard. @uofgartshums.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

"...a hint of warmth on your skin which will not truly arrive for another three months. These powerful sensory moments can come at any moment, never when you expect them. As an archaeologist, one of the great joys of these moments is to know that they are now as they ever were." tinyurl.com/2xrnzb4e

Check out our latest blog post from the Glencoe project @uofgartshums.bsky.social @nts-archaeology.bsky.social by @lizzierobertson.bsky.social, Dr Gareth Beale and Dr Nicole Smith: glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/a...

I really love these illustrations of some of our finds featured on tonights Digging for Britain, alongside some of the many other wonderful finds made across the country!

Great project done recently about enslavement and Scottish rural history lamhan.scot/2025/05/06/l...

You can find myself, @nts-archaeology.bsky.social and @uofgartshums.bsky.social Prof Michael Given tonight on Digging for Britain at 9pm on BBC2, talking about our 2025 Glencoe season! Below a wee work in progress reconstruction based on our 2 seasons at Achnacon by me, and a pic by Derek!

Tune in to 'Digging for Britain' #DfB2026 tonight to find out about some of the exciting results from our project in Glencoe with Glasgow Uni. @eddiecstewart.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @n-t-s.bsky.social

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I am excited to launch our latest blog post from the Glencoe Landscape Archaeology and Storytelling Project - by our excavation and finds lab supervisor Amy Hellier on her work in our project archives! You can find Amy's blog post here: glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/i...

You can check out our latest 'Fireside story from Glencoe' written by @lizzierobertson.bsky.social featuring a film by Lív Brownlie, Lauren Blackburn, Beatrice Sumner, and Alex Thomson, with Rhiannon Bramham and Mara Campbell) here: glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/t...

I really enjoyed this short piece of object based speculative fiction; a deceptively simple but powerful critical design technique that is extremely difficult to do well. There's a very fine line between speculation & fantasy and even after a decade plus of practice my success rate is only 50/50!

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You can find the second of our 'Fireside stories from Glencoe' series here: glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/t... This post explores the story of the Glencoe Hoard (discovered in 2023) and is based on research by @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social Dr Jesper Ericsson.

"But it should be said that he wasn’t the sharpest sgian dubh in the glen. If it was a bit of negotiation you wanted over the small matter of some missing cattle, or some tact and diplomacy, then the last thing you wanted was Big Archie rushing in with his knife and his hot temper." 🤗

You can find the first of our 'fireside stories from Glencoe' series over the festive break here: glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/b... This story by Prof Michael Given @uofgartshums.bsky.social explores a local *character* of Glencoe Big Archie! @nts-archaeology.bsky.social

I had a fantastic time at #TAG2025 in York. It was wonderful to attend so many sessions, present in @claireboardman.bsky.social’s amazing session on responses to the climate crisis, and chair a session for the first time with Dr Cole Juckette, and have a nice time in a pretty city too!

We're down to the last few hours! ⏱️ #ChristmasChallenge 🎄 donation window closes tomorrow: 12:00 noon. Tremendous response over the last week 🙏 and the #BigGive means that every £1 generously given is matched to £2. Any/all kindness makes a huge difference to a young person ✨ tinyurl.com/y96zpbps

[Since you now restrict replies on all posts to those you follow, I'll respond here] I've critiqued your use of inaccurate #AI depictions for #scicomm because they're potentially misleading, esp out of context. Contra your ethics statement, you're still not labelling AI, & ignore peer critique

Re-upping this because I undersold it and I'm practicing representing myself better. I really like my blog. Some of my favourite thoughts are there. Yes, I need to tidy it, but if you like me & what I post here, you'll like the 6 posts of this thread & you'll know me better for reading them.

You can check out our latest Glencoe project blog here by the wonderful Leonore Kitt. In this post Leonore talks about her recent experiences with Meike van Lit exploring our soil samples for bulk density and elemental analysis. glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/i...

Found this outcrop of iron corrosion consuming its source artefacts to form an almost geological strata at Loch Long Torpedo range a few weeks ago. Within the spreading mass links of chain, hinges and brackets are distinct as they ‘melt’ into the rusty conglomerate.

You can check out our latest @nts-archaeology.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social Glencoe Archaeology Project blog post , 'crafting the past' here: glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...

You have one week left to submit abstracts for the 2026 @postmedarch.bsky.social Congress! The conference is in May next year, hosted at Reading University, UK. Share your fascinating research with international delegates!

Important stuff from @eddiecstewart.bsky.social with applications to stuff I'm writing about perceptions of early medieval island church sites as well - big recommend