Wreck of HMS Bayano, torpedoed off Galloway, Scotland in 1915 discovered www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Historic Environment Scotland have just published published Conserving our Underwater Heritage. Non statutory guidance note. www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and...

Great little piece of research on the lost Quoiting grounds of Scotland blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/08/quoi...

German High Seas Fleet scuttles at Scapa FLow, Orkney 1919 and Swedish East Indian Company Queen of Sweden lost off Shetland 1745 both to become Historic Marine Protected Areas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wessex Archaeology and @dendrochronicle.bsky.social have identified the Sanday, Orkney wreck as that of a whaler -the Earl of Chatham, formerly HMS Hind, lost in 1788. www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...

Find out how CHRoMA addresses data interoperability through controlled vocabularies and colour vision friendly map legends archaeologists.net/civicrm/even... Tuesday 20 May 25 at 12:30 @cifa-imsig.bsky.social

I am talking to the CIfA Information Management Special Interest Group on 20th May on addressing interoperability of archaeological survey data through a colour vision friendly thematic legend. Details here: www.archaeologists.net/civicrm/even... @cifa-imsig.bsky.social

Fascinating discoveries near Inverness www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ... and only a couple of miles from the major Iron Age site at Stanwick

News story on female bog body found near Bellaghy, Co.Derry in 2023: www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has announced the first project to receive a Audrey Henshall Legacy Grant. We are looking forward to working with @archscot.bsky.social & @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social on the Scotland’s Earliest Megalithic Monuments project. www.socantscot.org/uncategorize...

Policy forum at #TaNC on discussing report launching today. zenodo.org/records/1383... Can use this report to advocate to funders and to our own organisations about the core requirements of building the UK Digital Collection. #unlockingcollections

Great couple of days in Manchester for the Towards a National Collection #UnlockingCollections event where a series of policy recommendations were launched: zenodo.org/records/1383... #TaNC #ahrc #UnlockingCollections

Great couple of days in Manchester for @nat_collection #UnlockingCollections event Barney Sloane, HistoricEngland presenting the key achievements of the #TaNC #ahrc funded #unpathdwaters project

In 1947, the Scottish Group of the Council for British Archaeology published its first report on archaeological activities in Scotland. In 1955, this became Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, now published by @archscot.bsky.social. Adding grid references in 1956 means we can map these activities.

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

This is where dendro-isotope dating comes in to save the day. Works better with such material. First ever application in Scotland. #ScotDendro Huge thanks to Neil Loader’s team. See the (unexpected) date in our new JAS paper - available at top of the list here dendrochronicle.co.uk/publications/

Scotland’s ‘newest’ medieval bridge, Ancrum Old Bridge - now precisely dated using dendro-isotopes in collab with Swansea Uni. Discovered 2018 by local community group ADHS. I’ll reveal the date at ELBAC tomorrow, talks to be recorded. Can’t wait that long? See link in thread below #ScotDendro

Around 24,000 council homes were built in Britain before the First World War. This is my map - a work in progress - of some of those schemes with links where I have written about them. www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...