One interesting find was an English newspaper, the Westminster Journal! Printed on 10 May it outlines the disposition of the armies, at 'Straghallen Moor, near Culloden House'. You can see Fitjames' cavalry on the right flank, although I suspect the map may have inaccuracies. #18thC

The Battle of Culloden, fought #OTD in 1746. #WildGeese #skystorians #JacobiteHistory #18thC

UPCOMING CONFERENCE: Archaeological Research in Progress Tickets are now available for this year's conference hosted by @archscot.bsky.social in collaboration with the Society on 23 May in Dumfries & Galloway and online, with discounts for Fellows: www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/get-involved...

An unexploded mortar shell, likely fired towards Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobites by Government artillery at the 1746 Battle of Culloden, has been unearthed by a team of archaeologists, volunteers, and metal detectorists. 💣 Read all about it in the latest AWLOH! open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

Dr Andrew Jennings, Associate Professor in Island Studies at UHI Institute for Northern Studies, presented his research at The Islands Book Trust Conference in the Faroes 14th -15th April 2026. View his seminar online 'Hebrideans in the Sagas' at 5.28.01. www.youtube.com/live/IhR5Vz2...

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Tiberius carved as Pharaoh on newly-discovered stele 🏛 📰 Unexploded mortar shell from the Battle of Culloden unearthed 💣 📰 C6th Runic Gold Pendant found in Gotland Flowerbed 🏅🌷 📰 Northern Norway's Sutton Hoo ⛵️ open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

Really useful summary and reflection from Scotland in this interesting volume Medieval Rural Settlement, Infrastructure Projects and Commercial Development: The Scottish Experience by John A. Atkinson

Today we’re hearing from Angus, NT archaeologist for the East of England, on our theme of archaeology and nature, with a visit to Sutton Hoo: “Almost unnoticed beside one of the Royal burial mounds at Sutton Hoo is a rather unremarkable looking old Ash tree."

Fantastic find!

Exciting news - we found this copper alloy collar at the illicit whisky still site at Lochan nan Cat on #NTS Ben Lawers. Looks like part of a still apparatus. Perhaps for linking lyne arm to the still head? #PioneeringSpirit

When we visited Crookston, we had someone who had excavated there 50 years ago and said they had found very little after 2 years of digging and presumed its remains had been robbed / landscaped out. Thus he was pleasantly surprised to see that a lot remained beneath the surface in the enclosure:

We've been working at Ben Lawers this week on an ilicit whisky bothy and a shieling hut. Great location up the Lawers Burn close to Lochan nan Cat. #PioneeringSpirit

Bomb-y Prince Charlie! Shell fired on Culloden battlefield is discovered almost 300 years on trib.al/MWCnEPY

National Trust for Scotland (NTS) shares remarkable Culloden Battlefield discovery as unexploded mortar shell found ahead of 280th anniversary of poignant Battle https://www.europesays.com/uk/891415/ NTS head of archaeology Derek Alexander holding the mortar shell. Pictures: …#uk #news #uknews

‘Explosive’ discovery illuminates events from Culloden Battlefield. Intact and gunpowder-packed when it was discovered, the 5.5-inch shell is the first piece of complete government ordnance found at Culloden battlefield. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2601605...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The shell, the first unexploded item to be found at Culloden, is believed to have landed in boggy ground where its fuse fizzled out.

This was an amazing discovery at Culloden. Very much a team effort from our metal detectorists, archaeology volunteers, NTS Culloden staff, Ramora uk and Conservator - Will Murray. Thanks to everyone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @tonypollard.bsky.social @currentarchaeology.bsky.social

Would not want Derek to be blown up!

The @nts-archaeology.bsky.social Archaeologists are extremely brave. Has it been made safe?

First discovery of an unexploded shell at Culloden Battlefield www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Publication: Better Biodiversity Net Gain for the past, present and future: How the historic environment can improve Biodiversity Net Gain and nature recovery outcomes. historicengland.org.uk/research/res...

Working with the historic environment @whitbynats.bsky.social

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...

In 1757, Fort Edward, in upstate New York, was the frontier of the French and British war for control of North America. Now, archaeologists are searching for traces of what life there was like. archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2019/letters-from/exploring-the-great-warpath/

Today online ... Peat Cafe: Tues 7 Apr 2026 ⋅ 1pm – 2pm (BST) Student/ECR session: Recent Research on Bog Heads Chair: Issy Harvey Details: www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/events/2026-...

Wargame Day event at Culloden battlefield centre last weekend. Here is the Jacobite battle of Glenshiel 1719 with coehorn mortars being deployed in centre and dragoons dismounted.

A quick shout out for The Islands Book Trust Conference in the Faroes 14th -15th April 2026. The event is titled “The Faroes and Hebrides: Population and Cultural Change in the Early Viking Period” tinyurl.com/5n97msxa

Fantastic day cataloguing all the lead shot from last year's fieldwork at #Culloden. Thanks to all the team of volunteer archaeologists and metal detectorists for helping weighing, measuring, photographing & colouring in @tonypollard.bsky.social

Good day to be inside at Culloden battlefield today as the snow showers swept by...

Another new route added to #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum the 3rd in the #Crossford #Lanarkshire series by local resident Margaret and National Mining Museum Scotland volunteer Bill focusing on the coal and brick industries in and around #Braidwood See www.mining-landscapes.org/route/172

624 years ago today. David Stewart, 1st Duke of Rothesay, son of King Robert III and heir to the Scottish crown, was murdered by his uncle, Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, at Falkland Palace in Fife on 26 March 1402. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Falkland #Fife

Thanks @bajr-badger.bsky.social for highlighting @dendrochronicle.bsky.social's new blog post 🙏 blog.historicenvironment.scot/2026/03/six-...

More fantastic heritage landscape sound work from @lizzierobertson.bsky.social 🙌

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.

Do you want to learn to thatch in the Highlands? ekov.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A recording of the talk delivered by Prof Richard Oram, speaking on ‘People and Woods in Angus and Eastern Perthshire: An Environmental History Perspective’ is now available on the History Events page of our website, uhihistory.short.gy/KXgHho or through our YouTube channel, youtu.be/szQQ20igImY

We’re staying in the Western Isles for Friday's UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which will see Professor Mike Parker Pearson explore Life and Death in the Bronze Age: mummies, metalworking and much more at Cladh Hallan.

Just catching up with some telly watching. Great to see #FyvieCastle on Sky's GB Castle Rescue. With Annie doing a great job of telling the Fyvie story and even an appearance by our very own Alice Connelly.

NEW The Melsonby Hoards, one of Britain's largest #IronAge metalwork deposits, made the news last year when their discovery was announced, and now the analysis is published in Antiquity! Learn how they change our understanding of Iron Age Britain in this #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

#OnThisDay 12th March 1898 Plans to re-establish the distillery at Glenbuchty in Fraserburgh are afoot! That's according to The Peterhead Sentenial. Unfortunately despite the enthusiasm within this article, no such plans ever come to fruition,

Are you interested in Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art? Join us at Kilmartin Museum on the 16th of May for a free, hybrid event led by the wonderful Tertia Barnett and @joanavaldez.bsky.social. In-person places are limited, so book soon if you're interested! More information: bit.ly/4s85XMi

#OnThisDay 11th March 1871 The Dundee Advertiser reports a seizure of a large illicit distillery after discovering a subterraneous passage at Forteviot Old Mill 8 miles from Perth. A 50 gallon still, 300 gallons of wort & one guilty man were amongst the items found #WhiskyHistory

This week our second project gets underway, the first modern survey of the major baronial border fortress of Cockermouth. Team lead Tom Addyman explains what they aim to do over the coming weeks to learn more about this little understood major baronial castle. castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2026/03...

Ray Harryhausen's marvelous 2004 statue of David Livingstone in the grounds of the house where he was born in Blantyre just to the south of Glasgow (now home to the David Livingstone Centre). Cont./ #glasgow #blantyre #statue #sculpture #davidlivingstone

Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...

Mrs MacLeod spinning wool inside her home in South #Uist, c1930s [photo: Margaret Fay Shaw, NTS Canna House]

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Weavers cottages in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire near #Glasgow. And story of Mary Barbour born on 20 February 1875 at 37 New Street, Kilbarchan tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2021/12/old-...