Absolutely gutted that the Muirhead Oaks, an avenue of Category A, ecologically and historically important veteran Oaks in Chapelhall, Lanarkshire have been felled to build an AI Data Centre.

Absolutely gutted that the Muirhead Oaks, an avenue of Category A, ecologically and historically important veteran Oaks in Chapelhall, Lanarkshire have been felled to build an AI Data Centre.

They’re on site cutting down the Muirhead Oaks for the AI data centre that’s been all over the news today and I swear it’s going to become my villain origin story

They’re on site cutting down the Muirhead Oaks for the AI data centre that’s been all over the news today and I swear it’s going to become my villain origin story

It's surely one of the best facts about the see of Glasgow that one of its bishops had his head impaled on a pole as a human sacrifice to the Slavic god Radegast

I don't think you're ready for this jelly [ear] Liberton #Edinburgh #FungiFriends

I like the idea that we can have our names cut at the beginning as well as the end.

Jan 13: Feast of Kentigern, ‘hound-lord’, (Mungo) (c.†614), bishop of Glasgu (Glasgow), which he is said to have founded. He was a contemporary of Riderch I, king of Alt Clut (Dumbarton Rock). He is thought to be the ‘Conthigirnus’ whose obit appears in the Annales Cambriae. #medievalsky

Gaelic in Airdrie

He’s everywhere today (I get so much joy from this road sign)

The Church of St Kentigern in Lanark shows up in charters from 1150 but is supposed to have been founded by the big man himself before his death early 7th C

The Glasgow Wellspring in the city's cathedral. This well is believd to mark the location where St Mungo erected his cell in the 6th Century as he helped spread Christianity through Scotland. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowcathedral #publicart #ceramics #tiles

3/3 'Here is the bird that never flew Here is the tree that never grew Here is the bell that never rang Here is the fish that never swam' Symbols of the Four Miracles of St Mungo on the arms of the City of Glasgow, in glass by William Wilson in Glasgow Cathedral.

A massive multi-stem oak which #Dendrochronology revealed has an early 19th C stem origin date. It looks much older. This is in the wood pasture ‘Dairy Wood’ at Borders Forest Trust’s Corehead estate near Moffat. #ThickTrunkTuesday #treeclub #trees

Saints Kentigern (left) and Columba (right) giving it their all in a famous no-holds-barred saint-off by the Molendinar. [Stained glass by Lorraine Lamond in St Alphonsus at the Barras.]

The Glasgow Corporation Lighting Department lamp base of 1902, at the entrance to the Botanic Gardens. Manufactured in Possilpark at the Saracen Foundry, and given a colourful makeover in 2025, there are now probably more of these in Halifax, Nova Scotia than in Glasgow.

It is true, there is indeed a deep-fill steak pie of a thread about the New Year's steak pie tradition: threadinburgh.scot/2024/01/02/t...

🙋Did you know that Edinburgh's "official" Hogmanay festivities are an ancient tradition dating back to the last century? 🎆 1993 to be precise. The event was dreamed up by Edinburgh Marketing and Unique Events Ltd. to "[package] Edinburgh more effectively" and thus "improve the visitor experience" 🧵👇

Very nice to see this take/interpretation on Y Gododdin at Edinburgh Castle - Castle of Light tonight

Eileamaid na seachdaine Gart "enclosed field" Thoir dhuinn ainm gairt a tha a' còrdadh ribh! #AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic

A magnificent multi-stem oak in Borders Forest Trust’s Dairy Wood historic wood pasture at Ericstane just north of Moffat, Dumfrisshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We have done Dendro here showing the oak stems originate in the early 19th century. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Working with Scottish Women's Institutes heritage, thanks to @heritagefunduk.bsky.social, is fascinating. This day started with SWI '70s theatrical tapestry designs. It moved on to recording the granddaughter of a friend of founder 'Cathy' Blair, and viewing her unique Mak Merry pottery. Brilliant!

St Mungo's Well in the Cathedral this lunchtime. Plans to explore below that modern floor were stymied by H&S, but they found what look like masons' marks and, beneath the sludge and coins, what _might_ be a fragment of painted stonework chucked in at the Reformation.

St Giles Cathedral in #Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hidden inside the bell tower is a five storey timber frame built with oak from north east Scotland which I have #dendro dated to AD1459/1460. The only building in Edinburgh to have native oak, most historic buildings have Scandi imports #BlueSkyMonday

We’re out at New College Motherwell today for #DYW Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire’s STEM fest. Students from local high schools in Motherwell, Bellshill and Wishaw will have the chance to explore how archaeologists reconstruct past lives and diets, and contribute their Q’s to #CVARF 🏺

The only recorded breeding by White Storks in Britain was a nest on the roof of St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh in 1416. At the time considered exceptional and unprecedented, plenty of British people had seen them nesting in the Netherlands and Germany on and near buildings when travelling.

#EpigraphyTuesday - A stunning piece discovered in 2014 in the Galloway Hoard. A Roman rock-crystal column-head, repurposed and mounted in gold, ca. 8-9th Century, to serve as a small container for liquids. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 (1/2) Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).

Finally got the chance to meet this guy last week. A completely unique and haunting cross from Riasg Buidhe, Colonsay, in the gardens of Colonsay House. Its dating remains up for debate, ranging from the 7th to the 10th century AD www.trove.scot/image/384171

The magnificent Birnam sycamore in Perthshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with me for scale. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Decorative gourds? In this economy?

Pal of the Stanes, Archie Henderson, talks about the early medieval sculpture of Refrewshire within the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons in this fascinating video! youtu.be/MBIRrJhba7M?...

Rediscovered Glasgow... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

I would be endlessly grateful if you were to support this crucial fundraising effort for Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard and the @govanstones.bsky.social museum! 💲❤️ tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

🚨Annooncement!🚨 Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds! A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year. A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁 Wirds as text ablow

Good luck Scottish kids getting their results this morning xxx

I’m doon the watter this week and Daisydug is getting a bit old for long walks so ….,..

New light on early medieval reliquaries from Ireland. Some highlights from the incredible @nmireland.bsky.social Words on the Wave exhibition, and one new discovery reported in the fabulous 10th Intl Insular Art conference, Cork

#Ravenscraig, Scotland's biggest steelworks was built near #Motherwell & #Wishaw in the 1950s Most of the site was farmland but there had been other industries here, as this 1905 invoice from the Ravenscraig Sand Quarry Co shows www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta... #IndustrialHeritage

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Information kept secret for years on radioactive problems at the Clyde nuclear bomb bases is to be released to the public, after Scotland’s freedom of information watchdog said it threatens “reputations” not national security.

Certainly they're similar in style tho', even so, they're each unique! *So* many different representations of the City's coat of arms by *so* many artists. Here's @ncdominie.bsky.social's pic of the Deanside well CoA, gratefully received, + the one from the Glasgow Girls book 😍🐦🌳🔔🐟

A couple of beautiful #Glasgow CoAs incorporated into these Glasgow Girls' creations 😍🐦🌳🔔🐟

Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes its stained glass studio and ends its classes, severing its long links with the endangered craft. My story for the @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2527841...

The Prodigy though, oooft Far too exciting for this time on Sunday night

Got tickets to take the bairn (17) to the Hydro to see The Prodigy and it all feels a bit full circle. First saw them at Livingston Forum in 1995 when I wasn't much older. Is this like when my Ma took me to see Rod Stewart?

'The genetic analysis is also a scientific breakthrough. It is the first convincing proof of a prediction made by Charles Darwin that significant changes in organisms can result from natural selection driving very many small changes, not just from one or two obvious ones.'

I posted a week or so ago about 1850s wooden cobbles which have been uncovered during road resurfacing on Woodlands Terrace in Glasgow. The top photo is one I took of them in 2023. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #victorianengineering #roads #parkdistrict

Oh mate.

The full moon over Inchcolm Abbey which sits on its own wee island in the Firth of Forth #Scotland