Ruins in misty woodland. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

The Cave of the Scribing: A natural rock shelter on the SE facing slope of Cummeenbaun Mountain, above Glanrastel. Formed where a large upright slab leans against a huge boulder, creating a sheltered space that can be entered from either end.

Tis the season! The sun is shining, birds are singing and our guided tours of the Peak District start again next Tuesday! Come join me, you know you want to. #Archaeology #Derbyshire #Heritage #Tours www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archaeolog...

Really important study that should catalyse some innovative integrated landscape scale approaches to developing sustainable communities in Ireland. Great to see so many references to community empowerment / wealth building agenda in Scotland too.

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...

I’m very excited about our @radhumslab.bsky.social event on Friday 25 April @ucc.ie! We have an array of amazing speakers dealing with the big issues of radical humanities research. It’s a free event (booking required) and everyone is welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-hu...

THREAD 1/ Most of you here know me as a writer, but first (and maybe foremost) I am a photographer. So on that note, I have an announcement. #Art #Photography #Scotland

There are still a couple of places left for the Kairos Spring Residency in Devon. It's subsidised, so very good value for a week away in a beautiful spot with interesting people! www.kairos.london/event/kairos...

This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.

Delighted that @drclairenolan.bsky.social has joined @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social as Project Researcher for @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project. PP examines how deep-time past, is used in environmental policy. Claire is a fabulous addition to the team! 1/2

And how, shall we now, mark what matters ... Learable Hill, Caithness, is part of a larger monument group, including stone row and cairn. On one face, a simple cross has since been incised, over 2000 years after the stone was first erected. #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Scotland

A contemporary one for #StandingStoneSunday. It's by the artist Neil Paterson and can be found in Templeton Woods (Dundee.)

Free download or paperback purchase of Sonic Detection - expanded eavesdropping from sonic detectives Rebecca Collins and Johanna Linsley punctumbooks.com/titles/sonic...

And how, shall we now, mark what matters ... Learable Hill, Caithness, is part of a larger monument group, including stone row and cairn. On one face, a simple cross has since been incised, over 2000 years after the stone was first erected. #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Scotland

One of the most inclusive, accessible & affordable events of its kind, @archscot.bsky.social has released the programme for Scotland's 'Archaeological Research in Progress' conference & it's another excellent group of projects/speakers! 👍 23 May 2026 Dumfries & Online Details: tinyurl.com/mr3npe53

Hooray! Our @britishacademy.bsky.social Prehistoric Policies project now has a website 👇👇👇👇. PP examines how & why contemporary environmental policy makes claims about the deep time human past, and why that matters!

The Handbook of Heritage Ethics is finally out! Thanks to my co-editors and all the many contributors for their hard work. I hope the framing essay and themed chapters will be useful for your reading lists and research projects! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

‘Why did the USSR, with its fantastic scientists and engineers and heavy investment in STEM, nevertheless stagnate?’ Excoriating from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social on the undervaluing of social science and humanities research blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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

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

When we first decided to carry out a geophysical survey at Crookston Castle, none of us thought we’d be rewriting history. Watch our short flim to find out more youtu.be/B1Z2RZSvAfs?... @castlestudies.bsky.social @archscot.bsky.social @nts-archaeology.bsky.social @glasgowheritage.bsky.social

🏺New paper on web of close (although mostly more distant) genetic relationships between people buried in tombs in Orkney and northern Scotland 3700-3500 BCE, in the Early Neolithic.

Dr Antonia Thomas features in a new Time Team video on prehistoric rock art, contrasting that found on Ilkley Moor with the Neolithic carvings in Orkney and the Ness of Brodgar.

The registration for CHAT HOPE 2026 is now open! More you'll find here: hopechat.chat-arch.org/registration/

Recent storms have brought more falls of the former Michael Colliery bing and bits of old infrastructure onto the beach, East #Wemyss #Fife #Coal coast #MiningLandscapes

Monoprint Mountains #michelebrownart #michelebrownearthpainter #landscapeart #collage #monoprint

Very happy to see this chapter come out, in which I capture lessons learnt and reflections from my own experiences of working in climate heritage and policy across academia, the private sector, IGOs and charities - written prior to my current role, mind you. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

A rare opportunity to hear my online talk on Alan Garner & Archaeology on Saturday 18 April. Come and find out what happened when I descended into West Mine (pictured). This will be a fundraiser for the Folklore Library and Archive. More info & tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-th...

Clach Mhic Leoid has stood, sentinel over sand and sea, for over 3000 years... ... it will witness great changes in the future. #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Scotland

Clach Mhic Leoid has stood, sentinel over sand and sea, for over 3000 years... ... it will witness great changes in the future. #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Scotland

Another indicator that we now need to approach archaeological practice very differently. We could undertake mitigation works with greater impacts, when we combine public benefit, social value and fair work agendas. A real opportunity for meaningful innovation in the sector.

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...

Because well-being is linked to place and heritage, not just nature

Update: #HeritageAdapts has soft launched! The platform pools a dozen organizations’ resources to support locally-led risk assessment & adaptation action for 1000s of heritage sites & cultural practices. Beta testers from 40 counties are now prepping for a public launch on 4 June. Wish us luck! 🌏🌍🌎

Did you know that Salt of the Earth, a film made independently in 1954 due to everyone involved being blacklisted, which tells the story of a strike by Mexican American miners & their wives, many of them played by local miners & their families, is free to watch on YouTube? youtu.be/FE1oKQCwwo4

Come and enjoy our ever expanding Research Team! #HeritageJob

Looking for FREE family fun this Saturday? Don't miss our Spring Archaeology Open Day! ⏰️ Sat 11th April, 11am-4pm 🎯 Our archaeologists hunt for lost gravestones 🎯 Medieval Lego competition prize & medieval jewellery crafting for kids 🎯 Stef Baxter makes medieval tiles 🎯 Natural heritage tours

It's easy, and understandable, to feel overwhelmed with *everything* but a small, positive thing you can do is to follow and support the hard working teams at @archscot.bsky.social 🙌

Wish I was Here, (2001), Scotland's first multicultural multilingual anthology, with photographs of the poets. A themed anthology of Urdu, Gaelic, and other cultures and languages, incl. Jackie Kay, Irfan Merchant, Leila Abouleila, and Meg Bateman. 3 rare copies available for £15.00, just send PM.

✨Spring News✨ Claire Harris and Sadie Watson - MOLA - have joined the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies at Birkbeck as Honorary Research Fellows! They will teach a new BA module Sustainable Futures for Archaeology and co-supervise PhD research on London-based community archaeology!!

Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.

Today’s moment of calm A hare with quaking grass Peace is what we want Enough is all we need Kindness should be our guiding principle Love should be the memories we leave behind us.

Achnacreebeag has recently been reinvestigated by @archscot.bsky.social with support from @socantscot.bsky.social Audrey Henshall Legacy To learn more about what discoveries were made at the end of the rainbow, give them a follow. #TombTuesday #HESsupported #archaeology

The artwork of two of the MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology students is on show at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, until April 18.

🖋️ NEW SPL BLOG POST! Taylor Strickland writes on the Corbenic Poetry Path which "meanders through uplands, woodlands, and riverside, featuring some of the country’s most notable poets, among them Kathleen Jamie, Peter Mackay and John Glenday." www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2026/04/corb...

Our Film of the month for April '26 is Underland www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nqW...

Coastal Rocks a larger image in ink, watercolour and wax #michelebrownart #michelebrownearthpainter #watercolour #landscapeart #landscapepainting #ink

Hands up… who has tried a puzzle jug? 🏺 Simple at first glance… until you try to drink from it. Descended from the fuddling cup, these clever vessels have been amusing (and confusing) people since the Medieval period. Try one yourself: potted-history.co.uk #PuzzleJug #HistoryInHand

And witnesses, reflections on the storm ... Dargill Standing Stone may have seen 3500 years of changing weather but it has never experienced the consequences of rapid climate change, how can it respond? #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Prehistory #Scotland