We've been working on a likely medieval chapel site all week with @historicdunkeld.bsky.social and today was flagstone lifting day. And charcoal has been found! 🙏

I just love this. Essentially they're stratigraphy socks.

Test pit adventures really escalated in Dunkeld! We found the edge of a rampart that burnt so hot the stone looks like it started to vitrify. The little colourful markers you can see mark the charred wood beams.

Day 3 #KingsSeat2026: A huge day! The rampart was far more complex than expected, with multiple charred timbers, intense burning and vitrified stone showing extremely high temperatures during its destruction. Dating samples taken, and finally evidence of occupation inside! 🔥🏺⛏️

That's me with my charred rampart remains and muddy knees looking delighted 😌

Unplanned visit to Chatsworth after I realised it was the Jane Austen weekend...

And that's a wrap with the dig at Fonmon Castle with Cardiff University. Here's muddy me with the soil sample bags. Very very pleased I got to join this team it's been a lot of fun ❤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Fragments of the early medieval bone tooth comb I excavated this week at Fonmon Castle. If you look closely you can see the tiny dot detail.

I visited Castell Henllys on the weekend. It's a hillfort in Wales that has been reconstructed based on excavations. The roundhouse diameters are based on post holes and the roof is supported by 40m oak trees, likely 'forested' to grow straight enough to be roof timbers. #HillfortsWednesday

So this is Pentre Ifan burial chamber but no bones have been found so this might just count as #StandingStoneSunday with bonus balancing act.

Excavating with Cardiff University at Fonmon Castle this week. It's an an incredibly rocky site with early medieval graves cut into bedrock. Lots of osteology learning for me on this one. Feeling very lucky to have been able to join!

@taylsa.bsky.social we do follow each other! Lovely to meet you in real life at NMS 😊

I've taken my laptop to the field next door to get the last rays of sun and join @cifaosteoarch.bsky.social's session. An idyllic spot to learn about ancient DNA, mouth microbiomes and dental calculus sampling with @lauraweyrich.bsky.social.

Last chance to apply to join our Anti-racism and Decolonisation Steering Group ⏰ We're recruiting for two new members to join this steering group, which meets to consider and advocate for how to take anti-racism and decolonisation forward in the UK museum sector. Apply by 11.59pm tomorrow 👇

Here's the link to the #1926Census of #Ireland which just went live, in case anyone is looking for it. Happy searching! nationalarchives.ie/collections/... #IrishFamilyHistory #IrishGenealogy

Adventures in Shetland! So lucky to be part of this group

Everyone crowded into the bronze age smiddy

Enroute to Shetland for @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social's field trip.

First day volunteering with @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social! I'm helping Curator of Osteoarchaeology, Dr Jess Thompson with her work to help make collections more accessible to research.

Important if unnerving article finding that 10s of 1000s of archaeological human remains excavated in Britain over the last c.150 years are unaccounted for. Shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat current curators - this is an inherited problem caused by a complexity of historic systematic issues.

Margaret Medcalf ensured that some of Western Australia's most important documents were preserved. #archives #GLAMS

"We are living through a period in which the scaffolding underpinning entire bodies of knowledge is no longer secure..." Brilliant article on how environmental science needs to pivot it's research tactics and learn from humanities - where money has been scare for a long time.

It is giving strongly competitive Easter hat parade energy.

"These were just women like me and you..." - @annacaig.bsky.social Talking witchcraft trials and the women persecuted in Scotland. Ironically Topping's event is in a kirk.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

First submission to Scotland's Treasure Trove. A beautiful little flint I found washed up on a beach in Charlestown, Fife.

Hello Saturday!

Things are afoot #StonehengeEverything

Reason #47 to live in a Scottish village... The excellent Niel Gow Festival is on again celebrating the music of a man born in 1727 in Dunkeld. We might currently have more fiddlers per head of population then anywhere in Scotland rn 🎻

Panel discussion (free and online) hosted by the Royal Historical Society 12:30 pm Thursday 26 March on 'Historical Context: Modern Iran', featuring Professor Maziyar Ghiabi, Dr Louise Kettle and Dr Jonathan Franzen. #Skystorians

A small but excellent exhibition looking at the history of birth @wellcomecollection.bsky.social. The best bit was...

On this day in 1815, computer programmer Ada Lovelace was born in England. She believed computers might compose pieces of music but also that the "Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."

You know what ys the coolest thinge? Libraryes.

Just an afternoon at the local archive. This character is from Inverness and is over 600 years old.

Dig day! Out with Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust excavating around huge boulders that have Pictish cup marks on them

We are busy getting ready for the new academic year, but our Dr Nicola Martin had a great afternoon out with students, visiting Abertarff House, the oldest house in Inverness. The students also had the opportunity to view short film 1745: An Untold Story of Slavery. @thinkuhi.bsky.social