"Get a bus from [Dublin] airport to Galway, say, and spend the journey looking out the window, you’re struck not by how green this famously green country is, but how utterly barren it has become." Good @irishexaminer.bsky.social piece by Colin Sheridan. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

I’m assisting Trees for Life with the Wild Pine Project to locate unrecorded remnants of Scotland’s Caledonian Pine Forests. In Gleann Fionnlighe nr Fort William we cored several old trees. My analysis shows the oldest originate in early 1600s so very probably wild, not planted. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Glad to talk on Rosslare Fort today in Belfast at the Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group conference. It is the 100th anniversary of the abandonment of Rosslare Fort in Wexford this year after the storm on Christmas Eve 1924 turned it into an island #CHERISHlegacy @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

Happy St Brigid’s Day! The cult of St Brigid travelled beyond Ireland, including to Wales. In the CHERISH project we collaborated with colleagues in Wales researching sites at risk from climate change, including the lime kiln at St Brides Haven #CHERISHlegacy #RCAHMW @aberuni.bsky.social

The CHERISH project is up for a Current Archaeology Award!! Give us a vote if you can!

#12days2solstice Day 10 Decorated Roof Stone, East Recess This stone slab is intricately decorated across the whole of its underside. The Discovery Programme scanned it in 2014 & re-processed the data in 2024 as part of the #5Dculture project skfb.ly/psWOO @timemachine.eu @opwireland.bsky.social

Exciting news! To celebrate the Winter Solstice (& completion of #5Dculture) we're releasing "12 Days to Solstice"☀️ In the next 12 days we’ll share a series of new & improved 3D models from Newgrange. Explore the tomb like never before… & wait for our finale on Solstice itself! @timemachine.eu

Join us tonight to hear about Prof Warren's research into Mesolithic lives in the Cairngorms

One of the absolute highlights of my professional life to date - aerial survey along the Kerry coast! It was a dream come true to work on the CHERISH project & I learnt so much from @drtobydriver.bsky.social Fortunate to be continuing the #CHERISH legacy now with @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

When I'm not doing outreach #archaeology & climate heritage in #Ireland with The Discovery Programme, I'm generally found hanging with these guys & @epiphytic.bsky.social 🌱

A simply extraordinary Iron Age staircase, preserved within the wall thickness of the ruinous #Broch tower at Dun Carloway, Isle of Lewis, in the Outer #Hebrides. The sophisticated pre-Roman architecture here blew me away when I saw it this June - a real bucket-list moment 📷 My own 2024

It's time to get the conversation going here on climate change and cultural heritage. Here's a starter pack I made. Let me know if you'd like to get on or off it. #ClimateHeritage go.bsky.app/HmZ38CC