Folk in Rousay will get an update on the ongoing UHI Archaeology Institute excavation at Skaill farm next week, with a talk scheduled for Monday, February 9.
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Folk in Rousay will get an update on the ongoing UHI Archaeology Institute excavation at Skaill farm next week, with a talk scheduled for Monday, February 9.
Sandstone cross back dropped by church, above which blue sky. Lens flare partly obscures decoration on weathered, lichen covered surface. But central boss and interlace pattern visible.
Side of cross at top, with relief carving of spiralling snake motion with open mouth.
Netherton Cross, about a thousand years old, covered with mix of figurative & geometric designs including beast headed figures, snakes, boses & interlace patterns. An example of Govan School sculptural tradition relsting to the Kingdom of Strathclyde
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📌March Speaker Event
#Fife #Heritage #stonemasonry
Flyer for the 'Into the Wild: Exploring (re)wilding, nature-based land-use and the Historic Environment' containing key details of and links for the conference and discussion meeting against a background image of a Highland valley undergoing nature restoration. Full details: https://tinyurl.com/bd23653y
March has snuck up!! Reminder that the closing date for presenter/attendee EOIs is this Monday, 2 March.
Full details and submission link: tinyurl.com/bd23653y
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Hilton of Cadboll - replica Pictish stone by an ancient chapel site that was used for the burial of unbaptised infants and suicide victims upto the 18th century. This is a fascinating stone for its central depiction of a woman. Original in National Museum #Scotland #medievalsky #archaeology
👀 @eddiecstewart.bsky.social's review of Richard Oram's latest, series completing book: tinyurl.com/4vru2tv2
Good luck with your next adventures
The end of Digging for Britain.
For me, at least.
But I’ll still be making television about archaeology, on other channels. So watch this space…
Attended the NTS Rangers Conference at Brodick on Arran today. Did a couple of sessions on archaeological hands on activities for school groups with them. Sand pit dig, rebuilding pots, material sorting. Map work and story telling. Seems to have gone down well.
This evening I will be talking about the development of densely populated Bronze Age hillforts in Ireland and Temperate Europe for @tuatha.ie @neiljackman.bsky.social, a topic which has recieved some press after our @antiquity.ac.uk paper on Brusselstown Ring, a massive 41ha site with 600+ houses!
Aerial photograph of the mouth of the River Leven, Fife, Scotland, as it enters the Firth of Forth at Innerleven. The banks are stone-built, and behind sits the town of Leven.
Applications Open: The Leven Programme Heritage & Archaeology Employability Course - a structured, practical programme designed to develop skills, confidence & real-world experience w/in heritage sector.
Details: www.theleven.org/opportunities/
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Photograph from the previous year's Archaeological Research in Progress Conference showing a largely full, small, modern lecture theater with a raised platform at the front. Four people are standing on this platform, in front of a screen (illegible), presenting to the audience.
CfP: Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) 2026.
Saturday 23 May 2026 in Dumfries & online.
@archscot.bsky.social invites presentation proposals highlighting new findings & best practices from across Scotland & all periods.
Submission deadline: 16 March 2026
Full details: tinyurl.com/mr3npe53
Cuween Hill Cairn. The image shows a rough grassy rounded cairn beyond a fence and wooden ladder stile. An entrance can be seen in the near face of the cairn. The scene is in sunlight.
Cuween Hill Cairn can be found on the flank of Cuween Hill, close to the village of Finstown on Orkney's West Mainland. It was in use between about 4,500 and 5,000 years ago. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #Orkney #CuweenHillCairn #Cuween #Cairn #Finstown
Reconstructions of Threave Castle, Galloway (Scotland) Keep built by Archibald 'The Grim' Douglas in 1369. Castle bombarded by King James II in 1455. Garrison bribed to surrender. Castle gunner brought into King's service. King killed at Roxburgh by cannon accident in 1460.
Great to see Dr Murray Cook writing about the Glorious Govan Stones and Govan Old, the spectacular early medieval oasis of carved stone monuments amid a *surviving* 1,500-year-old graveyard.
We open for the 2026 season on April 1st, so start to make your plans!
open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
Glass ceiling of a museum with the text 'Museums and Display, Antiquity'.
Show some love to your local museum this #MuseumsAdvocacyDay!
If you'll allow us our own museums advocacy, our 'Museums and Display' collection highlights the importance of museums for #archaeology research, heritage protection, cultural exchange & much more!
🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s been a successful weekend for the UHI Archaeology Institute at the Scottish Student archaeology Society conference (SSACC) conference in Aberdeen.
Article in today’s Herald already posted by others but behind a paywall, so here’s an old school version. Apologies in advance to all those colleagues who never get credit in a feature like this.
True rescue archaeology in action, amazing response from @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social and team to my urgent call for help! The work certainly shows the power of partnership working. The question now is, as we face more coastal change, what else will emerge in the future #scotland #archaeology #IronAge
UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Cameron Taylor is currently the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) featured researcher.
Radiocarbon dating shows these prints date to the late Iron Age — moments in the lives of people who walked this landscape two millennia ago, a few centuries before the first reference to the Picts. #Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen!
More to follow!
www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25127/?...
Between 2017-22 I was a Post-doc researcher with Scotland's Rock Art Project.
The project was funded by the AHRC and recently the @ukri.org invited us to feature their new Future Makers series.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPsR...
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We spent a great day yesterday on a hilltop littered with hillforts! On White Hill, south of Biggar, Scotland, there are palisades, earthen ramparts, and one of the strangest forts I've seen in a while - an 11 hectare elongated enclosure overlooking a group of possible henges #HillfortsWednesday
Inspection of peatland work in Glencoe on Monday. snowy and wet!
Over on to Canna yesterday - sunny and dry. Looking down to the Nunnery site. Island of Rum in the distance
Screenshot of a 3D model of a ceramic cross pendant from Dumbarton Rock castle site
A mysterious ceramic cross pendant found at the fortress of Dumbarton Rock, but is it early or later medieval? Now on display at the Castle alongside other finds from the early medieval hillfort. Read more on scientific analysis by Historic Environment Scotland: blog.engineshed.scot/2025/07/09/u...
A medieval cross head in the Kilberry sculptured stone collection, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. This collection is thought to have come from the site of a medieval church on the Kilberry Castle estate.
#MedievalMonday
This is a fascinating read from Hannah Booth on substack: practically all my work involves collapsing the boundaries of sea versus land, to think about regressive hunter-gatherer landscapes open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Image of two map pins connected by a dotted line with text: 'These photos were taken on the same day at...Stromness Museum, Orkney...8000 miles!...South Georgia Museum (near Stromness), South Georgia.' Photos show Janette Park, Curator of Stromness Museum standing on Flaws Pier in Stromness and 4 staff members of South Georgia Museum standing in front of the Museum entrance.
❤️ A Tale of Two Stromnesses! ❤️ Elouise, who developed the Orkney Snorkel Trail with us, was recently in Stromness, South Georgia. The 'sooth' Stromness is 8000 miles away in the sub-Antarctic, where there's an old whaling station.
Large round stone with hole in upland landscape with red and white 1m scale pole and person with rucksack looking on
Beautiful day yesterday to go up Meall Mor, beside the NTS visitor centre in Glencoe, to inspect this millstone rough out up at 400m OD in Coire nan Cuilc. Thanks to @eddiecstewart.bsky.social for coming along.
