An excellent and very important article on the risks of missing the forest of social kinship through the trees of aDNA work!

It's a tough skill I'm really trying to learn! The deeper I go, the harder it is to remember that I only learned about most of these sites in my dedicated medieval master's degree...

Channeling this classic XKCD comic (with apologies to Randall Munroe for my edits here) as I review my chapter comments that read "include a map, no one but you knows where these sites are"

One of my favorite little crossovers between my love of our national park system and my medieval work round the Forth...

"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out I found, was really going in."

St. John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough from 'Folkish' by Kym Deyn Here's the church, here's the steeple look inside: here's GHOSTS AND GHOSTS AND GHOSTS the stone's porosity holds memory tremulous little bugs, chisel scrape a lichen's miniscule community even the water's long pilgrimage it has never forgotten, not the ache of rain, the moment a curled shell became stone, not the novelty of an axe, of thumbs, of men the stone has been a church only a blink or so, it still knows its coralself before this country, this continent a dozen extinctions made a great dying each unconformity of stone has its ghosts once-fish, once-snail, once wetsoft silt dreaming of the days before trees or man's first tongue, a vanished song this stone cannot forget and drinks time deeply, we cannot escape the memory of white-breasted herons, strange ancient fish, a stone's mute surprise at a church choir.

St. John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough
by Kym Deyn

"it has never forgotten, not the ache
of rain, the moment a curled shell
became stone, not the novelty
of an axe, of thumbs, of men"

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but rising costs (as you may expect) are hitting indy creators hard & because @profgabriele.com pays out of pocket to make the podcast, costs have been rising. even if it's a few $/ month, it'd help

This now lost figure of Christ from an inscribed stone at Llanglydwen, drawn in 1820, is done with your nonsense and is coming for you

Picture Cathédrale #NotreDameDeParis France. Picture by P.Montgomery.

On the bank of #Seine, in the shadows of Cathédrale #NotreDameDeParis, #fishweirs were used for 1000s of years for fishing histoy; sadly, only eels have endured in regions' aquatic resources. 1/4
#coastalhistory #4oceans

Crossover Episode with “Reckoning” (the film “Kingdom of Heaven”) Podcast Episode · American Medieval · April 15 · 1h 21m

friends, day of days, this is a good day. NEW EPISODE WEDNESDAY!!!! & it's a doozy...

a crossover w/ @herberthistory.bsky.social, we talk about the film KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (about medieval crusades). featuring @lollardfish.bsky.social @tlecaque.bsky.social @greenleejw.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com

Me, lecturing at the front: "The Black Plague would end up killing as much as 50% of Europe's population. And do you know what else is a plague? Having all your browser activity tracked by your employer - use promo code YERSINIA..." (a single sob escapes) "...to get that 50% off NordVPN today!"

Interesting! @realfollowers.bsky.social

All of this is fantastic, thank you!

Thank you! Honestly, a bit of everything? I love museums, historical sites, nice walks or hikes, and good food. I'll be based downtown with no car and a bus pass, and nothing but time on my hands to explore and write. So any favorite spots are welcome!

We're talking a Pictish stone, an early medieval manuscript (with seals!), one of the great silver chains from southern Scotland, penannular brooches, and so much more...

Exhibitions, Celtic Art Across the Ages | Harvard Art Museums Discover the many forms of Celtic creativity and their artistic legacies in this sweeping story that spans ancient to modern times. When you think of the word “Celtic,” what do you picture? Perhaps in...

Finally got around to Harvard to see the Celtic Art Across the Ages exhibit, and wow, there's stuff in there (from excellent institutions like the National Museum of Scotland) that I never expected to see in the US!

If you're in the Boston area, it's free, it's great, go see it!

Alright, plans have changed and crystallized: I'm going to be in Aberdeen for a bit in early May, and Perth/Edinburgh/Stirling/Glasgow and more in mid- to late May.

If anyone has either any recommendations (I've never been to Aberdeen before!) or wants to get a coffee, please let me know!

"Restoration work on the grounds of a Glasgow church which dates back to the 5th century is set to begin."

BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What an exciting project for @govanstones.bsky.social! Do head along to their Open Day today to find out more about their plans and this amazing site.

A black and white print from a wood engraving of a tree and field of wheat with the ramparts of a grass covered Iron Age hillfort in the distance

The mighty multivallate hillfort atop Hambledon Hill has been dominating #Dorset since the Iron Age

It has never looked more magnificent than in this wood engraving ink print by (and © of) Howard Phipps 🤩

For more see:

howardphipps.co.uk

Happy #HillfortsWednesday!

I really enjoyed recording this podcast! Listen on to learn how to use a pig‘s bladder in early medieval medicine! #medievalsky

Photograph of book cover—Rhynie: A Powerful Place of Pictland—The development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period.

This just arrived on my doorstep with a big ‘thud’! Looking forward to reading it when I get a chance. Especially love the lino print image of Tap o’Noth #hillfort on the jacket cover by Bryan Angus. 🙌

Significant discovery made at home of best Viking-age sculpture collection in Europe A SIGNIFICANT find at the home of one of the most “impressive” collections of early medieval sculptures found in Europe has been made with…

📰⛏️💥 Thanks to Alasdair Ferguson, we got a double-page spread about the latest archaeological discoveries at the Govan Stones in Sunday's The National!

Thanks also to Prof. Stephen Driscoll and Dee Manning for helping me get the latest information.

(£) www.thenational.scot/news/2599463...

How to use procrastination to your advantage As medieval sages understood, putting things off – done well – can open the doors to creativity and purpose

"The best medieval theologians never believed it was possible to expunge any of the deadly sins altogether. They knew that they were hard-wired, constituting the impulses that make us all human."

#MedievalSky

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

A baseball park partially shaded with a blue sky with clouds above. A sign with the field name, Fluor Field, is to the right.

Opening Day and it's a beautiful one

Barely anyone other than Roman Britain nuts have even heard of Uley, but imo we should all be losing our minds over the unrivalled religious continuity of this sacred site - at least 3000 years, from the Neolithic era to a probable 8th-century church

Book of Kells possibly made by Highland monks, say researchers Mystery surrounds the origins of the 1,200-year-old, intricately decorated Book of Kells.

Our latest @socantscot.bsky.social grants have been announced today! Including support for experimental archaeology to build ‘vellum tanks’ and recreate the methods that were used to make pages of early medieval manuscripts in Portmahomack.

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

I have a grad student who has suddenly become VERY interested in medieval Sicily (esp. between 800-1200) and I would love to share some recent, engaging, and interesting articles with him. I've not looked into this area/time in a while & would love to hear your suggestions! #Medievalsky #Skystorians

Cover of forthcoming new book, aerial view of an early medieval settlement with book title and editors names

“Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe” (edited by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O'Sullivan, 2026), an MSRG publication

Pre-order from Archaeopress
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

A really great opportunity to see (and support!) some good politically-minded drama in these times.

www.thebrechtproject.org

My old college town, Lexington KY. Sav's West African (now sadly gone, no going home) goat with fufu, and Bourbon n' Toulouse gumbo and shrimp etouffee. I miss them all the time with a rare yearning.

Only the best!