Stenness: The northern lights over Stenness, May 2025. Three impressive uprights, originally a stone circle of twelve stones 30m diameter, in a rock-cut ditch like the nearby Ring of Brodgar. The enormous height and narrowness of the huge slab must be seen.
Thanks, I'll check it out!
#Glasgow #Cocktails #Books what's not to love! The Last Book Store Bar... and on a school night!!
#Scotland
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ARCS-funded PhD researching a national collection of Scotland’s game history. With @abertayuni.bsky.social, @glasgow.ac.uk & National Museum of Scotland.
Apps due by 11/05/2026
🔗 Learn more & apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Just a quick reminder that a UHI Institute for Northern Studies and Perth Museum Public Series Seminar is approaching fast on 22nd April 2026.
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Prehistoric funerary or accessory cup which was found at Keighly Road in Skipton. Now part of the collections at Craven Museum in Skipton, Yorkshire. 📸 My own. #Prehistory #Skipton #CravenMuseum
Red deer stag sitting in a copse in the Strath of Kildonan, Sutherland
#Glasgow bound today for the @sgsah.bsky.social #Earth symposium. Looking forward to meeting with other #PhD students and presenting how the #scholarship has shaped my research on human #RedDeer relationships in #Prehistory
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#Zooarchaeology #Archaeology
A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!
Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....
I've been trying to work out how to get there from the Strath road and getting over the railway line. If you have any tips, I'd be grateful, thanks. Do I go via the Kildonan level crossing and north along the river or via the bridge at Borrobol and head south, or is there another secret way 😉😊
Yes they are a lovely bunch. I worked there until 2023. I think my friend was with you when you lost your friend, she works at Skaill. It must have been such a shock for you all
Have you walked Yesnaby to Skaill? It's an amazing walk. The broch of Borwick is a great little site! Enjoy your stay, I hope Mrs Scarth leaves you alone 😉
Pic of a wooly rhino molar
An over-8 cm-long molar of a woolly rhino found in Wogan Cave, under Pembroke Castle, in Wales.
Mammoth and hippo bones were also found there, together with stone tools from early humans.
More exploration has been announced.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm sorry you lost your friend. Skaill Bay is just stunning and a fitting place to go to remember him. When the time comes, I'm having my ashes scattered off the cliffs at Yesnaby (wind allowing!). Sending love x
In the study in the journal Antiquity, researchers analysed the DNA of 22 people from five tombs in Caithness and the Orkney Islands in northern Scotland. The tombs were used between 3800 and 3200 B.C., during transitions from foraging to farming.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
The Ring of Brodgar, three of the megaliths with snowy hills in the background
Structure 27 under excavation at the Ness of Brodgar... not officially within the confines of the World Heritage site as it wasn't discovered when the site was designated! But actually slap bang in the middle of the WHS site!
Skara Brae, the Neolithic village setting grass covered sand dunes next to the sea.
Barnhouse Neolithic village, situated between Maeshowe, the Ness of Brogar and the Stones of Stenness on the back of Harray Loch
#WorldHeritageDay
I have had the joy and privilege of working and excavating at the Heart of #Neolithic #Orkney #WHS since 2016.
That's it... just me bragging, really 😉
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#Archaeology #Heritage
Prehistoric Policies now has its own corner of the internet to call home! Here you can find an overview of the project, information on the researchers involved, and details of our upcoming events. Stand by for a major announcement from us on Monday! www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeolo...
It was an amazing site!
Yes exactly this
2017 we went there! No idea why this was is still on my phone other than I must have liked the word Urr! It makes me think of Um as in Alice... from Umville... that is how my brain works 🤷🏻♀️
I've seen and heard ones made from red deer metapodials, but not an antler one. It's a future experimental archaeology project, I think...
📣Applications now open for a fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship at Durham on ‘Corbridge Roman Town: Economy and Society on the Edges of Roman Britain’, in partnership with English Heritage!
📅Deadline for applications: 1st of June 2026.
👉Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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It's your heaven you can have whatever you like... within reason 😉
Nope just cheese! Cheese is the food of the gods... and chocolate... and wine!
This is of course the 11th Commandment!
Whistle made from a red deer antler beam. The pedicle and brown tine have been removed.
#FindsFriday
This rare #Antler whistle was found in an #IronAge #Wheelhouse at Loch na Berie on Lewis in the #WesternIsles.
Its use is unclear, but possibly a #Musical Instrument, used for #Hunting or for signalling.
It is on display @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social 📸 mine
#RedDeer #Scotland #Music
Palaeolithic flint hand axe from Happisburgh in Norfolk. The axe was collected in 1934 by the French archaeologist, Armand Lacaille, and is now part of the collections at the Wardlaw Museum in St. Andrews, Fife. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Prehistory
Excavating the site of an Iron Age enclosure on Little Wood Hill, Threave Estate, D&G © Rathmell Archaeology Limited
Are you interested in the Iron Age and Roman archaeology of South West Scotland? Join us at our SWSARF workshops this June!
We'll be at Ayr Town Hall (20th June) and Dumfries Museum (27th June) discussing the latest draft chapters of the South West framework.
Register for free: bit.ly/3Qr32QG
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
