Last call for help on this. My millers guide let me down 😔 reverse & thickness here, main pic in quoted post:

#WorldBearDay
Brown #bear tooth amulet with runic inscription found at the Brough of Birsay #Orkney in the 1930s. This is a rare find outside #Scandinavia and further evidences the status of this fantastic #Norse site. It's on display at #NMS. 📸 credit @orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social #Vikings

Truth.

Here’s a thing. @malikalnasir.bsky.social has been doing a lot of work on his connections with Andrew Watson.

Another handful of updates… Another batch of updated/rewritten/expanded archive posts from the weekend.

Another batch of updated archive posts from the weekend. A rewrite here and there, expanded text and some new photographs and 3d models.
#archaeology #Orkney #Neolithic #NessOfBrodgar

JUST A REMINDER ...

... of how close we are today ...

The Telegraph’s been reproducing versions of this same story for years. Wokeness and a ‘recipe for a crisis’ in membership. But National Trust member retention is higher than comparator organisations despite the cost of living crisis, and visitor numbers have been increasing.

The Tomb of the Eagles crowd funder is doing well but needs more support. Can you help?

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tomb-of-th...

Video: 'A Saint in Stone' - recording of OAS talk now available online - Archaeology Orkney The recording of Jenny Murray's Orkney Archaeology Society (OAS) talk, A Saint in Stone, is now available online.

Here is the talk given by Jenny Murray, filmed by the @orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social - and revealing the carbon dating of the wooden box where the bones were found…. archaeologyorkney.com/2025/03/07/v...

National Trust raises fees to £3,000 for family life memberships Charity squeezes an extra 25pc from members over three years

National Trust membership for a family costs £14.05 a month. A Telegraph subscription costs £104 a month. And don’t get me started on the quality of the product.

In the 2nd century BC a woman was placed in a bog in Huldremosen, Denmark.
When her remains were found her clothing was in remarkable condition.
Yes these clothes are over 2000 years old but the peat gave them this brownish colour.

Slide for the 2025 'History and Archives in Practice' day conference on 5 March with the theme of 'Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance', hashtag #HAP25

Coming up in March, we look forward to hosting this year's 'History and Archives in Practice' day conference, on Weds 5th, with partners @ihr.bsky.social and The National Archives bit.ly/3XlcLbW

#HAP25's theme is ‘Working with Memory', with contributions from historians and archivists #Skystorians

The Isbister stalled cairn – South Ronaldsay’s ‘Tomb of the Eagles’ The first part of an article looking at the Isbister stalled cairn in South Ronaldsay, better known today as the Tomb of the Eagles.

The first part of an article looking at the Isbister stalled cairn in South Ronaldsay, better known today as the Tomb of the Eagles.
#archaeology #orkney #neolithic

Strike a pose... a large deer stag strutting his stuff

5 deer stags in a wood of moss covered trees

A stag sitting in a wood of moss covered trees

Blue Sky over a Glen full.of brown Heather, marsh grass and hills in the distance

#deer stalking last night in #Sutherland with a long lens... although tbh they were really close to the road.
📸 images are mine all mine!
#Scotland #Reddeer #photography

Psst…wanna buy a tomb??

For the past few years a group of us have been working to bring one of #Orkney’s major heritage sites, the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles, into community ownership.

Now we need your help to make the site safe and accessible. Please share widely and donate if you can! 🏺🧪

#Viking lead-inset weight, as reported to @findsorguk.bsky.social.

⚖️ 49.1g = c.2 øre/oz?

Possibly developed in Great Army camps, #Vikings used them to weigh hacksilver and other bullion currency to determine cash value.

RH @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social

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Orkney Archaeology Society are delighted to have been able to play such a role in this really exciting research.

In 1919, during restoration work in St Magnus Cathedral Orkney, a wooden box containing human remains was discovered. This box has now been carbon dated and is made from trees felled between 1034-1168, lending support to theory bones are those of St Magnus.

Full story 👇
news.stv.tv/highlands-is...

Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms

Enthralling article by Peter Marshall in @historytoday.com on the medieval and early modern claims for sovereignty over Orkney by Norway and Scotland.

www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Jobs and volunteering - The Mary Rose Jobs, academic placements and volunteering opportunities at the Mary Rose Trust.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT THE MARY ROSE!

We're looking for a PR Officer and a Marketing Campaign Manager to help us spread the word of the Mary Rose Museum, and the work that we do, to new audiences.

Find out more about these roles - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...

The wonderful Everett True cartoons, so old yet somehow often still so current.

Check out others here;
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Sally Lunns Buns. And Belgian buns.

I’m looking forward to giving this walk ‘n’ talk - the biggest challenge will be keeping it to an hour! ☠️🪦🕯️🔔

Whilst the anvil is important.

The small saw blade is the real star of this assemblage, ultra rare and hugely significant.

Small hand tool were vitally important in a world where organics (wood / bone / antler) dominated life - the preservation of organics is largely lost from the record

Recount sees some Ness t-shirt colours and sizes back in stock We've got a few colours'sizes that had previously sold out. Snap one up for Valentine's Day.

We've got a few colours/sizes of the 2024 Ness t-shirt that had previously sold out. Snap one up for Valentine's Day.

For #FindsFriday, a Lower/Middle Palaeolithic handaxe from Suffolk. The flaking is rough, but the surface is smooth as butter! Its rolled, recorticated condition hints at deep prehistory, far older than the area's usual Neolithic axe roughouts.
#archaeology #palaeolithic #lithics #flintfriday

A quote from the writer AR Moxon from 2017. He wrote: "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?" A.R. Moxon

This.

photo of the snake figure on display at the museum, mounted on a clear shelf in a display case- it’s tiny! (original source of image currently lost in the interwebs)

zoomed in photo of the snake sculpture - incised details marking scales, and a very cute smiling face! image via Thai News Agency

I haven’t seen this little guy posted yet today for #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheSnake 🌕🐍 so I guess I’ll be the one to do it…
#Snake (Naga) Figure
U Thong District, Suphan Buri Province, Thailand, 6th - 11th c. CE
Baked clay with incised details
National Museum Bangkok

A satirical print from the eighteenth century depicting three grave robbers huddled around a grave. The men look in horror at a tall white ghost that is illuminated by their lantern light. The ghost nonchalantly holds out a bone towards the grave robbers.

I’ll be in this year’s Goths for Breakfast with ‘Night of the Leaving Dead’ - The Impermanent World of the Eighteenth Century Grave at 8pm GMT on 15th Feb.

It’s an online day of Gothic & horror sessions in support of the charity Magic Breakfast!

Tickets at:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goths-for-...

Well the finale of Yellowstone was one of the most satisfying series endings ever. Everything happens the way it should have, and how everyone deserved to end up. Excellent writing. I wonder if Kelly Reilly knows she's one of the best actresses in the world? #Yellowstone