The earthworks are actually remarkably similar to those of Chester, especially the multiple defences at the entrance www.trove.scot/image/1779071

Bumper sticker reads: HONK if you bought SUBPAR COPPER INGOTS FROM EA-NÄȘIR

Can confirm that they’re still talking about inferior copper ingots

Fantastic find!

Brilliant! I look forward to reading this later

A thatched roof with 2 chimney pots. Atop the roof, instead of the usual duck or pheasant made of thatch, there stands a majestic T-rex

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

Come along to our seminar TODAY to hear more about this astounding discovery

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Great opportunity to learn more about dendro and historic woodworking with two of the experts in Scotland

Our next seminar is on Tuesday 7 April at 18.00.

Sophia Adams will be talking about the extraordinary finds in the Melsonby Hoard

"Accumulating wealth: the growing story of the Melsonby Iron Age hoard"

For this seminar we return to the Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre in Old College

Kinneil House free open day for Silent Film Festival – Saturday 21 March Silent pictures and stories… Discover Kinneil House’s unique 16th-Century ‘Parable’ Room Kinneil House will re-open free on Saturday 21 March – the first public openin…

Kinneil House *re-opens!* with #HistoricScotland this Saturday 21 March - self-guided indoor tours, 10am-3pm + outdoor guided walk at 12 noon + see museum in probably its last fortnight of Council management - all *free* for this week’s #HippFest Silent Film Festival kinneil.org.uk/2026/03/17/k...

Cats being cats in Medieval times - one walked across this tile mid-production and the maker decided to fire it anyway

Taken at Glenluce Abbey in 2017

#TilesOnTuesday

#AdoorableThursday

The very narrow south door on Cruggleton Kirk

That was really interesting! 0.0085 for me

Terrible AIslop that's so wrong it's laughable (apart from the environmental cost of you making it)

PARIS is Preservering Archaeological Remains In-Situ

This looks great but unfortunately for me, the same time as IRAAR26 and PARIS6

We're doing it again!! ☺️
As part of the work that Tertia Barnett and I are doing with @scarf-scot.bsky.social, we'll be running another event to celebrate rock art research and launch brand-new sections of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework.

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US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

Did you see this? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Our next seminar is this coming Tuesday 03/03 at 18:00.

We have a change of venue, it will be held in **Lecture Theatre A, 40 George Square**

Andrew Fitzpatrick “La Tène: everything you wanted to know but never felt strong enough to ask”

North of the border, there's some evidence of pre-Roman Iron Age people obtaining lead from the hills around Leadhills/Wanlockhead (analysis of 3 lead beads from Carghidown hillfort) and then Roman use of the same source

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Covesea Caves, Moray © ScARF

Join the ScARF team!

We are looking to hire two ScARF Research Officers and a ScARF Research Manager to help deliver our final two regional research frameworks.

Apply by 11:59pm on the 8th of March 2026. More information: socantscot.org/news/#appoin...

#HESSupported

Sometime after the holidays I shall be glad if we can put our heads together regarding the rescuing of archaeological as opposed to architectural information at Ministry of Works sites where work is carried out without the constant supervision of an archaeologist. You have, I suspect, been fighting a rather lone battle in the Ministry on this head, but perhaps the support of the Museum and the Society of Antiquaries as well, should be invoked to secure success, and to put an end to the state of affairs inherited from your predecessors, which resulted in the Ministry’s excavations, being, in the words of Sir George Macdonald, ‘official secrets’.

Going through some files in the National Records of Scotland yesterday, I came across a letter from RBK Stevenson (Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland) to JS Richardson (Inspector of Ancient Monuments (Scotland))

(retyped as I could not take photographs)

Quite a contrast between Glencoe and Canna!

Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.

Have you seen this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Lewisvale Park Roman Altars A short video of work in progress on the Lewisvale Park Roman Altars, discovered in Inveresk, Scotland by AOC Archaeology Group.

NMS may have announced they will be part of the exhibition, but full credit to AOC Archaeology who discovered them in 2010 and produced this video in 2013 vimeo.com/58612850

Also published in Britannia in 2016 doi.org/10.1017/S006...

Sorry Max, didn't mean any offence!

Something quite unsettling about this video I can't quite put my finger on. Is this an AI Max?

An interpretation panel in front of the entrance to Rispain Camp

Panoramic image from the southern corner

Sneaking Rispain Camp in for #HillfortsWednesday as it is not listed on the Atlas, and we define it as a settlement - but the ditches are absolutely MASSIVE

First thought to be a Roman site, then medieval it was revealed as Iron Age following excavation in the 1970s

Photos from my visit yesterday

Cairn Holy I with its forecourt area. The sea is visible beyond

Cairn Holy II

Cairn Holy II showing the chambers

The Beltie calf with three spots

#TombTuesday yesterday I was at Cairn Holy I & II with a colleague and we met a very cute beltie calf

I've been lucky enough to have a copy of this since December.

It's a brilliant and fascinating publication, and I'm still swooning over the design and type setting - it really is worth getting a copy of!