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Two books covers, to left title is High Pasture Cave Ritual, Memory and Identity in the Iron Age of Skye by Steven Birch and Jo McKenzie. Cover shows distant mountains of Skye overlaid by pen and ink drawing of Iron Age life. To the right, title is Cultural Landscapes of North-east Scotland Collaborative research in History and Archaeology edited by Colin Shepherd. Cover shows four people in excavation trench, one smiling, others digging and drawing a section. Set woodland, adjacent felled trees, and fringed with green ferns.

Great to see some fantastic new Scottish #Archaeology related books just published by @oxbowbooks.bsky.social

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Archaeology as community wealth building

please help this important crowdfunder

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Divers discover treasure trove of old Glasgow pottery A group of divers have found a shipwreck with a cargo of 1840s Glasgow pottery off the west coast of Scotland.

One for @clydevalleyarf.bsky.social

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Wonderful visualisations

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What an interesting find, what was its context of discovery Tom?

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Glass snow globe within which are four white plastic architectural model figures of people and bronze car crashed into broken 19th century ceramic milk feeder. From work called We Are Living In Disfunctional Globes

Vertical rows of found Baltic objects in four main groups. From left sea glass, white a top of row running down through shades of green. Next group of fossils with bird skull on top. Rows of yellow amber, beach found amber and quarried amber. From work called Among the Dead Dunes Some Trees Glow Like The Sun made on Curonian Spit, Lithuania.

Great to present on #Art & #Archaeology to Lanark and District Archaeological Society this evening.

Some wonderful discussion on how important such creative approaches are at this time.

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Large stone slab like rock in centre, with dark recess in front. Sits among brown Heather, cliff line beyond below dark cloud with patch of bluesky

View from within Dwarfie Stane looking out through squarish rock cut aperture. Beyond which grey stone block partially obscures view out. Heather covered brown hills beyond and stormy sky, with flash of bluesky

Dark Enchanted Isle ‐ an old blog post about a stormy visit to the Dwarfie Stane for #TombTuesday

#Hoy #Orkney #Scotland #Archaeology #ArchScot #prehistory

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Three standing stones. One on left closer, two off centre slightly more distant, sun low above horizon sets between them. Moody cloudy sky with patches of blue and bands of orange. Grass in fore ground glisten with hazy glow of light

And when we seek those moments in time...

Stone Circle 2 Machrie Moor #Scotland

Photo taken Nov 2021

#StandingStoneSunday
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The End of Prehistory Three times I have been to this place, I should have been more… The first time was in 1994 to take part in excavations on the site before the Archaeolink Prehistory Park was built.  The secon…

An old blog post The End of Prehistory gives a sense of the decline of this heritage centre.

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Two very well deserved winners, many congratulations to them both.

Privileged to work with Kieran at @archscot.bsky.social - his commitment to widening participation in archaeology is truly inspirational.

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Great to see Mike @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social exploring the DES data set, complements broader @archscot.bsky.social review process being undertaken about what annual & longitudinal data and insights does the Scottish Archaeology community need in the future

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🌊🔬 We brought our Scottish Power-funded Energy through Time project to the #Shetland Science Fair!

✨Over 2 days, 250+ students from Shetland schools got hands-on with archaeology workshops, designed water wheels and tackled climate change’s impact on Shetland’s heritage! #ArchScot #archaeology

@ArchScot have just joined @bsky.app the team do amazing work across Scotland please give a follow

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Join us in exploring and preserving the stories beneath our feet! #ArchScot #archaeology #scotland 👇

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