Peter McKeague

Quoiting: The History of a Lost Scottish Sport - Historic Environment Scotland Blog Have you heard of Quoiting? Allan Kilpatrick explores the history of this once popular sport in Scotland, and why it's no longer around today.

Great little piece of research on the lost Quoiting grounds of Scotland blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/08/quoi...

Special legal protection announced for Orkney shipwreck sites The 52-strong German High Seas fleet was deliberately sunk by its crews in 1919 when its commander thought peace talks had failed.

German High Seas Fleet scuttles at Scapa FLow, Orkney 1919 and Swedish East Indian Company Queen of Sweden lost off Shetland 1745 both to become Historic Marine Protected Areas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

250-year-old shipwreck discovered in Orkney gives up its secrets Archaeologists undertake scientific analysis and community-led historical research to identify 250-year-old Sanday wreck.

Wessex Archaeology and @dendrochronicle.bsky.social
have identified the Sanday, Orkney wreck as that of a whaler -the Earl of Chatham, formerly HMS Hind, lost in 1788.
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Find out how CHRoMA addresses data interoperability through controlled vocabularies and colour vision friendly map legends archaeologists.net/civicrm/even... Tuesday 20 May 25 at 12:30 @cifa-imsig.bsky.social

Screenshot of the multiperiod archaeological landscape, mapped from cropmark evidence, at Inveresk, East Lothian showing the standard presentation of the data and how people with different colour vision conditions view the same data

I am talking to the CIfA Information Management Special Interest Group on 20th May on addressing interoperability of archaeological survey data through a colour vision friendly thematic legend. Details here: www.archaeologists.net/civicrm/even... @cifa-imsig.bsky.social

Prehistoric chariot wheel unearthed at Highland golf course Archaeologists describe the find near Inverness as

Fascinating discoveries near Inverness www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Unprecedented' Melsonby Iron Age hoard found by archaeologists Archaeologists say they have found more than 800 items dating back about 2,000 years.

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

... and only a couple of miles from the major Iron Age site at Stanwick

Ancient remains found in Derry bog 'likely a young woman' Ancient human remains uncovered in a Co Derry bog are believed to belong to a young woman who lived around 2,000 years ago.

News story on female bog body found near Bellaghy, Co.Derry in 2023: www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

New Society Grant Funds Archaeologists to Investigate Scotland’s Earliest Tombs with Local Communities   - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland A major new project will investigate Scotland’s Early Neolithic megalithic chambered and passage tombs and aim to answer key questions about when they were built and who built them. Thanks to a large ...

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has announced the first project to receive a Audrey Henshall Legacy Grant.

We are looking forward to working with @archscot.bsky.social & @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social on the Scotland’s Earliest Megalithic Monuments project.

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Policy forum at #TaNC on discussing report launching today. zenodo.org/records/1383...
Can use this report to advocate to funders and to our own organisations about the core requirements of building the UK Digital Collection. #unlockingcollections

Screenshot of the UKRI publication titled Unlocking the potential of digital collections A call to action

Great couple of days in Manchester for
the Towards a National Collection #UnlockingCollections event where a series of policy recommendations were launched: zenodo.org/records/1383...
#TaNC #ahrc #UnlockingCollections

Barney Sloane, Historic England showcasing integration of marine heritage datasets from the UK and Isle of Man as a heat map

Great couple of days in Manchester for
@nat_collection #UnlockingCollections event
Barney Sloane, HistoricEngland presenting the key achievements of the #TaNC #ahrc funded #unpathdwaters project

This image shows the density of the records in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, for the period from 1967 to 2019. It shows where the focus of archaeological activity has been over this period and shows a concentration of records across the central belt and up the eastern lowlands. Note that there was a processing error resolving the grid references over Orkney and the density plot is likely to be inaccurate in this small area. The image was created by data mining for grid references and activity types in Python, from the PDFs that can be found here (https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/about-us/publications/discovery-and-excavation-in-scotland-des/).

In 1947, the Scottish Group of the Council for British Archaeology published its first report on archaeological activities in Scotland. In 1955, this became Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, now published by @archscot.bsky.social. Adding grid references in 1956 means we can map these activities.

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Publications - Dendrochronicle This page presents selected publications by Coralie Mills and colleagues. Where possible, links for downloadable PDFs are given. This is split by three broad subject areas, Dendrochronology, Woodland ...

This is where dendro-isotope dating comes in to save the day. Works better with such material. First ever application in Scotland. #ScotDendro

Huge thanks to Neil Loader’s team.

See the (unexpected) date in our new JAS paper - available at top of the list here

dendrochronicle.co.uk/publications/

Drone photo of timber framework within stone pier base remains in floor of river Teviot under extant later 18thC bridge - photo by the late Richard Strathie a member of Ancrum & District Heritage Society.

Scotland’s ‘newest’ medieval bridge, Ancrum Old Bridge - now precisely dated using dendro-isotopes in collab with Swansea Uni.

Discovered 2018 by local community group ADHS.

I’ll reveal the date at ELBAC tomorrow, talks to be recorded. Can’t wait that long? See link in thread below
#ScotDendro

Council Housing Before the First World War - Google My Maps Council Housing Before the First World War

Around 24,000 council homes were built in Britain before the First World War. This is my map - a work in progress - of some of those schemes with links where I have written about them.
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