Gavin MacGregor

Sandstone cross back dropped by church, above which blue sky. Lens flare partly obscures decoration on weathered, lichen covered surface. But central boss and interlace pattern visible.

Side of cross at top, with relief carving of spiralling snake motion with open mouth.

Netherton Cross, about a thousand years old, covered with mix of figurative & geometric designs including beast headed figures, snakes, boses & interlace patterns. An example of Govan School sculptural tradition relsting to the Kingdom of Strathclyde

@archscot.bsky.social @govanstones.bsky.social

Two grey stone pillars with arching tops. Incised curvilinear lines flow across surface. Back dropped by rectangular glass and steel building. Blue sky and white clouds behind

Waterlines by Marian Leven and Will McLean

#Aberdeen #Scotland #StandingStoneSunday #ArtArchaeology #Art

Two grey stone pillars with arching tops. Incised curvilinear lines flow across surface. Back dropped by rectangular glass and steel building. Blue sky and white clouds behind

Waterlines by Marian Leven and Will McLean

#Aberdeen #Scotland #StandingStoneSunday #ArtArchaeology #Art

Sandstone cross back dropped by church, above which blue sky. Lens flare partly obscures decoration on weathered, lichen covered surface. But central boss and interlace pattern visible.

Side of cross at top, with relief carving of spiralling snake motion with open mouth.

Netherton Cross, about a thousand years old, covered with mix of figurative & geometric designs including beast headed figures, snakes, boses & interlace patterns. An example of Govan School sculptural tradition relsting to the Kingdom of Strathclyde

@archscot.bsky.social @govanstones.bsky.social

Managed to find the unusual X-shaped medieval artificial rabbit warren (often called pillow mounds because of shape) on Middleton Hill near Corndon. Easily missed and best found with lidar.

"Standing on the Edge of Being: Scotland 1850 to Cop 26, an Environmental History of Scotland" by Richard D Oram - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Reviewed by Dr Edward Stewart FSAScot

👀 @eddiecstewart.bsky.social's review of Richard Oram's latest, series completing book: tinyurl.com/4vru2tv2

Yes Kirrie is landlocked but North Sea Poets will be there, live, in a kirk on Good Friday. Poetry and music - join us! Details below.

Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

🏺🗃️📚 Thanks to Emma Southon's ASTONISHING new book #Servus*, when I look at these objects (and pretty much everything else made "by" Romans), what I see are layers upon iayers of enslaved labour

*out in May, pre-order it, you will not be disappointed

West Highland community moving forward with eco-village plans A community trust has bought land for affordable homes and woodland crofts at Loch Duich.

Kyle and Lochalsh Community Trust has acquired part of a commercial forest beside Loch Duich with a view to building an eco-village offering affordable housing, woodland crofts and business units. It hopes the development will attract young families to the area and help keep the local school open.

This evening I will be talking about the development of densely populated Bronze Age hillforts in Ireland and Temperate Europe for @tuatha.ie @neiljackman.bsky.social, a topic which has recieved some press after our @antiquity.ac.uk paper on Brusselstown Ring, a massive 41ha site with 600+ houses!

Aerial photograph of the mouth of the River Leven, Fife, Scotland, as it enters the Firth of Forth at Innerleven. The banks are stone-built, and behind sits the town of Leven.

Applications Open: The Leven Programme Heritage & Archaeology Employability Course - a structured, practical programme designed to develop skills, confidence & real-world experience w/in heritage sector.

Details: www.theleven.org/opportunities/

@archscot.bsky.social
@greenactiontrust.bsky.social

Photograph from the previous year's Archaeological Research in Progress Conference showing a largely full, small, modern lecture theater with a raised platform at the front. Four people are standing on this platform, in front of a screen (illegible), presenting to the audience.

CfP: Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) 2026.
Saturday 23 May 2026 in Dumfries & online.

@archscot.bsky.social invites presentation proposals highlighting new findings & best practices from across Scotland & all periods.

Submission deadline: 16 March 2026
Full details: tinyurl.com/mr3npe53

Communities fight 'corporate' bid for seaweed rights Communities on Ireland's west coast say they will fight to safeguard their traditional seaweed rights against what they describe as a "corporate takeover "of their livelihoods.

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

Editors - SNR The Society for Nautical Research has three concurrent Editors, who are each responsible for The Mariner's Mirror (the international journal of the

You could try snr.org.uk/about/mm-edi...

YouTube video by Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) Priorities for the next Scottish Government

People make Glasgow. And they've got strong views about how the next Scottish government should act to make their lives better and tackle the climate crisis.

Watch the interviews with @lesswastelaura.bsky.social and find out what they had to say 👇

youtu.be/qKIBIpr1rHk?...

Contact Write to us! Subscribe to our newsletter, recommend a reading, submit a review, ask us anything! caranteswg.fakestuff@superproton.me Or contact us on BlueSky

The @carantes.bsky.social online anti-fascist Celtic Studies reading group is back back back March 20th at 4-6pm Welsh time

This time we are doing a series on GENDER, starting with freely accessible work by @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social and @finnlongman.com

Join us here: carantes.org/contact/

Grey sky with bird birling overhead, side of building displays figure in blue hoodie cradling small unicorn in its arms. Large brutalist building to left.

Figure kneeling uses spray can to create decoration on cheetah costume being worn by an upstanding person.

Four images. Larger top one of mural on side of Aberdeen Market, shows person with red hair flowing and hand outstretched. Another shows hooded face of person, another a minature person in grey suit all hunched up, and the other is figure wearing a aviator hat.

To left is Yellow Ceramic tile with punch like figure holding sign saying Be Here Now. To right leaflet stuck on wall saying Strange World of the Future with Contemporary Archaeologies over image of two explorers in pith helmet and aviator hat confronting large red robot

I am the keeper of magic ...

... but happy to share

Fabulous 2024 mural by Hera of Herakut in Aberdeen.

Also sharing other pics, one smaller work that still survives; one of amazing piece on Aberdeen Market before demolition; one #ContemporaryArchaeology piece put up at Nuart 2019 #StreetArt

There is a popular assumption that if a building is listed then we know everything about it. Modern archaeology has shown that most listed buildings have never been meaningfully researched. I'll be looking at why this is during an online event on 26 Feb...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

Sounds great, look forward to seeing you

Are you there tomorrow Annie? Would be great to catch up.

Grey sky with bird birling overhead, side of building displays figure in blue hoodie cradling small unicorn in its arms. Large brutalist building to left.

Figure kneeling uses spray can to create decoration on cheetah costume being worn by an upstanding person.

Four images. Larger top one of mural on side of Aberdeen Market, shows person with red hair flowing and hand outstretched. Another shows hooded face of person, another a minature person in grey suit all hunched up, and the other is figure wearing a aviator hat.

To left is Yellow Ceramic tile with punch like figure holding sign saying Be Here Now. To right leaflet stuck on wall saying Strange World of the Future with Contemporary Archaeologies over image of two explorers in pith helmet and aviator hat confronting large red robot

I am the keeper of magic ...

... but happy to share

Fabulous 2024 mural by Hera of Herakut in Aberdeen.

Also sharing other pics, one smaller work that still survives; one of amazing piece on Aberdeen Market before demolition; one #ContemporaryArchaeology piece put up at Nuart 2019 #StreetArt

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition

weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

Oh would still love to see a Neolithic Timber hall replica being built in Scotland...

True rescue archaeology in action, amazing response from @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social and team to my urgent call for help! The work certainly shows the power of partnership working. The question now is, as we face more coastal change, what else will emerge in the future #scotland #archaeology #IronAge

“it is well to hear, to become aware of, the operations of water among whose spider lacings by chance we live…”

James Agee in 1941, superb on the life and liveliness of rivers.

A river as a “huge, casual and aloof creature”. That trifecta of adjectives (not to mention the choice of noun)…

YouTube video by UKRI Stories Ancient rock art connecting communities | Future Makers Ep 3

Between 2017-22 I was a Post-doc researcher with Scotland's Rock Art Project.

The project was funded by the AHRC and recently the @ukri.org invited us to feature their new Future Makers series.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPsR...

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Workshops, talks, celebration of member and student work, walks, storytelling, art and song—bringing people together in connection with land, place, and one another. More details coming soon!

Another new article! "From Leaky Pipelines to Watering Cans: Feminist Recommendations for Change" in @saa-aap.bsky.social by Samantha Fladd, Sarah Kurnick, and a bunch of other awesome feminist archaeologists! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Raramuri woman with artisanal products, logos and call to apply for grants

🚀 New opportunity: Grants for Mexican heritage projects
We are offering $10,000–$50,000 USD for cultural heritage projects across #Mexico’s northern border states 🇲🇽
Organizations, collectives & community initiatives are invited to apply by April 15, 2026.
👉 heritagemanagement.org/hermap-mexic...