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Postgraduate Funding Find out about postgraduate funding opportunities within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.

Photo of a loch with mountains in the background and seaweed on the rocky shore in the foreground

Seaweed grows wild and is abundant across Scotland, so it’s no surprise that it's been used here for millennia 🌊

Today, research into historic seaweed harvesting reminds us how these types of food sources can help us build a more sustainable future: www.digitscotland.com/the-archaeol...

Teaching post in Cultural Heritage at our Department: www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/teac...

Publication success for AEONS facilities manager UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Julia Cussans is one of the authors in a new monograph detailing the Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset.

UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Julia Cussans is one of the authors in a new monograph detailing the Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset.

A leather book cover, with brass clasps and am embossed front, featuring a two headed eagle and the text VERBVM: DOMINI: MANET: IN ETERNVM (‘The word of the Lord endureth for ever’).

A leather book cover, opened to show both the front and the back, which are decorated with embossed animals, and vines, with a rectangular border reading DOMINI EXAUDI ORATIONEM MEAM ET CLAMOR MEUS AD TE VENIAT (Vulgate Psalm 101: ‘Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee'

A very badly preserved leather book cover, held together by the wooden base beneath it. It had similar clasps to the one with the two-headed bird

A larger leather book cover, with faces in profile on the cover, and the initials MD, a monogram for Martin Doture, a bookbinder and stationer from Tudor England.

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but the pages didn't survive 437 years submerged in seawater!

Nine leather book covers were recovered from the Mary Rose, which probably belonged to officers - books were very expensive in 1545!

Quick reminder about our UHI Faroes Shetland Research Symposia online seminar titled Hildina - '250 Years from Gutterm to Mareel' when Shetland musician Barry Nisbet will present his work on the recovery of the Hildina Ballad from Foula.
➕ 12 midday 12th March 2026
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‘Earthbound Orkney’ exhibition moves to Leith After premiering at the Maeshowe visitor centre in Orkney, the Earthbound Orkney exhibition can now be viewed at the Custom Lane Gallery, Leith, until March 26.

After premiering at the Maeshowe visitor centre in Orkney, the Earthbound Orkney exhibition can now be viewed at the Custom Lane Gallery, Leith, until March 26.

What's Left of the Picts? Scotland's Pictish Stones - Historic Environment Scotland Blog Pictish stones can be found all over Scotland, but what are they, who carved them, and why? We take a look at some of the research.

Scotland’s Pictish carved stones, dating from the first millennium CE, display a number of symbols of unknown meaning. Some symbols show animals, some are abstract/geometric, but the same designs can be found from Shetland to the Borders
#WyrdWednesday
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The approach to Dunadd Fort at the southern end of Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. Occupied since the Iron Age, the fort was a major centre for the Gaelic kings of Dál Riata from around AD 500 to AD 800. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Dunadd #Argyll

Wow thats some hill(s) to cycle up! Just getting along the Old Finstown Road is a feat on a bike!

Yes the views are stunning, these were from a few years back but at the top of the hill. The Cairn is further down the slope but you get the idea! That's Damsay (L) and the Holm of Grimbister (R) you can see in the Bay of Firth.

📸 my own

#TombTuesday
This #Neolithic chambered cairn is located on the steep slope of Wideford Hill #Orkney.
Overlooking the Hoy Hills and the Bay of Firth, the cairn has a central chamber and 3 side chambers. Access is now via a ladder in the roof, but it's a squash and a squeeze once inside!

A view of Dun Telve Broch, south-east of Glenelg in Lochalsh. The image shows a view of what was originally a partly conical stone tower, with only the wall around the far side now rising to any height and details visible of features in the structure of the wall. The base of the rest of the circle can be seen. There are trees in the background. The scene is in sunshine.

A view of Dun Telve Broch, south-east of Glenelg in Lochalsh. Over 18m in diameter and standing in part to over 10m in height, it is one of Scotland's best preserved brochs and one of a pair that are located within sight of one another. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland

a whalebone carving on a little plastic stand. shaped a bit like a child's drawing of a bell but oddly boxy, it has a crooked face made of crude and extremely mismatched holes that together form a look of benign confusion and maybe a coming sneeze. it has an enormous bellybutton (?) but no other features such as limbs or any earthly explanation. i love him and you do too

hey guys? i need you to look at buddo real quick

Sika Deer 🦌 enjoying Sakura 🌸 Cherry Blossom Season in Nara Park Japan 🇯🇵

#MosaicMonday

#Roman mosaic from a villa in East Coker (southwest England). The object dates to the 4th century CE. On the mosaic, we see two hunters carrying a hunted deer and a hunting dog.
#History #artwork
#Archaeology #RomanBritain

Institute director talks Neolithic Orkney in new Stonehenge TV programme UHI Archaeology Institute director Professor Jane Downes features in a new television programme looking at the Stonehenge Altar Stone.

UHI Archaeology Institute director Professor Jane Downes features in a new television programme looking at the Stonehenge Altar Stone to be broadcast in the UK on March 3.

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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus #StandingStoneSunday
Moel Tý Uchaf stone circle in Llandrillo, Denbighshire. 41 upright stones around a central cist burial.
#Wales #StDavidsDay #BronzeAge
📸 Megalithic Portal

Meet the Skaill head at dig talk in Rousay community room Folk in Rousay will get an update on the ongoing UHI Archaeology Institute excavation at Skaill farm next week, with a talk scheduled for Monday, February 9.

Folk in Rousay will get an update on the ongoing UHI Archaeology Institute excavation at Skaill farm next week, with a talk scheduled for Monday, February 9.

Absolutely, an alternate to far right, centre right and just left of centre right (ish)...

Ridiculous isn't it considering it's an SNP government in Scotland and Plaid Cymru were in coalition in the Senedd for 4 years!
What happens in the devolved countries and SW and NE England are insignificant and of no consequence apparently!

I eat my peas with honey. I've done it all my life,
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife
Anon/Ogden Nash
You're welcome 🫛

#Morning #Orkney #Sunrise #NoFilter

Gurt lush like! I used to work in Southmead and Hartcliffe in the early 2000's!

Nope, strawberries and cream are only prescribed if you have a bad case of Butcombe