@archaeostef.bsky.social
Archaeologist; Senior Cultural Resources Advisor for the Historic Scotland Properties in Care
Given the awe this has given me in 2025, I can hardly begin to imagine what people in the past must have thought when they heard such a thing
24.11.2025 20:21 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Very nice to see this take/interpretation on Y Gododdin at Edinburgh Castle - Castle of Light tonight
21.11.2025 23:02 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Guess who has just spent 15 minutes trying to get in to a livestream for a lecture that is actually tomorrow.
Just as well I decided to not go along in person!
Nothing too horrific came out of the well (so far)
19.11.2025 08:41 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
"Ancient well hidden for centuries in Glasgow Cathedral crypt is being reawakened"
Musicians, artists and archaeologists to collaborate on the interpretation of the well in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral, connected with the site's founder St Mungo.
Read more hereπ
www.classicfm.com/music-news/a...
To me visually it looks wrong, topographically it seems wrong, geographically it is wrong.
RSCs are Bronze Age so also odd to tie it in with the Neolithic axe factory etc.
Tell a Roman you traversed the length of Caledonia in a day and made it back inside the empire safely......
17.11.2025 22:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Scotland has a similar system to Denmark - although technically it is the Crown rather than the state
14.11.2025 11:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Paisley Abbey....
14.11.2025 11:04 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0In England, the finds go to the finder/landowner. So they don't go to a museum unless voluntarily donated (see below) or are purchased by the museum from the finder;
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Professor Steve Driscoll in a blue jacket stands next to the Sun Stone which features a cross carved with interlace and a figure on an animal below
Professor Steve Driscoll stands behind two giant hogback stones
The Govan Sarcophagus
Central panel of the sarcophagi. It features a hunting scene with a deer, a hound and a rider on a horse with a sword. Possible Constantine I
Had a great day with the team visiting the Govan Stones, hearing all about the work that Govan Workspace are doing to create a viable future & getting a tour from Prof Driscoll himself.
Make sure you visit when they reopen in 2026 thegovanstones.org.uk
#TombTuesday (given the Govan Sarcophagus)
A large standing stone in a field, a number of cup marks and cup & rings are visible on the face of the stone and there is lichen growth on the top of the stone
Ballymeanoch
#StandingStoneSunday
Ooft
05.11.2025 14:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"Found items from anywhere in Scotland [...] which are not otherwise owned and for which there is not a demonstrable heir (bona vacantia) are the property of the Crown at Scots common law. Portable antiquities form a subset of bona
vacantia"
treasuretrovescotland.co.uk/documents/co...
It's always interesting (and frustrating) that we have differing laws across the United Kingdom which mean vastly different approaches to finds and what is done with them
05.11.2025 12:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Our next seminar is Tuesday 4 November at 6pm
Peter Guest will be talking on 'Feeding the Roman Army in Britain '
Once again the seminar will take place in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh.
Turns out on this day in 2014 I was at Hambledon Hill with @nts-archaeology.bsky.social and @nattrustarch.bsky.social #HillfortsWednesday
22.10.2025 11:25 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
There's a range of different markers across our sites; some are just plain concrete markers, others are incised like at Edin's Hall and then there's also some fantastic ones with metal plates like this one at Dunadd
22.10.2025 10:52 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And a couple of photos from my last visit to the site, to recover an Iron Age whetstone that had been discovered in the niche by the entrance.
Now published in History of the Berwickshire Naturalists www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some lovely LiDAR for it on the NLS website maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...
22.10.2025 09:37 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort plus foundations of stone built prehistoric structures looking down from the air
Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses
Proper lovely π
πͺ π· Β© Hamish Fenton 2011
For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html
#HillfortsWednesday
Lots of modern coins! This is to remove the modern deposits so a core can be taken down the shaft for analysis
21.10.2025 09:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Heading through to Glasgow Cathedral later today to see what is found at the top of the well by Clyde Archaeology.
The archaeology of tourism and contemporary ritual offerings?
Much like the World Service this morning where Israelis "reported" torture whereas Palestinians "alleged" torture
14.10.2025 10:50 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Our first seminar of the season is tomorrow, Tuesday 7 October at 18:00
Tanja Romankiewicz will be presenting on '"Another Wall of Turf": the Antonine Wall in the context of Roman turf building'
Please note that in a departure from the norm we are in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre
Bad, enraging, archaeological process
Bad, enraging, use of archaeology
It's the duty of all #archaeologists to condemn this nationalistic use of #archaeology by Israel to support it's genocidal, warmongering aims
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Save the dates for FMSG 2025-26 π
21.09.2025 16:49 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Artist's impression of the early church settlement at Whithorn.
Sept 16: Feast of Nynia (Ninian) (C5th), British bishop and apostle associated with early church Candida Casa / Hwit Aerne, 'White Houseβ, (Whithorn, Galloway). His shrine remains a popular pilgrimage-place. πΈAOC Archaeology #medievalsky
16.09.2025 08:07 β π 27 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Our new exhibition at the castle tells the story of the hillfort better and has some of the artefacts from Alcock's excavation of Alt Clut on display for the first time at the site
www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news/2528091...
