Stef North-Sagrott

Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.

Have you seen this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Lewisvale Park Roman Altars A short video of work in progress on the Lewisvale Park Roman Altars, discovered in Inveresk, Scotland by AOC Archaeology Group.

NMS may have announced they will be part of the exhibition, but full credit to AOC Archaeology who discovered them in 2010 and produced this video in 2013 vimeo.com/58612850

Also published in Britannia in 2016 doi.org/10.1017/S006...

Sorry Max, didn't mean any offence!

Something quite unsettling about this video I can't quite put my finger on. Is this an AI Max?

An interpretation panel in front of the entrance to Rispain Camp

Panoramic image from the southern corner

Sneaking Rispain Camp in for #HillfortsWednesday as it is not listed on the Atlas, and we define it as a settlement - but the ditches are absolutely MASSIVE

First thought to be a Roman site, then medieval it was revealed as Iron Age following excavation in the 1970s

Photos from my visit yesterday

Cairn Holy I with its forecourt area. The sea is visible beyond

Cairn Holy II

Cairn Holy II showing the chambers

The Beltie calf with three spots

#TombTuesday yesterday I was at Cairn Holy I & II with a colleague and we met a very cute beltie calf

I've been lucky enough to have a copy of this since December.

It's a brilliant and fascinating publication, and I'm still swooning over the design and type setting - it really is worth getting a copy of!

To get in the house you have to open the garage door?!

Oblique aerial view of The Cairns during the 2024 excavation © UHI Archaeology Institute

Our next seminar is tomorrow (03/02). Martin Carruthers is venturing south to tell us all about the excavations of Iron Age households at The Cairns #broch & settlement

18:00 hours in the Usha Kasera lecture theatre, Old College

The Buckstone, a smallish stone on a plinth is pictured next to a holly bush with a stone wall behind

The Buckstone This march stone, a relic of feudal times occupied a commanding site on the old Roman Road about 250 yards north of this spot. By tradition the name was derived from the stone having marked the place where the buckhounds were released when the king of Scotland hunted in this region

A tall red stone, covered in lichen, known as the Caiystane stands in a modern semicircular enclosure wall with a house behind it.

The National Trust for Scotland The Caiy Stane Standing at over nine feet high on a summit, originally with wide views, this broad slab of red sandstone includes a line of six, probably prehistoric, cup marks on its reverse face. The stone may have been erected as early as the Neolithic period, possibly before 3000 BC, to denote a ritual or burial place. Records of cairns, cists and urns found in the immediate vicinity show that the hilltop continued to be used for burial in the Bronze Age. Discovery of these remains led to the supposition that Caiyside Hill was the site of a battle, variously suggested to have involved invading Romans, Danes (Vikings); or Cromwellians. The Caiy Stane, also known as the Kel Stane, the Cat Stane or the Camus Stane, was thought to have been a battle memorial stone.

Todays walk around southwest #Edinburgh took me to two standing stones

The Buckstone is likely medieval but could be older

The Caiystane is prehistoric and in the care of @nts-archaeology.bsky.social

#StandingStoneSunday
@stoneclub.bsky.social
@secretedinburgh.bsky.social

If this photo ends up in a news article, it's ripe for @apiln.bsky.social

I say this with respect but as a member of @stoneclub.bsky.social and as the archaeologist responsible for many of the sites in Kilmartin, it's wrong - the Tate archive doesn't have that caption for that image

Afraid you've got the wrong caption for this Daniell image. This is actually 'Druidical stone at Strather, near Barvas, Isle of Lewis'

Not quite a #hillfortswednesday but in the shadow of a fort and 17th century battlefield are the Neolithic timber halls and palisade of Doon Hill.

Excavated in the 60s, in the 70s the outlines of the structures were laid out in coloured concrete - a pioneering approach inspired by the Danes

A stunning Bronze age axe heard made of an orangey stone with greenish flecks

A slice of blue cheese. It's orangey in colour with flecks of blue-green mould.

Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?

Bob Marshall: Commissioned Reconstructions Portfolio of Commissioned Reconstruction Artworks by Bob Marshall

Made a few improvements to my online portfolio to provide more context with my reconstruction images. I'll include more paradata with the projects I post in future. With so many now questioning image authenticity because of AI, I feel it's more important than ever to declare my sources & references.

The vast majority of us don't excavate burials unless they are under immediate threat by development, erosion etc.

The foundations of a Roman gateway built from large blocks of stones, not rather overgrown with a modern stone wall and a wooden fence above.

The north gateway into Bremenium Roman fort (aka High Rochester) for #RomanFortThursday. Situated on Dere Street, for two centuries this was the most strategically important fort north of Hadrian's Wall. Its name means 'place of the roaring stream'.

WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY ✨ I nearly didn’t go out 2nite. The odds felt slim… but you’ve got to be in it to win it.
A quick check of the stats, alerts & cloud cover around 19:30 & I thought, if I can reach the Keswick Stone Circle by 20:30, there might just be a gap...then BINGO #Aurora #Northernlights

Sorry to be pedantic (but as archaeologist for Dunadd...) this rock art is in the area but not at Dunadd fort itself. It's at Achnabreck which is along the road towards Lochgilphead

Done the same thing with a few Orcadian chambered cairns

This is very interesting Laura. We're actually planning on looking at the carvings within the cathedral - starting with the Blackadder Aisle bosses

Bob Marshall: Commissioned Reconstructions Portfolio of Commissioned Reconstruction Artworks by Bob Marshall

Mainly used on some of the onsite panels and the guidebook but you can also see a few on his website

bobmarshall.co.uk/commissions....

@bobmarshall.co.uk did a lovely reconstruction of the interiors of Glasgow Cathedral for us a few years ago

bsky.app/profile/bobm...

Small flock of sheep cowering behind a standing stone in a stone circle in windy wet weather.

Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday

"Let them eat hillforts"

CIfA receives criticism, including from myself on certain matters, but it is very good at its policy & advocacy work.

It may also be one that the Archaeologists Branch of Prospect advocate for as well.

Chapel and tomb of St Mungo, Glasgow Cathedral.

Jan 13: Feast of Kentigern, ‘hound-lord’, (Mungo) (c.†614), bishop of Glasgu (Glasgow), which he is said to have founded. He was a contemporary of Riderch I, king of Alt Clut (Dumbarton Rock). He is thought to be the ‘Conthigirnus’ whose obit appears in the Annales Cambriae. #medievalsky

Our next talk is on Tuesday 13/01 at 18:00 in the Usha Casera Lecture Theatre

L Teufel: “A multi-period settlement next to the River Spey”.
C Hatherley: “The Roman Villa Estate at Necton, Norfolk”
C Cockburn: “Excavation results from two possible Roman Temporary Marching Camps near Edinburgh”

Like many finds of the 19th century, shame it did not stay more local - but at least it is in a museum