Vicky Carroll

Correction it was a gift at Christmas 2024, I kept it for this festive season, it's been waiting patiently! As it turns out conditions couldn't have been more appropriate this year, being forced to pause and hunker down in the freeze since Hogmanay.

11.01.2026 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stone age controller found...

11.01.2026 07:15 — 👍 205    🔁 34    💬 6    📌 0

This was a most excellent book to be snowed in with in the Highlands over the tail-end of Yuletide. A gift from @laurakaykelly.bsky.social at Christmas 2025. Maybe this is my new tradition: re-read it every year in the dark days, to remind myself the storms pass and frozen days melt away eventually.

11.01.2026 13:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Pastel on cardboard showing rising sun and row of standing stones

Found page of book, overlaid by image of moon detailed with curvilinear rockart including spirals. Below which is rows of standing stones as seen at Carnac

Wishing you a wonderful #wintersolstice

A time of rest, reflection and renewal, today was spent playing with images of standing stones and cycles of time.

#StandingStoneSunday #Art #ArtArchaeology #Archaeology #prehistory

21.12.2025 17:52 — 👍 32    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

Photo of a giant oxidised iron sculpture head of a Roman soldier, known as The Silvanus Head, near Croy, Scotland. Blue sky behind the top of his helmet.

Trip to the giant Roman soldier Silvanus' iron head at Croy back in March with @davidtdunlop.bsky.social and @laurakaykelly.bsky.social Laughed so hard I could hardly breathe. A good day. #metal people are the best 🤘

08.12.2025 22:27 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Glorious Hallowistmas mischiefs @laurakaykelly.bsky.social 😈🎄

08.12.2025 22:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things

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Blood incantation The most (in)famous example of heavy metal and prehistory harmonising is surely the undersized Stone’enge that is slowly lowered into the midst of guitars and spandex in the 1984 mock-rock-do…

First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation.
'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...

08.12.2025 19:53 — 👍 38    🔁 13    💬 6    📌 1

...Eddy Mercx furiously pedalling round the corner just behind them...

03.12.2025 08:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tree silhouettes against a fading pink and blue dusk sunset sky with a bicycle light faintly visible on the ground

Not planning to overload this account with pictures of bikes (there's plenty of that elsewhere) but I like how the brittle winter trees came out against the sky in this pic during a frosty quick trip to the shop before dark this evening #trees #wintersky #eveningsky #cycling

30.11.2025 17:34 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Photograph of Stirling Old Town Cemetery with Stirling Castle on a rock on the background, with autumn leaves around the headstones

Spooksome Old Town cemetery on a windy rock on a blustery day, with Stirling Castle looking a bit huffy up there behind it.

29.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A photograph showing the horizon between a blue sky with light white clouds on it and a calm blue sea, pebbles on a shingle beach, and pointing towards the shoreline the handlebars of a mountain bike

A blue sky, a blue sea and my beautiful bike for my first post on BlueSky. No idea what I'm doing or how anything works on here, but life's all trial and error, eh...

29.11.2025 19:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0