Fiona Robertson

A black - white cartoon explaining the different ways sites get buried

It's really fabulous to wake up to 9k followers 😮🥳. Diolch yn Fawr / thank you everyone 🙏

As a thank you - here is my 1994 Toby the Trowel explainer: 'How Sites Get Buried' 🤔

Surely the most common question ever asked of an archaeologist in a trench..🧐🏺

📷 My own, from younger days

It's not just about the stunning mountain vistas, I do like stones in weird places too. Like this row of chambered tombs (Garn Wen) tucked behind a Goodwick housing estate! #TombTuesday

A large outlying stone sits in the centre of the picture with three others in the background. The remains of the circle cairn can just be seen in the grassland.

Lagmore West, the remains of a #ClavaCairn near the confluence of the rivers Avon & Spey. Two other #ClavaCairns lie close by .. #TombTuesday

More pics @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...

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Stone Lands is part of the March Kindle deal - only 99p!

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Thank you so much for coming! Really glad you enjoyed it.

Absolutely wonderful talk on Friday in Bridport from @stonelands.bsky.social and @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social highlighting (and rethinking) the human connection to our ancient landscape. Two really inspirational ladies.

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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus i chi!

A photo of St David in stained glass

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus i chi gyd

Torbreck; a circle, SW of Inverness, with nine almost evenly spaced monoliths with the largest at 1.2m #StandingStoneSunday .... The southern R Ness catchment has the remains of five #ClavaCairns & this one circle.

More pics on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...

As it's St David's Day, here are some Welsh stones – near St David's Head in Pembrokeshire. They're named after King Arthur though: Coetan Arthur, or Arthur's Quoit. #StandingStoneSunday

An immense, steel toe capped menhir presides over a row of gravestones. Its pitted surface looks like pumice, holes and crevices being picked out by the late winter sunlight. The sky is cloudless blue fading into a pale pinkish grey on the horizon

England’s tallest standing stone, the Rudston monolith, photographed 4 years ago at sunset. #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday with the
Nine Stones Circle [slash/ Nine Maidens or 17 brothers] Dartmoor
It was quite the contrast of weather when we were there, all these were taken within about 15 mins

see more of Dartmoor in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-6...

Callanish #StandingStoneSunday

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Thank you!

Fantastic! I am coming by public transport so not sure what’s possible, but will investigate…

Ooh I’m going to Bridport on Friday! How close to the town is it?

Why a set of gold coins have divided British archaeologists In 2024 a detectorist found some gold coins in Suffolk. The discovery was declared legally treasure. If a museum wanted the coins, the finder would have been rewarded with a sum equivalent to their ma...

Here’s my take on that Suffolk coin hoard, thanks to all the commenters here on BlueSky!
spectator.com/article/why-...

There's something about encountering standing stones in a wood, watching and waiting among the trees ... This is the Hoar Stone at Enstone, also known as the Old Soldier, who on Midsummer's Eve will emerge from the wood to go (some say) to the pub. #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday with the Cosdon Hill Stone rows

see more of it in our new episode on Dartmoor >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-6...

Don’t know this one - where is it? ❤️🪨

#StandingStoneSunday

The Hellstone

Lochbuie Stone Circle on the Isle of Mull in Argyll. Probably dating to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, the stone circle is the only one on Mull. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Mull #Argyll

Wonderful!

I totally agree - it’s so compelling

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Amazing! We had a brilliant archaeologist too.