Mike Middleton

Ruined castle with the words 'Work With Us' overlaid

WORK WITH US: ScARF Research Officers and ScARF Research Manager

We are looking to hire three new members of staff to help deliver the final two regional research frameworks as part of @scarf-scot.bsky.social. Find out more and apply by 11:59pm on 8 March 2026: www.socantscot.org/news/#appoin...

Come work in the research team @socantscot.bsky.social on our ScARF project!

We are looking for 3 new people to help us complete the last of the regional archaeological research frameworks for Scotland.

Closing date the 8th March 2026

#HESFunded #Archaeology #HeritageJobs #Scotland 🏺

‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’: Printed Version An opportunity to be part of history. Help us print a nationally important book that will transform our understanding of the Picts.

We have had a fabulous start for the kickstarter for printed versions of the Rhynie big book, but we need MORE! Please support our project by buying yourself a printed copy of the Rhynie monograph! You have till 6th December to do so!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

I'm away atm. Will look at it when I'm back. Thanks!

The image shows an old black and whit photo, mounted on sepia coloured paper, with a thin red line, with arrows at each corner, framing the photograph. The photo shows the excavated rampart with a round ended shovel lent against it. Along the line of the dry stone wall there are holes where wooden beams where once located. There is rubble in the foreground, a layer of turf on top of the rampart and trees in the background.

For #HillfortsWednesday here's an old favourite, a view of the timber laced rampart at Castle Law, Abernethy under excavation. Photographed by P M Macintyre in 1898.

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www.trove.scot/place/27917

Sorry. Just realised these are links to the staging Trove site. You just need to take stage out of the link to get them to work.

The township and tacksman house at Allt Na Culaig is impressive canmore.org.uk/site/352763/.... It's also an amazing example of the clearances - wall build right over the buildings at Kraiknish stage.trove.scot/place/352769. As a bonus there there's a nice dun here too stage.trove.scot/place/11042.

I enjoyed visiting Dun Sleadale. A nice broch and a beautiful landscape. stage.trove.scot/place/11037 I'd also recommend the Fairy Glen for its unusual geological formations.

This black and white image shows the flat platform and precipitous cliffs around the promontory fort of Brae Brough on Hoy in Orkney.

The fort of Brae Brough, on Hoy, in Orkney, is a short distance north of the famous rock stack of the Old Man of Hoy. The fort is almost a rock stack itself with a 325m vertical drop along it’s seaward side.
www.trove.scot/place/1480
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Welcome to Peeblesshire Archaeological Society's new Bluesky page! We're very much looking forward to telling you more about PAS & keeping you up to date with the Society's activities, events & lecture programme. Please follow us and, better still, share your own archaeological interests with us.

I try to avoid politics, but criticism of the Israeli state for its genocidal milliary actions in Palestine is not antisemitic. UN experts have called it a genocide. It is a fact. We can all see this.

Very cool. How have I not seen this before? Thanks for sharing.

Information about our upcoming dig at East Lomond with the Falkland Stewardship Trust - there are a series of free talks on the archaeology of East Lomond as part of our mini festival of archaeology and the open day for the dig will be 12th July. Come along and find out more!

Join us at Aberdeen Archaeology! www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/departments/archaeology

Several people in high-vis looking at a person talking near a trench

In Fife, @mafs-scot.bsky.social‬ are excavating the 12th-century Lindores Abbey, which has a long tradition of distilling 🥃

Visit the site from 21 June to 4 July or head to their Open Day on 3 July for site tours and a showcase of the finds: www.digitscotland.com/events/monas...

#ScotlandDigs2025

#HillfortsWednsday

Our next #TrimontiumTalk is Thurs. 12 June – not to be missed!

Hillfort expert Strat Halliday, will talk about Hillforts, Settlements & Ancient Geography. In person & online -recording will be available.

Thinking of becoming a member? Members enjoy all TrimontiumTalks free, year-round!
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For anyone interested in Iron Age / Early Med forts in Scotland (hillfort being a non-preferred term in Scotland), I'd like to highlight this talk by Strat Halliday. Strat worked through all the forts in Scotland as part of the Hillforts Atlas and is one of the foremost experts on the subject.

This picture shows the Mid and South Eildon Hills from a view of the Tweed River. The hills are green with trees leading across them.

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The Eildon Hills, where the Selgovae hillfort once stood on Eildon North.  It housed over 300 roundhouses.

Tomorrow, 12 June, join Strat Halliday - hillfort expert - for a talk on Iron Age settlements! zurl.co/bxydb

Photo: Cicerone webpage. zurl.co/aZAGh

A rather dark aerial photo of the fort covered in a thin dusting of snow. The snow highlights the ramparts and ditches and can be seen as particularly massive toward the right of the image. In the enter there is a central enclosure and to the left a smaller annex can be seen. On the steeper slopes to the top there is a plantation of pine trees.

Tynron Doon, in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, commands a spur of Auchengibbert Hill and has at least three lines of massive ramparts and ditches with ramparts standing up to 6.5m height and rock cut ditches from 7 to 15m in breadth. #HillfortsWednesday

canmore.org.uk/site/65300/t...

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There are just 20 days left until Canmore is retired. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, or directly to the trove team at trove@hes.scot.

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The hillfort from air

The bivallate Iron Age Oldbury hillfort lies 5 km west from Avebury in Wiltshire. Its defenses enclose 9 ha. There is also a hill figure of a white horse cut to the chalk on the northern side. The only excavation was in 1930 and the latest survey in 2004. #HillfortWednesday

Aerial photo showing the three ramparts of Arbory Hill Fort in an open upland moorland.

Arbory Hill Fort, in South Lanarkshire, is one of the higher forts in Scotland. The inner stone-walled rampart has been inserted into the earlier bi-vallate fort, and the outer ramparts contain at least five entrances. #HillfortsWednesday

canmore.org.uk/site/47427/a...

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The feed catches any post containing the words bronze age in the text or alt text and I can see the feed has already caught it. Thanks for contributing!

A new chapter. Good luck!

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Lovely colours and great for seeing the hut platforms.

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Aerial view of Woden Law fort int the Scottish Borders. The fort is in high pasture.

Woden Law in the Scottish Boarders is a complex Iron Age fort with multiple phases of construction and remodeling and the fort is associated with earthworks outside the fort. The fort's relationship to these remains a question to be answered.

canmore.org.uk/site/58068

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