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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I'm delighted to announce that the paperback of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain and Ireland will be published on April 23 by @headlinebooks.bsky.social. Just in time, I hope, for better weather that will allow people to visit some of the beautiful old places I write about.

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Turns out “They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists…” was Trump introducing his own administration.

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

This is my favourite book of 2025. Not quite as spectacular as Hall's Burntcoat but still the most compelling read. 🌬️

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The view from my office window never fails to impress. Watching the wintry clouds scud across the sky above the Lakeland hills is glorious, but the added bonus of having the bronze age burial mound of Torrisholme Barrow in my eyeline makes it all so much more impressive. #prehistory

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Whoop! Tickets secured for @krankenhausfest.bsky.social and also received my amazing Krankenhat from Jenny Atkinson. What a week! 🐻🐦‍⬛💜

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Throwing Muses @throwingmuses.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

thanks to all who bought Moonlight Concessions…now in its second pressing and available at kristinhersh.com

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Some full-on fangirling behaviour from me last week when I got to see Peter Buck play in the teeny weeny Ferret club in Preston. It was a fantastic (if sweaty 🥵) experience. We just need @millsish.bsky.social to pop over to the UK for a mini-tour (minotaur?) and all would be good with the world.

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Finally made it to Balfarg Henge last month. It was worth the wait. Scotland does seem to "do" archaeology well, doesn't it? #urbanprehistory

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Thoroughly enjoyed nodding off last night whilst listening to @theduncanmackay.bsky.social regaling me with his take on Boudica. Let's see what tonight brings.

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Not exactly #urbanprehistory - maybe we need to make space for an #industrialagriculturalprehistory hashtag? Stone of Morphie 📸 July 2025.

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Wee Jessie Bear and I are doing some hardcore holiday planning in the 🌞 We'll be based in Angus but also visiting Fife. Very excited that I'll finally get to witness the glory of Balfarg. Any other must-do sites I should see @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social ?

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The last time I saw Marty Wilson-Piper he was on stage with @julianneregan.bsky.social & All About Eve. I always knew he was a good egg and here he proves that he also has exquisite taste in music 💙 @istevejansen.bsky.social #exitnorth #thomasfeiner #sweetbillypilgrim

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Remember to take time to smell the irises 🪻

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Probably one of my most-visited sites, but Castlerigg never fails to take my breath away. 📸 March 2025 #StandingStoneSunday

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I've never been more pleased that I mentioned his bald spot when I appeared on Pointless. Utter twat.

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Feb 2017. A blustery day spent on Bute to visit Ettrick stone circle, before heading back to Glasgow to witness the glory of the Archdrude himself. #StandingStoneSunday

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 03/02/2025

"He's getting an entrepreneurial kick out of it," the thick af racist woman says, as a 7yo climbs into a dumpster full of rotting shit to scavenge for plastic for a few pennies. We need to question why the British are this poorly educated & morally debased. #GoBackToWhereYouCameFrom #Channel4

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

There's delicious irony in those lithic houses of the dead being part of why the Long Neolithic lives still. For these tombs are alive in our imaginations, alive in our papered tellings of history. A breathing presence in our stories of place. – Dr. K Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Ooooh, I loves me an ammonite 😍

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

#StandingStoneSunday Freezing January morning sun casting shadows across The Pipers stone pair, close to The Hurlers triple stone circles on Bodmin Moor, #Kernow / #Cornwall ❄️❄️ 📷 My own, Jan 2024

A pair of narrow standing stones on moorland with a winter sun rising behind

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I wonder how many people who visit the majestic Long Meg are aware of the equally fascinating (now ruined) Little Meg which sits in an adjacent field? The frost makes it easier to pick out the #rockart spirals. You can only imagine how spectacular this site once was. #standingstonesunday 📸 Jan 2024

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Sadly, the link is currently down but, once it's back up I look forward to hearing this 💜

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

In a world full of Elon Musk wannabes, be a Matt Damon.

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Seeing my name in a list of #MDANT one dull Friday afternoon was genuinely thrilling. This is a great read and makes me so proud to be a part of this community 🤗

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

So I waved farewell to #PlaymobilÖtzi today, who was heading down to the shelter of the valley to spend midwinter with his friends & family, & wished a happy solstice to all his many friends in the wider world.Take care, little Ötzi! #PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure of Ötzi the iceman in all his mountain kit with a view of the alps behind him.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

We’ve just passed 30,000 signatures on the Govt petition! 30% of the way there! Please sign if you haven’t yet: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I got to spend some time with Bingo the orphaned wombat at Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, this week. She was absolutely gorgeous & very happy to snuggle up. To misquote Joe Strummer - Wombats Rock! 🤗

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

On #standingstonesunday I give you the greatest, and most circle-y, stone circle in England. The majestic #Sunkenkirk #Swinside circle in Cumbria. 📸 Feb 2013

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Happy birthday to my favourite knob twiddler. 🎂🍶🥳 @richardbarbieri.bsky.social

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Is #stonehengeanything a thing here? 🙄 If not, it should be.

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Orkney.com @orkneycom.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

When the late November light in Orkney is just right...😍 🧡

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

As archaeologists we are often translators, storytellers for the dead. Their lithic houses whisper of things humanity shall never clear the shadow of – ritual, grief, mystery. – Dr. K Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I've been here for 8 whole days & haven't yet posted photos of my dog. That ends now. 😏 Meet Wee Jessie Bear, the one-eyed tyke. 🤍

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

In honour of @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social being here, I am going to squeeze a 2nd #standingstonesunday in. 😚 Clach na h' Iobairt, a solitary standing stone, bang up against a mobile home in a camp site by the River Tilt. 📸 2008

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yay, look who's here! I knew this was The Good Place. 😂

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thought I'd kick off my first #standingstonesunday on here in style, so I give you one of the most impressive; Machrie Moor 3. Staggering, innit. 📸 May 2010.

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A1vicster @a1vicster.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

What an opening gambit! 🥰 Haven't been here for about 20 years, need a revisit.

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Joncbirder @joncbirder.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Oooh, Twitter ye not! (One for the kids there...)

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Our Ma (aged 86) cannot see a picture or a film clip of Farage without commenting: 'I'd like to kick his teeth in'. Every. Single. Time 🙏

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