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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There's a wall mounted one in Restalrig kirkyard

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Not mine, just visiting but the heaviest marrow at the St Bees & District show was 41.6kg!

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Trying to work out if the parchmarks on the lawn in front of Inverleith House at @thebotanics.bsky.social which I saw at the weekend match up with the garden design shown on the 1876 OS map Maybe?

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Spotted this unusual standing stone from the train to Pitlochy on Friday. Thanks to Pastmap I was able to locate it as the Over Benchil Standing Stone, which features a sundial perched on the top of it, and seems to have done since the early 20th c www.trove.scot/place/27002 #StandingStoneSunday

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

On #RomanFortThursday I was at Rough Castle on the Antonine Wall - talking about our management of the site, its significance and the recent(ish) fortlet discovery by colleagues in the HES Geophysics team 1. The northern entrance to the fort 2. Looking westwards along the frontier 3. The Lilia pits

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This week, working with AOC Archaeology we completed the excavation of the base stone for Aberlemno 3. The excavation has given us valuable new information & it might even be possible to begin to answer long-standing questions about whether the stone stands where it was first erected.

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Visited last week and saw the Roman altar (which is missed by many visitors) by the south gate. Some guidebooks and sources describe it as the only in-situ altar on the wall but records also suggest it has been moved to this location from elsewhere in the fort #RomanFortThursday

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hadrian's Wall Day 3: Chollerford to Once Brewed (Part 2) Latrines at Housesteads; instructions from @nationaltrust.org.uk; Milecastle 37 with some of the arch of the north gate surviving; Sycamore Gap 😭

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hadrian's Wall Day 3: Chollerford to Once Brewed (Part 1) The wall; Limestone Corner the most northerly corner of the Roman empire (until the Antonine Wall); Mithraic altars at Brocolitia; more wall views back to Sewingshields Farm (great honesty snack shed)

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

And a bonus Roman bridge abutment, crossing the North Tyne to Chesters Fort and carrying the wall, and the military way in its second iteration. Plus an interesting relief carving

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Also a visit to Chesters Fort. Too much to show in four photographs so have a quotation; the steam room within the Bath House; hypocaust and related stuff; the principia strong room

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hadrian's Wall Day 2: East Wallhouses to Chollerford Sheep marking out the vallum; the ditch; a Roman Altar at St Oswald's which was used as an early medieval cross base;the wall at Planetrees

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Day 1 walking (most of) Hadrian's Wall. From the Tyne (Newbury) to East Wallhouses. I should point out that the Super Nintendo is not built in to Hadrian's Wall but in to a modern wall beside it

First spot of the stone wall at Heddon-on-the-Wall

A Super Nintendo built in to a modern wall at East Wallhouses

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Back home after a few brilliant days at PARIS6. With colleagues from HES we showcased some of the work and research we carry out to preserve the archaeological resource of our estate. The two days were an inspiring range of presentations, discussion and chat with colleagues from across Europe!

A bald man wearing a maroon shirt stands next to a poster

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Great to see @eddiecstewart.bsky.social talk for @eafsarch.bsky.social featured in @edinburghminute.com this morning. Free, but ticketed: Wicked Wild Wastes Glencoe and Rannoch Moor 17th - 18th Centuries Date: 13 may • 19:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wicked-wil...

Wicked wild wastes or sunlit uplands? Glencoe and Rannoch Moor in the 17th & 18th centuries.
Tomorrow, Wed 13 May - 'Many of Scotland's upland landscapes are perceived as empty 'wildernesses'. This presentation by Dr Eddie Stewart (Archaeology Scotland) will explore how archaeology can offer alternative narratives towards our upland landscapes.'
7pm to 9pm | Paterson's Land, EH8 8AQ | £3 donation - More details here, shared by Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society.

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Cats being cats in Medieval times - one walked across this tile mid-production and the maker decided to fire it anyway Taken at Glenluce Abbey in 2017 #TilesOnTuesday

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Going through some files in the National Records of Scotland yesterday, I came across a letter from RBK Stevenson (Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland) to JS Richardson (Inspector of Ancient Monuments (Scotland)) (retyped as I could not take photographs)

Sometime after the holidays I shall be glad if we can put our heads together regarding the rescuing of archaeological as opposed to architectural information at Ministry of Works sites where work is carried out without the constant supervision of an archaeologist. You have, I suspect, been fighting a rather lone battle in the Ministry on this head, but perhaps the support of the Museum and the Society of Antiquaries as well, should be invoked to secure success, and to put an end to the state of affairs inherited from your predecessors, which resulted in the Ministry’s excavations, being, in the words of Sir George Macdonald, ‘official secrets’.

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

An interpretation panel in front of the entrance to Rispain Camp

Panoramic image from the southern corner

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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

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

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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

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.

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

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

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

A Hogmanay wander with pals to see the Fingask Long Barrow. Still needs some time for the landscape to settle, and sadly the interior was gated off so we couldn't see the full majesty of its construction (see interior images in the link below) www.stonespecialist.com/news/stone-p... #TombTuesday

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Inviting light in to the darkest day with a very appropriate #archaeology tealight holder #solstice

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Shows up nicely on LiDAR as well maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Was a privilege to be invited to attend yesterday to the opening/reveal of the new mosaic installation in the well at Glasgow Cathedral. The project highlights the oft overlooked feature which is integral to the story of St Ketigern and Glasgow itself More info etc www.aproxima.co.uk/the-well

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Afternoon fellow heritage-folk. Does anyone have access to J.M Lindsay's 1975 paper "Charcoal iron smelting and its fuel supply; the example of Lorn furnace, Argyllshire, 1753–1876" in the Journal of Historical Geography? Would be much appreciated if anyone can share a copy!

A view of Lorn (also known as Bonawe) Furnace. A drystone building in the Cumbrian style, the 'charging house' is in the main, with formers workers housing behind it (still ocupied). In the background is the hill called Beinn Duirinnis

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Very nice to see this take/interpretation on Y Gododdin at Edinburgh Castle - Castle of Light tonight

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Nothing too horrific came out of the well (so far)

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Had a great day with the team visiting the Govan Stones, hearing all about the work that Govan Workspace are doing to create a viable future & getting a tour from Prof Driscoll himself. Make sure you visit when they reopen in 2026 thegovanstones.org.uk #TombTuesday (given the Govan Sarcophagus)

Professor Steve Driscoll in a blue jacket stands next to the Sun Stone which features a cross carved with interlace and a figure on an animal below

Professor Steve Driscoll stands behind two giant hogback stones

Central panel of the sarcophagi. It features a hunting scene with a deer, a hound and a rider on a horse with a sword. Possible Constantine I

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

There's a range of different markers across our sites; some are just plain concrete markers, others are incised like at Edin's Hall and then there's also some fantastic ones with metal plates like this one at Dunadd

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

And a couple of photos from my last visit to the site, to recover an Iron Age whetstone that had been discovered in the niche by the entrance. Now published in History of the Berwickshire Naturalists www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Heading through to Glasgow Cathedral later today to see what is found at the top of the well by Clyde Archaeology. The archaeology of tourism and contemporary ritual offerings?

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

For #RomanFortThursday the spectacular earthworks of Ardoch Roman Fort likely dating to the mid-2nd century AD The Romans repeatedly used the area as a halting-place on a major axis of communication may be gauged by the number of temporary camps which have been detected in the fields to the north

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

There's a 14th century gargoyle at Melrose Abbey of a pig playing the bagpipes

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Turns out there's been some iconoclasm in Southampton

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