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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A lovely group of authors to collaborate with for this one, and thanks to Sally and the @digitscotland.bsky.social team for keeping us all on track!

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

True rescue archaeology in action, amazing response from @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social and team to my urgent call for help! The work certainly shows the power of partnership working. The question now is, as we face more coastal change, what else will emerge in the future #scotland #archaeology #IronAge

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Amazing to be part of this! Never had an archaeological emergancy before - truly a once in a lifetime site! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Dog walkers discover 2,000-year-old human footprints on beach

Archaeologists say the human and animal prints were made at the height of the Roman Empire

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Radiocarbon dating shows these prints date to the late Iron Age — moments in the lives of people who walked this landscape two millennia ago, a few centuries before the first reference to the Picts. #Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen! More to follow! www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25127/?...

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Storms reveal rare 2,000-year-old footprints on Scottish beach

Storms which recently ravaged Britain's coastline have revealed 2,000-year-old footprints on an Angus beach - one of only a handful of locations in the UK where markings of this kind have ever been di...

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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 02/02/2026

What does collaborative #archaeology look like behind the scenes? A new blog by undergrad Production Assistant Adrianna Wagner offers an insider look at how #SAA journal @saa-aap.bsky.social builds community, elevates diverse scholarship, and keeps #openaccess at its core. 🔗 cup.org/4rqRuKE

Adrianna Wagner is sitting in an ornate room with wooden paneling. The bottom of the image features a text banner that reads "Advances in Archaeological Practice."

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Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk · 25/01/2026

Made a few improvements to my online portfolio to provide more context with my reconstruction images. I'll include more paradata with the projects I post in future. With so many now questioning image authenticity because of AI, I feel it's more important than ever to declare my sources & references.

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Bob Marshall: Commissioned Reconstructions

Portfolio of Commissioned Reconstruction Artworks by Bob Marshall

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Most read in HGR: 'Looking Up for prehistoric hunter-gatherer archaeological sites in mountain landscapes in Europe' by @arctic-glacial.bsky.social, @diggermann.bsky.social, @graemewarren.bsky.social et al. Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/HGR-EUR @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Get creative by taking part in a competition to explain what the mysterious Neolithic Carved Stone Balls were used for. The competition is free, there are prizes, and the closing date is 19/09/2025 - see imagination-works.uk/competition/ for details and the online entry #pubarch #archaeology

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lpfgsocmedia.bsky.social @lpfgsocmedia.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Later Prehistoric Finds Group (LPFG) have made the leap over to Bluesky! Follow us if you are interested in Later Prehistoric Finds! You can find our website here: laterprehistoricfinds.com #Archaeology #LaterPrehistory @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

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The Later Prehistoric Finds Group

Promoting the Study of Bronze Age and Iron Age Finds in Britain and Europe

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"Recently, there’s been a push to restore, reforest and rewild some of [Scotland's Highland & Island] landscapes" 🌲 @eddiecstewart.bsky.social explains how through archaeology we can challenge imagined “wild” pasts while still responding to the climate crisis: www.digitscotland.com/a-people-les...

Photo of a group of people standing around a person in an archaeological trench who is talking; they are in a valley with mountains in the background

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

NEW SAIR: Prehistoric and Medieval Activity at Grantown Road, Forres, Morayshire Read the latest Scottish Archaeological Internet Report, our open access peer-reviewed journal of excavations and large-scale surveys conducted in Scotland: journals.socantscot.org/index.php/sa...

Several excavated stones, including a circular one with a hole in it

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Archaeology, wellbeing, enthusiastic volunteers, the Aberdeenshire countryside and the chance to learn about the Mesolithic - see below for more details of this event being delivered by one of our amazing groups in the region. #pubarch

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Dunnideer Hillfort, near the village of Insch in Aberdeenshire. The fort is Iron Age in date, with the remains of a 13th-century tower within its ramparts. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Prehistory #Aberdeenshire #Archaeology

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

In case you have missed it, the new #EAC guidelines on #LiDAR in #archaeology have now been published. It was a real joy to be a small part of the team who contributed to this, and a true pan-European collaborative endeavour! Available at zenodo.org/records/1460...

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The sands are shifting once again along the Aberdeenshire coastline, this time exposing a previously unknown WWII coastal defence structure in the sands at Foveran, Newburgh. Not sure if a pillbox or something else. Thanks to the member of the public for taking the time to report it #archaeology

A red brick and concrete structure, part of the WWII coastal defences, is slowly emerging out of a sand dune.

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aliarchaeologist.bsky.social @aliarchaeologist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Nice coffee and visit to Mill of Benholm - worth a visit such a lovely location millofbenholm.scot

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"If we tried to save every archaeological site, we would never build anything new again" 🚧 What happens when sites are found through development? And why aren't all discoveries made through developer-led archaeology saved? @diggermann.bsky.social explains: www.digitscotland.com/what-happens...

Digital, aerial view of a square structure

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Great demonstration why we have a PhD advertised on coastal erosion at coastal forts. Pic left shows erosion scar on grass where a huge section of cultural deposits beneath are beginning to slump into sea. Pic Right shows more erosion @drtobydriver.bsky.social @diggermann.bsky.social

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The annual Archaeological Research in Progress Conference (ARP), will be in Edinburgh, Sat 3 May 2025. The programme will reflect the most exciting, new and important archaeological research across Scotland. The call for papers is open now, you can find out more @ www.socantscot.org/uncategorize...

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Call For Papers - 2025 Archaeological Research in Progress Conference - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is delighted to invite proposals for papers for our upcoming Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) conference. The Conference The ARP conference is a one-...

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Pioneering spirit: Exploring the archaeology and history of The Glenlivet whisky is shortlisted for Current Archaeology’s Research Project of the Year. This includes work in Aberdeenshire! Voting is now open archaeology.co.uk/vote-now and I ask that you support this excellent project by the NTS

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Current Archaeology Awards - Current Archaeology

Voting has now opened for the Current Archaeology Awards! Which people, projects and publications deserve recognition?

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A nice Friday distraction for you - a snapshot from inside the Culsh Souterrain #Aberdeenshire These Iron Age structures, largely sitting underground, are were probably used for storing food and other goods. This example, emptied in 1850AD by the local farmer, is 10.4m long, 1.8m wide and 1.7m high.

A 19th century hand drawn plan and section of the newly discovered site.

A photograph from inside of the curving, underground structure showing rough stones forming the walls, modern gravel over the earthen floor, and large stone slabs forming the roof.

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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

In 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed over 70 meetings in Scotland. From 15 January we will begin once more posting about each one on their anniversary, with links to the full texts of newspaper reports of them.

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Tayside & Fife Archaeological Committee @tafacarchaeology.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Hello! TAFAC has migrated to Bluesky. We'd like to announce our new journal for 2024 (TAFAJ 30) was published in December and you can read it online for free, along with loads of other journals from past years. Please enjoy - for free www.tafac.org.uk/category/pub...

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Here's a little festive present to you all. A wintry aerial photo of New Kinord, Dinnet #Aberdeenshire showing the snow-clad stone footings of an Iron Age settlement. The remains are a mixture of roundhouses, enclosures, and a souterrain (a form of semi-underground structure, probably for storage).

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Looking out from the main entrance way of the Early Medieval hillfort which surrounds the striking granite tor of the Mither Tap, Bennachie in #Aberdeenshire Recent excavations by @northernpicts.bsky.social has started to reveal just how important this Pictish stonghold was at the time. #archaeology

The stone paved and walled entrance way through the walls of the fort surrounding the Mither Tap on Bennachie, Aberdeenshire in Scotland. Looking out from the hill, the flat landscape down below shows a patchwork of green and brown fields, and pockets of dark green tree plantations. A cloudy sky with a hint of blue behind is above, the horizon is hazy in the far distance.

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Brian Kerr @jamesbriankerr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

For #IronworkThursday, here’s a fine row of grave enclosures along the south wall of the Kirk at Fyvie, Aberdeenshire.

A nice gothic lattice railing around the family plot of the Revd Andrew Jamieson Milne (1831-1906); minister at Fyvie for 36 years and a former Moderator of the Kirk.

Railings on a low stone wall around the grave of William Gordon (d. 1847) and a memorial to his parents General William Gordon of Fyvie and Isobel Black.

The row of cast-iron grave enclosures along the south wall of Fyvie Kirk.

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Enjoy a selection of medieval faces from Elgin Cathedral #Moray #Scotland The skill of the stone masons never ceases to impress me, especially as these carvings would have been so high up that most people at the time wouldn’t have fully appreciated the level of detail. #Archaeology

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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Photograph of 'The Serpent Stone' at Newton House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, by B Diveri, 1901

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#FindsFriday Known about for years, this early 19thC iron-plate boat, 4.8m long, was finally rescued in 2022, conserved and now displayed in Garioch Heritage Centre, Inverurie #Aberdeenshire Research shows it's an incredibly rare example of an ice-breaker used on the former Inverurie-Aberdeen Canal.

The rusty shell of the boat lies within deep grass before it is moved.

The conserved boat sitting on a custom wooden stand above a blue carpet as now displayed in the Garioch Heritage Centre.

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Metal detectorists range from good to bad. My recent extremes include ones illegally digging on a scheduled castle site through to a very responsible one who identified and reported for disposal a WWI No 15 ball grenade (see image below!) found on a beach. Most are doing the right thing thankfully.

A small rounded object which looks like a stone (but is the grenade) lying amongst rough sand, grit, beach pebbles and shells having just been exposed by digging.

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

#standingstonesunday Old Keig Recumbent Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire. Early Bronze Age in date, this is one of c70 surviving examples of this unique site type from NE Scotland. The big stone on side is the recumbent, the upright stones either side the flankers, then pairs of stones form the rest.

A group of upright stones forming part of Old Keig stone circle. Green grass, blue sky, hills in the distance with partial tree cover overhead and around the site.

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

📢 Scotland calling! Aberdeen’s Global Scholarship programme offers qualifying self-funded international PGT students a £8,000 fee waiver when taking our taught Masters courses (on campus, full time). See: abdn.ac.uk/study/funding/…. Check eligibility here abdn.ac.uk/study/funding/ .

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

For #FindsFriday a flashback to 10 years ago when a farmer, claiming to have found an “interesting stone” during a phone call, had his daughter send me this pic. A very nice surprise! Early Medieval Pictish carved symbol stone from Dandaleith, Moray, Scotland. Now displayed in Elgin Museum.

A carved stone lying in the bucket of a digger having just been dug up in a field

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello Everyone! Looking forward to reconnecting with the old and meeting the new having joined the exodus from that other place. Feeling a bit sheep like, but happy to say “baaa” for now until I find my feet as I know we are all doing this for the right reasons. Now, bring on #archaeology updates!

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ScARF @scarf-scot.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello Blue Sky! We are the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework based at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Follow us to find out all about our regional and thematic frameworks, events, workshops and activities. Find out more at: www.scarf.scot

A large standing stone on a green grassy mound with Scottish heather covered hilly landscape in the background.

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Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Small ideas can lead to real change. It started as an idea for helping contractors in #Aberdeenshire now it’s a new standard across Scotland for delivering public benefit and adding social value in developer-led archaeology. We still need to do more, but it’s a start www.algao.org.uk/index.php/ne...

Group of people standing watching a reconstruction of an Iron Age furnace in action

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