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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love this view of the entrance to the Iron Age hillfort on Wittenham Clumps. It's a timeless place and looked the same in 2003 when I excavated a few trenches on the hill. I must go back soon!

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Digging in the 1978-81 Links of Noltland archive I found this fabulous team photo. I can spot David Clarke, Niall Sharples, Caroline Wickham Jones and Ann Clarke. Can anyone name others?

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hi Becca, come and see the Museum and I'll show you the Collections Centre too!

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yes... 4 tons! 200 boxes of artefacts and ecofacts

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How exciting! The immense Mesolithic assemblage from Sir Paul Mellar's 1970s excavations on the Oronsay shell middens arrived at NMS today!

Truck loaded with a large archaeological assemblage

A pallet of archaeological boxes being moved by Hugo Anderson-Whymark

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And by a slow project, I mean very slow! I collected this banded flint nodule in Lynford Quarry 20ish years ago (with @cjfrieman.bsky.social!). I knew the stone was special and had to be a macehead (or two). This stone travelled with me to Oxford, Orkney and Edinburgh before I decided to work it.

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I was tempted to 3d and sculpt in Blender, but low tech will allow me to work out the grinding technique too.

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm very slowly making a flint Maesmor-type Neolithic macehead. But I'm not sure the form of the blank is right to cut the lozenges, so I've made a plaster cast to practice.

Flint rough out for a Maesmor type Neolithic macehead. With a plaster cast and moulds. The cast will be used to practice the lozenge design

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

An another glorious day for making maceheads. Granite and Lewisian Gneiss, the latter is becoming a favourite rock

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I don't often post about the Romans, but I found this beautiful and delicate glass mosaic whilst digging around in NMS's stores today. It's from Suffolk Street, London and was donated by C. Roach Smith in 1849.

Fragment of a fine Roman mosaic from Suffolk Street, London. Donated to National Museums Scotland by C.Roach Smith in 1849.

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thanks. I've made a few things over the years and a bit of rock art too

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

A lovely sunny day. Great for carving stone in the garden - a pestle macehead and a carved stone ball made today

A pestle macehead and a carved stone ball made by Hugo Anderson-Whymark

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I first visited Skara Brae 40 years ago... and I still keep going back. It's a magical place (like the whole of Orkney)

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

That cup and ring marked stone is very interesting. Quite unusual for Orkney. Is it big enough to be a lintel?

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Heading to Orkney. This photo doesn't capture the wind chill...

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Museum job alert!! Assisstant Curator Renaissance and Early Modern History at National Museums Scotland Full time but temporary (mat leave cover) Closes 18 Feb so don't dilly-dally careers.nms.ac.uk/job/829206

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Asst Curator Renaissance and Early Modern History

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I was looking for a Fimber beaker for around a decade and I've not seen another since I picked up this one. It has a lot of detail and is one of my favourites

Goss pottery model of the early Bronze Age Fimber beaker, showing details of the design

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I love a bit of Goss (although you can have too many!) Having collected all the Neolithic and Bronze Age models I moved onto the Roman and Medieval...

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

FREE ONLINE MAGAZINE: Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/ #ScotArchStrat

Photo of two people in ancient clothing in front of a replica Iron Age roundhouse

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Tayside & Fife Archaeological Committee @tafacarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

And it's here! Our very own Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal Volume 31 is now ready to download absolutely free. And it's a stoater, to use the technical Scottish term. Thanks to all our authors, illustrators, sponsors, typesetter and the editorial team. www.tafac.org.uk/2025/11/volu...

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

There's a great range of papers at the upcoming Lithic Studies Society conference on 7/8 November in Leicester. I look forward to catching up with some folk there! Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi... @lithicstudiessoc.bsky.social

Lithic studies society 2025 conference programme

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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Here are some installation photos of our show currently on at The Reid Gallery - Glasgow School of Art Even better in real life though, so if you are in Glasgow pop in for a survey of our Papay SurvØY. www.flickr.com/photos/glasg...

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Saoirse Higgins and Jonathan Ford – SurvØY, 20 September – 1 November 2025 Reid Gallery

SurvØY was developed over four years as a contemporary artist ‘island almanac’, surveying and monitoring scales of change in the context of the island environment of Papa Westray, one of the most nort...

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy is advertising for a new Chair. Take a look - It's a great role to help shape Scottish archaeology archaeologystrategy.scot/scotlands-ar...

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Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy Committee Needs a New Chair! – Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

There's a new flintknapping workshop at Kilmartin Museum if you fancy learning an ancient craft www.kilmartin.org/introduction...

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Introduction to Flintknapping — Kilmartin Museum

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Great to see this story - a fantastic site I am proud to have excavated - but slightly confused by slide #5. The 'v' profile ditch shown is the LBA ditch, which was backfilled with the timber laced rampart built on top. It was the 'U' shaped IA ditch that contained saxon finds in its upper fills.

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New paper klaxon: pre print now available OA: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti... Thanks to everyone at @ria.ie for their work on this, and most importantly to Chantal for collaboration on the paper. A short 🧵 on what we argue... @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hooray! Our paper on kinship in Neolithic Ireland is out. Such a pleasure to write this (and draw fancy maps) with a team of fabulous and inspiring prehistorians: Neil Carlin, Jess Smyth, @cjfrieman.bsky.social, Dani Hofmann, @pennybickle.bsky.social, Kerri Cleary and @prehistorian.bsky.social:

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Lovely. They're surprisingly common. I was once offered 3 for £30 each - a bargain but I chose my marriage!

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orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social @orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Orkney Archaeology Society's next public talk is an online event with Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, outlining further discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave, Holm. The talk will be on 20th March, starting at 7pm. Get your free tickets here, orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/event/talk-f...

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Talk: Further discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave, Holm

By Hugo Anderson Wymark National Museums Scotland In 2023 a new Neolithic passage grave was discovered at Blomuir, Holm. Excavations in 2024 fully excavated the chamber and side cells, revealing fu…

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Well apparently we've been terribly woke at the museum too...

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

They look great on a wall (Liz does not agree)

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Nice. I have on on my office wall at home. I'm currently in Tenerife and they used round basalt pebbles in their threshing sledges... often seen in restaurants too

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A threshing sledge (tribulum) with lovely flint teeth. Still made in parts of Turkey until the 1970s

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The Lithic Studies Society is now on Bluesky, for all your stone tool lovers: @lithicstudiessoc.bsky.social #lithics #flint

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Digging for Britain do their own models for the show, but I do have some nice high resolution versions I'll release soon

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Tonight's the night that Blomuir #Neolithic Passage Grave in #Orkney is on #DiggingForBritain - BBC 2 8pm. Victorian diggers removed enough stone for a house, but still left us some amazing archaeology!

Blomuir Neolithic passage grave, Holm, Orkney, under excavation in 2024

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Well, that's my Twitter/X account deleted for good. I've imported my old tweets across as there are a few good images

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I'm looking forward to the new series of Digging for Britain, which starts tomorrow! But you've have to wait until Thursday for news of exciting new discoveries in our Neolithic passage grave at Blomuir, Orkney

Digging for Britain promotional flyer, new series from 7 January 2025

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Some objects speak for themselves! This heart shaped facing stone of finest 'Brandon black' flint dates from c.1930. #flintfriday

A heart shaped flint facing stone, with the words 'renowned Brandon flint' pecked in the surface, c.1930

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