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Maxine Ross @maxineross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Incredibly sad to hear of the passing of Dr Rena Maguire @justrena We met on the bird app and bonded over our love of ponies, dugs and old things. She was fierce, funny and incredibly passionate about her work. I will miss her and the world is diminished without her

The Govan sarcophagus with carved horse and rider

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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another good day test pitting at Culzean Castle.

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Justin Parkes @justparkes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Concerning to hear that the derelict Category C listed former Greenhill Primary School in Coatbridge is on fire again. It can’t be allowed to go the way of Gartsherrie Primary, gutted & swiftly demolished 2 years ago

A derelict red sandstone early 1900s former school building with two gables on its frontage. To the left a tower block is visible.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sept 23: Feast of Adomnán mac Rónáin (†704), abbot of Iona. He wrote The Life of Columba, and championed Rome’s dating of Easter. His Lex Innocentium, ‘Law of the Innocents’, protected women, children and clergy, especially during warfare. Conamail mac Faílbi succeeded him.

A section of the Lex Innocentium from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B. 512, an Irish vellum manuscript.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 23/09/2026

Yestreen I heard a birdie sing Inbye a bonnie beech tree hedge As if it didnae ken nor care Autumn wis hidin in the sedge… —Sheena Blackhall, “Autumn XI” #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/autumn-...

Autumn IX
Sheena Blackhall

Yestreen I heard a birdie sing
Inbye a bonnie beech tree hedge
As if it didnae ken nor care
Autumn wis hidin in the sedge

The daith o leaves is roon the neuk
It peints them yalla, reid an broon
An doon they’ll drap like faain rain
In waesome Autumn’s dowie croon

Sic cheenges cam tae great an sma
First ae grey hair, a nippin knee
The stert o auld age: clawin cleuks
That herald yer mortality

Autumn draws near, like cat wi moose
It winna stop, nor else devaul
A jeelin in a body’s banes
A cheenge, the turn frae warm tae caul

Noo blawin in the win, dry leaves
Like Simmer’s ghaists, ethereal
This is the Sizzen o the scythe
The nichts draw in, a mournin pall

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some say the gargoyles on the east face of the Cathedral are corpse wards, punishing those who offer disrespect to one specific grave. This is not true. The guardians of that grave are something else entirely. The gargoyles just like to watch.

An unusually sinister face on the underside of a gargoyle.

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

See you on Sunday for our live archaeology, Viking-Age Fest, and Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival events! FREE and open 11am-4pm.

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Maxine Ross @maxineross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unique Dogwood hedge spotted in Lanark

Dog poking her head through a dense hedge

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 18/09/2026

Cuts include Celtic and Scottish Lit (UG), Celtic (UG), Celtic and Archaeology (UG), Celtic and English Language (UG)... Christ. As if we didn't have few enough Celtic Studies departments as it is. There'll be none of us left.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Lothlórien is beautiful because there the trees were loved." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On a grey & autumnal morning in Cymru/Wales, let's step back to a hot 🔥 August afternoon on the Pembrokeshire coast 🥰 Walk inside the extraordinary St Govan's Chapel, a medieval building on the site of an earlier structure, built in the nook of a coastal cliff 😮 🎥 My own, no sound

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

'Guardians of the Yew Tree ' for #NationalFoxDay 🦊🌿🌖

three foxes sitting side by side facing the viewer beneath a yew tree. Beneath their paws are bones and fossilized sea urchins. Collage of two linocuts, black and white and orangefoxbrown, Maria Strutz

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/09/2026

Happy #NationalFoxDay to all who celebrate! 🦊 #fox #poem #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

A page from a book, printed in a reddish-brown ink. The top left contains a stylised papercut picture of a slightly scrawny, scraggly-looking fox. Beneath it is the text of the poem, “Fox’, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961):

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen

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Maxine Ross @maxineross.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m doing a thing for Archaeology month on Sunday at Dalzell. Learn about the history and of course the Yews #YewTreesoftheClydeValley Guided walk Dalzell Estate, Motherwell www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guided-wal...

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Guided walk Dalzell Estate, Motherwell

Join Clutha Archaeology Group for a guided walk through Dalzell Estate, Motherwell.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 12/08/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar

A wall-mounted sundial inside a walled garden. Text on the sundial reads: "fear god, obey ye king"

A traditional sundial on a plinth, formal gardens surround it

The sun beams down on a traditional sundial, with heather visible in the background

A shot of a sundial from above. It's mounted on a stone plinth. Text on the side reads "KEW BRIDGE"

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

OMG, side of the house through the tree eclipses!!!

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Maxine Ross @maxineross.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Serpent eating the sun at Kirknethan by the Clyde in Lanarkshire #Eclipse

Old gravestone slab with a snake and circles

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

July 7: Feast of Boisil († c.661), prior of Mailros (Melrose, Scottish Borders). Bede calls him 'a priest of great virtue, endowed with a spirit of prophecy'. He died of plague. The village of St Boswells is named after him. Cuthbert, whom he mentored, succeeded him as prior.

Boisil greets Cuthbert at Melrose in a 12th-century miniature from British Library Yates Thomson MS 26 version of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert.

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The next generation deserves living forests, not stories about them.

Maxine Ross @maxineross.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Enjoying a spirited evening of Mariachi music and dancing, I've made castinets from kitchen utensils and we're having fajitas for dinner #Mexi-Can 🪅

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Druski Dancing in Mariachi Outfit Meme

ALT: Druski Dancing in Mariachi Outfit Meme

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/06/2026

If you’re feeling down, remember that Scotland owns a bit of England because we kept beating them at football. Ownership of the Ba Green was decided by an annual game of “mob football” between 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Coldstream & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Wark: eventually, demographics made it Scotland for ever 🏆 starkeycomics.com/2023/04/02/t...

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The Ba Green: the land that Scotland won in a football game - Starkey Comics

The Ba Green must be the strangest border in Britain: it was won by Scotland in a game of mob football long ago.

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Maxine Ross @maxineross.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Very sad to hear this. Botanic Gardens inhabit a sort of liminal space between science, art, education, ecology and just being a nice place to hang out. Everybody wants/needs them but nobody wants to fund em www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

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Threatened Dundee Botanic Gardens 'could not be reassembled'

The gardens opened in 1970

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Netherton Cross at Hamilton Old Parish Church. Dating from the C10th to C11th, the cross is a product of the ‘Govan School’ of carving which is associated with the early medieval Kingdom of Strathclyde. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #NethertonCross #Hamilton

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The remains of Cairn Holy I, with its forecourt of standing stones - one of two Neolithic chambered cairns which overlook Wigtown Bay in Dumfries & Galloway. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Wigton #Archaeology

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

June 9: Feast of Colum Cille (Columba) (†597), founder-abbot of Iona. Irishman who anointed Áedán mac Gabráin as king of Dál Riata, preached to ‘the tribes of Tay’, became apostle of the northern Picts and reputedly banished a monster from the River Ness. 📸Bodleian Libraries

Columba depicted with mitre and crosier from Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. B. 514.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Happy feast day of St Columba to all who celebrate. Here is the future patron saint of Scotland arriving as a migrant in a small boat. (Frank Brangwyn; artuk.org/discover/art...)

A painting captioned "St Columba landing at Iona AD 563", showing the saint and others standing in a boat while a rather desperate-looking crew try to bring it ashore.

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Maxine Ross @maxineross.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Took some time out to do a bit of #WestCoastStoneBothering This is the aptly named Stinning Stane at Bains Hill or Rab’s Knowe in Maidens. Right at the edge of Turnberry Golf Course www.trove.scot/place/40856

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Monday morning and I’m hoping to get back in the studio if the distractions of the garden aren’t too distracting to do a bit more to my hedgehog icon. Wishing everyone a productive week

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Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk · 16/05/2026

The woad flowers are in full bloom in our Iron Age enclosure! ✨ Did you know that woad is a natural source of indigo dye? It has been used for several thousand years throughout Europe and the Middle East - not only to dye textiles, but also as body paint.

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Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

And with care, we remember ... Sweet Heart Abbey founded in 1273 by Lady Dervorgilla of Galloway, in memory of her husband John Balliol. 800 years later it's now covered in scaffolding to make repairs due to erosion from climate change. #scotland #heritage

Large redsandstone monastic building with arched windows. Set in graveyard of headstones and green grass. Upper portion of central tower covered in scaffolding which bright sun, against dark sky, shines through.

Large redsandstone monastic building with arched windows. Set in graveyard of headstones and green grass

Arched redsandstone window, beyond which another arched window, through which another narrower arched window can be seen in ruined monastery

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Maxine Ross @maxineross.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The “Yoda Stone” and bonus hogback at Dalserf Kirk. Happy #StarWarsDay #MayThe4th

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Glasgow Coat of Arms @glasgowcoa.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

"The exhibition shows how public contributions have helped build a shared record of the symbol, reflecting a sense of collective ownership + civic pride ...the coat of arms featuring the bird, tree, fish + bell linked to St Mungo is presented ... as a living symbol rather than a fixed emblem" 🐦🌳🔔🐟

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Some really instructive (& fun) ink making experiments with @jillburke.bsky.social this afternoon in prep for a forthcoming ink & quills workshop. Scottish, English or Aleppo oak galls: which makes the best ink? we will tell you after the workshop! 😉 Many experimental ideas in the pipeline ✍️📜🍃

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

More ink making & quill cutting experiments. Different tones with different galls, but all make very useful and workable ink. So very satisfying.... Next project to plan: pigment making and application workshop 🖌️

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Maxine Ross @maxineross.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I'm seeing an organised kick-back on my social media against right to roam and public access in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Who is funding it?

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Apr 17: Feast of Eochaid (†635) of Lios Mór (Lismore), island church near Oban founded by Mo-Luóc in the 6thC. 📸Otter

Lismore Parish Church, also known as the Cathedral Church of St Moluag.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Aedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riata, died #OTD in 608. He campaigned in Orkney, the Isle of Man and against the Miathi of the Forth Valley. In 603, he was soundly defeated by Æthelfrith, king of the Bernicians, at the unidentified Degsastán.

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Maryhill Burgh Halls @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We’re so pleased to announce the next exhibition: 🐟🌳🔔🐦 Let Glasgow Flourish: The Glasgow Coat of Arms by Dr Caroline Scott The history of the Glasgow Coat of Arms is the history of Glasgow itself. Inspired by the stories of St Mungo, our patron saint, the city’s emblem has evolved over the years.

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Andrew Spratt @dirleton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Bothwell Castle near Glasgow (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up. A stronghold of the Douglas family. Repair/rebuild work was done by Archibald 'The Grim' (illegitimate Son of James 'The Black' Douglas). #BothwellCastle #ScottishCastles

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