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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I realise not everyone can get to my book tour dates, so I will be doing an online launch event on Wednesday 7 October at 7pm (UK time) 🙂 For more info & bookings, please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-buildi...

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Read all about the occult afterlife of ancient mystery cults in a piece by me and the magical @mjpcuervo.com

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Martyn Barber @martynjb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No plans yet for Halloween? Come and see me talk about the goings on at the Manton Barrow, WIltshire in 1906. A wailing banshee, a ghostly figure, blood on the walls, a visit from a medium, a missing finger, and so much more. Scroll down for the link.

Two images side by side. On the left is a photograph taken in 1906 of some of the labourers who dug the barrow standing on the site of the excavation, each holding a shovel. On the right is a contemporary sketch of the excavatd skeleton in the barrow, surrounded by grave goods.

A clip from the Daily Express in late 1906. The Headlines are "Druid Priestess' Revenge. Haunting the spoilers of her grave. Undignified pranks. The article begins "An ancient skeleton that refused to abide peacefully in any abode but her original burial place, and after upsetting a whole village, had to be taken back to her...". There the clip ends somewhat abruptly.

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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a great album cover. The Sighthill Stones being lowered into place. Spinal Tap meets Apocalypse Now.

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Marta Diaz-Guardamino @martaguardamino.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Paper alert!! We used OSL dating to establish the age of the foundation of the mound supporting two monumental #StandingStones at Hagbard's Galge in southern #Sweden. Dating to 1400-1200 BCE, the mound appears to be slightly older than previously thought...🙂

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Hagbard’s Gallows in context: dating a Bronze Age monument in south-western Sweden

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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sadly no longer posting here, but this from from the inspirational @mmcfadyen.bsky.social (h/t: @sarahmay1.bsky.social LinkedIn) weaves together key themes & topics that have occupied much of my thinking in recent years. If you read nothing else this week: mairimcfadyen.substack.com/p/cultural-d...

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Cultural Darning: Rewilding with People and Place

A talk given at ‘The Big Picture Conference,’ Scotland’s Rewilding Event, which took place in Perth Concert Hall on Saturday 19th September 2026

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We are hosting the amazing Mo'min Swaitat at @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social as part of the Gaza on the Shelf project. He is presenting preserved and remixed Palestinian audio history during a live performance on 28 October. Sorry, in person only. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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My beautiful side of the archive

Explore Palestinian audio history with the Palestinian Sound Archive. This event features an introduction, short documentary, talk, DJ set, and vinyl/merch sales exploring music as resistance.

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Since 2023, volunteers and experts in Glasgow have been unearthing evidence from the Viking-Age Kingdom of Strathclyde ⚔️ This weekend, travel back over 1,000 years into Scotland's past as you observe the excavation, handle artefacts and enjoy free activities: www.digitscotland.com/events/mini-...

Photo of a hand holding out two rock-like objects, one with a hole in the middle

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

💪💪 Solidarity with Edinburgh Uni staff who are trying to prevent compulsory redundancies:

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I visited the @archscot.bsky.social community excavations at Haylie chambered cairn in Largs this morning. Such a nice project & a beautiful megalith!

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I visited the @archscot.bsky.social community excavations at Haylie chambered cairn in Largs this morning. Such a nice project & a beautiful megalith!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Always nice to be interviewed.

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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#tombTuesday you say? Hard to beat my first ever visit to Newgrange, Knowth and a freshly excavated passage tomb in Dowth yesterday courtesy of the wonderful folk in the Irish national archaeology team and Department of works.

A large grey rock wIth carvings. A central spiral with two horse shoe shapes with central line either side.

View of the entrance of Knowth passage tomb with horse shoe shaped stone in the foreground, narrow monolith in front the the entrance with white quartz on the ground in front of a line of large grey stones marking the edge of a green grassy mound

A person in a green t-shirt and dark trousers stands in front of a large structure faced in black granite and white quartz with steps rising up behind large grey kerb stones

A cracked, recently cleaned grey stone with numerous spiral carvings

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Booking has opened for the 2026 Neolithic Studies Group conference in London on 16th November. Theme? Farmers, farming practices and farming tools. Loads of great papers and posters, and you can attend in person or watch online. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsg2026-fa...

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NSG2026: Farmers, farming practices & farming tools

The theme of the 2026 Neolithic Studies Group day conference is farming - from practice to ideology - drawing on new research & discoveries.

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*26th and 27th September* Come and share photographs and memories of Ardeer, drop-in and brew & blether, joined by historian @linda83ross.bsky.social! Or go on our guided walk and eco-poetry session on nature at Ardeer with photographer @alexanderboyd.bsky.social and poet Gerry Cambridge!

Poster showing photographs of women hand mixing dynamite and the workers' canteen in the sunshine before the building was pulled down.

Poster showing ruined factory brick building in the snow amongst important dune scrub habitats.

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's Scottish Archaeology Month! 🎉 @archscot.bsky.social's annual celebration of history, heritage and archaeology is back again this year with talks, tours, workshops, excavations, exhibitions and more: www.digitscotland.com/events/scott...

Group of people in historical costumes pointing weapons at the camera

Broken brown medieval pot with decorations on it

Aerial view of a large stone circle by the water

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One of the great things about this post is that it discusses many contemporary artistic responses to Neolithic carved stone balls, without falling into the trap of deciding the function of that art, or of the balls that inspire it. Many prehistorians are cursed by the search for function.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fascinating but chilling session proposal!

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Jim Leary @jimleary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s wonderful to see our research finally out. It shows that the amazing Devil’s Arrows in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire were transported 18km from Brimham Rocks (not Plumpton!) to the site. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/article/4…

Two tall tapering megaliths forming the Devil’s Arrows.

A massive grey megalith with blue sky behind.

One of the more squat megaliths with a sunburst behind it.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A modern megalithic monument for #StandingStoneSunday An (unammed) circle of 15 locally sourced honey-coloured pillars of Hamstone at the northern limit of Ham Hill hillfort #Somerset A Millenium Project to commemorate the centuries of stonemasons who toiled in the quarries here 📷 Aug 2026

Pillars of honey coloured stone in a circle with sun parched grass and blue sky and a distant war memorial

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Britain’s most southerly standing stone: The Old Man of Gugh (Scilly). He used to be known as The Old Man Cutting Turf #StandingStoneSunday

Standing stone overlooking sea and a distant island (St Mary’s)

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Clonehenge @clonehenge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The #Stonehenge at Makomanai Takino Cemetery, Sapporo, #Japan. One of 3 Stonehenges in Japan—that we know of!

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The team have finished shutting down #CamphillDig2026 and we’ve reinstated the earthwork’s ramparts. One final cool find, a probable Bronze Age worked flint near the base of the 1.5m deep ditch. Nice! Thanks to everyone who helped on the dig & visited us. Season 2 anyone?

Camphill excavations after the trench has been backfilled

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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Published today - read our article about archaeological work on the Scottish island of Staffa. #CA439 #coverstory @currentarchaeology.bsky.social

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I've walked past the Camphill Earthworks in Queen's Park in Glasgow many times, but as an interested amateur, trying to work out what it originally looked like just from the remains visible at the surface (top photo) was always rather difficult. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #archaeology

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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The archaeology of Oscar Wilde

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New Excavation At The Tomb Of The Eagles. A new excavation after all this time……how could we not be interested? So we went along on Sunday the 30th while the Community Archaeology Weekend was taking place....

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New Excavation At The Tomb Of The Eagles.

A new excavation after all this time……how could we not be interested? So we went along on Sunday the 30th while the Community Archaeology Weekend was taking place.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here’s an old #UrbanPrehistory blog post of mine from 8 years ago about a Neolithic chambered cairn in the shadow of a nuclear power station. theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/p...

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Post-atomic megalith

Dounreay nuclear power plant Cnoc na h-Uiseig chambered cairn Clachar megalith tripartite entangled powerless an inventory of atomic performance splitting atoms transcendi…

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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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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🚨 We’re HIRING! ☠️ Lecturer in Human Osteoarchaeology* (full-time, 2-year post starting January 2027). 📅 Application deadline: 14 September 2026🔗 tinyurl.com/yrbxrwbh #AcademicJobs #Archaeology #Osteology #Teaching #Edinburgh #EdinArch #HEjobs @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Excavating and recording the inner ditch at Camphill earthworks in Glasgow. This is barely evident on the surface. The outer ditch should get the same treatment tomorrow. It’s a massive earthwork! #UrbanPrehistory #CamphillDig26

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How did prehistoric cultures perceive remarkable natural stones in the landscape? I came across this incredible perched glacial erratic nr Cregennan Lakes yesterday in upland Gwynedd which closely resembles some regional Neolithic tombs 🧐 One for #TombTuesday 📷 My own

A person standing alongside an enormous propped boulder

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 31/08/2026

Did you know there were people of African descent in Anglo-Saxon England? DNA analysis at two 7th century AD cemeteries found two individuals had a grandparent from sub-Saharan West Africa. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #InternationalDayforPeopleofAfricanDescent 🏺 #Archaeology 📷 Lilian Ladle

Several archaeologists wearing high-vis vests excavating graves. In the background an excavator stands amongst piles of earth.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excavating a slot through the earthworks of Camphill. It’s been extremely hard work so far, the team have done a great job. It’s not all dainty trowelling on excavations! #CamphillDig26

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A nice selection of some of our nicest finds at #CamphillDig26 - and they do indeed show that this drumlin overlooking the Clyde Valley has been popular for millennia!

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We’ve found prehistoric things now, but this is still my favourite find so far!

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Went to lend a hand at #CamphillDig26 today. While the team have yet to determine if the site's residents were Iron Age, Roman or Mediaeval, we now at least know that they were regular users of Glasgow's tram network. Congrats to fellow #SGHET volunteer Dougie for finding it in our pit.

Red, possibly Bakelite, token with Glasgow Coat of Arms, and "Glasgow Corporation Tramways"

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I spent an interesting hour or so today at the open day at the Camphill Earthworks dig in Queen's Park on the southside of Glasgow. The open day is still on until 3pm if you want to check it out for yourself. #glasgow #archaeology #glasgowtocday #queenspark #glasgowwhistory

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Was up there at #CamphillDig26 for the open day today, though they welcome visitors during the week too. Great stuff!

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Exposing the clay rampart at Camphill enclosure. #CamphillDig26 #Glasgow #UrbanPrehistory?

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Two (very likely) Neolithic axe fragments from the #CamphillDig26 site found in the past 24 hours. Nothing like this has been found in Glasgow for well over a century!

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Dr Edward Stewart @eddiecstewart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Out digging at the Camphill earthwork with @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social and Kieran Manchip @archscot.bsky.social and students and volunteers. This site has everything from prehistory and post-medieval farming to rich contemporary archaeology (campfires, arboglyphs, graffiti, and witchy rituals)!

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