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ScARF @scarf-scot.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Are you interested in Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art? Join us at Kilmartin Museum on the 16th of May for a free, hybrid event led by the wonderful Tertia Barnett and @joanavaldez.bsky.social. In-person places are limited, so book soon if you're interested! More information: bit.ly/4s85XMi

Tertia and Joana lead a fieldtrip to see local rock art in Faifley, West Dunbartonshire during the RSE funded rock art workshops in 2025 © ScARF

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 05/03/2026

I never saw the intricate connections with quite this sunny clarity before, such intimate revealing of relations in brilliance, and at such an hour… —Alan Riach, “Kilmartin Glen” published in CLEARANCES (Hazard Press/SCP, 2001) #poem #poetry #archaeology

Kilmartin Glen
Alan Riach

I never saw the intricate connections
with quite this sunny clarity before,
such intimate revealing of relations
in brilliance, and at such an hour:
the West and Islands open to the sea
and Ireland, always seemed to be
alive with colour: bright blue waters,
emeralds and snow; but shapes and movement,
glacial striations, ox-bow lakes, tidal rivers,
hill-tops making patterns to each other –
all connect in vision as the art of men
and women finds its laws in natural
reciprocation: raindrops in a quiet pool
form expanding spirals on the bending plane:
an ancient brooch, the lunulae –
silver, gold: water, sunlight, eyes
to see the clearness of design. And this
takes place in mind, imagination:
across ten thousand years, while now
outside the car my father drives, the rain
drives down on grass and bracken, heather
rocks and hills and lochs and lochans,
midges and elusive little fish. The forestry
have camouflaged the earth’s wet dark
antiquity; the road between Kilmartin
and the ferry just approaching Oban is
impatient, twisty, a hard fast exit through
this valley of old ghosts. And yet the vision stays
perception, the clarity of sunlight’s
careful disposition, in
this undifferentiated time.

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

WORK WITH US: ScARF Research Officers and ScARF Research Manager We are looking to hire three new members of staff to help deliver the final two regional research frameworks as part of @scarf-scot.bsky.social. Find out more and apply by 11:59pm on 8 March 2026: www.socantscot.org/news/#appoin...

Ruined castle with the words 'Work With Us' overlaid

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Helen Spencer @helspencer.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Come work in the research team @socantscot.bsky.social on our ScARF project! We are looking for 3 new people to help us complete the last of the regional archaeological research frameworks for Scotland. Closing date the 8th March 2026 #HESFunded #Archaeology #HeritageJobs #Scotland 🏺

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We have had a fabulous start for the kickstarter for printed versions of the Rhynie big book, but we need MORE! Please support our project by buying yourself a printed copy of the Rhynie monograph! You have till 6th December to do so! www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

For #HillfortsWednesday here's an old favourite, a view of the timber laced rampart at Castle Law, Abernethy under excavation. Photographed by P M Macintyre in 1898. 📸HES www.trove.scot/place/27917

The image shows an old black and whit photo, mounted on sepia coloured paper, with a thin red line, with arrows at each corner, framing the photograph. The photo shows the excavated rampart with a round ended shovel lent against it. Along the line of the dry stone wall there are holes where wooden beams where once located. There is rubble in the foreground, a layer of turf on top of the rampart and trees in the background.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The fort of Brae Brough, on Hoy, in Orkney, is a short distance north of the famous rock stack of the Old Man of Hoy. The fort is almost a rock stack itself with a 325m vertical drop along it’s seaward side. www.trove.scot/place/1480 #HillfortsWednesday 📸 HES

This black and white image shows the flat platform and precipitous cliffs around the promontory fort of Brae Brough on Hoy in Orkney.

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Peeblesshire Archaeological Society @peeblesarchsoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Welcome to Peeblesshire Archaeological Society's new Bluesky page! We're very much looking forward to telling you more about PAS & keeping you up to date with the Society's activities, events & lecture programme. Please follow us and, better still, share your own archaeological interests with us.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I try to avoid politics, but criticism of the Israeli state for its genocidal milliary actions in Palestine is not antisemitic. UN experts have called it a genocide. It is a fact. We can all see this.

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Information about our upcoming dig at East Lomond with the Falkland Stewardship Trust - there are a series of free talks on the archaeology of East Lomond as part of our mini festival of archaeology and the open day for the dig will be 12th July. Come along and find out more!

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Join us at Aberdeen Archaeology! www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/departments/archaeology

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

In Fife, @mafs-scot.bsky.social‬ are excavating the 12th-century Lindores Abbey, which has a long tradition of distilling 🥃 Visit the site from 21 June to 4 July or head to their Open Day on 3 July for site tours and a showcase of the finds: www.digitscotland.com/events/monas... #ScotlandDigs2025

Several people in high-vis looking at a person talking near a trench

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Our next #TrimontiumTalk is Thurs. 12 June – not to be missed! Hillfort expert Strat Halliday, will talk about Hillforts, Settlements & Ancient Geography. In person & online -recording will be available. Thinking of becoming a member? Members enjoy all TrimontiumTalks free, year-round! #Hillforts

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

For anyone interested in Iron Age / Early Med forts in Scotland (hillfort being a non-preferred term in Scotland), I'd like to highlight this talk by Strat Halliday. Strat worked through all the forts in Scotland as part of the Hillforts Atlas and is one of the foremost experts on the subject.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#IronAgeBuildings #IronAgeWednesday 🗻 The Eildon Hills, where the Selgovae hillfort once stood on Eildon North. It housed over 300 roundhouses. Tomorrow, 12 June, join Strat Halliday - hillfort expert - for a talk on Iron Age settlements! zurl.co/bxydb Photo: Cicerone webpage. zurl.co/aZAGh

This picture shows the Mid and South Eildon Hills from a view of the Tweed River. The hills are green with trees leading across them.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Tynron Doon, in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, commands a spur of Auchengibbert Hill and has at least three lines of massive ramparts and ditches with ramparts standing up to 6.5m height and rock cut ditches from 7 to 15m in breadth. #HillfortsWednesday canmore.org.uk/site/65300/t... 📸 HES

A rather dark aerial photo of the fort covered in a thin dusting of snow. The snow highlights the ramparts and ditches and can be seen as particularly massive toward the right of the image. In the enter there is a central enclosure and to the left a smaller annex can be seen. On the steeper slopes to the top there is a plantation of pine trees.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

There are just 20 days left until Canmore is retired. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, or directly to the trove team at trove@hes.scot.

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The bivallate Iron Age Oldbury hillfort lies 5 km west from Avebury in Wiltshire. Its defenses enclose 9 ha. There is also a hill figure of a white horse cut to the chalk on the northern side. The only excavation was in 1930 and the latest survey in 2004. #HillfortWednesday

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Arbory Hill Fort, in South Lanarkshire, is one of the higher forts in Scotland. The inner stone-walled rampart has been inserted into the earlier bi-vallate fort, and the outer ramparts contain at least five entrances. #HillfortsWednesday canmore.org.uk/site/47427/a... 📸HES

Aerial photo showing the three ramparts of Arbory Hill Fort in an open upland moorland.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Woden Law in the Scottish Boarders is a complex Iron Age fort with multiple phases of construction and remodeling and the fort is associated with earthworks outside the fort. The fort's relationship to these remains a question to be answered. canmore.org.uk/site/58068 #HillfortsWednesday 📸HES

Aerial view of Woden Law fort int the Scottish Borders. The fort is in high pasture.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Our next Trimontium Talk is coming up on June 12th! Join us for Hillforts, Settlements and Ancient Geography with Strat Halliday @ 7:30pm. Taking place both in person and online. ... Visit the link below to book your spot! 🌟 zurl.co/8tOLA

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is a really useful thread with valuable examples of differences in service. For those that can't feedback via the trove feedback form I will be screenshot posts and feeding them back to the Trove team. To help find them it would be useful if posts contained the word Trove. Thanks.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

#hillfortsWednesday Bessie's Hillfort, Eskdalemuir. I don't know who Bessie was, but she kept a tidy little set of ramparts with some scooped platforms inside. Best seen as here, from the Late Iron Age settlement enclosure on the hill above.

Earthworks just in front of a plantation of conifer trees

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Here is your periodic reminder that Canmore is soon to be switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.

The original home page of the Canmore website showing the frontage of John Sinclair House, the former home of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Looking down from the rampart of Burnswalk, D&G, to the roman camp to the south of the fort. The Roman ballista platforms can be seen set in front of entrances which are wide enough for 40 people. This location on the rampart has been found to be saturated with lead shot. #HillfortsWednesday 📷my own

A beautiful sunny day looking out over a grassy green landscape and blue sky. The Roman fort can be seen as ramparts and ditches in the midground, and the ballista towers are round mounds in front of three gates.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The important work of our French archaeological colleagues is at risk. Their expert-led, progressive national & regional approach to archaeology, typified by @inrap.fr, is threatened by funding cuts. Everyone, please stand in solidarity & sign this petition & please share!🏺 chng.it/jzFsMpXw8h

INRAP excavations of Lutetia, ancient Paris, showing an aerial view of archaeologist in hi vis clothing revealing a complex record of walls and pits. deep underground.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Please welcome the NTS Archaeology team and give them a follow.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

There are now only eight weeks until Canmore is switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

There's an exciting FTA opportunity to join us at HES as Senior Cultural Resources Advisor for our sites & monuments in the North Region The role involves providing archaeological, historic building & historical advice, & undertaking research. More info tinyurl.com/26bfbe6a 👇some of those sites👇

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

To deny the existence of trans people in law is to deny the reality of life.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Honestly, such grim news from UK Supreme Court. We're going the way of US & everyone should be concerned. Just let people live their quiet lives - just like they did before Wicked Witch & her flying goblins got all exercised about things that don't concern them. Thoughts & big hugs to all xx 🏳️‍⚧️

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

For #HillfortsWednesday here is Carnac, Moredun aka Moncrieffe Hill or Moredun Top. Located near to Perth in Scotland the fort comprises at least four phases of construction. canmore.org.uk/site/28025 📸 HES.

An aerial photo of the fort of the fort showing multiple enclosures within an opening in the forested landscape.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I visited the extraordinary Iron Age dun site of Bonnach Mor in Argyll last week which is located on a rock platform next to an incredible basalt dyke. Here is a very quick attempt at a reconstruction to give an idea of how it may have looked. canmore.org.uk/site/22579

A quick reconstruciton showing how the dun at Bonach Mor may have looked in the Iron Age. The dun sits on a platform at the center and the dyke is to the right. A woman stands in the forground looking up. Rays of sun stream over the top of the dyke. It is very sunny!

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A prehistoric headliner for #ADoorAbleThursday. Featuring a nice jamb (side bit of a door) and the drawbar (squared hole in wall thickness by door through which you’d draw a bar behind the door to secure it - basically an early form of locking!)

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Iron Age door jamb and bar-hole from the dun, Druim An Duin, #Argyll, #Scotland today.

The image shows a close-up of the drystone elements on the west side of the southern doorway. Lush grasses and moss cover the entrance passage.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

For #HillfortWednesday here is today's photo of the Iron Age / Early Medieval fort of Dun Chonallaich from the fort of Creag a'Chapuill, Argyll, Scotland.

The rocky crags of the fort are in the mid ground. There are trees to the left and across the entire landscape there is the orange hue of the moss.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The summit of the Iron Age Dun at Bonnach Mor, Argyll, which incorporates a huge basalt dyke, that runs from the dun to the sea. What a beautiful day to visit. So lucky ☺️

A woman sits os the flat grassy summit is an Iron Age dun. In the background a basalt dyke can be seen and behind this tha sea and the island of Ling.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Here's another reminder to try out the Canmore replacement www.trove.scot and to feedback your thoughts and comments while it is still in beta.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Law Hill, Arnbathie near Scone in Scotland. View looking north over the ramparts to the chevaux de frise – stones set on edge supposedly designed to disrupt infantry and cavalry. canmore.org.uk/site/28116 📸 My own #HillfortsWednesday

This view looks over the low grassy banks of the fort towards small upright stones set in the midground. The view continues, down the slope, to a copse of trees and then on to the wide Tay valley beyond. In the background the Cairngorms rise to the horizon.

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Want access to cutting-edge Scottish archaeological research? Hear the latest on the Ness of Brodgar, a Bronze Age hoard, Perth’s lost priory and more at Archaeological Research in Progress online and in Edinburgh on 3 May. Tickets now on sale: bit.ly/ARPConferenc... #ARP2025

Aerial photo of the excavation of a prehistoric stone building with low walls and hearths visible

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Do you use Historic Environment Scotland's data? If so you need to know that Canmore is being retired this June. Trove (www.trove.scot) is replacing it and is now online in beta. Please try it out and feedback your comments here: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/heritage/470...

An image of the old Canmore website with an arrow to the new Trove website.

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

900+ women working in archaeology, history and heritage between 1870-1950 👏🏼👏🏼

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