David Stott

@davstott.bsky.social

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Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people.

GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.

Tinkerer.

Glaswegian in Jutland.

Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc. .. more

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · Nov 13

There's enough of us now to do one of these!

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 5m

I wonder if she, like Anders Holch Povlesen, pays more tax on her Scottish estates to the Danish Government than the 0% that goes to the UK exchequer.

Scotland badly needs land reform.

www.holyrood.com/news/view,tu...

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Martyn Barber @martynjb.bsky.social · 30m

Haven't posted much about OGS Crawford for a while, so here's something from Crawford's WW1 days. He saw out the war as a PoW in Holzminden alongside the likes of James Whale, director of two of my all-time favourites "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Old Dark House". Sadly, OGSC never mentioned...

A photo of a black and white photo of Crawford in uniform, taken during the First World war while on leave at the Berkshire home of his aunts. The photo is in the Crawford Collection of the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University. Mounted on brown card, a hand-written note says "on leave from France".

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 3h

Iron oxide rings, deposited around decomposed organic matter (possibly plant roots) in a recently exposed mud bank.
County Clare, Ireland.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3h

It's also "meant" to be listened to in archaic Greek.

The man is such a numpty.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3h

I'd settle for anywhere in Scotland to anywhere a few hours further north than Rotterdam.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4h

Good news, but a shame it's Rosyth-Dunkirk and not Leith-Esbjerg (for purely selfish reasons)

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4h

The Scottish Government is set to intervene on plans for a Scotland to Europe ferry, marking a significant step forward in plans

Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4h

The Scottish Government is set to intervene on plans for a Scotland to Europe ferry, marking a significant step forward in plans

Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7h

Love this book. Also online:
rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/defa...

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 7h

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

www.theguardian.com

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7h

Elon thinks empathy is a weakness, but here JCO demonstrates that by understanding your foe and feeling his emptiness you can verbally eviscerate him and consume his shriveled, still quivering heart.

Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 10h

Good God

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Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 10h

Good God

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 12h

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 16h

Mission from Cod, shurely?

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 1d

Great minds, etc etc thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...

Disaster on Gichigami

What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?

thecurrentowdm.substack.com

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 1d

Today is Décadi the 20th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay

More information on the harrow

An old time-y illustration of a the Harrow.

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David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social · 1d

For me it's this, from Alasdair Gray's Lanark. Hobbes' Scotland- and I swear you can see the house I grew up in.

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Michel Kasprzyk @michelkasprzyk.bsky.social · 1d

Cet article sur les voies de l'empire romain fait le buzz, mais en faire un "high resolution dataset" est bien imprudent... pour un petit coin de Bourgogne, routes royales et nationales du 18e ou 20e s. coexistent avec des tracés hypothétiques au mieux. 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

www.nature.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

I like to imagine that this is how he gets his daily spray tan.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 2d

The bumper says 'rugged working man'.

But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.

Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.

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Historical maps @maps.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Relief Map of Idaho. Published in 1912.https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~308530~90078318

#map #maps #historicalmaps

A 1912 map from the website linked in the post.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 2d

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pomegranates.#JacobinDay

More information on pomegranates

An old time-y illustration of a Pomegranates.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting article, but please think of the colour blind when designing maps.

Tools like colorbrewer2.org exist for good reason.

ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps

colorbrewer2.org

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Paper here:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 3d

A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.

Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊

#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure

bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...

“Who Pays for the Hobby?”: Metal Detecting in England and Wales

[A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This is a first for The Big Book of Torcs. Today, I open up BBoT to a guest blog, written by a friend and archaeological colleagu…

bigbookoftorcs.com

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d

happy anniversary of Stupid Lake getting its name [citation needed]

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3d

TRUE FACT:
Die Hard (1988) is based on the book "Nothing Lasts Forever" published in 1979 as a SEQUEL to Roderick Thorp's 1966 novel "The Detective" which was turned into a film in 1968 starring Frank Sinatra.

Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.

Roderick Thorp Nothing Lasts Forever, and it's a building on fire with police surrounding it.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

I found my thrill,
On Huckeridge hill

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4d

I got asked to review a paper for one of their journals that was about lay lines.

Won't have anything to do with them now.

It's a shame, because Remote Sensing and Sensors were good journals.

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Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 4d

In Victoria Park, Glasgow, there's a chap who guerilla-posts unofficial notices.
More of this, please.

A small notice on iron railings that reads 'Number One Bench. He who hingeth aboot getteth hee haw'. Believed to refer to a Scottish tv comedy.

Warning notice on park railings, duck pond behind. In a red circle, a human figure and a wee dog are drifting into the air. The notice warns 'To conserve energy gravity will be turned off in this park between the hours of 11pm and 6am'. The missing comma after 'energy' is disappointing.

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