Stef North-Sagrott
@archaeostef.bsky.social
Archaeologist; Senior Cultural Resources Advisor for the Historic Scotland Properties in Care
Had a great day with the team visiting the Govan Stones, hearing all about the work that Govan Workspace are doing to create a viable future & getting a tour from Prof Driscoll himself.
Make sure you visit when they reopen in 2026 thegovanstones.org.uk
#TombTuesday (given the Govan Sarcophagus)
Make sure you visit when they reopen in 2026 thegovanstones.org.uk
#TombTuesday (given the Govan Sarcophagus)
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Had a great day with the team visiting the Govan Stones, hearing all about the work that Govan Workspace are doing to create a viable future & getting a tour from Prof Driscoll himself.
Make sure you visit when they reopen in 2026 thegovanstones.org.uk
#TombTuesday (given the Govan Sarcophagus)
Make sure you visit when they reopen in 2026 thegovanstones.org.uk
#TombTuesday (given the Govan Sarcophagus)
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Our next seminar is Tuesday 4 November at 6pm
Peter Guest will be talking on 'Feeding the Roman Army in Britain '
Once again the seminar will take place in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh.
Peter Guest will be talking on 'Feeding the Roman Army in Britain '
Once again the seminar will take place in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh.
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Our next seminar is Tuesday 4 November at 6pm
Peter Guest will be talking on 'Feeding the Roman Army in Britain '
Once again the seminar will take place in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh.
Peter Guest will be talking on 'Feeding the Roman Army in Britain '
Once again the seminar will take place in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh.
Turns out on this day in 2014 I was at Hambledon Hill with @nts-archaeology.bsky.social and @nattrustarch.bsky.social #HillfortsWednesday
October 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Turns out on this day in 2014 I was at Hambledon Hill with @nts-archaeology.bsky.social and @nattrustarch.bsky.social #HillfortsWednesday
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Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses
Proper lovely 😍
🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011
For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html
#HillfortsWednesday
Proper lovely 😍
🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011
For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html
#HillfortsWednesday
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses
Proper lovely 😍
🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011
For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html
#HillfortsWednesday
Proper lovely 😍
🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011
For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html
#HillfortsWednesday
Heading through to Glasgow Cathedral later today to see what is found at the top of the well by Clyde Archaeology.
The archaeology of tourism and contemporary ritual offerings?
The archaeology of tourism and contemporary ritual offerings?
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Heading through to Glasgow Cathedral later today to see what is found at the top of the well by Clyde Archaeology.
The archaeology of tourism and contemporary ritual offerings?
The archaeology of tourism and contemporary ritual offerings?
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Our first seminar of the season is tomorrow, Tuesday 7 October at 18:00
Tanja Romankiewicz will be presenting on '"Another Wall of Turf": the Antonine Wall in the context of Roman turf building'
Please note that in a departure from the norm we are in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre
Tanja Romankiewicz will be presenting on '"Another Wall of Turf": the Antonine Wall in the context of Roman turf building'
Please note that in a departure from the norm we are in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre
October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Our first seminar of the season is tomorrow, Tuesday 7 October at 18:00
Tanja Romankiewicz will be presenting on '"Another Wall of Turf": the Antonine Wall in the context of Roman turf building'
Please note that in a departure from the norm we are in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre
Tanja Romankiewicz will be presenting on '"Another Wall of Turf": the Antonine Wall in the context of Roman turf building'
Please note that in a departure from the norm we are in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre
Bad, enraging, archaeological process
Bad, enraging, use of archaeology
It's the duty of all #archaeologists to condemn this nationalistic use of #archaeology by Israel to support it's genocidal, warmongering aims
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Bad, enraging, use of archaeology
It's the duty of all #archaeologists to condemn this nationalistic use of #archaeology by Israel to support it's genocidal, warmongering aims
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology to win US support for goals
Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexity
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Bad, enraging, archaeological process
Bad, enraging, use of archaeology
It's the duty of all #archaeologists to condemn this nationalistic use of #archaeology by Israel to support it's genocidal, warmongering aims
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Bad, enraging, use of archaeology
It's the duty of all #archaeologists to condemn this nationalistic use of #archaeology by Israel to support it's genocidal, warmongering aims
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Save the dates for FMSG 2025-26 👇
We are still finalising our lecture programme for 25-26 (due to some administrative speedbumps)
But we can confirm our first three lectures will be held in Edinburgh on the following dates:
7 October
4 November
2 December
Sign up to our mailing list to make sure you get the most up to date info
But we can confirm our first three lectures will be held in Edinburgh on the following dates:
7 October
4 November
2 December
Sign up to our mailing list to make sure you get the most up to date info
September 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Save the dates for FMSG 2025-26 👇
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Sept 16: Feast of Nynia (Ninian) (C5th), British bishop and apostle associated with early church Candida Casa / Hwit Aerne, 'White House’, (Whithorn, Galloway). His shrine remains a popular pilgrimage-place. 📸AOC Archaeology #medievalsky
September 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Sept 16: Feast of Nynia (Ninian) (C5th), British bishop and apostle associated with early church Candida Casa / Hwit Aerne, 'White House’, (Whithorn, Galloway). His shrine remains a popular pilgrimage-place. 📸AOC Archaeology #medievalsky
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Draft chapters for the South West Scotland Archaeological Research Framework are now live and we'd love your feedback!
You can comment directly on the framework through the ScARF website. More info about the drafts and our commenting feature can be found in our latest newsletter: bit.ly/42hUYVx
You can comment directly on the framework through the ScARF website. More info about the drafts and our commenting feature can be found in our latest newsletter: bit.ly/42hUYVx
September 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Draft chapters for the South West Scotland Archaeological Research Framework are now live and we'd love your feedback!
You can comment directly on the framework through the ScARF website. More info about the drafts and our commenting feature can be found in our latest newsletter: bit.ly/42hUYVx
You can comment directly on the framework through the ScARF website. More info about the drafts and our commenting feature can be found in our latest newsletter: bit.ly/42hUYVx
For #RomanFortThursday the spectacular earthworks of Ardoch Roman Fort likely dating to the mid-2nd century AD
The Romans repeatedly used the area as a halting-place on a major axis of communication may be gauged by the number of temporary camps which have been detected in the fields to the north
The Romans repeatedly used the area as a halting-place on a major axis of communication may be gauged by the number of temporary camps which have been detected in the fields to the north
September 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
For #RomanFortThursday the spectacular earthworks of Ardoch Roman Fort likely dating to the mid-2nd century AD
The Romans repeatedly used the area as a halting-place on a major axis of communication may be gauged by the number of temporary camps which have been detected in the fields to the north
The Romans repeatedly used the area as a halting-place on a major axis of communication may be gauged by the number of temporary camps which have been detected in the fields to the north
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Just back from the amazing Friends @crookston.bsky.social Castle fun day at the castle As you can see the crowds were amazing, queuing to get in with nearly 1000 people attending, twice the expected number. Part of 3 days of community engagement, including the geophysical survey of the castle
August 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Just back from the amazing Friends @crookston.bsky.social Castle fun day at the castle As you can see the crowds were amazing, queuing to get in with nearly 1000 people attending, twice the expected number. Part of 3 days of community engagement, including the geophysical survey of the castle
Great to see this Castle Studies Trust funded project at Historic Scotland's (and @nts-archaeology.bsky.social) Crookston Castle underway
Day one of geophysics at Crookston Castle ✅
Local pupils joined archaeologists to scan the grounds and search for hidden stories beneath Glasgow’s last Castle.
Even the Lord Provost lent a hand and is keen to see what secrets we uncover next! #Glasgow850 #EchoesFromTheEarth
Local pupils joined archaeologists to scan the grounds and search for hidden stories beneath Glasgow’s last Castle.
Even the Lord Provost lent a hand and is keen to see what secrets we uncover next! #Glasgow850 #EchoesFromTheEarth
August 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Great to see this Castle Studies Trust funded project at Historic Scotland's (and @nts-archaeology.bsky.social) Crookston Castle underway
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#OTD 28 August 1571, Marye, lady Seton, the earl of Huntlye, Sir James Balfour, William Maitland of Lethington, and Marie Fleming make and sign an inventory of jewels in Edinburgh Castle
August 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#OTD 28 August 1571, Marye, lady Seton, the earl of Huntlye, Sir James Balfour, William Maitland of Lethington, and Marie Fleming make and sign an inventory of jewels in Edinburgh Castle
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#ManuscriptMonday + #MusicMonday : Bagpiping piggy! 🐷🎶
Illustration in a ca. 16th c. Irish illuminated manuscript:
Dindshenchas, RIA MS D ii 2, f.34r.
@ria.ie :
www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_D...
Illustration in a ca. 16th c. Irish illuminated manuscript:
Dindshenchas, RIA MS D ii 2, f.34r.
@ria.ie :
www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_D...
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
#ManuscriptMonday + #MusicMonday : Bagpiping piggy! 🐷🎶
Illustration in a ca. 16th c. Irish illuminated manuscript:
Dindshenchas, RIA MS D ii 2, f.34r.
@ria.ie :
www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_D...
Illustration in a ca. 16th c. Irish illuminated manuscript:
Dindshenchas, RIA MS D ii 2, f.34r.
@ria.ie :
www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_D...
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Historic Environment Scotland have just published published Conserving our Underwater Heritage. Non statutory guidance note. www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and...
Conserving our Underwater Heritage | Historic Environment Scotland
This guidance is about conserving underwater heritage around the coasts of Scotland and in freshwater environments such as lochs and rivers.
www.historicenvironment.scot
August 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Historic Environment Scotland have just published published Conserving our Underwater Heritage. Non statutory guidance note. www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and...
One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
![A stone that looks like a prehistoric standing stone but inscribed with "Asda Price Promise Permanently [text obscured] prices [text obscured].
The stone is by a Drystone wall and vegetation grows around it](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7mzhk55756kcluyutorbqyex/bafkreicxukeks37aqp6tgtzj2hlbvjgtxc5syw4ptr6nnojxhazlrfwflq@jpeg)
August 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
Three entries for #ADoorAbleThursday this week, all from the cloister of the Cluniac priory in Carennac which I visited earlier this week.
The fledgling Swifts? were having a well deserved rest on the hood moulding of the door into the church
The fledgling Swifts? were having a well deserved rest on the hood moulding of the door into the church
August 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Three entries for #ADoorAbleThursday this week, all from the cloister of the Cluniac priory in Carennac which I visited earlier this week.
The fledgling Swifts? were having a well deserved rest on the hood moulding of the door into the church
The fledgling Swifts? were having a well deserved rest on the hood moulding of the door into the church
Ok so it's not prehistoric but it is stone and it is standing, and it is Sunday.
I did some very rough and ready Structure from Motion after my visit to St Orland's Stone the other week. Really helped pull out the detail of the carvings
#StandingStoneSunday
I did some very rough and ready Structure from Motion after my visit to St Orland's Stone the other week. Really helped pull out the detail of the carvings
#StandingStoneSunday
July 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ok so it's not prehistoric but it is stone and it is standing, and it is Sunday.
I did some very rough and ready Structure from Motion after my visit to St Orland's Stone the other week. Really helped pull out the detail of the carvings
#StandingStoneSunday
I did some very rough and ready Structure from Motion after my visit to St Orland's Stone the other week. Really helped pull out the detail of the carvings
#StandingStoneSunday
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July 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Lovely to see dendrochronology and community research going hand-in-hand to solve this mystery
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Archaeologists identify 250-year-old Shipwreck in Orkney
Scientific analysis and community-led research led to the identification of the Earl of Chatham, which was found last year.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Lovely to see dendrochronology and community research going hand-in-hand to solve this mystery
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.
news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
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news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.
news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
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news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
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#AskAnArchaeologist Day is on Bluesky this year! 🏺
Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social
Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#AskAnArchaeologist Day is on Bluesky this year! 🏺
Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social
Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social
My colleague Sam has written a blog about his scientific analysis of a probable (early?) medieval cross pendant from Dumbarton Castle for me.
Raising more questions than it answers!
blog.engineshed.scot/2025/07/09/u...
#FindsFriday
Raising more questions than it answers!
blog.engineshed.scot/2025/07/09/u...
#FindsFriday
Engine Shed guidance for owners and occupiers of traditional buildings
Engine Shed guidance on how to care for your traditional property and improve its energy efficiency, and on what kind of consents you might need to make changes to it.
blog.engineshed.scot
July 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
My colleague Sam has written a blog about his scientific analysis of a probable (early?) medieval cross pendant from Dumbarton Castle for me.
Raising more questions than it answers!
blog.engineshed.scot/2025/07/09/u...
#FindsFriday
Raising more questions than it answers!
blog.engineshed.scot/2025/07/09/u...
#FindsFriday