Archaeology Scotland
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Inspiring people to discover, explore, care for and enjoy Scotland's archaeological heritage! We are an independent charity: https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk
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'Professor Sally Foster, of the University of Stirling’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, has now discovered the existence of this body of fragments, only one of which was officially recognised when she began her research.'
New Stone of Destiny fragments uncovered by Stirling University expert
NEW research led by Stirling University has revealed the existence and fate of many fragments of the Stone of Destiny, including those secreted away…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
'Professor Sally Foster, of the University of Stirling’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, has now discovered the existence of this body of fragments, only one of which was officially recognised when she began her research.'
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November 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Now's your chance to make Pictish history. Please buy a copy of our Rhynie big book - you have till 6th December to order!
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Now's your chance to make Pictish history. Please buy a copy of our Rhynie big book - you have till 6th December to order!
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November #Museum30 theme 6 is #clay. Dunblane Museum has 4000-year-old pottery food vessel, discovered in 1999 during excavations for housing development in Dunblane’s Barbush. This was in child’s burial cist, part of evidence of early Bronze Age settlement youtu.be/mGl6VlJg5Qk
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November 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
November #Museum30 theme 6 is #clay. Dunblane Museum has 4000-year-old pottery food vessel, discovered in 1999 during excavations for housing development in Dunblane’s Barbush. This was in child’s burial cist, part of evidence of early Bronze Age settlement youtu.be/mGl6VlJg5Qk
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A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. Cairnpapple Hill near Bathgate is visited by the book’s two central characters.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.arachnid.scot/book-tsr/ind...
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.arachnid.scot/book-tsr/ind...
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. Cairnpapple Hill near Bathgate is visited by the book’s two central characters.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.arachnid.scot/book-tsr/ind...
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.arachnid.scot/book-tsr/ind...
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Five MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduates will be showcasing their work at the Northlight gallery, Stromness, from November 14-25, 11am to 4pm.
Art and Archaeology graduates showcase work in Stromness
The Work Is All We Have. (Diane Eagles) Five MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduates will be showcasing their work at the Northlight gallery, Stromness, from November 14-25, 11am to 4pm. The exhibition, entitled Wider Than Living, features the creations of Diane Eagles, Harry Payne, Iain Davidson, Janet Tryner and Lara Band. It is the first time a group of…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Five MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduates will be showcasing their work at the Northlight gallery, Stromness, from November 14-25, 11am to 4pm.
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This is the Roman bathhouse at Bearsden in Glasgow, the only visible remains of the fort on the Antonine Wall that once stood there. Featuring hot and cold rooms as well as plunge pools and a latrine, it also had glazed windows and painted plaster decoration. #RomanFortThursday
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is the Roman bathhouse at Bearsden in Glasgow, the only visible remains of the fort on the Antonine Wall that once stood there. Featuring hot and cold rooms as well as plunge pools and a latrine, it also had glazed windows and painted plaster decoration. #RomanFortThursday
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Wreck of HMS Bayano, torpedoed off Galloway, Scotland in 1915 discovered www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Divers identify torpedoed wreck of HMS Bayano after 110 years
The HMS Bayano was torpedoed with the loss of nearly 200 lives off the Galloway coast in 1915.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Wreck of HMS Bayano, torpedoed off Galloway, Scotland in 1915 discovered www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today at 4pm (UK time) I’ll give a talk at the University of Glasgow archaeology seminar about our excavations at Punta Ferulosu (Copper Age settlement, Sardinia). This will also be on Zoom www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
Thank you Arianna Magyaricsová for the invite!
Thank you Arianna Magyaricsová for the invite!
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Today at 4pm (UK time) I’ll give a talk at the University of Glasgow archaeology seminar about our excavations at Punta Ferulosu (Copper Age settlement, Sardinia). This will also be on Zoom www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
Thank you Arianna Magyaricsová for the invite!
Thank you Arianna Magyaricsová for the invite!
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The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age.
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age.
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
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Check out our collection of #prehistoric European #archaeology, with free & #OpenAccess research such as:
🛞 Iron Age Iberian elites
🪨The origins of stone circles in Britain
⛏️ Copper mining in Chalcolithic Serbia
& more! 🏺
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🛞 Iron Age Iberian elites
🪨The origins of stone circles in Britain
⛏️ Copper mining in Chalcolithic Serbia
& more! 🏺
cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Check out our collection of #prehistoric European #archaeology, with free & #OpenAccess research such as:
🛞 Iron Age Iberian elites
🪨The origins of stone circles in Britain
⛏️ Copper mining in Chalcolithic Serbia
& more! 🏺
cambridge.org/core/journal...
🛞 Iron Age Iberian elites
🪨The origins of stone circles in Britain
⛏️ Copper mining in Chalcolithic Serbia
& more! 🏺
cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Want 20% off "Carved in Stone"? 📖
Remember to place your pre-orders before they close at noon on Wednesday 5 November: carved-in-stone.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Remember to place your pre-orders before they close at noon on Wednesday 5 November: carved-in-stone.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
"It’s basically the best book on the Picts ever written" 😍
Dig into 7th-century Scotland with "Carved in Stone", a comprehensive guide to the Picts with 350+ historically informed illustrations covering everything from language to fashion. Pre-order to save 20%: www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone
Dig into 7th-century Scotland with "Carved in Stone", a comprehensive guide to the Picts with 350+ historically informed illustrations covering everything from language to fashion. Pre-order to save 20%: www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Want 20% off "Carved in Stone"? 📖
Remember to place your pre-orders before they close at noon on Wednesday 5 November: carved-in-stone.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Remember to place your pre-orders before they close at noon on Wednesday 5 November: carved-in-stone.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
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👀 Useful list of winter opening times for Highland and Island Museums: museumsandheritagehighland.org.uk/winter-pause...
Winter Pause or Quiet Beat? Highland Museums Adjust Hours - Museums and Heritage Highland
As the evening's grow longer and the days shorter, many of our Highland museum adjust their opening schedule. Some go into hibernation for a few months, re-launching with gusto around Easter, but a gr...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
👀 Useful list of winter opening times for Highland and Island Museums: museumsandheritagehighland.org.uk/winter-pause...
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It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
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Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
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BAJR SURVEY PIR III: ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
Inflation, energy costs, fuel costs and food are becoming increasingly expensive - this anonymous survey will help to understand the level of Financial Crisis we are in as archaeologists - as individu...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
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A great opportunity to see Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of Glasgow Archaeology for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of Glasgow Archaeology for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A great opportunity to see Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of Glasgow Archaeology for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of Glasgow Archaeology for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
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Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery
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November 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
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#tinyjoys Archaeology Bookmarks! By Scarlette, Lydia & D’arcy (8-10 yrs) of Stirling Young Carers to accompany their ‘Attainment through Archaeology’ presentation at last weekend’s @scotarchforum.bsky.social conference - supported by @janemiller000.bsky.social, Learning Mgr @archscot.bsky.social 🙌 +
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#tinyjoys Archaeology Bookmarks! By Scarlette, Lydia & D’arcy (8-10 yrs) of Stirling Young Carers to accompany their ‘Attainment through Archaeology’ presentation at last weekend’s @scotarchforum.bsky.social conference - supported by @janemiller000.bsky.social, Learning Mgr @archscot.bsky.social 🙌 +
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A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland
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October 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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For those who have the app, the podcast version of an interview Derek Alexander & l gave at Culloden during recent dig. Includes our interpretation of what we think the team of volunteers and archaeologists found over a week of hard work. Think a shorter version will go out on radio this weekend.
Scotland Outdoors - The Battle of Culloden - BBC Sounds
Mark Stephen visits Culloden Battlefield after a recent archaeological dig there
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October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
For those who have the app, the podcast version of an interview Derek Alexander & l gave at Culloden during recent dig. Includes our interpretation of what we think the team of volunteers and archaeologists found over a week of hard work. Think a shorter version will go out on radio this weekend.
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Looking forward to meeting up with all our exhibitors at the next TAFAC Conference on Saturday, 1 November in Glenrothes. For friendly archaeological chats and information, bargain books and quirky gifts, our lovely stallholders are getting ready to meet you.
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Looking forward to meeting up with all our exhibitors at the next TAFAC Conference on Saturday, 1 November in Glenrothes. For friendly archaeological chats and information, bargain books and quirky gifts, our lovely stallholders are getting ready to meet you.
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My blog explores archaeology and heritage events round Stirling! open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
The Diary - upcoming news and events from 27th October onwards.
off to Eyemouth for my latest ever swim!
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October 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
My blog explores archaeology and heritage events round Stirling! open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
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As we move into winter, Dunblane Museum is now only open on Saturdays
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow
October 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
As we move into winter, Dunblane Museum is now only open on Saturdays
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow
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Castlebay, the village capital of the wonderful island of Barra in the Western Isles: complete with castle and bay. The story of Castlebay is deeply entwined with the stories of Clan MacNeil and of Kisimul Castle. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #Barra #WesternIsles
#Scotland #Barra #WesternIsles
October 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Castlebay, the village capital of the wonderful island of Barra in the Western Isles: complete with castle and bay. The story of Castlebay is deeply entwined with the stories of Clan MacNeil and of Kisimul Castle. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #Barra #WesternIsles
#Scotland #Barra #WesternIsles
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🏺 We did some pumpkin carving tonight. I attempted to carve mine based off of the Lewis Chessmen, which are some of my favourite artefacts of all time.
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🏺 We did some pumpkin carving tonight. I attempted to carve mine based off of the Lewis Chessmen, which are some of my favourite artefacts of all time.