James O’Driscoll
@jodarchaeology.bsky.social
Lecture in geospatial archaeology at the University of Glasgow, interested in landscape archaeology, GIS, remote sensing, hillforts, causewayed enclosures and anything big on top of a hill
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#Dalrymples2025 lectures kicking off with Prof Stephen Driscoll. The room is packed with an audience of over 120! #Glasgow850
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
#Dalrymples2025 lectures kicking off with Prof Stephen Driscoll. The room is packed with an audience of over 120! #Glasgow850
Hot off the press, our new paper on the incredible Late Bronze Age nucleated settlement at Brusselstown Ring hillfort, Co. Wicklow, Ireland is freely available to read (doi.org/10.15184/aqy...). @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.uk
Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hot off the press, our new paper on the incredible Late Bronze Age nucleated settlement at Brusselstown Ring hillfort, Co. Wicklow, Ireland is freely available to read (doi.org/10.15184/aqy...). @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.uk
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Grand first day digging the Dane’s Cast in Co Down! Iron Age or Medieval linear earthwork running along the Newry Valley. We’ll know soon enough. Some nice postholes, a palisade slot and two big ditches and banks
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Grand first day digging the Dane’s Cast in Co Down! Iron Age or Medieval linear earthwork running along the Newry Valley. We’ll know soon enough. Some nice postholes, a palisade slot and two big ditches and banks
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Project Researcher (environmental policy) @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.
Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social
Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.
Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Project Researcher (environmental policy) @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.
Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social
Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.
Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social
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Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...
Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
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November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...
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Very much looking forward to Prof Driscoll’s Dalrymple lectures on 20th and 21st November on the theme of the contribution of archaeology to the story of #Glasgow850
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
https://gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Very much looking forward to Prof Driscoll’s Dalrymple lectures on 20th and 21st November on the theme of the contribution of archaeology to the story of #Glasgow850
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
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One for #HillFortsWednesday Lego hillfort at the Museum of the Iron Age, Andover
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
One for #HillFortsWednesday Lego hillfort at the Museum of the Iron Age, Andover
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Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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#AncientSiteSunday with Ladle Hill, the great unfinished hillfort
See more of it & the Hillforts of Hampshire & Wiltshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...
See more of it & the Hillforts of Hampshire & Wiltshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...
September 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
#AncientSiteSunday with Ladle Hill, the great unfinished hillfort
See more of it & the Hillforts of Hampshire & Wiltshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...
See more of it & the Hillforts of Hampshire & Wiltshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...
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Director of QUEST and Lecturer in #Archaeology (Teaching-Research)
University of Reading - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW165/d...
University of Reading - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW165/d...
Director of QUEST and Lecturer in Archaeology (Teaching-Research) at University of Reading
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October 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Director of QUEST and Lecturer in #Archaeology (Teaching-Research)
University of Reading - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW165/d...
University of Reading - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW165/d...
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Ancient bevelled rim bowls from fourth millennium BC Iraqi Kurdistan were likely used to distribute large quantities of stew, suggesting the earliest state institutions were formed based on their ability to provision food to labourers.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
September 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ancient bevelled rim bowls from fourth millennium BC Iraqi Kurdistan were likely used to distribute large quantities of stew, suggesting the earliest state institutions were formed based on their ability to provision food to labourers.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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If you, like me, would love to see the first broch built in Scotland in over two thousand years, please help out by making a donation. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/buy-the-br...
Learn more about the Caithness Broch Project at www.thebrochproject.co.uk/the-big-broc...
Learn more about the Caithness Broch Project at www.thebrochproject.co.uk/the-big-broc...
August 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If you, like me, would love to see the first broch built in Scotland in over two thousand years, please help out by making a donation. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/buy-the-br...
Learn more about the Caithness Broch Project at www.thebrochproject.co.uk/the-big-broc...
Learn more about the Caithness Broch Project at www.thebrochproject.co.uk/the-big-broc...
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#Carloway Broch, an impressive Iron Age #ScottishBroch on the Isle of Lewis, crowns a rocky knoll above Loch an Duin. Built around 200 BC, it was used until AD 1000, later serving clans for defence into the 1500s, & even as a pottery kiln in subsequent centuries.
September 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#Carloway Broch, an impressive Iron Age #ScottishBroch on the Isle of Lewis, crowns a rocky knoll above Loch an Duin. Built around 200 BC, it was used until AD 1000, later serving clans for defence into the 1500s, & even as a pottery kiln in subsequent centuries.
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It's #LoveDonegal Day! Not only is Donegal one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland, but it is rich in history.
Here are just four of my favourite places to discover the story of Donegal:
1. The Grianán of Aileach
2. Glencolmcille
3. Beltany Stone Circle
4. Dísert
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
Here are just four of my favourite places to discover the story of Donegal:
1. The Grianán of Aileach
2. Glencolmcille
3. Beltany Stone Circle
4. Dísert
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
September 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It's #LoveDonegal Day! Not only is Donegal one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland, but it is rich in history.
Here are just four of my favourite places to discover the story of Donegal:
1. The Grianán of Aileach
2. Glencolmcille
3. Beltany Stone Circle
4. Dísert
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
Here are just four of my favourite places to discover the story of Donegal:
1. The Grianán of Aileach
2. Glencolmcille
3. Beltany Stone Circle
4. Dísert
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
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The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project invite you to the launch of the new Ogham in 3D website on Friday 12 September from 15.30–16.45 in the @ria.ie as part of the conference Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge.
All information and tickets available at www.tickettailor.com/events/mayno....
All information and tickets available at www.tickettailor.com/events/mayno....
September 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Beneath the stillness, something stirs.
An empire strikes. A hillfort resists.
Smoke lingers. Lead falls.
Burnswark awakes.
Coming July 2025. Stay tuned.
#BurnswarkAwakes #TheBurnswarkExperience #WhenRomeAttacks
An empire strikes. A hillfort resists.
Smoke lingers. Lead falls.
Burnswark awakes.
Coming July 2025. Stay tuned.
#BurnswarkAwakes #TheBurnswarkExperience #WhenRomeAttacks
June 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Beneath the stillness, something stirs.
An empire strikes. A hillfort resists.
Smoke lingers. Lead falls.
Burnswark awakes.
Coming July 2025. Stay tuned.
#BurnswarkAwakes #TheBurnswarkExperience #WhenRomeAttacks
An empire strikes. A hillfort resists.
Smoke lingers. Lead falls.
Burnswark awakes.
Coming July 2025. Stay tuned.
#BurnswarkAwakes #TheBurnswarkExperience #WhenRomeAttacks
Looking at the chronically understudied Irish cursus today and spotted some nice unrecorded features in Lugnagun cursus, Co. Wicklow that might show internal divisions similar to some British sites! Haven't seen those on an Irish cursus before, but then again, not sure anyone has ever looked!
June 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Looking at the chronically understudied Irish cursus today and spotted some nice unrecorded features in Lugnagun cursus, Co. Wicklow that might show internal divisions similar to some British sites! Haven't seen those on an Irish cursus before, but then again, not sure anyone has ever looked!
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#RomanFortThursday Near Lockerbie lies #Birrens -Blatobulgium- a Roman fort built cAD80, like Trimontium.
It was a cultural crossroads, with altars to Brigantia & Ricagambeda.
Just 6 miles away #Burnswark Hill— the site of a Roman siege on a native hillfort, likely involving troops from Birrens.⚔️
It was a cultural crossroads, with altars to Brigantia & Ricagambeda.
Just 6 miles away #Burnswark Hill— the site of a Roman siege on a native hillfort, likely involving troops from Birrens.⚔️
June 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#RomanFortThursday Near Lockerbie lies #Birrens -Blatobulgium- a Roman fort built cAD80, like Trimontium.
It was a cultural crossroads, with altars to Brigantia & Ricagambeda.
Just 6 miles away #Burnswark Hill— the site of a Roman siege on a native hillfort, likely involving troops from Birrens.⚔️
It was a cultural crossroads, with altars to Brigantia & Ricagambeda.
Just 6 miles away #Burnswark Hill— the site of a Roman siege on a native hillfort, likely involving troops from Birrens.⚔️
With fieldwork season just about to start, and because I am too cheap buy one, I decided to make my own large sieve! Here is a first attempt - lots of blood, sweat and tears gone into this (mostly blood, I should not be left near sharp things)
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
With fieldwork season just about to start, and because I am too cheap buy one, I decided to make my own large sieve! Here is a first attempt - lots of blood, sweat and tears gone into this (mostly blood, I should not be left near sharp things)
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#RomanFortThursday
2 for the price of 1- It's the south and north camps on either side of Burnswark Hillfort, Dumfriesshire.
A LOT of lead bullets found here from Roman slingers. But lack of robust contextual data means the story is not yet clear. A mighty siege? A training camp? Something else?
2 for the price of 1- It's the south and north camps on either side of Burnswark Hillfort, Dumfriesshire.
A LOT of lead bullets found here from Roman slingers. But lack of robust contextual data means the story is not yet clear. A mighty siege? A training camp? Something else?
May 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#RomanFortThursday
2 for the price of 1- It's the south and north camps on either side of Burnswark Hillfort, Dumfriesshire.
A LOT of lead bullets found here from Roman slingers. But lack of robust contextual data means the story is not yet clear. A mighty siege? A training camp? Something else?
2 for the price of 1- It's the south and north camps on either side of Burnswark Hillfort, Dumfriesshire.
A LOT of lead bullets found here from Roman slingers. But lack of robust contextual data means the story is not yet clear. A mighty siege? A training camp? Something else?
There has been much debate as to whether Burnswark hillfort in S. Scotland was the site of a Roman siege, or was a long abandoned fort re-used by the Romans as a training camp. Excavation in in the 60's recovered lots of Roman ballistics and even a Roman sword! #HillfortsWednesday
May 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
There has been much debate as to whether Burnswark hillfort in S. Scotland was the site of a Roman siege, or was a long abandoned fort re-used by the Romans as a training camp. Excavation in in the 60's recovered lots of Roman ballistics and even a Roman sword! #HillfortsWednesday
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Great opportunity for you to join the team here at @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social participate in the survey of many great Irish sites.
Come and work with us! Job Vacancy – Archaeological Surveyor and Digital Documentation Officer
Application deadline: 12 noon Thursday 22 May
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@nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social @opwireland.bsky.social #workwithus
Application deadline: 12 noon Thursday 22 May
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@nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social @opwireland.bsky.social #workwithus
Job Vacancy - Archaeological Surveyor and Digital Documentation Officer - The Discovery Programme
The Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology Innovation Ireland is seeking to fill the post of Archaeological Surveyor and Digital Documentation Officer. Archaeological Surveyor and Digital Documentation Officer Fixed Term (Temporary) Appointment There is currently one vacancy for this position. Nature of Employment: This will be a fixed term, fixed purpose full-time post, for up to […]
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May 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Great opportunity for you to join the team here at @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social participate in the survey of many great Irish sites.
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Lidar of 5 cursus monuments at Baltinglass 🇮🇪 It is one of the largest cursus clusters found in Ireland or Britain, indicating Baltinglass was intensively settled from the Neolithic to Bronze Age #FridayLidar 🏺
🔗 to research published #OnThisDay in 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🔗 to research published #OnThisDay in 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
April 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Lidar of 5 cursus monuments at Baltinglass 🇮🇪 It is one of the largest cursus clusters found in Ireland or Britain, indicating Baltinglass was intensively settled from the Neolithic to Bronze Age #FridayLidar 🏺
🔗 to research published #OnThisDay in 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🔗 to research published #OnThisDay in 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...