Carenza Murray
@archaeomurray.bsky.social
Museum archaeologist | a Murray in Moray 🏴 | exploring the research potential and legacy of ‘legacy’ collections | Love me some Picts
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In Perth last week, I went to the museum @perthmuseum.bsky.social to say hello to my favourite smiley Pictish stone. It features four faces and was found near Abernethy. #ReliefWednesday
September 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
In Perth last week, I went to the museum @perthmuseum.bsky.social to say hello to my favourite smiley Pictish stone. It features four faces and was found near Abernethy. #ReliefWednesday
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Have just read on the BBC that "the UK's first 'super-university', stretching across an entire region" is to be creaed by merging the universities of Kent and Greenwich, and I'm thinking it's a shame they've never heard of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Have just read on the BBC that "the UK's first 'super-university', stretching across an entire region" is to be creaed by merging the universities of Kent and Greenwich, and I'm thinking it's a shame they've never heard of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
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Cracker of a day yesterday at Burghead with one of the star finds being this beautiful bead found by Patrick one of our University of Aberdeen undergraduate students.
August 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Cracker of a day yesterday at Burghead with one of the star finds being this beautiful bead found by Patrick one of our University of Aberdeen undergraduate students.
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How amazing is this. This architectural stone found at Chedworth Roman Villa has an incised chequerboard!
Potential evidence of Villa residents playing board games almost two thousand years ago.
#Games #SummerOfPlay #RomanBritain #Finds #FindsFriday
@nationaltrust.org.uk
Potential evidence of Villa residents playing board games almost two thousand years ago.
#Games #SummerOfPlay #RomanBritain #Finds #FindsFriday
@nationaltrust.org.uk
August 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
How amazing is this. This architectural stone found at Chedworth Roman Villa has an incised chequerboard!
Potential evidence of Villa residents playing board games almost two thousand years ago.
#Games #SummerOfPlay #RomanBritain #Finds #FindsFriday
@nationaltrust.org.uk
Potential evidence of Villa residents playing board games almost two thousand years ago.
#Games #SummerOfPlay #RomanBritain #Finds #FindsFriday
@nationaltrust.org.uk
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NEW West African ancestry in #medieval England? 🏺 #Archaeology
DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages.
#AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
📷 Lilian Ladle
DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages.
#AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
📷 Lilian Ladle
August 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
NEW West African ancestry in #medieval England? 🏺 #Archaeology
DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages.
#AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
📷 Lilian Ladle
DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages.
#AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
📷 Lilian Ladle
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Dazzling 2,000 year-old Roman bowl made of translucent amber-coloured glass.
Like a bowl full of sunshine! ☀️
Fabulous example of the skill of ancient glassmakers!
British Museum 📷 by me
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
Like a bowl full of sunshine! ☀️
Fabulous example of the skill of ancient glassmakers!
British Museum 📷 by me
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
August 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Dazzling 2,000 year-old Roman bowl made of translucent amber-coloured glass.
Like a bowl full of sunshine! ☀️
Fabulous example of the skill of ancient glassmakers!
British Museum 📷 by me
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
Like a bowl full of sunshine! ☀️
Fabulous example of the skill of ancient glassmakers!
British Museum 📷 by me
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
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The gilted bronze head of the statue of Sulis Minerva in the Roman Baths in Bath. The statue was gilded with gold six times in its life time. It was found in 1727. It is hypothesised that it was from the first century AD and was deposited 300 years old. #FindsFriday
August 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The gilted bronze head of the statue of Sulis Minerva in the Roman Baths in Bath. The statue was gilded with gold six times in its life time. It was found in 1727. It is hypothesised that it was from the first century AD and was deposited 300 years old. #FindsFriday
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A Bronze Age food vessel from Hare Hill Ring Cairn which contained cremated remains. Located near Thornton-in-Craven in North Yorkshire, the site contained the cremated remains of at least 15 people. Part of the collections at Craven Museum in Skipton. #TombTuesday #CravenMuseum
August 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
A Bronze Age food vessel from Hare Hill Ring Cairn which contained cremated remains. Located near Thornton-in-Craven in North Yorkshire, the site contained the cremated remains of at least 15 people. Part of the collections at Craven Museum in Skipton. #TombTuesday #CravenMuseum
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Happy Monday here’s a brilliant wee mason’s mark at Hampton Court Palace
August 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Happy Monday here’s a brilliant wee mason’s mark at Hampton Court Palace
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No Eurovision here until they stop platforming a country that is actively killing tens of thousands of children.
May 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
No Eurovision here until they stop platforming a country that is actively killing tens of thousands of children.
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This is an important thread - I haven't used Trove yet but I use several of these functions on Canmore and, boy, I'll miss them!
So I think I need to do a sober thread on just how disasterously bad the new trove.scot website is, in comparison to the sites - especially Canmore - that it's replacing.
tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.
tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.
May 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This is an important thread - I haven't used Trove yet but I use several of these functions on Canmore and, boy, I'll miss them!
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Detail from the ‘Kirkburn Sword’ which was discovered in 1987 in an Iron Age burial at Kirkburn in East Yorkshire. The burial dates to the 3rd century BC. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #IronAge #Yorkshire #Archaeology
April 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Detail from the ‘Kirkburn Sword’ which was discovered in 1987 in an Iron Age burial at Kirkburn in East Yorkshire. The burial dates to the 3rd century BC. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #IronAge #Yorkshire #Archaeology
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An #arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.
From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.
📷 me
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From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.
📷 me
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February 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
An #arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.
From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.
📷 me
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From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.
📷 me
🏺
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Pittenweem, Fife. Petnaweme c.1150. 'Portion of the cave'. Pictish *pett + Gaelic na h-uamha. Source: Oxford Dictionary of British #PlaceNames. The cave in question is dedicated to St Fillan. 📸Andrew Curtis
February 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Pittenweem, Fife. Petnaweme c.1150. 'Portion of the cave'. Pictish *pett + Gaelic na h-uamha. Source: Oxford Dictionary of British #PlaceNames. The cave in question is dedicated to St Fillan. 📸Andrew Curtis
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This is the largest of the five Nether Largie Standing Stones in Kilmartin Glen, Scotland. It features several carved circular depressions known as cup marks. The significance of these marks is unclear. #StandingStoneSunday
December 15, 2024 at 10:39 AM
This is the largest of the five Nether Largie Standing Stones in Kilmartin Glen, Scotland. It features several carved circular depressions known as cup marks. The significance of these marks is unclear. #StandingStoneSunday
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The Iron Age hillfort of Hambledon Hill encircles a chalk spur overlooking Shroton and the Blackmore Vale in #Dorset
Covering 12.5ha, it also partially overlies an earlier Neolithic enclosure
It is quite simply magnificent! 😍
Pic © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
Happy #HillfortsWednesday
Covering 12.5ha, it also partially overlies an earlier Neolithic enclosure
It is quite simply magnificent! 😍
Pic © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
Happy #HillfortsWednesday
December 11, 2024 at 6:51 AM
The Iron Age hillfort of Hambledon Hill encircles a chalk spur overlooking Shroton and the Blackmore Vale in #Dorset
Covering 12.5ha, it also partially overlies an earlier Neolithic enclosure
It is quite simply magnificent! 😍
Pic © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
Happy #HillfortsWednesday
Covering 12.5ha, it also partially overlies an earlier Neolithic enclosure
It is quite simply magnificent! 😍
Pic © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
Happy #HillfortsWednesday
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Possibly the only house one needs in a storm 🛖🌪️🌀: conjoined Iron Age roundhouses reconstructed at National Museum St Fagans, Cardiff, modelled on Bryn Eryr, Ynys Môn/Angelsey
Similar buildings have withstood gale force winds
Stay safe! #Darragh
museum.wales/stfagans/bui...
📷 My own, August 2024
Similar buildings have withstood gale force winds
Stay safe! #Darragh
museum.wales/stfagans/bui...
📷 My own, August 2024
December 7, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Possibly the only house one needs in a storm 🛖🌪️🌀: conjoined Iron Age roundhouses reconstructed at National Museum St Fagans, Cardiff, modelled on Bryn Eryr, Ynys Môn/Angelsey
Similar buildings have withstood gale force winds
Stay safe! #Darragh
museum.wales/stfagans/bui...
📷 My own, August 2024
Similar buildings have withstood gale force winds
Stay safe! #Darragh
museum.wales/stfagans/bui...
📷 My own, August 2024
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We're sad to inform you that management at the University of Sheffield has asked us to discontinue our very popular #zooarchaeology shortcourses. Unfortunately one of our most enlightening piece of community engagement, which also brought funds to manage our labs, has gone @sheffielducu.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 4:20 PM
We're sad to inform you that management at the University of Sheffield has asked us to discontinue our very popular #zooarchaeology shortcourses. Unfortunately one of our most enlightening piece of community engagement, which also brought funds to manage our labs, has gone @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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A rare and delicate survival from Bronze Age Denmark!
A 3,400 year-old woollen bonnet made using the ancient ‘språng’ technique which produces a textile with natural elasticity.
From Bredmose bog, Jutland. National Museum, Copenhagen
📷 by me
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky🏺
A 3,400 year-old woollen bonnet made using the ancient ‘språng’ technique which produces a textile with natural elasticity.
From Bredmose bog, Jutland. National Museum, Copenhagen
📷 by me
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky🏺
December 5, 2024 at 9:01 AM
A rare and delicate survival from Bronze Age Denmark!
A 3,400 year-old woollen bonnet made using the ancient ‘språng’ technique which produces a textile with natural elasticity.
From Bredmose bog, Jutland. National Museum, Copenhagen
📷 by me
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky🏺
A 3,400 year-old woollen bonnet made using the ancient ‘språng’ technique which produces a textile with natural elasticity.
From Bredmose bog, Jutland. National Museum, Copenhagen
📷 by me
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky🏺
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In this animation we took our new interpretation of the La Cotte site, led by @beccyscottuk.bsky.social, & worked with @jerseyheritage.bsky.social to share it!
🦣 No game drives
🦣 Ambush hunting
🦣 La Cotte as home base
🦣 Enigmatic bone structures
Read the paper free here: shorturl.at/Orr7a
🦣🧪🏺
🦣 No game drives
🦣 Ambush hunting
🦣 La Cotte as home base
🦣 Enigmatic bone structures
Read the paper free here: shorturl.at/Orr7a
🦣🧪🏺
December 1, 2024 at 11:44 AM
In this animation we took our new interpretation of the La Cotte site, led by @beccyscottuk.bsky.social, & worked with @jerseyheritage.bsky.social to share it!
🦣 No game drives
🦣 Ambush hunting
🦣 La Cotte as home base
🦣 Enigmatic bone structures
Read the paper free here: shorturl.at/Orr7a
🦣🧪🏺
🦣 No game drives
🦣 Ambush hunting
🦣 La Cotte as home base
🦣 Enigmatic bone structures
Read the paper free here: shorturl.at/Orr7a
🦣🧪🏺
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Stunning 2,000 year-old Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looking like a Starry Night! 💫
Tranlucent dark blue glass with opaque white spirals. From Canosa di Puglia. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 📷 by me
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology
Tranlucent dark blue glass with opaque white spirals. From Canosa di Puglia. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 📷 by me
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology
December 1, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Stunning 2,000 year-old Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looking like a Starry Night! 💫
Tranlucent dark blue glass with opaque white spirals. From Canosa di Puglia. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 📷 by me
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology
Tranlucent dark blue glass with opaque white spirals. From Canosa di Puglia. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 📷 by me
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology
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The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM
The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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Pictish Perfection! Rodney's Stone on the grounds of NTS Brodie Castle, a #Pictish Class II carving that includes sea monsters, a double disc paired with z-rod and a beautiful cross. What's more, it contains the longest Pictish ogham inscription in Scotland, inscribed on three edges.
Part 1 of 2 🎬
Part 1 of 2 🎬
November 30, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Pictish Perfection! Rodney's Stone on the grounds of NTS Brodie Castle, a #Pictish Class II carving that includes sea monsters, a double disc paired with z-rod and a beautiful cross. What's more, it contains the longest Pictish ogham inscription in Scotland, inscribed on three edges.
Part 1 of 2 🎬
Part 1 of 2 🎬