Maxine Ross
@maxineross.bsky.social
"Queen of the Yew Trees" RBGE trained Horticulturist/Botanist, #YewTreesoftheClydeValley 🏹 Scottish Garden & Landscape History, Ethnobotany, #ScottishSundials #YewTangClan
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A magnificent multi-stem oak in Borders Forest Trust’s Dairy Wood historic wood pasture at Ericstane just north of Moffat, Dumfrisshire 🏴
We have done Dendro here showing the oak stems originate in the early 19th century.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
We have done Dendro here showing the oak stems originate in the early 19th century.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
A magnificent multi-stem oak in Borders Forest Trust’s Dairy Wood historic wood pasture at Ericstane just north of Moffat, Dumfrisshire 🏴
We have done Dendro here showing the oak stems originate in the early 19th century.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
We have done Dendro here showing the oak stems originate in the early 19th century.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
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Working with Scottish Women's Institutes heritage, thanks to @heritagefunduk.bsky.social, is fascinating. This day started with SWI '70s theatrical tapestry designs. It moved on to recording the granddaughter of a friend of founder 'Cathy' Blair, and viewing her unique Mak Merry pottery. Brilliant!
October 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Working with Scottish Women's Institutes heritage, thanks to @heritagefunduk.bsky.social, is fascinating. This day started with SWI '70s theatrical tapestry designs. It moved on to recording the granddaughter of a friend of founder 'Cathy' Blair, and viewing her unique Mak Merry pottery. Brilliant!
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St Mungo's Well in the Cathedral this lunchtime.
Plans to explore below that modern floor were stymied by H&S, but they found what look like masons' marks and, beneath the sludge and coins, what _might_ be a fragment of painted stonework chucked in at the Reformation.
Plans to explore below that modern floor were stymied by H&S, but they found what look like masons' marks and, beneath the sludge and coins, what _might_ be a fragment of painted stonework chucked in at the Reformation.
October 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
St Mungo's Well in the Cathedral this lunchtime.
Plans to explore below that modern floor were stymied by H&S, but they found what look like masons' marks and, beneath the sludge and coins, what _might_ be a fragment of painted stonework chucked in at the Reformation.
Plans to explore below that modern floor were stymied by H&S, but they found what look like masons' marks and, beneath the sludge and coins, what _might_ be a fragment of painted stonework chucked in at the Reformation.
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St Giles Cathedral in #Edinburgh 🏴 Hidden inside the bell tower is a five storey timber frame built with oak from north east Scotland which I have #dendro dated to AD1459/1460. The only building in Edinburgh to have native oak, most historic buildings have Scandi imports
#BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
St Giles Cathedral in #Edinburgh 🏴 Hidden inside the bell tower is a five storey timber frame built with oak from north east Scotland which I have #dendro dated to AD1459/1460. The only building in Edinburgh to have native oak, most historic buildings have Scandi imports
#BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyMonday
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We’re out at New College Motherwell today for #DYW Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire’s STEM fest.
Students from local high schools in Motherwell, Bellshill and Wishaw will have the chance to explore how archaeologists reconstruct past lives and diets, and contribute their Q’s to #CVARF
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Students from local high schools in Motherwell, Bellshill and Wishaw will have the chance to explore how archaeologists reconstruct past lives and diets, and contribute their Q’s to #CVARF
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October 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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The only recorded breeding by White Storks in Britain was a nest on the roof of St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh in 1416. At the time considered exceptional and unprecedented, plenty of British people had seen them nesting in the Netherlands and Germany on and near buildings when travelling.
St Giles Cathedral in #Edinburgh 🏴 Hidden inside the bell tower is a five storey timber frame built with oak from north east Scotland which I have #dendro dated to AD1459/1460. The only building in Edinburgh to have native oak, most historic buildings have Scandi imports
#BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The only recorded breeding by White Storks in Britain was a nest on the roof of St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh in 1416. At the time considered exceptional and unprecedented, plenty of British people had seen them nesting in the Netherlands and Germany on and near buildings when travelling.
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#EpigraphyTuesday - A stunning piece discovered in 2014 in the Galloway Hoard. A Roman rock-crystal column-head, repurposed and mounted in gold, ca. 8-9th Century, to serve as a small container for liquids. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 (1/2)
Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).
Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).
October 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
#EpigraphyTuesday - A stunning piece discovered in 2014 in the Galloway Hoard. A Roman rock-crystal column-head, repurposed and mounted in gold, ca. 8-9th Century, to serve as a small container for liquids. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 (1/2)
Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).
Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).
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Finally got the chance to meet this guy last week. A completely unique and haunting cross from Riasg Buidhe, Colonsay, in the gardens of Colonsay House. Its dating remains up for debate, ranging from the 7th to the 10th century AD www.trove.scot/image/384171
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Finally got the chance to meet this guy last week. A completely unique and haunting cross from Riasg Buidhe, Colonsay, in the gardens of Colonsay House. Its dating remains up for debate, ranging from the 7th to the 10th century AD www.trove.scot/image/384171
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October 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Decorative gourds? In this economy?
October 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Decorative gourds? In this economy?
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Pal of the Stanes, Archie Henderson, talks about the early medieval sculpture of Refrewshire within the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons in this fascinating video!
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Carved Connections: The Elderslie Cross & Early Medieval Renfrewshire
YouTube video by Archie Henderson
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October 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Pal of the Stanes, Archie Henderson, talks about the early medieval sculpture of Refrewshire within the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons in this fascinating video!
youtu.be/MBIRrJhba7M?...
youtu.be/MBIRrJhba7M?...
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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I would be endlessly grateful if you were to support this crucial fundraising effort for Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard and the @govanstones.bsky.social museum! 💲❤️
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Graveyard Guardians: showcasing Govan's Archaeology and Natural Heritage
Govan Heritage Trust is hoping you can help us raise £10,000 for a project that will transform the future of the Govan Stones and Govan Old. We're raising money for a 2-year initiative that will showc
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September 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I would be endlessly grateful if you were to support this crucial fundraising effort for Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard and the @govanstones.bsky.social museum! 💲❤️
tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...
tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...
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🚨Annooncement!🚨
Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!
A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.
A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁
Wirds as text ablow
Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!
A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.
A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁
Wirds as text ablow
September 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🚨Annooncement!🚨
Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!
A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.
A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁
Wirds as text ablow
Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!
A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.
A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁
Wirds as text ablow
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Good luck Scottish kids getting their results this morning xxx
a cartoon of a unicorn holding a scottish flag on its back
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August 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Good luck Scottish kids getting their results this morning xxx
I’m doon the watter this week and Daisydug is getting a bit old for long walks so ….,..
July 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’m doon the watter this week and Daisydug is getting a bit old for long walks so ….,..
July 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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New light on early medieval reliquaries from Ireland. Some highlights from the incredible @nmireland.bsky.social Words on the Wave exhibition, and one new discovery reported in the fabulous 10th Intl Insular Art conference, Cork
July 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
New light on early medieval reliquaries from Ireland. Some highlights from the incredible @nmireland.bsky.social Words on the Wave exhibition, and one new discovery reported in the fabulous 10th Intl Insular Art conference, Cork
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#Ravenscraig, Scotland's biggest steelworks was built near #Motherwell & #Wishaw in the 1950s
Most of the site was farmland but there had been other industries here, as this 1905 invoice from the Ravenscraig Sand Quarry Co shows www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta... #IndustrialHeritage
Most of the site was farmland but there had been other industries here, as this 1905 invoice from the Ravenscraig Sand Quarry Co shows www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta... #IndustrialHeritage
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
#Ravenscraig, Scotland's biggest steelworks was built near #Motherwell & #Wishaw in the 1950s
Most of the site was farmland but there had been other industries here, as this 1905 invoice from the Ravenscraig Sand Quarry Co shows www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta... #IndustrialHeritage
Most of the site was farmland but there had been other industries here, as this 1905 invoice from the Ravenscraig Sand Quarry Co shows www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta... #IndustrialHeritage
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Information kept secret for years on radioactive problems at the Clyde nuclear bomb bases is to be released to the public, after Scotland’s freedom of information watchdog said it threatens “reputations” not national security.
July 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Information kept secret for years on radioactive problems at the Clyde nuclear bomb bases is to be released to the public, after Scotland’s freedom of information watchdog said it threatens “reputations” not national security.
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Certainly they're similar in style tho', even so, they're each unique! *So* many different representations of the City's coat of arms by *so* many artists.
Here's @ncdominie.bsky.social's pic of the Deanside well CoA, gratefully received, + the one from the Glasgow Girls book 😍🐦🌳🔔🐟
Here's @ncdominie.bsky.social's pic of the Deanside well CoA, gratefully received, + the one from the Glasgow Girls book 😍🐦🌳🔔🐟
July 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Certainly they're similar in style tho', even so, they're each unique! *So* many different representations of the City's coat of arms by *so* many artists.
Here's @ncdominie.bsky.social's pic of the Deanside well CoA, gratefully received, + the one from the Glasgow Girls book 😍🐦🌳🔔🐟
Here's @ncdominie.bsky.social's pic of the Deanside well CoA, gratefully received, + the one from the Glasgow Girls book 😍🐦🌳🔔🐟
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Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes its stained glass studio and ends its classes, severing its long links with the endangered craft. My story for the @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2527841...
Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes stained glass studio
Glasgow School of Art has decided to shut a stained glass studio and end the classes, severing the institution’s last link to the craft which…
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June 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes its stained glass studio and ends its classes, severing its long links with the endangered craft. My story for the @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2527841...
The Prodigy though, oooft
Far too exciting for this time on Sunday night
Far too exciting for this time on Sunday night
June 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The Prodigy though, oooft
Far too exciting for this time on Sunday night
Far too exciting for this time on Sunday night