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#Archaeologist #zooarchaeologist #SGSAH funded #PhD student at #UHI #Orkney researching human #reddeer relationships in prehistory
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What a difference a day makes... #Orkney #November #Storm
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Working @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social today hunting for #Reddeer bone. What a view!!
#Zooarchaeology #Orkney #Neolithic
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I've just been to Frankenstein's in Edinburgh!! I didn't realise Frankenstein nipped off to #Orkney to make his bride!
October 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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@billreagan16.bsky.social here's your reply...
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Just because you are an Imperial stag (14 points on your antlers) doesn't mean you own the road! Well, maybe you do 😍🦌
#RedDeer #Autumn #Sutherland #Scotland
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Crazy #Aurora dancing over #Sutherland #Scotland tonight, complete with a "Steve" #NorthernLights #MerrieDancers
October 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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#Autumn autumning hard in #Sutherland today, no filters required
October 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Just this #cactus and its prickly heart!
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Today I am mostly doing a #Reddeer jigsaw
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#zooarchaeology #archaeology #Neolithic #Orkney #NessofBrodgar #Phdlife
Hind limb of a red deer from Structure 10 at the Ness of Brodgar Orkney
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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#FindsFriday This unique carving of a woman was discovered in 1880 in a peat bog in Ballachulish near Loch Leven, #Scotland in 1880. Carved from a single piece of alder, the Ballachulish women stands 1.5m tall, has quartz pebbles for eyes and dates to about 600AD. Her purpose is unknown. #IronAge
October 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Apparently today is #UKFungusDay here's a few from the last few weeks from #Sutherland #Scotland!
October 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Simple pleasures: sat on the bed with a cuppa next to 2 sleeping pups, watching the trees blowing in the wind and listening to Frank Sinatra on the Huey
@bbc6music.bsky.social radio show!
#StormAmy #Sutherland #Scotland #Autumn #Dogs
October 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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#FindsFriday, nothing shiny to show but a pile of dusty old bones. 15 articulated #RedDeer skeletons found at the the Links Of Noltland, Westray #Orkney. Why place so many deer into the ground? What prompted this action? What do they represent? Their #Chalcolithic date may give us a hint... see ALT
Plan drawing of the Links of Noltland red deer heap found on the island of Westray. 15 fully articulated, unprocessed deer were found in the settlement dating to the Neolithic Bronze Age transition period. Their deposition may be a response to a societal crisis linked to the introduction of metal to the Northern Isles, migration from Europe or cultural change that saw the end to monumentality and big house society. It could be a decommissioning deposit when the site was (temporarily) abandoned... whatever the reason 15 who deer is a massive statement to make, the deer presumably were special and had great meaning and/or value. The smell would have been overpowering as they were placed in a shallow pit. A bird wing and a fish were placed with them, adding an extra dimension to this intriguing deposit! Image: Clarke et al 2017
October 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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The calm before the #Storm ... took the dogs out early this morning
#Sutherland #StormAmy #Scotland #Autumn
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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It must be a bumper year! Lots of inkcaps around too!
October 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Autumn has been autumning the last few days in #Sutherland #Scotland today
#Aurora
October 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The boys are back in town... limbering up for a busy few months! #Reddeer #Sutherland #Autumn #PhDlife
September 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Not a bad start to the season #Aurora #Sutherland #Scotland #Northernlights
September 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I've not dug since 2022, so my hamstrings are not happy. A great day though excavating at Swartigill an #IronAge roundhouse complex in #Caithness. I found a pig tooth, a broken hammer stone and a quartz pebble. Not a bad day one haul! #Archaeology #ThinkUHI @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
Circular Atlantic roundhouse with oversized hearth, possible site for pottery production. Piggy tooth Hearth deposits, the bands of orange ,yellow and black heat affected clear are clearly visible. Stone pebbles, particularly quartz ones are found in many Scottish Iron Age sites, often decorated. Were they gaming pieces, amulets or something else? They are so tactile in your hand.
August 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Can you tell where the #sea ends and the #sky starts?
#Sutherland #Scotland
August 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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I saw the exhibition of his work in Edinburgh in 2021, it was just amazing. The intracacy of the models were extraordinary
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August 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#Highland games day in Helmsdale #Sutherland #Scotland #ClanAnDrumma, caber tossing, dancing and strip the willow in the High Street to finish the day
August 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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#Highland games day in Helmsdale #Sutherland #Scotland the pipe band in the high street to finish off the day
August 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Made a friend today #Orkney #Fangirl #Archaeology #TimeTeam (he was very lovely)
July 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM