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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖
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Part-time fossil hunter 🦕
Part-time history buff ⚔️
(Opinions my own)
Works at a fossil museum in Scotland - forever looking for prehistoric fish 🎣

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At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them 🥀

Great Granduncle Malcolm MacKillop (second from right). Killed on 11th April 1918 on the Western Front
A black and white photo featuring six men in front of a World War One tank
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Playing with museum magnets and meteorites ☄️

Prepping for Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Museum’s first ever #AstronomyMonth! 🪐
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I’ve spent the past hour creating the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs on Jurassic World Evolution 3 🦖

Yes this is a blueprint available on the workshop - share code: 0T0-NS0-9FK

workshop.frontierstore.net/mod/item/7569680688410109368

Did I do Waterhouse Hawkins proud, @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social?
A videogame screenshot of a forest with a rocky base in the middle of a field with bronze dinosaur statues on it A videogame screenshot of a forest with a rocky base in the middle of a field with bronze dinosaur statues on it A videogame screenshot of a forest with a rocky base in the middle of a field with bronze dinosaur statues on it A videogame screenshot of a forest with a rocky base in the middle of a field with bronze dinosaur statues on it
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Happy #Halloween - my favourite celestial object came out swinging to celebrate 🎃

#Astrophotography #Moon #Astronomy #Stargazing
A photograph of the moon
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Guess who’s got Jurassic World evolution 3…? 👀

Although I miss having a dedicated database and I’m still having trouble with modular building, I’m having a blast! 🦖
Even managed to make my own attraction - “Cliff Face Viewpoint”

Check it out: workshop.frontierstore.net/mod/item/756...
A hand holding three PlayStation game boxes with the one on top featuring three Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs and the title “Jurassic world evolution 3” A videogame screenshot of a green dinosaur in a sandy desert A videogame screenshot of a large Sandy brown rock with a window on top in front of a forest
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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So glad I got to see the White House before its vandalism…
The White House in Washington DC behind a black iron fence A selfie of myself wearing a blue T-shirt with a dinosaur on it, glasses, and a baseball cap, standing in front of a road which is in front of the White House in Washington DC surrounded by an iron fence
October 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Best part of Jurassic World Rebirth without a doubt is the Dunkleosteus cameo 🐟

Finally we have Placoderm representation and I can link Hugh Miller museum’s fossils with the Jurassic franchise! 🙌
A tv displaying fishermen in red trousers surrounding a large fish head lying on its side with its mouth open
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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It’s time 👀🦖🦕

The more they make these movies, the more kids remain interested in dinosaurs, the more people visit my little fossil museum 💰
A hand holding a blu ray copy of “Jurassic world rebirth”. The cover features a dinosaur skeleton in the centre, three mercenaries underneath, and a monster at the top. A hand is holding the blu ray on the bottom left corner
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Found this GORGEOUS Cheirolepis fish fossil on Cromarty Beach yesterday evening - it’s 385 million years old! 🐟

Truly blown away at how well preserved it is given it’s been exposed to the forces of nature! 🌊

Took a closer look at certain features under a microscope - just look at those teeth! 🤯
A grey oval shaped rock with black fish fossil bones and scales on it. The rock is being held in a pink right hand. The background is a grey rocky shoreline with the blue sea on the horizon A photo taken through a microscope of a black fossil fish jaw with sharp triangular teeth A photo taken through a microscope of black fossil fish scales on a grey background A photo taken through a microscope of a black fossil fish bone on a grey background
October 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Highlights I found from this year’s archaeological dig at Culloden Battlefield:

• My first musket ball (only took me five years worth of digs to find one!)
• A mysterious old key, obviously for Bonnie Prince Charlie’s liquor cabinet (this is a joke)
• An old shoe that’s at least late 19th century 👀
An archaeological dig on a field with a few trees and people in high visibility jackets A small brown ball (musket ball) in the palm of a hand - itself covered in an orange glove A small brown key sitting on fingers on a hand - itself covered in an orange glove A photograph of a man (myself) wearing glasses, gloves, a blue fleece, and a high vis jacket. The man is standing on a field with a few sporadic trees in the background. The man is holding a mud covered shoe
October 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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So proud of how the weekend went - thanks to everyone who attended or supported us in the lead up, including the “old guard” I used to work with at Culloden! 🙏

Here’s to the 2026 Birthday celebrations! 💪

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Found people in the bottom left stand in front of two white historic buildings alongside a road
October 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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…but not as excitable as our grand finale - the rocket launch! 🚀

We’re soon going to be known around the town for this rocket, easily the best thing we’ve bought for the museum! 💥

This video is best watched with sound just to hear the delight of lots of children being amazed by science 😊

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October 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Of course we did science experiments too! 🧑‍🔬

First up on both days this weekend we played with chemistry and did an elephant toothpaste experiment and then a Diet Coke/mentos experiment - lots of excitable screaming kids at this session… 🧪

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Two kids stand mesmerised by a flask overloading with bubbly chemicals A white table with a chemistry flask overflowing with green bubbles
October 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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We also had two special guests help us out! 👋

Living historian Andrew Newton brought the Victorian period to life inside Hugh Miller’s Cottage, whilst storyteller Lizzie McDougall told folkloric tales to kids inside the same room Miller would have heard similar stories as a kid! 🎩

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A Victorian gentleman in a brown tweed waistcoat stands in front of a white historic house A Victorian gentleman in a brown tweed waistcoat stands inside a historic house talking to three children A woman in pink sits on a chair in a historic house surrounded by people who she is talking to
October 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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There were also a couple of kids craft activities, including our “new legends from old scenes” in which we tasked several creative writers to create new folkloric stories which then served as inspirations to create new landscape artwork.
Our “design-a-dinosaur” craft was also very popular! 🦖

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Two drawings hanging on a clothes line in a historic houses A child drawing a picture on a blue table inside a historic houses Two children doing a craft activity on a yellow table inside a museum A Green cartoon dinosaur puppet
October 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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We had a trio of fossil hunts on Cromarty beach, including one on Hugh Miller’s 223rd birthday. Here’s a couple of the best finds this weekend! 🦴

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Four people on a pebble beach in front of a White House and trees A small round stone with a black fossil fish scale. The stone is sitting on a green base with a white and black scale bar above it A hand holding a small rectangular stone with pieces of brown fossil fish bone on it. The stone is sitting on a green base with a white and black scale bar above it
October 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I’m pleased to report that Hugh Miller’s Big Birthday Weekend 2025 was a resounding success! 🥳

Check out some of the stuff we got up to! 🎊

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A young girl with stripy sleeves is building a small craft cardboard dinosaur on a yellow table A gentleman in Victorian period clothing speaks to a family inside a white walled historic house A man wearing blue in a grassy park with high stone walls launches a water propelled rocket Two white historic houses by the side of a road and sandwiched between two trees. The sky above is blue
October 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Happy 223rd birthday to the big man - born #OnThisDay in 1802. So proud to be able to carry on Hugh Miller’s legacy of making science accessible to thousands of people! 🎂

Celebrate his birthday with us tomorrow at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Museum - celebrations kick off at 11:00am in Cromarty! 🥳
A white marble bust of a man with mutton chops wearing a pink rosette in front of a blue wall A black ammonite fossil half buried in brown sand A water bottle fashioned into a rocket sitting on a grass field. A cartoon astronaut is inside the bottle Two white historic buildings sandwiched between two trees
October 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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There’s gotta be a monster in here surely, right?

Right…? 🦕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
A large body of water, Loch Ness in Scotland, with a sloping hill on the horizon and a tree in the bottom Left foreground A body of water, Loch Ness in Scotland, with a tree in the foreground on the left and mountains on the horizon A statue of the Loch Ness Monster covered in yellow, red, and blue ribbons sitting in a small grass park
October 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Happy 120th Birthday to the big man 🦖
#TRex #Fossils #NHM #Dinosaur
A museum cabinet displaying a brown dinosaur jaw in front of a green background
October 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The trail at Knockan Crag has some artwork inspired by geology - the two hands indicate if you place one hand on the limestone and one hand on the Moine rock you’ve got a 500 million year gap between you

Here’s a few more pieces of artwork at the site
A mountainous landscape with a blue and white cloudy sky. To the left of the frame is a stone structure A mountainous landscape with a large stone sphere in the foreground made up of hundreds of pieces of flat rock A large stone triangular structure sticking out of a green grass and brown fern covered hill A grey statue of two me, one sitting and one standing, in front of a drystone dyke fence. Three mountains and a lake are in the background
October 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Here’s Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Museum’s #ScottishMuseumsDay submission for #MightyObjects

Our dinosaurs (Brachiosaur tail bone and two Iguanodont bones, all from the Isle of Wight) which are back on display for the Big Birthday Weekend (Sat 11th and Sun 12th Oct!) 🦕

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A museum display on a wooden floor featuring three fossils, two toy dinosaurs (one grey and one yellow), and three white number cards A museum display on a wooden bookcase featuring three fossils, two toy dinosaurs (one grey and one yellow), and three white number cards. To the right of the display is a small white information card about the fossils in the display
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Made the pilgrimage to Knockan Crag for the first time

Here 1 billion year old Moine rock has been thrust up and out of the Earth during the collision of Scotland and England over 400 million years ago, forcing it to slide and sit atop younger 500 million year old Durness limestone!

Geology rocks!
A long black coloured cliff sits atop a green-brown grassy hill beneath a white cloudy sky A photo of me in blue crouched and touching two rock layers - black on top and yellow on bottom A photograph of mountainous scenery The Moine thrust - a large layer of dark black-grey rock sitting on top of a smaller layer of yellow limestone rock
October 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Garden bliss at Hugh Miller’s Cottage 😌
A bronze and cold coloured metal sculpture of an Ammonite shell A black and yellow bumblebee sitting on a yellow, fluffy flower A garden with a pink gravel path on the left, six wooden posts sticking out of the centre, and a stone wall on the right
September 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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The only good thing about your elderly dog needing to go to the toilet constantly late at night this time of year is sometimes the stars come out to say hello! 🌌
A photograph of a starry sky taken from a garden A photograph of a starry sky taken from a garden A photograph of a starry sky taken from a garden
September 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM