Kenny Brophy
@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
A new one for me. Very good.
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A new one for me. Very good.
Nice! One of my favourites.
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Nice! One of my favourites.
Fantastic to see the first edition of the @stoneclub.bsky.social zine Ancient Times leading with some Cornwall #UrbanPrehistory! More of this kind of thing please.
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Fantastic to see the first edition of the @stoneclub.bsky.social zine Ancient Times leading with some Cornwall #UrbanPrehistory! More of this kind of thing please.
Another session working with Ronald Morris’s rock art archive in the HES search room. There are probably 5,000 to 7500 individual archive items pertaining to 2000+ rock art sites across Scotland. All uncatalogued & unscanned. Huge research potential! Images all (c) HES
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Another session working with Ronald Morris’s rock art archive in the HES search room. There are probably 5,000 to 7500 individual archive items pertaining to 2000+ rock art sites across Scotland. All uncatalogued & unscanned. Huge research potential! Images all (c) HES
Our final lecture today comes from @julianthomas2.bsky.social, summing things up things in a thought provoking and authoritative manner. Asking pertinent questions about ‘processes & practices of kinship’ #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Our final lecture today comes from @julianthomas2.bsky.social, summing things up things in a thought provoking and authoritative manner. Asking pertinent questions about ‘processes & practices of kinship’ #NSGKinship
Groovy @boothicus.bsky.social talking about a multiple child burial at Burton Agnes, North Yorkshire, which was accompanied by a chalk ‘drum’ and a bone pin. A fascinating exploration of relationships in life & death. #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Groovy @boothicus.bsky.social talking about a multiple child burial at Burton Agnes, North Yorkshire, which was accompanied by a chalk ‘drum’ and a bone pin. A fascinating exploration of relationships in life & death. #NSGKinship
Sophy Charlton talking about a unique Neolithic site at Banbury Lane, Northamptonshire. And an incredible pit containing bones from 165 people! #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sophy Charlton talking about a unique Neolithic site at Banbury Lane, Northamptonshire. And an incredible pit containing bones from 165 people! #NSGKinship
A couple of fantastic and incredibly detailed talks now, from Lara Cassidy on the Irish material, and Chris Fowler, Vicki Cummings & team on 3rd millennium BCE Scotland. Very rich layers of detail & analysis on kin / relationships #NSGKinships
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A couple of fantastic and incredibly detailed talks now, from Lara Cassidy on the Irish material, and Chris Fowler, Vicki Cummings & team on 3rd millennium BCE Scotland. Very rich layers of detail & analysis on kin / relationships #NSGKinships
Our first post-lunch speaker is Volker Heyd, talking about those pesky beaker using ‘invaders from the east’ …. #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Our first post-lunch speaker is Volker Heyd, talking about those pesky beaker using ‘invaders from the east’ …. #NSGKinship
The final lecture this morning is from Maite Rivollat on kinship and genetic relationships in the Neolithic of France. #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The final lecture this morning is from Maite Rivollat on kinship and genetic relationships in the Neolithic of France. #NSGKinship
Great in person audience of around 100, biggest since the pandemic! #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Great in person audience of around 100, biggest since the pandemic! #NSGKinship
Now the fantastic @pennybickle.bsky.social is taking us through kinship and aDNA in the LBK cultural world, teasing out some key questions posed by ethnographic concepts of kinship that might be answered through the archaeological record #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Now the fantastic @pennybickle.bsky.social is taking us through kinship and aDNA in the LBK cultural world, teasing out some key questions posed by ethnographic concepts of kinship that might be answered through the archaeological record #NSGKinship
Next up is an exploration of kinship in the Neolithic of SE Europe from Stella Souvatzi #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Next up is an exploration of kinship in the Neolithic of SE Europe from Stella Souvatzi #NSGKinship
Josh Pollard kicking off today’s Neolithic Studies Group conference on the theme of kinship #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Josh Pollard kicking off today’s Neolithic Studies Group conference on the theme of kinship #NSGKinship
OK I’ve got this thing in my office. What should I do with it?
October 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
OK I’ve got this thing in my office. What should I do with it?
Good turnout on a dreich night for a talk I did this evening on the archaeology of the @glasgowgardenfestival.org
project to the Bearsden & Milngavie Heritage Society. Nice to see so many familiar and friendly faces!
project to the Bearsden & Milngavie Heritage Society. Nice to see so many familiar and friendly faces!
October 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Good turnout on a dreich night for a talk I did this evening on the archaeology of the @glasgowgardenfestival.org
project to the Bearsden & Milngavie Heritage Society. Nice to see so many familiar and friendly faces!
project to the Bearsden & Milngavie Heritage Society. Nice to see so many familiar and friendly faces!
Always a pleasure to visit the incredible Ballochmyle rock art panel in Ayrshire. I visited today with the Dundonald Castle YAC and the kids enjoyed doing some rock art recording! This is truly a hidden gem of Scottish archaeology.
October 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Always a pleasure to visit the incredible Ballochmyle rock art panel in Ayrshire. I visited today with the Dundonald Castle YAC and the kids enjoyed doing some rock art recording! This is truly a hidden gem of Scottish archaeology.
I can’t believe Peter Cushing made Star Wars and Shock Waves in the same year. Two fascist roles!
October 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I can’t believe Peter Cushing made Star Wars and Shock Waves in the same year. Two fascist roles!
Professor Bernard Quatermass handling a Beaker (from Quatermass IV, 1979)
October 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Professor Bernard Quatermass handling a Beaker (from Quatermass IV, 1979)
I’ve started doing some work with the incredible Ronald Morris archive with a small team of @uofglasgow.bsky.social archaeology
students. I’ll share some gems in the coming months. Here’s Ronald himself! 📸 HES
students. I’ll share some gems in the coming months. Here’s Ronald himself! 📸 HES
October 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’ve started doing some work with the incredible Ronald Morris archive with a small team of @uofglasgow.bsky.social archaeology
students. I’ll share some gems in the coming months. Here’s Ronald himself! 📸 HES
students. I’ll share some gems in the coming months. Here’s Ronald himself! 📸 HES
I went on a really enjoyable visit to my colleague James O’Driscoll’s excavations at Burnswark today. It felt like most of the @uofglasgow.bsky.social archaeology department were there at the same time! What a stunning site.
September 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I went on a really enjoyable visit to my colleague James O’Driscoll’s excavations at Burnswark today. It felt like most of the @uofglasgow.bsky.social archaeology department were there at the same time! What a stunning site.
September 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We backfilled the #KelvinWheelies trenches today. It’s been an amazing few days of skateboarding archaeology & I want to thank our awesome team, Kieran of Archaeology Scotland, Glasgow City Council, our funders @socantscot.bsky.social and the legend that is Jamie Blair of Clan Skates. 🛹
August 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We backfilled the #KelvinWheelies trenches today. It’s been an amazing few days of skateboarding archaeology & I want to thank our awesome team, Kieran of Archaeology Scotland, Glasgow City Council, our funders @socantscot.bsky.social and the legend that is Jamie Blair of Clan Skates. 🛹
@uofglasgow.bsky.social the perfect backdrop for the #KelvinWheelies mobile archaeology tool store and office!
August 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
@uofglasgow.bsky.social the perfect backdrop for the #KelvinWheelies mobile archaeology tool store and office!
Yes we have found a hologram of Denis Law in Trench 6. Total archaeology!! #KelvinWheelies
August 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Yes we have found a hologram of Denis Law in Trench 6. Total archaeology!! #KelvinWheelies