Vicky Carroll
@vicky-carroll.bsky.social
Bikes, old stuff, spooky stuff, propulsive music. I do things with words for a living.
Trip to the giant Roman soldier Silvanus' iron head at Croy back in March with @davidtdunlop.bsky.social and @laurakaykelly.bsky.social Laughed so hard I could hardly breathe. A good day. #metal people are the best 🤘
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Trip to the giant Roman soldier Silvanus' iron head at Croy back in March with @davidtdunlop.bsky.social and @laurakaykelly.bsky.social Laughed so hard I could hardly breathe. A good day. #metal people are the best 🤘
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Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
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First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation.
'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...
'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...
Blood incantation
The most (in)famous example of heavy metal and prehistory harmonising is surely the undersized Stone’enge that is slowly lowered into the midst of guitars and spandex in the 1984 mock-rock-do…
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December 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation.
'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...
'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...
...Eddy Mercx furiously pedalling round the corner just behind them...
Seaside Special, 1979 - Rod Hull and Emu riding a bicycle on the pier at Blankenberge, Belgium
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
...Eddy Mercx furiously pedalling round the corner just behind them...
Not planning to overload this account with pictures of bikes (there's plenty of that elsewhere) but I like how the brittle winter trees came out against the sky in this pic during a frosty quick trip to the shop before dark this evening #trees #wintersky #eveningsky #cycling
November 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Not planning to overload this account with pictures of bikes (there's plenty of that elsewhere) but I like how the brittle winter trees came out against the sky in this pic during a frosty quick trip to the shop before dark this evening #trees #wintersky #eveningsky #cycling
Spooksome Old Town cemetery on a windy rock on a blustery day, with Stirling Castle looking a bit huffy up there behind it.
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Spooksome Old Town cemetery on a windy rock on a blustery day, with Stirling Castle looking a bit huffy up there behind it.
A blue sky, a blue sea and my beautiful bike for my first post on BlueSky. No idea what I'm doing or how anything works on here, but life's all trial and error, eh...
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A blue sky, a blue sea and my beautiful bike for my first post on BlueSky. No idea what I'm doing or how anything works on here, but life's all trial and error, eh...