I finally got around to starting a substack for a little writing about place, rural and urban walking, history, anthropology, belonging and pissing yourself. If that sounds like a thing you might like, find me here: substack.com/profile/1630...
REVEALED: Nearly three-quarters of England's woods are inaccessible to the public, according to official stats
@righttoroam.bsky.social local groups are organising upcoming trespasses to woods to show how pheasant shoots & private logging firms prevent access:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
1) This is an excellent book, and one that deserves more readers. 2) Longbarrow Press needs to raise some money. Therefore 3) we have made 'Cazique' half-price this weekend. 4) A beautifully produced hardback for the price of a pamphlet. 5) Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
#FindsFriday
Carved footprints found at Clickimin #Broch #Shetland.
Dated to the late #IronAge these footprints are associated with kingship and inauguration, whomever places their feet in them has dominion over the land. Also see Dunadd and the "#Orkney Boat" AKA the Lady Kirkwall stone
📸 mine
Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...
My college students are writing articles on AI and the future of the arts from a consumer perspective (they are electrical, motor vehicle and carpentry students resitting their GCSE English Language). When asked how they’d feel if they connected with a song or a story and were then told it was AI…
From my latest Digest: 🤔 “I order an oat latte and a Danish from the barista - and she says, “Sure!” with a smile. Then her smile diminishes as she looks down again towards my hands. “Are you ok?” she says.” www.digest.andymarsh...
The Inward Circles discography is half price over at Bandcamp today:
theinwardcircles.bandcamp.com
#richardskelton #theinwardcircles
After premiering at the Maeshowe visitor centre in Orkney, the Earthbound Orkney exhibition can now be viewed at the Custom Lane Gallery, Leith, until March 26.
Love to get a comment back on a paper that says "The results look fake, and the images of plastics also look like these were created by AI".
We counted each and every piece by hand. I assure you they are not fake.
Sandstone cross back dropped by church, above which blue sky. Lens flare partly obscures decoration on weathered, lichen covered surface. But central boss and interlace pattern visible.
Side of cross at top, with relief carving of spiralling snake motion with open mouth.
Netherton Cross, about a thousand years old, covered with mix of figurative & geometric designs including beast headed figures, snakes, boses & interlace patterns. An example of Govan School sculptural tradition relsting to the Kingdom of Strathclyde
@archscot.bsky.social @govanstones.bsky.social
Two grey stone pillars with arching tops. Incised curvilinear lines flow across surface. Back dropped by rectangular glass and steel building. Blue sky and white clouds behind
Waterlines by Marian Leven and Will McLean
#Aberdeen #Scotland #StandingStoneSunday #ArtArchaeology #Art
Two grey stone pillars with arching tops. Incised curvilinear lines flow across surface. Back dropped by rectangular glass and steel building. Blue sky and white clouds behind
Waterlines by Marian Leven and Will McLean
#Aberdeen #Scotland #StandingStoneSunday #ArtArchaeology #Art
Sandstone cross back dropped by church, above which blue sky. Lens flare partly obscures decoration on weathered, lichen covered surface. But central boss and interlace pattern visible.
Side of cross at top, with relief carving of spiralling snake motion with open mouth.
Netherton Cross, about a thousand years old, covered with mix of figurative & geometric designs including beast headed figures, snakes, boses & interlace patterns. An example of Govan School sculptural tradition relsting to the Kingdom of Strathclyde
@archscot.bsky.social @govanstones.bsky.social
Managed to find the unusual X-shaped medieval artificial rabbit warren (often called pillow mounds because of shape) on Middleton Hill near Corndon. Easily missed and best found with lidar.
👀 @eddiecstewart.bsky.social's review of Richard Oram's latest, series completing book: tinyurl.com/4vru2tv2
Yes Kirrie is landlocked but North Sea Poets will be there, live, in a kirk on Good Friday. Poetry and music - join us! Details below.
Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
🏺🗃️📚 Thanks to Emma Southon's ASTONISHING new book #Servus*, when I look at these objects (and pretty much everything else made "by" Romans), what I see are layers upon iayers of enslaved labour
*out in May, pre-order it, you will not be disappointed
Kyle and Lochalsh Community Trust has acquired part of a commercial forest beside Loch Duich with a view to building an eco-village offering affordable housing, woodland crofts and business units. It hopes the development will attract young families to the area and help keep the local school open.
This evening I will be talking about the development of densely populated Bronze Age hillforts in Ireland and Temperate Europe for @tuatha.ie @neiljackman.bsky.social, a topic which has recieved some press after our @antiquity.ac.uk paper on Brusselstown Ring, a massive 41ha site with 600+ houses!
Aerial photograph of the mouth of the River Leven, Fife, Scotland, as it enters the Firth of Forth at Innerleven. The banks are stone-built, and behind sits the town of Leven.
Applications Open: The Leven Programme Heritage & Archaeology Employability Course - a structured, practical programme designed to develop skills, confidence & real-world experience w/in heritage sector.
Details: www.theleven.org/opportunities/
@archscot.bsky.social
@greenactiontrust.bsky.social
Photograph from the previous year's Archaeological Research in Progress Conference showing a largely full, small, modern lecture theater with a raised platform at the front. Four people are standing on this platform, in front of a screen (illegible), presenting to the audience.
CfP: Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) 2026.
Saturday 23 May 2026 in Dumfries & online.
@archscot.bsky.social invites presentation proposals highlighting new findings & best practices from across Scotland & all periods.
Submission deadline: 16 March 2026
Full details: tinyurl.com/mr3npe53
Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.
People make Glasgow. And they've got strong views about how the next Scottish government should act to make their lives better and tackle the climate crisis.
Watch the interviews with @lesswastelaura.bsky.social and find out what they had to say 👇
youtu.be/qKIBIpr1rHk?...
The @carantes.bsky.social online anti-fascist Celtic Studies reading group is back back back March 20th at 4-6pm Welsh time
This time we are doing a series on GENDER, starting with freely accessible work by @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social and @finnlongman.com
Join us here: carantes.org/contact/
Grey sky with bird birling overhead, side of building displays figure in blue hoodie cradling small unicorn in its arms. Large brutalist building to left.
Figure kneeling uses spray can to create decoration on cheetah costume being worn by an upstanding person.
Four images. Larger top one of mural on side of Aberdeen Market, shows person with red hair flowing and hand outstretched. Another shows hooded face of person, another a minature person in grey suit all hunched up, and the other is figure wearing a aviator hat.
To left is Yellow Ceramic tile with punch like figure holding sign saying Be Here Now. To right leaflet stuck on wall saying Strange World of the Future with Contemporary Archaeologies over image of two explorers in pith helmet and aviator hat confronting large red robot
I am the keeper of magic ...
... but happy to share
Fabulous 2024 mural by Hera of Herakut in Aberdeen.
Also sharing other pics, one smaller work that still survives; one of amazing piece on Aberdeen Market before demolition; one #ContemporaryArchaeology piece put up at Nuart 2019 #StreetArt
There is a popular assumption that if a building is listed then we know everything about it. Modern archaeology has shown that most listed buildings have never been meaningfully researched. I'll be looking at why this is during an online event on 26 Feb...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
Sounds great, look forward to seeing you
