Terrible AIslop that's so wrong it's laughable (apart from the environmental cost of you making it)
10.03.2026 16:27
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Terrible AIslop that's so wrong it's laughable (apart from the environmental cost of you making it)
PARIS is Preservering Archaeological Remains In-Situ
This looks great but unfortunately for me, the same time as IRAAR26 and PARIS6
We're doing it again!! ☺️
As part of the work that Tertia Barnett and I are doing with @scarf-scot.bsky.social, we'll be running another event to celebrate rock art research and launch brand-new sections of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework.
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Our next seminar is this coming Tuesday 03/03 at 18:00.
We have a change of venue, it will be held in **Lecture Theatre A, 40 George Square**
Andrew Fitzpatrick “La Tène: everything you wanted to know but never felt strong enough to ask”
North of the border, there's some evidence of pre-Roman Iron Age people obtaining lead from the hills around Leadhills/Wanlockhead (analysis of 3 lead beads from Carghidown hillfort) and then Roman use of the same source
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Covesea Caves, Moray © ScARF
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Sometime after the holidays I shall be glad if we can put our heads together regarding the rescuing of archaeological as opposed to architectural information at Ministry of Works sites where work is carried out without the constant supervision of an archaeologist. You have, I suspect, been fighting a rather lone battle in the Ministry on this head, but perhaps the support of the Museum and the Society of Antiquaries as well, should be invoked to secure success, and to put an end to the state of affairs inherited from your predecessors, which resulted in the Ministry’s excavations, being, in the words of Sir George Macdonald, ‘official secrets’.
Going through some files in the National Records of Scotland yesterday, I came across a letter from RBK Stevenson (Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland) to JS Richardson (Inspector of Ancient Monuments (Scotland))
(retyped as I could not take photographs)
Quite a contrast between Glencoe and Canna!
NMS may have announced they will be part of the exhibition, but full credit to AOC Archaeology who discovered them in 2010 and produced this video in 2013 vimeo.com/58612850
Also published in Britannia in 2016 doi.org/10.1017/S006...
Sorry Max, didn't mean any offence!
Something quite unsettling about this video I can't quite put my finger on. Is this an AI Max?
An interpretation panel in front of the entrance to Rispain Camp
Panoramic image from the southern corner
Sneaking Rispain Camp in for #HillfortsWednesday as it is not listed on the Atlas, and we define it as a settlement - but the ditches are absolutely MASSIVE
First thought to be a Roman site, then medieval it was revealed as Iron Age following excavation in the 1970s
Photos from my visit yesterday
Cairn Holy I with its forecourt area. The sea is visible beyond
Cairn Holy II
Cairn Holy II showing the chambers
The Beltie calf with three spots
#TombTuesday yesterday I was at Cairn Holy I & II with a colleague and we met a very cute beltie calf
I've been lucky enough to have a copy of this since December.
It's a brilliant and fascinating publication, and I'm still swooning over the design and type setting - it really is worth getting a copy of!
To get in the house you have to open the garage door?!
Oblique aerial view of The Cairns during the 2024 excavation © UHI Archaeology Institute
Our next seminar is tomorrow (03/02). Martin Carruthers is venturing south to tell us all about the excavations of Iron Age households at The Cairns #broch & settlement
18:00 hours in the Usha Kasera lecture theatre, Old College
The Buckstone, a smallish stone on a plinth is pictured next to a holly bush with a stone wall behind
The Buckstone This march stone, a relic of feudal times occupied a commanding site on the old Roman Road about 250 yards north of this spot. By tradition the name was derived from the stone having marked the place where the buckhounds were released when the king of Scotland hunted in this region
A tall red stone, covered in lichen, known as the Caiystane stands in a modern semicircular enclosure wall with a house behind it.
The National Trust for Scotland The Caiy Stane Standing at over nine feet high on a summit, originally with wide views, this broad slab of red sandstone includes a line of six, probably prehistoric, cup marks on its reverse face. The stone may have been erected as early as the Neolithic period, possibly before 3000 BC, to denote a ritual or burial place. Records of cairns, cists and urns found in the immediate vicinity show that the hilltop continued to be used for burial in the Bronze Age. Discovery of these remains led to the supposition that Caiyside Hill was the site of a battle, variously suggested to have involved invading Romans, Danes (Vikings); or Cromwellians. The Caiy Stane, also known as the Kel Stane, the Cat Stane or the Camus Stane, was thought to have been a battle memorial stone.
Todays walk around southwest #Edinburgh took me to two standing stones
The Buckstone is likely medieval but could be older
The Caiystane is prehistoric and in the care of @nts-archaeology.bsky.social
#StandingStoneSunday
@stoneclub.bsky.social
@secretedinburgh.bsky.social
If this photo ends up in a news article, it's ripe for @apiln.bsky.social
I say this with respect but as a member of @stoneclub.bsky.social and as the archaeologist responsible for many of the sites in Kilmartin, it's wrong - the Tate archive doesn't have that caption for that image
Afraid you've got the wrong caption for this Daniell image. This is actually 'Druidical stone at Strather, near Barvas, Isle of Lewis'
Not quite a #hillfortswednesday but in the shadow of a fort and 17th century battlefield are the Neolithic timber halls and palisade of Doon Hill.
Excavated in the 60s, in the 70s the outlines of the structures were laid out in coloured concrete - a pioneering approach inspired by the Danes
A stunning Bronze age axe heard made of an orangey stone with greenish flecks
A slice of blue cheese. It's orangey in colour with flecks of blue-green mould.
Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?
Made a few improvements to my online portfolio to provide more context with my reconstruction images. I'll include more paradata with the projects I post in future. With so many now questioning image authenticity because of AI, I feel it's more important than ever to declare my sources & references.
The vast majority of us don't excavate burials unless they are under immediate threat by development, erosion etc.
The foundations of a Roman gateway built from large blocks of stones, not rather overgrown with a modern stone wall and a wooden fence above.
The north gateway into Bremenium Roman fort (aka High Rochester) for #RomanFortThursday. Situated on Dere Street, for two centuries this was the most strategically important fort north of Hadrian's Wall. Its name means 'place of the roaring stream'.
WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY ✨ I nearly didn’t go out 2nite. The odds felt slim… but you’ve got to be in it to win it.
A quick check of the stats, alerts & cloud cover around 19:30 & I thought, if I can reach the Keswick Stone Circle by 20:30, there might just be a gap...then BINGO #Aurora #Northernlights
Sorry to be pedantic (but as archaeologist for Dunadd...) this rock art is in the area but not at Dunadd fort itself. It's at Achnabreck which is along the road towards Lochgilphead
