Kirsty Lilley

Still so grateful to be working in Uist with the team behind this @egalarch.bsky.social - stay tuned for Barra and Harris Unearthed!

A friendly free-roaming pony looking slightly bemused on the road out to Loch Druidibeag, South Uist

Another friendly Uist pony who has dreams of being in a L’Oréal advert

A Uist pony who was a little too friendly

Everyone needs to be surrounded by friendly Uist ponies at some point in their lives #uibhist #scotland

Duolingo has entirely sussed out my profession and my enthusiasm for it #archaeology #gaelic #gàidhlig

Will miss everyone at @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social hugely, but delighted to be continuing as a member of their #archaeology strategy committee - from Burnswark fieldwork to surveying other not-Mons-Graupius locations (Uist?), it’s going to be a fab archaeology-filled year!

Multi award winning digital archaeology project Uist Unearthed is to be expanded across sites in the Outer Hebrides. The team behind the Uist Virtual Archaeology Project, and Uist Unearthed, have been awarded funding for a new three-year digital heritage interpretation project.

Ferry booked, bags (not) packed… Very excited that in a week’s time I’ll be heading to South Uist, to start a new role with @uhinwh.bsky.social on the Barra and Harris Unearthed digital archaeology project! A wee bit more info on the project here: www.uhi.ac.uk/en/media/new...

The Caithness Broch Project x @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social crossover we didn’t know we needed #brochs #scotland #archaeology

This summer, investigations unearthed evidence that a hillfort in Dumfries & Galloway may have been besieged by an invading Roman force 1,900 years ago ⚔️

Experts say the new data from Burnswark Hill "challenges long-held assumptions about Scotland’s past": www.digitscotland.com/five-of-scot...

A chilly and snowy New Year’s Day walk to Caisteal MacTuathal #hillfort in #Perthshire, complete with prehistoric rock art nearby #archaeology

Crop marks reveal the #Roman fort of #Trimontium 🌾 Set beside the River Tweed and below the #Eildon Hills, it housed thousands at its height, including soldiers, civilians, women, and children. The site was first identified in the 19th century and excavated by James Curle between 1905 and 1910.

Not every day that you are faced with a complex Atlantic roundhouse on a beer mat #archaeology #brochs #duns #glenelg 🏺

The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort on the horizon with tarmac road and two barbed wire fences in tne foreground

Twas the last #HillfortsWednesday before Christmas

When all through Dorset

Not a rampart was stirring

Not even the sinuously muscular multivallate eastern circuit of Eggardon Iron Age hillfort

(here captured from the road that skirts its NE side in Feb 2020)

Happy Holidays everyone !!

Plea to stop using prehistoric monuments & peoples as a sub for present-day national identities. Past peoples are not ‘ancestors’, they had no idea of the concept of a nation-state & this archipelago has seen a lot of traffic since the last ice age

Watching the #NewgrangeSolstice livestream from Perthshire this morning and looks like the weather might be on their side! #archaeology #solstice 🏺

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Reunited with a roundhouse model I made for an undergraduate #archaeology of architecture course at @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social 7 years ago (!) ago, so had to experiment with the Christmas tea lights 🎄🛖🏺

This is so lovely to hear, @archaeolu.bsky.social and I were delighted to receive so many positive comments after our session - but really it was all down to our amazing contributors (I especially enjoyed Sir Richard’s guest appearance - especially the hat - in Harold’s talk)!

And definitely feeling more inspired (and informed) after @claireboardman.bsky.social and @reallycal.bsky.social’s session on what #archaeology and #heritage can offer to nature-based responses to climate change - thanks for letting me talk about OS maps and machine learning with #MapReader #TAG2025

What a fantastic conference @tag2025york.bsky.social, rounded off with the incredible presentations in our session on #storytelling as creative #archaeological practice! Huge thanks to our speakers and to all the organisers and volunteers for a monumental effort #TAG2025 #yorkTAG 🏺

100% agree - we were blown away by the variety, depth, and sensitivity of all of our speakers! So excited to see what #storytelling can continue to offer to #archaeology in future #TAG2025

People sitting around a table with boxes of archaeological finds (probably mostly tractor), sheets of paper for cataloguing, a laptop, and the all-important cups of coffee

A large metallic archaeological find (probably a bit of tractor) in a bag that is entirely too small for it

Trimontium’s finds cataloguing system on paper to describe different materials and types (note the absence of tractor typologies)

A fun #archaeology finds session with @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social this week, featuring the classic games of ‘what part of a tractor is this’ and ‘where do I put this priority button’ #romans #scotland #metaldetecting 🏺

The Long Neolithic persists in a legion of ways, but its lithic manifestations and undismissable earthworks have peculiar power to infect the imagination. For it is harder to anchor folklore to ditches and droveways than it is to a stone. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Really important stuff - #archaeology is far from ‘safe’ even when it remains buried… But these conversations need to happen in collaboration with nature-based approaches to #peatland restoration, at multiple scales, and across traditional borders #peatbogs

For many years I’ve walked past Edinburgh’s Festival Square jokingly wondering why there are several oversized #Neolithic carved stone balls… Only to discover today thanks to @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social that they are indeed modelled on them theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/p...

Just over a week until @tag2025york.bsky.social! Excited to speak about #landscape change and conservation with maps and machine learning (@kmcdono.bsky.social, @david-alexander.bsky.social and team!), and to explore creative interpretations of our pasts through #storytelling @archaeolu.bsky.social

A conference room with an opening slide for the Peatlands Restoration Conference, co-organised by the Consulate General of Ireland, the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, the University of Edinburgh, and the Centre for Cross Border Cooperation.

Weekly dose of inspiration from yesterday’s conference on #peatlands, co-hosted by the Consulate General for Ireland, UoE, ECCI, and @crossborder.bsky.social - highlighting amazing and ongoing collaborations across the arts/humanities and sciences, and the impact of research across borders

For anyone who missed this the other day - naidheachd sgoinneil do chànanan na h-Alba! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #gàidhlig #scots

3rd IRAAR Conference 'Quarries and rock-cut sites through the lens of archaeology' | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology The 3rd International ReseArch group on quArries and Rock-cut sites (IRAAR) conference will take place 14-15 May, 2026.

And here is the conference’s webpage hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Looking forward to your paper proposals!

Poster. Pen and ink image of an opening in a stone cliff face to left. Text to right giving notice of the third conference on quarries and rock cut sites, archaeological perspectives, University of Edinburgh 14 to 15 May 2026. The conference examines human-stone relationships through quarries, rock-cut architecture and rock art.

Poster. Call for papers to left including conference themes. Facing risks, Cuting into Living Roack, Heritage and Recent and ongoing research. Deadline 31 December 2025. Text to right giving notice of the third conference on quarries and rock cut sites, archaeological perspectives, University of Edinburgh 14 to 15 May 2026. The conference examines human-stone relationships through quarries, rock-cut architecture and rock art.

📣 Call for Papers! International Research Network on Quarries and Rock-cut Sites, third conference.

The deadline is 31 December 2025 for conference on 14-15 May 2026 at University of Edinburgh.

The four wide-ranging themes offer broad scope from #archaeology, #geology, #history, #envhums 🏺

Loch an Eilein in Rothiemurchus in the Scottish Highlands, with trees and mountains reflected in still water

Loch Morlich in the Scottish Highlands with snowy mountains in the distance and friendly ducks in the water nearby

Loch an Eilein and Loch Morlich were showing off their best sides too #aviemore #highlands #scotland

Annual Thurso-Edinburgh family gathering in Aviemore this weekend, joined by the Ayrshire branch this year too 🙌 Pizza night for 25 people became a game of car-based Tetris #aviemore #pizzariach