Sue Dyke

Grassy mound with some daffodils growing and a stone entranceway/passageway to the tomb on the right of the photo

Photo taken from inside the tomb looking down the stone passageway at a man bent over hands on ground working his way along the passage

#tombtuesday #unstan #stenness #orkney #neolithic

I didn’t know about the partial reconstruction 😫 Great photo 😍 Happy New Year 🎉

Stone entrance to Neolithic tomb

Smooth area on stone inside tomb used to polish stone tools

Pottery with lines and zigzag design gouged into the clay

#tombtuesday #westkennett #longbarrow #neolithic pics are front facade behind late Neolithic blocking stones, #polissoir reused inside #barrow and excavated #groovedware

... The meaning in Scots is 'pay attention to the small things'

A large standing stone in foreground with the rest of the stone circle arching away into the distance curving round to the right. Grass and heather on the ground and a layer of snow on everything

A seasonally appropriate pic for #standingstonesunday #ringifbrodgar #orkney #stonecircle #standingstone #stonehenge #scottishprehistory #neolithic #bronzeage

I can't get the hachette link for your book to work @allysonshaw.bsky.social could you check, may just be me - was interested to find out more!

Alleyway sign on wall saying 'Tak Tent O Sma Things'

In #scotland a passageway through a building is called a #pend some have very interesting nam here's one from #cupar #fife #medieval #markettown #alley

Loving and learning from these great posts - terrific if you have any interest in #archaeobotany🌼🔬

#standrews #westsands #fife #scottishbeach #windyday

Lime harled doocot standing on a mound with an arched entrance to a stone underground chamber underneath. Pine trees surrounding

Lime harled doocot with open wooden door at the base and pine trees behind

A hidden #Fife #heritage gem near #BowofFife roundabout A91 #Mellvilledoocot a converted #windmill circa 1770, stone chamber (#icehouse ?) underneath www.jamesjones.co.uk/news-and-upd...

A beautiful place for walking and wildlife. Also really great coffee, bakes & gifts #HarbourHouse

#ladystower #elielighthouse #elie #fife #coastalwalk #scotland #SaturdaySeascape

www.welcometofife.com/view-busines...

Yay! Way to go 👏🏻

Beautiful view! … and the rest will pass, you’ve got this ❤️

Two wooden doors with ornate curling iron designs flanking an arched doorway looking out onto a street showing a blue fronted shop at the bottom of a 4 storey building. Sunlight is streaming in the doorway, lighting up the right hand door and leaving the left in shadow. This is the main entrance to St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney, founded when Orkney was still part of a Norse Earldom

For #Adoorable Thursday this is
looking out from #stmagnuscathedral in #orkney founded 1137 - a #viking #cathedral !! Read all about it here www.orkneymuseums.co.uk/our-museums/...

and you also! ❤️

Boardwalk leading up to massive squarish boulder with doorway cut into right hand side

massive squarish boulder with doorway cut into the front, huge towering cliff face behind

massive squarish boulder with doorway cut into left hand side, flat grassland plain behind cliffs in distance on right hand side

Looking through doorway of rock cut Neolithic tomb - bed like structure with rock pillow on right hand side

For #TombTuesday I give you the #DwarfieStane a #neolithic rock cut tomb on the island of #Hoy in #Orkney see here for more info www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/dwarfie-stane/

Very sad & concerned to see this. In my 6yrs at #SkaraBrae #Orkney I had many experiences of customers using the #VisitScotland iCentre as a gateway to the islands. Visitor numbers have increased dramatically & tourist season is longer but the infrastructure to manage that isn't being matched.

Standing stones against blue sky in the distance blooming purple heather and thistles and grass in foreground with a ditch. Photo is of stone circle in Orkney called the Ring of Brodgar

Flash back to my previous #Orkney life for #StandingStoneSunday ... This is #RingofBrodgar in sunnier times with the heather blooming. Hope you've all 'weathered' Storm Bert ok up there ❤️

Iapetus students

Stirling University campus

Very grateful to Stirling University for hosting our annual Induction and Development event, and to Heather Price for organising a great line-up! A fabulous setting, in no way hindered by the fine (albeit chilly) weather.

Thanks to @iapetusdtp.bsky.social for the best start to my #PhD! #induction was exciting, affirming and fun 😁 ...met SO many awesome people & #universityofstirling #campus was such a beautiful inspirational place to begin that journey #airthreyloch #stirling

Great to see you here Holz! BSky just got an even happier place ❤️ ... Gif is so cool (and so you 😁)

Silhouettes of 12 standing stones highlighted against sunset skyline. Deep blues at top through pale blue to pale orange and yellow behind the stones. The stones are part of the 3rd largest stone circle in UK and thought to be Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age in date. Their function isn't known but it's suggested as a ritual or ceremonial meeting place with the stones possibly forming an astronomical calendar scheduling agricultural seasons. The ring is set within moorland on a raised mound on the Brodgar isthmus in Orkney, Scotland and overlooks two lochs (Stenness and Harray) and the recent excavations of a monumental Neolithic complex (around 40 buildings excavated more than 60 known to exist and geophysics suggesting many more)

#StandingStoneSunday #RingOfBrodgar #Orkney

Thanks Fran! I'm excited 😍

#Fifecoast doing a very good impression of the Caribbean 😍 - in November! … topped off by mouth watering #crepes @ Salt and Pine beach bistro saltandpine.co.uk #Tentsmuir #Fife

Thanks Adam!

It certainly is @johnjjohnston.bsky.social

1st archaeological activity after Fife translocation - #TAFAC conference www.tafac.org.uk/category/con... in Perth Great wide ranging presentations- #Hillforts #Roman Towers #Dendrochronology #Communitysrchaeology …here’s the cake case at The Artisan Espresso &Wine Bar round the corner 😍

Hello BSky world! Very glad to be here. Recently translocated from #Orkney to #Fife … The adventure continues!

It's time to say farewell #Orkney, after 7 glorious years. The place is special, but the people make it even more so - thank you to all the friends and colleagues for the very many wonderful memories I'm taking away with me! Till we meet again ❤️

#ringofbrodgar #orkneysunset #goldenhour #autumn2024 #stonecircle #neolithic #blindedbythelight