NTS-Archaeology
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Exploring Scotland’s past through archaeology at National Trust for Scotland sites. Follow for updates on digs, discoveries, and history! #ForTheLoveOfScotland. Where we are and what we're doing.
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FREE ONLINE MAGAZINE: Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland
Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
#ScotArchStrat
Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
#ScotArchStrat
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
FREE ONLINE MAGAZINE: Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland
Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
#ScotArchStrat
Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
#ScotArchStrat
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It’s #HillfortsWednesday!
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It’s #HillfortsWednesday!
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
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THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
Fancy bidding on a 56 year old bottle of #whisky ?https://www.sothebys.com/buy/a4bf4020-a3d2-4107-b5fc-d6740242f534/lots/efdaf102-d1ec-4772-8156-7da63f504abf
The Glenlivet 56 Year Old 1 of 1 42.7 abv (1 Bottle 70cl) | Finest Whisky | The Glenlivet Exclusive | 2025 | Sotheby's
<p><strong>The Glenlivet 56 Year Old 1 of 1 42.7 abv</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>This lot is offered Duty Paid With VAT On the Hammer Price.</em></p><p><br></p><p>The second edition in <em>The Etern...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Fancy bidding on a 56 year old bottle of #whisky ?https://www.sothebys.com/buy/a4bf4020-a3d2-4107-b5fc-d6740242f534/lots/efdaf102-d1ec-4772-8156-7da63f504abf
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You can check out our latest @nts-archaeology.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social Glencoe Archaeology Project blog post , 'crafting the past' here: glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...
Crafting the Past
Among our finds from the Summerhouse of MacIain were an assemblage of spindle whorls. These are hoop shapes, in this case cast in lead, which were used to spin fibres into thread. These would be us…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
You can check out our latest @nts-archaeology.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social Glencoe Archaeology Project blog post , 'crafting the past' here: glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...
We’re delighted to continue our partnership with Chivas Brothers and The Glenlivet. The Glenlivet Eternal Collection, Second Edition, 56 Year Old, 1 of 1, is now open for bidding via Sotheby’s Finest & Rarest Whisky. All proceeds will help support our @NTS archaeology work in the Cairgorms.
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We’re delighted to continue our partnership with Chivas Brothers and The Glenlivet. The Glenlivet Eternal Collection, Second Edition, 56 Year Old, 1 of 1, is now open for bidding via Sotheby’s Finest & Rarest Whisky. All proceeds will help support our @NTS archaeology work in the Cairgorms.
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Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2025 is here! This year’s issue is packed full of delightful articles featuring discoveries, important progress on sector issues, and how archaeological practices help support people and change lives. #ScotArchStrat archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2025 is here! This year’s issue is packed full of delightful articles featuring discoveries, important progress on sector issues, and how archaeological practices help support people and change lives. #ScotArchStrat archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
Sat and passed our drone flyer training last week which gives us another 5 years of using our drones to record archaeological excavations and sites. Step ladders on site seem like ancient history!
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Sat and passed our drone flyer training last week which gives us another 5 years of using our drones to record archaeological excavations and sites. Step ladders on site seem like ancient history!
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Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Fancy a dram? This week Sotheby's will auction a bottle of 56 year old The Glenlivet whisky. Proceeds will help support our @n-t-s.bsky.social archaeology work at Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairgorms, where river action is eroding an important prehistoric site.
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
The Glenlivet 56 Year Old 1 of 1 42.7 abv (1 Bottle 70cl) | Finest Whisky | The Glenlivet Exclusive | 2025 | Sotheby's
<p><strong>The Glenlivet 56 Year Old 1 of 1 42.7 abv</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>This lot is offered Duty Paid With VAT On the Hammer Price.</em></p><p><br></p><p>The second edition in <em>The Etern...
www.sothebys.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Fancy a dram? This week Sotheby's will auction a bottle of 56 year old The Glenlivet whisky. Proceeds will help support our @n-t-s.bsky.social archaeology work at Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairgorms, where river action is eroding an important prehistoric site.
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
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Heritage Recording Officer
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500
Closing Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/herit...
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500
Closing Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/herit...
Heritage Recording Officer - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500Closing Date: 30/11/25Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Heritage Recording Officer
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500
Closing Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/herit...
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500
Closing Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/herit...
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Our 12 month environmental policy researcher position is now live! Come and work with @graemewarren.bsky.social at UCD on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project with @alicerudge.bsky.social and me. It'll be fun, I promise! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Our 12 month environmental policy researcher position is now live! Come and work with @graemewarren.bsky.social at UCD on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project with @alicerudge.bsky.social and me. It'll be fun, I promise! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
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310 years ago today. History can be made in lonely places. The Battle of Sheriffmuir was fought on 13 November 1715. The battle was inconclusive, but it effectively marked the start of the end of the 1715 Jacobite rising. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #OnThisDay
#Scotland #OnThisDay
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
310 years ago today. History can be made in lonely places. The Battle of Sheriffmuir was fought on 13 November 1715. The battle was inconclusive, but it effectively marked the start of the end of the 1715 Jacobite rising. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #OnThisDay
#Scotland #OnThisDay
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Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists and Game Designers Collaborate to Create “Basically the Best Book on the Picts Ever Written” - Dig It!
Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts is an illustrated and comprehensive book for anyone interested in Scotland’s past, including those who play tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). Fol...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
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Falkland Palace and gardens looking glorious this morning. I had the immense privilege of being shown around (including hidden doors and rooms!) by the wonderful Hereditary Keeper, Ninian Stuart, whose love for this landscape and its history runs deep. But I was foolish enough not to bring a jumper!
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Falkland Palace and gardens looking glorious this morning. I had the immense privilege of being shown around (including hidden doors and rooms!) by the wonderful Hereditary Keeper, Ninian Stuart, whose love for this landscape and its history runs deep. But I was foolish enough not to bring a jumper!
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Long ago these peaceful fields echoed with the sounds of a bustling Roman fort, densely packed with buildings & sites of intense activity.
Trimontium Fort site aerial view & digital reconstruction.
Illustration of buildings in the vicus at Housesteads Roman Fort © Historic England (Peter Urmston)
Trimontium Fort site aerial view & digital reconstruction.
Illustration of buildings in the vicus at Housesteads Roman Fort © Historic England (Peter Urmston)
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Long ago these peaceful fields echoed with the sounds of a bustling Roman fort, densely packed with buildings & sites of intense activity.
Trimontium Fort site aerial view & digital reconstruction.
Illustration of buildings in the vicus at Housesteads Roman Fort © Historic England (Peter Urmston)
Trimontium Fort site aerial view & digital reconstruction.
Illustration of buildings in the vicus at Housesteads Roman Fort © Historic England (Peter Urmston)
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Very much looking forward to Prof Driscoll’s Dalrymple lectures on 20th and 21st November on the theme of the contribution of archaeology to the story of #Glasgow850
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
https://gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Very much looking forward to Prof Driscoll’s Dalrymple lectures on 20th and 21st November on the theme of the contribution of archaeology to the story of #Glasgow850
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
Particularly liked this sign post in Strathdon today...
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Particularly liked this sign post in Strathdon today...
The very impressive remains of the Doune of Invernochty - a 12th century castle site of the Earls of Mar.
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The very impressive remains of the Doune of Invernochty - a 12th century castle site of the Earls of Mar.
Heading for a meeting at Glenlivet took at trip by the Distillery and Battlefield site at the Haughs of Cromdale.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Heading for a meeting at Glenlivet took at trip by the Distillery and Battlefield site at the Haughs of Cromdale.
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A great occasion and a tour de force presentation from @nts-archaeology.bsky.social on the amazing Pioneering Spirit project!
Great conference yesterday at Cowanes Hospital and Holy Rude church in Stirling. Amazing lunchtime guided walk around the graveyard led by Murray Cook @stirlingdigger.bsky.social Thanks to all involved.
November 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A great occasion and a tour de force presentation from @nts-archaeology.bsky.social on the amazing Pioneering Spirit project!
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Peter Watkins gone. He was a hugely important filmmaker. Best known for The War Game but his 1964 Culloden film still influences way history TV is made today. It’s not perfect but it’s amazing and on YouTube as a good print. Watch it in his honour! youtu.be/-1TZq6DfKKA?...
"Culloden" (1964) Scottish Jacobite Rebellion Classic Docu-Drama
YouTube video by LionHeart FilmWorks
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October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Peter Watkins gone. He was a hugely important filmmaker. Best known for The War Game but his 1964 Culloden film still influences way history TV is made today. It’s not perfect but it’s amazing and on YouTube as a good print. Watch it in his honour! youtu.be/-1TZq6DfKKA?...
Looking forward to speaking at the #StirlingRocks conference tomorrow about our #PioneeringSpirit whisky project with a wee dash of Stirlingshire sites thrown in to the mix.
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Looking forward to speaking at the #StirlingRocks conference tomorrow about our #PioneeringSpirit whisky project with a wee dash of Stirlingshire sites thrown in to the mix.
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New PhD with Helen Mackay, @erinmcclimate.bsky.social, Eileen Tisdall & Daniel Rhodes @nts-archaeology.bsky.social on the role of large herbivores in Holocene ecosystem dynamics iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Transforming landscapes: the role of large herbivores in Holocene ecosystem dynamics
iapetus.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New PhD with Helen Mackay, @erinmcclimate.bsky.social, Eileen Tisdall & Daniel Rhodes @nts-archaeology.bsky.social on the role of large herbivores in Holocene ecosystem dynamics iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...