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archaeostef.bsky.social
Archaeologist; Senior Cultural Resources Advisor for the Historic Scotland Properties in Care
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@theguardian.com this is very very poor...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

My talented colleagues at Historic Environment #Scotland have written, directed and starred in an excellent video for Doune Castle and the new 'Park and Stride' facilities for visitors www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tgq... Fans of Monty Python & The Holy Grail should spot a few easter eggs along the way

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Are you an employer, sole trader or organisation in the heritage sector? It is vital that we hear your views on skills needs & gaps, on training provision, to help monitor the health of the sector & feed into planning for programmes of support haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/development-...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

May 16: Feast of Brénainn mac Findloga (Brendan the Navigator) († c.577), founder-abbot of Cluain Fearta (Clonfert, Ireland). According to his Life, he also founded a monastery on Ailech in the Hebrides, which has been identified with Eileach an Naoimh, pictured. 📸Rude Health #medievalsky

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

An absolutely glorious day on Inchcolm Island. Showing colleagues round the 20th century military remains and the medieval abbey

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I’m old enough to remember the days when there was no Upper Palaeolithic in Scotland…

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

#reliefwednesday The early medieval and medieval stone collection in the Abercorn micro-museum includes cross shafts, hogback stones Located in the Session House, the collection is accessible at most reasonable times www.trove.scot/designation/...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

That's @firstmillennia.bsky.social moved over here!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A decent day picking apart a historic building. As always seems to be the case, we now know less than we thought we did this morning 🤣 But there's at least three phases of build, and one of them seems to be definitely medieval

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

@stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday IKEA Edinburgh

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

#StandingStoneSunday Well, the standing stone is on the label Cuvée du Menhir currently available in Lidl

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Do you use Historic Environment Scotland's data? If so you need to know that Canmore is being retired this June. Trove (www.trove.scot) is replacing it and is now online in beta. Please try it out and feedback your comments here: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/heritage/470...

submitted 64 days ago • 19 comments

Absolutely terrible news

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

More fantastic work from our #archaeology friends at Forestry and Land Scotland. A wonderful reconstruction of Boreland chambered cairn in Dumfries and Galloway forestryandland.gov.scot/blog/dig-dee...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to my Dad Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a very formative film for me. And I still can't quite believe I'm lucky enough to work with Camelot/Anthrax/Swamp (aka Doune) location for some of the most famous comedic scenes. But 50?! Not possible www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to my Dad Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a very formative film for me. And I still can't quite believe I'm lucky enough to work with Camelot/Anthrax/Swamp (aka Doune) location for some of the most famous comedic scenes. But 50?! Not possible www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Recently visited Cairnpapple henge and cairn for the first time without 200 students. 2 of the early medieval burials marked with white pebbles (not original) align with the Bass Rock on the horizon, while one looks to Arthur's Seat/Din Eidyn. More interesting than the simple 'E-W = Christian' view

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

A sunny visit to Linlithgow Palace today. The views from Queen Margaret's Bower were stunning as always, the spire of St Michael's Church looking particularly resplendent. The bower is thought to have been built for Margaret Tudor who married James IV in 1503, and the ceiling boss is a Tudor rose

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments