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drbecjones.bsky.social
Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
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Lucky enough to be at the opening of this exhibition at Queen's Gallery, Holyrood Palace. Fascinating overview of photographic techniques over the last century. Would have benefitted from more photographs in Scotland and some imagery or artefacts of the cameras they used at the time

Have I missed #caturday?? Here's mine 🤩

Early start at the British Museum today for the launch of the Portable Antiquities Scheme annual report #Museum #metaldetecting

Great to see this article on the Galloway Hoard in the guardian #Viking #rune #archaeology www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

One of the benefits of working in a multidisciplinary museum is that I occasionally indulge my passion for baking. Dinosaur cakes this time 🎂 🤩

@ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social is closed today ##storméowyn Stay safe everyone!

For #RomanFortThursday the gatehouse of the #Roman fort at Tamuda in Morocco #Archaeology

As it is #nationalhuggingday here is Venus and Adonis #Roman #mosaic from Lixus in Morocco, now in the Tetouan #Museum

For #mosaicMonday another fabulous Moroccan mosaic: Orpheus at Volubilis #Roman #Archaeology

Entrance to the Principia (headquarters building) of Tamuda #Roman fort in Morocco #Archaeology

#Roman site of Chellah in Rabat, Morocco #Archaeology

#Roman #Mosaic from Lixus on display at the Archaeological museum of Tetouan in Morocco

Free one day symposium @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social exploring case studies of Collecting Environmental Change, 13 March. More info and booking here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting... 📜 #envhist

Tonight's the night that Blomuir #Neolithic Passage Grave in #Orkney is on #DiggingForBritain - BBC 2 8pm. Victorian diggers removed enough stone for a house, but still left us some amazing archaeology!

CFP: Material Scotland, Stana Nenadic Memorial Conference, 15-16 May 2025, University of Edinburgh. Celebrating the career of Prof Nenadic (1954-2024) papers invited on Scottish material & visual cultural history. Deadline for proposals 31 Jan. ECR and postgrad particularly welcome. Please share!

Attended my first #AIASCS conference remotely, presenting on #Roman women at the #LimesCongress Struggled with the hybrid element when attending other sessions, sadly

Sad day yesterday at the funeral of Gordon Maxwell, but I count myself as fortunate to have worked closely with him over a number of years and learnt a huge amount which led to my PhD research and publications

Great to be part of the Trimontium Museum's symposium yesterday on War & Peace #Roman #Archaeology @drjeball.bsky.social

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Attended the #StAndrewsDay anniversary meeting & AGM of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Great balance of tradition, current issues & planning for the future: making Scotland's past more accessible. #ScotArchStrat With excellent lecture by Morvern French (Hist Env Scot) on Dirleton

Never tire of this view, inside one of the most spectacular buildings in #Edinburgh @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #Museums

Offering up a little bronze Lar from Bewcastle to the new social media gods 😅 I’m slowly trying to migrate over my follows from Twitter, but recommendations for whom to follow here very welcome!

The Frank's Casket - spectacular early 8th century whales bone box probably made in Northumbria and in the ##SilkRoads exhibition in the British Museum

Saving the best until last... Galloway Hoard vessel on display in the #SilkRoads exhibition looking fabulous - representing the far north-west of the Silk Roads connection @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social

Perhaps my favourite of Elizabeth Hodgson's bsky.app/profile/beyo... outputs is her article on local fairies archive.org/details/tran...

Fabulous to see Rhynie highlighted as one of the key places in the #SilkRoads exhibition @northernpicts.bsky.social #BritishMuseum

Fabulous to see the Silk Roads exhibition at the British #Museum - incredible artefacts conveying a brilliantly complex story in an accessible manner

Spent yesterday afternoon taking three 16 year old round the National Museums Scotland discussing the aspects of the galleries which cover their Higher History topics. I learnt a lot too, especially about 19th century migration & role of Scots in Canadian fur trade #museum #History

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Attended a fascinating presentation at NMS on the museum's #archives Looked at this book on #museum employees in the late 19th early 20th century. Now want to know more about some of the women listed... #heritage

Excellent inaugural lecture from Prof Jon Henderson @edinburghup.bsky.social on 'Oceans without History' in the Playfair Library at Edinburgh University. Thought provoking: importance of archaeology & local community participatory practice in Marine Cultural Heritage to deliver the UN's SDGs

Calling all women's studies scholars: please spread the word about the bursary from the Women's Studies Group 1558-1837. £750 available to fund research in the field. #funding #ECR #PhD #AcademicWriting Applications open until 15 December. See website for details. womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

If you're in Edinburgh on Thursday, or fancy joining via 'hybrid' means, I'm giving a seminar on the Saga of the Earls of Orkney at 17.15 and would love to see you hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... @ragnasislands.bsky.social

Professor and Head of Curatorial role at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKP248/h...

Really enjoying watching this online!

This evening!

Daughter is studying Reformation Scotland for Higher History so visited the Martyrs Monument in St Andrew's yesterday