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The Lithic Studies Society is now on Bluesky, for all your stone tool lovers: @lithicstudiessoc.bsky.social #lithics #flint

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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

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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!

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All of the new Digging for Britain episodes have dropped on Iplayer, so you can catch up on new discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave!

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Well, that's my Twitter/X account deleted for good. I've imported my old tweets across as there are a few good images

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I'm looking forward to the new series of Digging for Britain, which starts tomorrow! But you've have to wait until Thursday for news of exciting new discoveries in our Neolithic passage grave at Blomuir, Orkney

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Some objects speak for themselves! This heart shaped facing stone of finest 'Brandon black' flint dates from c.1930. #flintfriday

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Fred Snare's gunflint work c.1910. As the demands for gunflint fell, building flints became an important part of the business - the patterns in this postcard show some of the intricate designs they produced

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Herbert Edwards knapping gunflints behind the Flintknappers Arms, #Brandon, Suffolk, c.1940s. #flintfriday

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An interesting distribution map of archaeology in Scotland, though I'm not sure the work on Orkney is accurate

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Yet more! Lucille Rodrigues started her SGSAH CDA project last month, working with me, @hugowhymark.bsky.social, and Dr Nyree Finlay. She will be looking at collections at the NMS and a series of regional museums to characterise lithic traditions in Orkney, Northeast Scotland, and The Borders.

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An early postcard of a toad discovered in a flint nodule aka the 'toad in the hole'. Found by Charles Dawson in 1898, who went on to excavate Piltdown Man. I'll let you decide if it's genuine! #flintfriday

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The Ness of Brodgar is now on Bluesky. Follow for lots of fantastic content about Neolithic Orkney and updates on post-excavation analysis

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I like a photogrammetry challenge! Here's the 16thC silver and rock crystal Brooch of Lorn, Scotland by @ntlmuseumsscot in #3D https://skfb.ly/oQ68M via @sketchfab

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Orkney has a new Maes Howe- type passage grave. Digging in museum archives paid off this time! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/21/a-neolithic-feat-of-engineering-orkney-dig-reveals-ruins-of-huge-tomb

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I came across this huge piece of fossil fish on Westray today - one plate that's bigger than my hand. A piece of Homosteus Milleri perhaps?

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I'd forgotten that I'm the rock art poster boy at Achnabreck. And boy is about right - that photo was taken 13 years ago!

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My bank holiday offering! The Cumberland Stone, Culloden Moor, Scotland - a glacial erratic used by the Duke of C to survey the battlefield in 1847 - view it in #3D, #VR or #AR https://skfb.ly/ouUUv via @sketchfab.

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A superb week in Orkney. Lots of 3d models to process for the Tombs of the North Isles project. @UHIArchaeology

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A tomb with a view (and skylight!), Vinquoy Hill, Eday

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Westray today! The fabulous Pierowall Stone, which would have graced an exceptional Late Neolithic tomb

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Kierfea Hill tomb, Rousay today. Stunning views to Hoy (and across the North Isles on the other direction)

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Great to be back at Orkney Museum today. First stop, the fantastic Groatie Hoose, roofed with ballast from Pirate Gow's ship that grounded on the Calf of Eday

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Do you want to see @Ntlmuseumsscot's newly acquired Mary, Queen of Scots Casket in #3D? It's fantastic! https://skfb.ly/ouAoU via @sketchfab

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George Petrie (1818-1875) excavated some of #Orkney's finest archaeological sites, from #Skara #Brae to #Maeshowe and #Quoyness tombs. Help us tag and transcribe his illustrated notebooks @MicroPasts @NtlMuseumsScot:...

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Here's a good challenge! Help us link Scottish archaeological objects in museums to records of the places they were discovered: https://finds-hub.org/ @NtlMuseumsScot @HistEnvScot

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A fleeting visit to a sleeping @NessofBrodgar.

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A classic piece of experimental archaeology: felling trees at Draved Wood with stone axes. I've never seen this footage from 1953 before and it's great https://filmcentralen.dk/museum/danmark-paa-film/klip/trae-faeldes-med-stenalderokser

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Just back from the Mendips filming about Tresness Cairn with Vicki Cummings and Alice Roberts for Digging for Britain!

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Well that's a wrap! Digging has finished at Tresness Neolithic Cairn... backfilling tomorrow!

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Tresness Neolithic Stalled Cairn: Excavation week 2.5 showing the Neolithic phase in #3D, #VR or #AR https://skfb.ly/opJOs via @sketchfab

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Orcadian flint collected from #Sanday #orkney on a rare day away from the dig. Bliss!

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I got home from work and thought my daughter had made a wonderful model of a #broch... but she said 'do you like my rocket?' What do you think @TheBrochProject ?

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Dolly the sheep was cloned 25 years ago today. A world first! I've cloned her in 3d for you! @ntlmuseumsscot in #3D, #VR or #AR https://skfb.ly/oox9n via @sketchfab

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Power dressing in the Bronze Age (and 1980s)

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I’ve worked with so many great academics and students from Sheffield it’s disgraceful the department is under threat: Save Sheffield's Archaeology Department - Sign the Petition! http://chng.it/drq6LRmh via @UKChange

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The amazing Neolithic macehead from Knowth, Bru na Boinne. Several maceheads of this distinctive 'flint' have been found between Ireland and Orkney, but its source is not known. Anyone seen this raw material 'in the field'? 📸 National Museum of Ireland

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