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Great fun with #AyrshireYAC this afternoon looking at Roman mosaics and creating our own designs 🖼️

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Earphones with the capacity to be adapted into hearing aids - including Apple's AirPods Pro 2 - have been given the all-clear to be sold 'over-the-counter' in the UK, under new guidance published by the Department of Health and Social Care this week.

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In case you missed the latest discoveries of a private bathhouse and occupants of a house in #Pompeii www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Wow so teeny. Good spot! Fond memories of post-ex hours spent 'sorting'. Surprisingly relaxing once you were in the zone.

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Op is fun but the comments are the true 'gold nuggets' waiting to be read, as ever...

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1/ My good friend @ronimore.bsky.social finally saw the actual Nebra Sky Disc, and not just my necklace, so it's a good opportunity for a short archaeological #thread. Let's start. >>

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1/ On the eve winter solstice, a fairly crazy archaeological story. A #thread. In 1915, the Englishman Cecil Chubb, went to an auction to buy curtains for his wife, instead, he ended up buying a tract of land and the monument that stood on it, Stonehenge. >>

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Smashing! The Serenity fits the Ring of Brodgar beautifully! This going to spice up #StandingStoneSunday 🏺

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Me on the flip side of the year in 1997. A summer solstice photo from a conference trip, when they let a bunch of archaeologists loose into #Stonehenge and we didn't need dress in flowing robes either. Walked up the avenue approach mostly running to coincide with sunset #standingStoneSunday 📸 my own

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Spreading the cheer we all need to get through the long night. #solstice #archaeology #stonehenge

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For #FlintFriday A seasonal decorated tree that reminds me of a knapped hand axe. #archaeology 🏺

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Early photo capture of Damascus. Love this forest of apricot trees. It reminds me of times past digging in northern Syria, where the Arabic phrase "tomorrow there will be apricots" was used lots.

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Nålbinding textile using probable woad blue dyed yarn made from hemp. #ancientBlueSky #ancienttextiles #archaeology

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Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire (Scotland) my watercolour reconstruction from 1990s of Oblong Plan Keep built by the Stewart family over the stump of an earlier slighted building. #DundonaldCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt #Watercolourpainting #MedievalSky

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Was such a beautiful but brief end to the day at 3:30 pm in Scotland! Then you realise so much dark at this time of the year, just as well we get nature's light show to keep us going. #Scotland

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Standing stone above Fairlie, North Ayrshire at Diamond hill. Intriguing name may relate to globular quartz inclusions in rock. Close proximity to cup ring panel of rock art. Check out Canmore for more details and wider landscape context canmore.org.uk/site/41223/d... #neolithic #standingstonesunday

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First evidence of early neolithic archery from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol, Granada) revealed through combined chemical and morphological analysis Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Remember the Sanday Wreck (Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) revealed by storms last winter? Wessex Archaeology & Dendrochronicle’s @hamishdarrah recorded & sampled it then. Delighted HES are now funding the dendro-analysis -aims to date & provenance the timbers. 🌳💍⚓️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚 #findsfriday www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/sanday-...

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My daughter is Deaf and volunteers with the excellent Friends of Dundonald Castle FODC,(who aren't over here just yet but I'm working on that!) FODC just won the Thriving communities National award Scotland in recognition of all that we do to support and enhance lives providing acess to heritage 1/2

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⭐ New on Bluesky: The 'Scottish Archaeology' Starter pack! ⭐ We've started a list of organisations and individuals from across Scotland's archaeology sector. 🏰 ✨ If you'd like to be included, or have a suggestion, drop us a reply or a DM! We're excited to grow this vibrant community together! 🤝

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New study of Scotland's ancient burial monuments www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This starter pack is so packed full of fabulous prehistorians it's a treasure trove.

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Eating together is a social act. Sharing food brings people together, builds links between individuals, makes groups more resilient. So does drinking beer, made with the same grains used to make bread... phys.org/news/2024-11...

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It's out - paper by Mark Hall (mainly), myself and James Graham-Campbell on the Lindisfarne playing pieces (amongst other examples). Archaeological Journal. Open Access From Durham Uni / DigVentures excavations on Holy Island www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ooooh now this not only looks good and has excellent pun-tastic tiltes, it's also Sidestone, so public access too! Thanks for sharing @justrena.bsky.social

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A pair of firedogs anyone? Not very original or historic though.

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Currently tootling about my area. The gritter crews in Scotland all have fun names. Sweet Child O'brien is just brilliant! Check them out www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

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If you're into archaeology, the ancient world, and related fields, here are some starter packs you will like 🧵 1/? go.bsky.app/J2BAdwu

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