Have you ever been to Abercorn to see the amazing sculptured stones? Do you want to learn more about the site and its archaeology? Have you seen 3D records before and want to learn how to do it yourself? Join @celticist.bsky.social and I on 26th September from 10:30am to help us record them!

Two (very likely) Neolithic axe fragments from the #CamphillDig26 site found in the past 24 hours. Nothing like this has been found in Glasgow for well over a century!

...and we'll be at Govan Old next Saturday (18 July) for @govanstones.bsky.social's Viking Games and Archaeological Open Day! For those who like a challenge, one version of our scavenger hunt will be ENTIRELY in ogham - do you think you could solve it? (4/4) thegovanstones.org.uk/lecture-on-t...

Next week sees the launch of this year’s @buxtonfringe.bsky.social and we have some great talks lined up for you! Next week we have @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social and @archaeoplays.bsky.social. All our events are upstairs at the Old Clubhouse, and tickets from Eventbrite now!

On the 10th July we have @archaeoplays.bsky.social coming to #Buxton to talk about #archaeology in the world of gaming including #Minecraft. Don't save the date - buy a ticket! (Like that @fenken.bsky.social?) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/playing-wi...

Playing with the Past: Archaeology, Minecraft, and Tabletop RPGs

Not all archaeology happens 'irl', there's a whole world of it online if you know where to look. Join Dr Heather Christie to find out more.

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It's the International Day of Ogham today. The (former) OG(H)AM project are happy to announce the recipients of this year's Certificate of Achievement for Ogham Excellence, the team behind the creation of "Carved in Stone. A Storyteller's Guide to Pictland". More: carvedinstone.scot #IntDayofOgham

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship

Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks

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There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

A good seminar today at the Museum of Cultural History on documenting, mapping and analysing inscriptions. With inspiring guest speakers Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt, Jonathan Westin, @ndefaoite.bsky.social and @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social.

📰 The identification of a unique board game from the Roman Netherlands has big implications for our understanding of ancient games 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/02/a...

A Roman Board Game Found in Ancient Coriovallum Rewrites the History of Strategy Games

A grayish limestone slab, measuring 21 by 14.5 centimeters, found in the subsoil of the Dutch city of Heerlen and kept for decades in the storage rooms of the local museum, has revealed a playful…

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🏺 job

Claire Boardman@claireboardman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

👀 Post Doctoral Researcher - Osteoarchaeology (18mths/PT) "This post is part of a Historic Environment Scotland-funded project to collate, record and disseminate the archive of a 1970s excavation of an important Pictish/Norse cemetery at Newark, Orkney ..." www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Thèid an 20mh Òraid Bhliadhnail mar Chuimhneachan air Aonghas MacMhathain a lìbhrigeadh 2/12/25 leis an Oll Uilleam Lamb air 'Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' www.eventbrite.com/e/gaelic-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-tickets-1969148250425?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1

Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Lecture will explore the implications for Gaelic arising from the rapid development of AI

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The 20th Annual Angus Matheson Memorial Lecture will be given on 2/12/25 by Prof. William Lamb on 'Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' Details and registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/gaelic-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-tickets-1969148250425?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1

Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Lecture will explore the implications for Gaelic arising from the rapid development of AI

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Looking forward to receiving my physical copy soon! The digital version has already been a delight. Well done Heather, Brian, and all of the artists and researchers who have helped make it such an engaging and beautiful book!

Stout Stoat@stoutstoat.co.uk · 11mo ago

Carved in Stone is officially out! In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.

You simply don't get a sense of the hidden architecture lurking beneath Edinburgh's South Bridge from street level until you look at the cross-sectional view. retrospectjournal.com/2024/11/10/a...

A History of the Vaults beneath Edinburgh’s South Bridge

The Edinburgh Vaults, constructed in 1788 beneath the South Bridge, transitioned from storage spaces to a refuge for the impoverished. Due to unsanitary conditions, they became infamous for illicit…

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Edinburgh World Heritage@edinburghwh.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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'University academic translates Norse saga to uncover Viking history of northern Scotland'! Find out more: www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/norse-s...

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

Wonderful visit to the National Museum of Ireland with @liber-ray.bsky.social. Glad to see some ogham in the 'Words on the Wave' exhibition, including the Moynagh Lough ogham recently discussed by the #OG_H_AM team @davidstifter.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham #OG_H_AM

Friends & colleagues, the amazing OG(H)AM project, a collaboration between Dept. of Celtic & Gaelic @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Dept. of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social is slowly coming to an end. With a smile & a tear, I present the final instalment...

Exciting job opportunity with Nunatsiavut, as an archaeologist based in Nain, Lab! The position closes on Wed, so hurry over to the careers page below if interested. Please Share! 🏺 #archaeology #archaeologist careers.nunatsiavut.com/job-listings...

ARCHAEOLOGIST I - NG Recruitment

CLOSING: June 25, 2025

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𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 10 This Sunday, 8 June, RTÉ One will be broadcasting episode 1 of a four-part documentary series entitled ‘From that small island. The story of the Irish’, concerned with the history of the Irish people, on this island and abroad, from prehistory to today. The time is 18.30. /1

What a fantastic few days of digital epigraphy #EpiDoc @tcddublin.bsky.social & @maynoothuniversity.ie ! Huge thanks to to all our participants, trainers @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social & collaborator Christine Morris @tcdclassics.bsky.social ...

Megan Kasten@3dgroovanstones.bsky.social · last yr.

It's the final morning of our Digital Epigraphy workshop, and @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social is leading us through how to encode placenames, people and organisations using Epidoc standards. @ndefaoite.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

This afternoon, @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and @palaeofuturist.bsky.social discuss how to fix all of life's mistakes with Epidoc (at least how to encode editorial correction of mistakes(?) in inscriptions) #mistake-or-decision @ndefaoite.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

It's the final morning of our Digital Epigraphy workshop, and @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social is leading us through how to encode placenames, people and organisations using Epidoc standards. @ndefaoite.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Ogma’s ogham workshop, cutting edge since c. 700

⏰️ Final keynote of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social 🗣 Pádraic Moran @padraicmoran.bsky.social (University of Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social) 📜 Designing Sustainable Digital Editions 💻 Slides: pmoran.ie/maynooth2025.pdf

@palaeofuturist.bsky.social guiding Digital Epigraphy Workshop participants through encoding the object description of the Donaghmore ogham stone in #EpiDoc #XML format. @researchireland.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

Day 2 of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop in @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social. The facilitators @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and the crowd of students. Funded by @researchireland.ie... /1

After a morning spent encoding the metadata of inscribed objects, the afternoon session of the Digital Epigraphy workshop is dedicated to encoding the inscription. @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social