Mike Middleton
@wulfgarthebard.bsky.social
I work in archaeology and data science in Scotland. https://journal.caa-international.org/articles/10.5334/jcaa.166
Are you interested in Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art? Join us at Kilmartin Museum on the 16th of May for a free, hybrid event led by the wonderful Tertia Barnett and @joanavaldez.bsky.social. In-person places are limited, so book soon if you're interested! More information: bit.ly/4s85XMi
I never saw the intricate connections with quite this sunny clarity before, such intimate revealing of relations in brilliance, and at such an hour… —Alan Riach, “Kilmartin Glen” published in CLEARANCES (Hazard Press/SCP, 2001) #poem #poetry #archaeology
Joana Valdez-Tullett@joanavaldez.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're doing it again!! ☺️ As part of the work that Tertia Barnett and I are doing with @scarf-scot.bsky.social, we'll be running another event to celebrate rock art research and launch brand-new sections of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework. 1/
WORK WITH US: ScARF Research Officers and ScARF Research Manager We are looking to hire three new members of staff to help deliver the final two regional research frameworks as part of @scarf-scot.bsky.social. Find out more and apply by 11:59pm on 8 March 2026: www.socantscot.org/news/#appoin...
Come work in the research team @socantscot.bsky.social on our ScARF project! We are looking for 3 new people to help us complete the last of the regional archaeological research frameworks for Scotland. Closing date the 8th March 2026 #HESFunded #Archaeology #HeritageJobs #Scotland 🏺
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland@socantscot.bsky.social · 6mo agoWORK WITH US: ScARF Research Officers and ScARF Research Manager We are looking to hire three new members of staff to help deliver the final two regional research frameworks as part of @scarf-scot.bsky.social. Find out more and apply by 11:59pm on 8 March 2026: www.socantscot.org/news/#appoin...
We have had a fabulous start for the kickstarter for printed versions of the Rhynie big book, but we need MORE! Please support our project by buying yourself a printed copy of the Rhynie monograph! You have till 6th December to do so! www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
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For #HillfortsWednesday here's an old favourite, a view of the timber laced rampart at Castle Law, Abernethy under excavation. Photographed by P M Macintyre in 1898. 📸HES www.trove.scot/place/27917
The fort of Brae Brough, on Hoy, in Orkney, is a short distance north of the famous rock stack of the Old Man of Hoy. The fort is almost a rock stack itself with a 325m vertical drop along it’s seaward side. www.trove.scot/place/1480 #HillfortsWednesday 📸 HES
Welcome to Peeblesshire Archaeological Society's new Bluesky page! We're very much looking forward to telling you more about PAS & keeping you up to date with the Society's activities, events & lecture programme. Please follow us and, better still, share your own archaeological interests with us.
I try to avoid politics, but criticism of the Israeli state for its genocidal milliary actions in Palestine is not antisemitic. UN experts have called it a genocide. It is a fact. We can all see this.
Information about our upcoming dig at East Lomond with the Falkland Stewardship Trust - there are a series of free talks on the archaeology of East Lomond as part of our mini festival of archaeology and the open day for the dig will be 12th July. Come along and find out more!
In Fife, @mafs-scot.bsky.social are excavating the 12th-century Lindores Abbey, which has a long tradition of distilling 🥃 Visit the site from 21 June to 4 July or head to their Open Day on 3 July for site tours and a showcase of the finds: www.digitscotland.com/events/monas... #ScotlandDigs2025
Our next #TrimontiumTalk is Thurs. 12 June – not to be missed! Hillfort expert Strat Halliday, will talk about Hillforts, Settlements & Ancient Geography. In person & online -recording will be available. Thinking of becoming a member? Members enjoy all TrimontiumTalks free, year-round! #Hillforts
For anyone interested in Iron Age / Early Med forts in Scotland (hillfort being a non-preferred term in Scotland), I'd like to highlight this talk by Strat Halliday. Strat worked through all the forts in Scotland as part of the Hillforts Atlas and is one of the foremost experts on the subject.
Trimontium Trust & Museum@trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · last yr.#IronAgeBuildings #IronAgeWednesday 🗻 The Eildon Hills, where the Selgovae hillfort once stood on Eildon North. It housed over 300 roundhouses. Tomorrow, 12 June, join Strat Halliday - hillfort expert - for a talk on Iron Age settlements! zurl.co/bxydb Photo: Cicerone webpage. zurl.co/aZAGh
#IronAgeBuildings #IronAgeWednesday 🗻 The Eildon Hills, where the Selgovae hillfort once stood on Eildon North. It housed over 300 roundhouses. Tomorrow, 12 June, join Strat Halliday - hillfort expert - for a talk on Iron Age settlements! zurl.co/bxydb Photo: Cicerone webpage. zurl.co/aZAGh
Tynron Doon, in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, commands a spur of Auchengibbert Hill and has at least three lines of massive ramparts and ditches with ramparts standing up to 6.5m height and rock cut ditches from 7 to 15m in breadth. #HillfortsWednesday canmore.org.uk/site/65300/t... 📸 HES
There are just 20 days left until Canmore is retired. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, or directly to the trove team at trove@hes.scot.
Mike Middleton@wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · last yr.Here is your periodic reminder that Canmore is soon to be switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.
Ulla Rajala@ullamr.bsky.social · last yr.The bivallate Iron Age Oldbury hillfort lies 5 km west from Avebury in Wiltshire. Its defenses enclose 9 ha. There is also a hill figure of a white horse cut to the chalk on the northern side. The only excavation was in 1930 and the latest survey in 2004. #HillfortWednesday
The bivallate Iron Age Oldbury hillfort lies 5 km west from Avebury in Wiltshire. Its defenses enclose 9 ha. There is also a hill figure of a white horse cut to the chalk on the northern side. The only excavation was in 1930 and the latest survey in 2004. #HillfortWednesday
Arbory Hill Fort, in South Lanarkshire, is one of the higher forts in Scotland. The inner stone-walled rampart has been inserted into the earlier bi-vallate fort, and the outer ramparts contain at least five entrances. #HillfortsWednesday canmore.org.uk/site/47427/a... 📸HES
Trimontium Trust & Museum@trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · last yr.🏞️ Hillfort of the Week: Bell Hill 🏞️ Overlooking #Lindean Loch near #Selkirk , Bell Hill is a brilliant example of a ridge-top fort. The Borders has one of the highest concentrations of #IronAge hillforts in Europe—evidence of a thriving past in this ancient landscape.
Woden Law in the Scottish Boarders is a complex Iron Age fort with multiple phases of construction and remodeling and the fort is associated with earthworks outside the fort. The fort's relationship to these remains a question to be answered. canmore.org.uk/site/58068 #HillfortsWednesday 📸HES
Our next Trimontium Talk is coming up on June 12th! Join us for Hillforts, Settlements and Ancient Geography with Strat Halliday @ 7:30pm. Taking place both in person and online. ... Visit the link below to book your spot! 🌟 zurl.co/8tOLA
This is a really useful thread with valuable examples of differences in service. For those that can't feedback via the trove feedback form I will be screenshot posts and feeding them back to the Trove team. To help find them it would be useful if posts contained the word Trove. Thanks.
@tagishsimon.bsky.social · last yr.So I think I need to do a sober thread on just how disasterously bad the new trove.scot website is, in comparison to the sites - especially Canmore - that it's replacing. tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.
#hillfortsWednesday Bessie's Hillfort, Eskdalemuir. I don't know who Bessie was, but she kept a tidy little set of ramparts with some scooped platforms inside. Best seen as here, from the Late Iron Age settlement enclosure on the hill above.
Here is your periodic reminder that Canmore is soon to be switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.
Mike Middleton@wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · last yr.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...
Looking down from the rampart of Burnswalk, D&G, to the roman camp to the south of the fort. The Roman ballista platforms can be seen set in front of entrances which are wide enough for 40 people. This location on the rampart has been found to be saturated with lead shot. #HillfortsWednesday 📷my own
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...
Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...
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The important work of our French archaeological colleagues is at risk. Their expert-led, progressive national & regional approach to archaeology, typified by @inrap.fr, is threatened by funding cuts. Everyone, please stand in solidarity & sign this petition & please share!🏺 chng.it/jzFsMpXw8h
