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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 1d

OK I’ve got this thing in my office. What should I do with it?

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 1d

🎯 Our #totaliser reaches 83%!

Can YOU help us get over the line?

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Fundraiser target, with £8,255 of £10,000 raised.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a given.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll ask Gareth to do that for me!

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Animate it with augmented reality

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 1d

OK I’ve got this thing in my office. What should I do with it?

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Good turnout on a dreich night for a talk I did this evening on the archaeology of the @glasgowgardenfestival.org
project to the Bearsden & Milngavie Heritage Society. Nice to see so many familiar and friendly faces!

Audience for a talk about After the Garden Festival project by Kenny Brophy in Bearsden.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age, 3000 - 2000 BCE

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Always a pleasure to visit the incredible Ballochmyle rock art panel in Ayrshire. I visited today with the Dundonald Castle YAC and the kids enjoyed doing some rock art recording! This is truly a hidden gem of Scottish archaeology.

YAC members recording rock art at Ballochmyle

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone should have a lunchtime megalith

thebotmakes.bsky.social @thebotmakes.bsky.social · 4d

The Gogar Stone in Edinburgh. Not the biggest stone but close enough to my work to make it a lunchtime megalith, and i was grinning like an idiot on the way back to work at the thought of that 😀 #StandingStoneSunday @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t believe Peter Cushing made Star Wars and Shock Waves in the same year. Two fascist roles!

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 7d

Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 6d

First week of term, first year of study, evening teaching, from Birkbeck to British Museum, from gallery to study room, from Neolithic Cumbria to Bronze Age Cambridgeshire through the connection of Langdale stone, from gold cup to gold-makers hoard.

Birkbeck students in gallery 51, hearing (and seeing in materials) stories of deposition and things with Neil Wilkin.

Birkbeck students around a table watching and listening to Petra Jones describe the objects (their connections and biographies) that she brings out of small plastic boxes onto the table.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 6d

Professor Bernard Quatermass handling a Beaker (from Quatermass IV, 1979)

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 6d

a muppet with red hair and a white coat is standing with his arms outstretched .

ALT: a muppet with red hair and a white coat is standing with his arms outstretched .

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 6d

The mind boggles

Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 6d

Professor Bernard Quatermass handling a Beaker (from Quatermass IV, 1979)

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 8d

Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy is advertising for a new Chair. Take a look - It's a great role to help shape Scottish archaeology archaeologystrategy.scot/scotlands-ar...

Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy Committee Needs a New Chair! – Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy

archaeologystrategy.scot

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Clonehenge @clonehenge.bsky.social · 8d

That's the World Park #Stonehenge near Beijing! A pretty good one in my opinion.

老马 @macleoid.co · 9d

世界公园

Olympus E-M1 Mk II
Olympus M.40–150mm

A woman taking a photo on her phone. In the background is a replica of the Twin Towers, formerly of New York City.

A worker attaching red lanterns to a lamppost.

A replica of Stonehenge. A giant inflatable moon hovers ominously in the background.

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Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social · 11d

@johnpower.bsky.social gave me a look at the newest issue of Wyrd Science, which includes a kind and thoughtful review of the academic collection Nigel Kneale and Horror which I edited. As far as I’m aware, this is the first published review; anyone wanting to review it can contact LUP!

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 8d

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:

fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve started doing some work with the incredible Ronald Morris archive with a small team of @uofglasgow.bsky.social archaeology
students. I’ll share some gems in the coming months. Here’s Ronald himself! 📸 HES

Ronald Morris at Achnabreac rock art site

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 8d

Well done old son!!

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 8d

BAJR Guide 63: Metal Detecting in Archaeology: Techniques and Strategies

Clive Hammett
Honorary Associate Research Fellow
University of Exeter

This is a long overdue, comprehensive, but easy to follow guidance in the use of detecting within an archaeological context.

www.bajr.org/bajr-guide-t...

BAJR Guide to Metal Detecting - a methodical approach - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources

written by Clive HammettHonorary Associate Research FellowUniversity of Exeter The use of metal detecting within archaeology as a standard technique is weakly defined, rarely mandated and its use is a...

www.bajr.org

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 10d

These miniatures from the folk horror range of wargames manufacturer Crooked Dice Games are so Scuttler’s Cove and Withered Hill. Maybe we should do a tabletop game.

crooked-dice.co.uk/collections/...

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