Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

David Stott

@davstott.bsky.social

2.4K followers 790 following 660 posts

Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people. GIS, remote sensing, archaeology. Tinkerer. Glaswegian in Jutland. Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc. .. more

Videos

History 18%

Political science 15%

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · Nov 13

There's enough of us now to do one of these!

go.bsky.app/M9FwG2K

🏺

17 23 64

Reposted by David Stott

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19h

Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it.

8 12

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

Except instead of the Kraftwerk robot voice Trans- Pennine Express should be sung with sighing resignation in anticipation of inevitable delay

1 2

Reposted by David Stott

Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.bsky.social · 3d

Tirsdag er "befæstede landsbyer fra jernalderen"-dag.

1 2 27

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

Obligatory survey drone selfie

2 archaeologists standing on an eroded summit. One of them (called me) is waving at the drone. Behind us a steep valley.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4d

Nasty stuff this maquis. Still there's archaeology in there somewhere. It will just take some experimenting to classify which points are the ground and which are the vegetation.

1 1 3

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 5d

I don't lust after many things, but Gandolfi plate cameras are one of them

youtube.com/watch?v=Z4nf...

1974: Gandolfi Brothers Handmade Cameras | Industrial Grand Tour | Making of... | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

youtube.com

2 1 2

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 5d

@heidewnoergaard.bsky.social made a pal in the bushes #moesgaard

A praying mantis on a WHS pointing trowel.

A praying mantis resting on somebody's shoulder

2 1 2

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 5d

Survey continues at Matzanni. 🏺

A drone taking off beside a paddock. In the foreground an information sign about the site. In the background dense vegetation. More on that later

A drone on an orange landing pad. In the background a signet to the site and maquis vegetation

A GNSS base station high up on a mountain side.

1 1 4

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 6d

I do keep calling them brochs by mistake.

1 2

Reposted by David Stott

gedge.bsky.social @gedge.bsky.social · 6d

Must get back there while I still have a driving licence!

Nurage with cloud behind looking like beer foam

1 1 2

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Christina Pagel, David Stott

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 8d

At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!

Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a Roman-era wooden toy sword made from oak. It is dark brown in colour, displayed against a cream and pale green background. It is carved to look like an adult sword, with a semi-circular handle, a blade with pointed tip, and a semi-circular guard embellished with a centrally-set oval polished stone. The wood is remarkably well-preserved except for a break across the hilt. Excavated in 2017 from the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda, a fort on the Roman Empire’s northern frontier. Dated c. AD 120.

11 100 520

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 9d

For something a bit different we're out surveying the Nuragic sanctuary at Matzanni in Sardinia with drone lidar.

We're part of the Augustinus Fonden supported Metals and Giants project.

#mosegaard #moesgaardmuseum 🏺

A drone, its case and in the background a GNSS base station on a Sardinian mountain side.

An archaeologist surveys a ground control point using a GNSS receiver. They're on top of a robbed-out hut. In the background cork oak.

2 2 22

Reposted by David Stott

Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com · 9d

A temptress in the desert, but be careful. Check out those feet! The Temptation of St Antony by Master Girard (c.1470-1500) on display in Sam Fogg Gallery, London. #LateAntiquityBluesky

A 15th century painting depicting a grey bearded man in brown and black monk’s robes looking at a most comely woman in richly adorned contemporary fashions. The feet peeking out beneath the hem of her dress are birdlike talons, the feet of a devil in disguise.

2 4 19

Reposted by Erik Champion, David Stott

Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · 9d

Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place.

@megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday

Drystone facade with large megalithic stones forming entrance to passage entering large cairn

Passage of cairn with large stone side slabs all covered incised decoration and with stone slab floor and capstones

Large standing forming side slab of passage. Covered in incised decoration comprising rainbow 🌈 shaped forms, large ones in middle and smaller to side.

View into large square chamber at end of passage. Two large decorated backslabs and massive single paving stone.

10 82 320

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman, Judith Jesch, David Stott

Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.bsky.social · 10d

A cool way to illustrate #Viking ships? Paint them on a pane of glass and set it up by the sea.

4 49 250

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 10d

Transcendental mundanity is why I love Martin Parr so much.

1 1

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks again- that looks very helpful.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks! That's helpful for an archaeologist in an asynchronous state of knowledge

1 1

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 10d

Someone left t' cake out in t' rain

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10d

Rain spoils a Jubilee street party, Elland, Yorkshire, 1977, photo by Martin Parr.

1 3

Reposted by David Stott

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10d

Rain spoils a Jubilee street party, Elland, Yorkshire, 1977, photo by Martin Parr.

2 12 78

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11d

Sådan

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11d

That should have been an exclamation point instead of a question mark.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11d

Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again?

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11d

Nice! I've been doing some experiments with fluorescence imaging of in-situ archaeological soil profiles. We sometimes pick up mycelial hyphae. I'm finding it difficult to find my way into the literature about fluorescence & fungi. Any good suggestions on where to start?

1 1

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, David Stott

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11d

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife.

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology

The picture shows a terracotta horse with a rider on four wheels.

4 87 370

Reposted by David Stott

Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 11d

Called an icosahedron, the 20-sided dice was an item common to #Greek and #Roman diviners. The dice, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was found in #Egypt. Made of serpentinite, it's inscribed with Greek letters.
#archaeology #History

4 9 68

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11d

Snaptun tash!

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11d

😳

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Indfører droneforbud over Danmark

Private droneflyvninger er forbudt fra mandag til fredag for at sikre arbejdsro for politiet under EU-topmøde.

www.dr.dk

Reposted by Holger Nehring, Kathleen Kennedy, Mary Burke , and 1 more Holger Nehring, Kathleen Kennedy, Mary Burke, David Stott

Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 11d

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Black and white photo looking down a street of terraced brick houses. Several cars line each side of the street, with many people gathered at the far end. Beyond this the bow of a large oil tanker can be seen, towering above the end of the street and the rows of houses.

41 300 1.4K

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 12d

To be truly perfect it also needs a stationers

1 2