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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 16h

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?

You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...

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Bursaries

Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 20h

Huge turnout last night to celebrate Orkney poaching Jimmy Perez from Shetland. Sadly Ann Cleaves didn't do any keepy uppies on stage, so we just had to make do with her being witty, kind and insightful instead.

Ann Cleaves and Stuart Bain on stage at Kirkwall Grammar School theatre

Goons enjoying an audience with Ann Cleaves to mark the launch of her new Jimmy Perez novel set in Orkney; the Killing Stones.

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 2d

Why shouldn't vultures be allowed to have nice shoes? Good luck to them, I say!

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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 2d

The UHI Archaeology Institute team behind Uist Unearthed is looking for an assistant for the next stage of the award-winning, virtual #archaeology project.

Western Isles job opportunity with new virtual archaeology project

Augmented reality at Cladh Hallan, South Uist. The UHI Archaeology Institute team behind Uist Unearthed is looking for an assistant for the next stage of the award-winning, virtual archaeology project. The full-time position, which runs from January 2026 to May 2027, is to help deliver the new Barra and Harris Unearthed project. Since it was launched in 2021…

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 3d

Go Rose!!!

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 3d

The exhibition at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes consists of screenprints, paintings and relief prints, alongside books, lithographs, prints, paintings, drawings and maps drawn from the museum's own collection.

Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape - BBC News

Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 7d

UHI HAF Squadron!

UHI Archaeology Institute and Centre for History staff (Martin Caruthers, Ben Elliott, Scott Timpany, Lucy Dean), students (Holly Young)and alumni (Darroch Brett) at the Highland Archaeology Festival 2025

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 9d

Incredible stuff Izzy!

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 10d

Fun at the Highland Archaeology Festival this weekend in sunny, leafy Inverness. @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social staff, students and alumni all well represented! Lovely to see some of the Tarradale Through Time team and feedback on our latest post ex results. Managed to dodge the marathon runners.

Scott Timpany presenting his results of charcoal analysis from Culduthel.

Holly Young presenting results of her doctoral research at Nybster as part of the Highland Archaeology Festival

Martin Caruthers presenting results from the Swartigill excavations as part of the Highland Archaeology Festival

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 13d

140 hours of paid work for anyone on an Arts and Humanities doctoral programme at a Scottish HEI, co-ordinating the incredible @sgsah.bsky.social Earth Scholarship programmes 2026 Symposium. Closes 16/10/25. Go go go!
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-ea...

SGSAH EARTH Scholarship Coordinator

The British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarships is an annual programme that has run since 2023 with funding support from the British Council, see link for more details https://www.sgsah.ac.uk...

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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 13d

The #archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.

New interactive book puts the spotlight on the archaeology of Uist

The archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.

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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 18d

To celebrate #HeritageOpenDays and Archaeology Scotland's #ScottishArchaeologyMonth, we’ve made two of our This is Archaeology lectures open access for one week only!

Uist Unearthed:
👉 youtu.be/DYuHN3wUsSc

Dead Isle:
👉 youtu.be/dVbnxMaUNWU

This is Archaeology: Uist Unearthed

YouTube video by Council for British Archaeology

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 18d

Silliness happening post MESO25

Three archaeologists talking nonsense over dinner after the MESO25 conference in Ferrara

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 18d

Mesolithic DEATH SQUAD! Great sessions and papers on mesolithic mortuary practices at Ferrara 2025. Lots of beers and pasta and silliness afterwards.

Four mesolithic osteologists sitting on stone steps in Ferrara after the MESO25 conference

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 29d

Test audience for these wonderful colouring sheets our new PhD student Tayla has prepared for our event on Sunday 14th at UoA. Tayla is joining PALaEoScot to work on fragmentary bones from late glacial-early Holocene sites in Scotland using molecular approaches - she’s quite the artist too!

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 29d

Big turnout at WSC on Sunday for our Orkney International Science Festival event. Cultural Geologies of Neolithic Orkney with Mark, followed by ruined Guatemala beach resorts with Diego Contreras' LAMENTO, topped off by fast and slow stone architectures with Viktor Kossakovsky's Architecton.

Post for showing of Architecton at West Side Cinema Stromness

Mark Edmonds delivering lecture at West Side Cinema Stromness

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · Aug 19

Great opportunity for anyone with project management experience who fancies a slice of island life... We would love to develop cool new projects that bring some Islands Deal benefits to Orkney!
www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Staff - Vacancies - Project Manager - TalEntEd Islands - University of the Highlands and Islands

Current listing of UHI jobs with vacancies from all across our partnership.

www.uhi.ac.uk

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Aug 18

Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage 2026-27 will open on 1 September. This innovative public engagement programme requires UK researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Find out more: buff.ly/efUOSoL

SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 15

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · Aug 15

How excited should archaeologists be allowed to get about interim reports?

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · Aug 14

Disappointing I know

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · Aug 13

Picked the right day to head to Spurness. UHI Archaeology students playing a key role in demonstrating that what was once thought to be a Bronze Age double house is in fact Early Neolithic. Orcadian Chalcolithic settlement slips through our fingers once again...
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/08/13/s...

Spurness 2025: dig diary day ten - Archaeology Orkney

The penultimate day of excavation saw a buzz across the site as we race to get as much done before backfilling the site on Friday.

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fresh off the press - latest from the LAST project: "Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now" (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to all contributors, and to my great co-editors: Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm and Noa Lavi!!

Under Pressure?

This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards

link.springer.com

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · Jul 24

I was there on Saturday and this was so exciting. Of course it turned up on the Open Day! An amazing find from Skaill Farm, and one very proud UHI student. Great work Katie!

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · Jul 23

The shipwreck uncovered in Sanday, #Orkney last year has been identified as HMS Hind, later the Earl of Chatham which was wrecked in the Bay of Lopness in 1788.

More than 230 years buried in the seabed, before being released by a storm in 2024.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Archaeologists identify 250-year-old Shipwreck in Orkney

Scientific analysis and community-led research led to the identification of the Earl of Chatham, which was found last year.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · Jul 21

A first for Scotland! I love these degrees, and the graduates they have produced elsewhere in the UK. Very excited to be able to support this option for our students at UHI moving forward. If you're interested in hosting a placement student, get in touch!

UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · Jul 21

The UHI Archaeology Institute has added two new “year in industry” undergraduate degrees to our portfolio - the first and only two of their kind in Scotland. Click the link for full details.
#archaeology #studyarchaeology #undergraduate #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney

New ‘year in industry’ archaeology degrees are a first for Scotland

We’re delighted to announce the addition of two new “sandwich” undergraduate degrees to our portfolio - the first and only two of their kind in Scotland.

archaeologyorkney.com

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