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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'm away atm. Will look at it when I'm back. Thanks!

Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jul 16

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.

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www.trove.scot/place/27917

The image shows an old black and whit photo, mounted on sepia coloured paper, with a thin red line, with arrows at each corner, framing the photograph. The photo shows the excavated rampart with a round ended shovel lent against it. Along the line of the dry stone wall there are holes where wooden beams where once located. There is rubble in the foreground, a layer of turf on top of the rampart and trees in the background.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jul 11

Sorry. Just realised these are links to the staging Trove site. You just need to take stage out of the link to get them to work.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jul 11

The township and tacksman house at Allt Na Culaig is impressive canmore.org.uk/site/352763/.... It's also an amazing example of the clearances - wall build right over the buildings at Kraiknish stage.trove.scot/place/352769. As a bonus there there's a nice dun here too stage.trove.scot/place/11042.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jul 11

I enjoyed visiting Dun Sleadale. A nice broch and a beautiful landscape. stage.trove.scot/place/11037 I'd also recommend the Fairy Glen for its unusual geological formations.

Skye, Dun Sleadale | Place | trove.scot

Find out about Skye, Dun Sleadale on trove.scot, a website from Historic Environment Scotland that holds details of more than 340,000 buildings, archaeological, industrial and maritime sites across Sc...

stage.trove.scot

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jul 9

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
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This black and white image shows the flat platform and precipitous cliffs around the promontory fort of Brae Brough on Hoy in Orkney.

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Peeblesshire Archaeological Society @peeblesarchsoc.bsky.social · Jul 4

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.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jun 30

Very cool. How have I not seen this before? Thanks for sharing.

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · Jun 26

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!

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · Jun 23

Join us at Aberdeen Archaeology! www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/departments/archaeology

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

Several people in high-vis looking at a person talking near a trench

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jun 18

#HillfortsWednsday

North Ages @northages.bsky.social · Jun 17

Dundurn dendrochronological and radiocarbon analysis: Utilising modern techniques to learn more about early medieval Scotland www.socantscot.org/uncategorize...

Dundurn dendrochronological and radiocarbon analysis - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Utilising modern techniques to learn more about early medieval Scotland

www.socantscot.org

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jun 11

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 · Jun 11

#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

This picture shows the Mid and South Eildon Hills from a view of the Tweed River. The hills are green with trees leading across them.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · Jun 11

#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

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jun 11

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...

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A rather dark aerial photo of the fort covered in a thin dusting of snow. The snow highlights the ramparts and ditches and can be seen as particularly massive toward the right of the image. In the enter there is a central enclosure and to the left a smaller annex can be seen. On the steeper slopes to the top there is a plantation of pine trees.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jun 5

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 [email protected].

Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · May 14

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.

The original home page of the Canmore website showing the frontage of John Sinclair House, the former home of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jun 4

#HillfortsWednesday

Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jun 4

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...

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Aerial photo showing the three ramparts of Arbory Hill Fort in an open upland moorland.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · Jun 4

The feed catches any post containing the words bronze age in the text or alt text and I can see the feed has already caught it. Thanks for contributing!

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · May 30

A new chapter. Good luck!

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · May 28

#HillfortsWednesday

Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · May 28

🏞️ 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.

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · May 28

Lovely colours and great for seeing the hut platforms.

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