It's been a great first week at #HESsupported Hilton of Cadboll! We've excavated more midden in T1🦴 and started investigations nearer the chapel⛪️Come to the open day this Saturday 23rd 10-3pm to find out more!
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Neolithic pot from the bottom of a Scottish loch!
#ScotlandDigs2023 #Neolithic #archaeology IslandsofStone Rebecca Ferreira Fraser Sturt Stephanie Blankshein Felix Pedrotti Duncan Garrow Rodrigo Ortiz
Burghead 2023 👌
It was another vintage year. Some amazing finds (this disc headed iron pin will be amazing once cleaned), perfect Pictish hearths and a brilliant team…
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On Monday I head over to Arran with many amazing colleagues & a team of students to resume excavation of Drumadoon cursus, the most complete Neolithic cursus in the UK. Watch out of updates via #Drumadoon2023 & a blog launching next week. #ScotlandDigs2023
We’ve had another great day on site with exciting finds including a 18th c. decorated pipe bowl and the rim of a possible 16th or 17th c. face jug(?). Deturfing continues and a beautiful slab floor is emerging inside our structure! #ScotlandDigs2023 #Glencoe2023
DIG STARTS TOMORROW!
We’re opening trenches tomorrow, please do come down for a look. Full dig info here 👇
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*the coast path will be temp closed at the dig site - signage will be in place for alt routes, and our team will assist also 😊 #ScotlandDigs2023
#ScotlandDigs2023 #Glencoe2023 We’ve had another cracking day on site today with interesting deposits emerging under the collapse! Lots of lovely finds too including these stars - a pair of bells, decorated pottery, a bawbee coin(?), some fowling shot(?) and a trading token!
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You can check out our excavation site in Glencoe on sketchfab here: skfb.ly/oLAJw, and find out more about why we use photogrammetry for site recording here: …encoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/fie…
Another good day on site, started deturfing the second trench and planned out our test pitting strategy for the adjoining kailyard. There’s the beginning of a slab floor appearing inside the structure! #ScotlandDigs2023 #Glencoe2023
We've had huge demand for our dig spaces, and we now have a full team of public diggers for Sept!
If you’ve missed out but would still like to come along and help, drop-in activities are available - turn up any time on 8th, 9th & 10th Sept to take part.
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Join us this September for East Lothian Archaeology & Heritage Fortnight. The programme is out now, and it’s jam-packed with exciting events! see: eastlothian.gov.uk/archaeology-fo…
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We've got many exciting stories to tell about the summerhouse of MacIain we have been excavating in Glencoe. We have high status imported ceramics, a sudden abandonment, ritual deposits, spoliation and 19th-20th century tourism. #ScotlandDigs2023 #Glencoe2023 (C) Hannah McLean
Get yourself down (or up!) to Dunsapie Hillfort in Holyrood Park this Saturday for our open day! We're doing trench tours from 11am-2pm and you can also check out some of our finds from the season 🕵️ #holyroodarchaeology #HESsupported #scotlanddigs2023
A great day at the dig - last chance to come and see it all tomorrow! Find us at Cockenzie Harbour! #ScotlandDigs2023 #EastLothian
Heading into site for our final day of recording and sampling - before we backfill tomorrow! Yesterday we produced trench and site photomodels, conventional excavation photographs and section drawings! #ScotlandDigs2023 #Glencoe2023
You can check out this update on our summer #Glencoe2023 fieldschool in the amazing Oban and Lochaber Times!
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#ScotlandDigs2023 I'll be heading up to Glencoe this weekend to prepare for our field school starting Monday - you can follow our progress with #Glencoe2023 or on our new and shiny blog where we will be posting daily updates from our teams! …encoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com
Just a quick reminder that our Open Day at Hilton of Cadboll is this Saturday 23rd September, 10am - 3pm. Hourly tours, a chance to see archaeologists at work & check out some of the artefacts! #scotlanddigs2023 #HESSupported Scottish Archaeology Month
