The connection between megalithic monuments and the sun is well known, but what about the moon? In our joint talk with Calanais Standing Stones & Visitor Centre, we explored Scotland's Neolithic monuments and the significance of these celestial bodies to those who built them: youtu.be/eq5EVhjwI6M

Day 2 Kings Park Stirling and our 4000 year old burial cairn awakes from a winter slumber! #scotlanddigs2024

What a joy to visit the new Perth Museum and see lots of my work looking so vibrant in the galleries with my name attached It was also a joy to to be with 3 of the best crafts people discussing the other items from knives shoes to pigments. Forteviot daggers and originals

Outlier Nether Largie standing stone, with the Nether Largie South Cairn in the background, Kilmartin Glen. #StandingStoneSunday

Callanish / Calanais #StandingStoneSunday

Charles Rennie MacKintosh's 1890s Queen's Cross Church, a building I never tire of seeing whenever I pass it on my travels around Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #charlesrenniemackintosh #queenscrosschurch #glasgowbuildings #church #glasgowchurches

Fragment of an axehead of Langdale tuff In the Early Neolithic a pristine, perhaps unused axehead was struck seemingly randomly and with some energy. The pieces were moved around or passed on, sometimes buried

Brutal Glasgow teessidepsychogeography.wordpress.com/2024/08/15/bru… via Ironopolis

Shap Avenue is possibly England's lost wonder of the prehistoric world. Below is all the information you will ever need to know about it! 🤩 #archaeology #lakedistrict #StandingStonesSunday - Once a Massive Monument: Shap Avenue was likely a massive double stone row, potentially

The sun creeps above the Fell of Barhullion, from the Blairbuy Stones, Monreith, Galloway. #StandingStoneSunday #Scotland

I’m on the latest episode of You’re Dead to Me, talking all about cave art with the wonderful Greg Jenner and Seán Burke! This was SO much fun to do! If you want to hear to me take them into a cave and rant about warty pigs, check it out here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The Fyfield Polissoir which we were lucky enough to be taken to by Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) on Friday. The polished surfaces catching the sun and shedding the rains for just how long? The sounds and gestures of the grinding process were very easy to conjure up. #StandingStoneSunday

September is Scottish Archaeology Month ⛏ Jane Flint, Curator of Pre-Historic Archaeology, looks at the Badden Cist Slab located in the Scotland’s First People gallery at Kelvingrove 👀 #PeopleMakeKelvingrove #Life Scottish Archaeology Month

Forgotten Woodlands / Coilltean Caillte: an online map of 15,000 Scottish place names that suggest the presence of woodland storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9b790d…

the Grey Cairns of Camster (Caithness). The Long Cairn #TombTuesday

The Wrens Egg, near Monreith in Galloway. #StandingStoneSunday #Scotland

The Goggleby Stone, Shap Cumbria. It was described by Aubrey Burl as ‘looking like a bulbous triangular avocado’ #StandingStoneSunday

#TombTuesday Kernic (Guirnivit) #Brittany #Finistere #Bretagne

Series two of Stone Me will go live in 10 days! Join me as I hear from experts at some of the most glamorous and beautiful neolithic monuments in Scotland. And also at some that are, ah, just about invisible to the naked eye. #neolithic #archaeology