Andrew Durie, the last Catholic Bishop of Whithorn before the Reformation, died in Edinburgh in 1558 from shock during a riot when Protestants disrupted a procession in honour of St Giles. His successor, Alexander Gordon, later joined the Protestants in 1560. #WhithornWednesday

🆕📢New paper alert! "A Catalogue of British #BronzeAge Axes, Including Basic Typology, Compositional Analyses and Associated #Radiocarbon Dates" by Andrew Bevan and colleagues:tinyurl.com/jwntvzay It gathers data from British Museum, Portable Antiquities & Treasure and MicroPasts #Archaeology

It was splendid afternoon last year chatting with Stone Me about the fantastic Historic Scotland Historic Environment Scotland Cairn Holy And now you can listen to the episode, either through your favourite podcast app or via stonemepodcast.com/programmes/cai…

#FindsFriday we will take a look at some of the stone excavated and found on-site at the Priory. An incomplete slab with a carved cross, 3D model by Global Digital Heritage buff.ly/3A9YM0d . Then some images of the figures found around the romanesque doorway in the Priory

October 30, 1300, England and Scotland agreed to a peace brokered by France at Dumfries, pausing their conflict during the Wars of Scottish Independence until May 21, 1301. After, King Edward withdrew to England following his invasion of Annandale, Nithsdale, and Galloway. #OTD

Some more fun on-site with young people in the 80's and 90's for this week's #ThrowbackThursday. Working in the trenches, cleaning small finds and glass-blowing lessons from a wizard! It is wonderful to see how vibrant and exciting excavation visits were then. #TBT