A new song from The Innocence Mission is a small blessing on the day. youtube.com/watch?v=u_1R3I…

The Oasis ticket debacle led someone to share on here McAlmont Butler singing ‘Yes’ on an episode of Jooles Holland - I’d never heard the song before. My god what a song. I must have listened to it a 50 times in the last few days.

Our book of the month is The Mystic Spiral by Jill Purce. An exploration of the spiral from the galaxy to the smallest forms of life. A journey through ancient cultures, spiritual belief, art and much more. It is an essential book for anyone looking to explore patterns in nature.

The Vale of the White Horse (1939) by Eric Ravilious #HillfortsWednesday

Happy birthday to Paul Haig. Here he is covering Suicide's Ghost Rider on Riverside in 1983. The full song is at youtu.be/qRyT0pZAXSE

‘Remarkable’ Pictish ring discovered by volunteer - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I love that google street view has blurred out Emperor Trajan’s identity.

📣 ✨ Sea Bean: A Beachcomber’s Search for a Magical Charm by Sally Huband wins the 2023 Highland Book Prize ✨📣 Praised by the judging panel for its ‘engaging, subtle voice’, Sea Bean was selected from a shortlist of five. Congratulations! 🎉 More at highlandbookprize.org.uk/2023-winner/

So I wrote an honest and heartfelt column about Ben, and me, and the loneliness of long-term illness newstatesman.com/back-pages/202…

Unbelievably I am a finalist at the @TravelMedia_Awards 2024 and now means I need a frock to attend a swanky do at The Four Seasons Hotel London on 28 October. #TravelMediaAwards #Finalist Congratulations to everyone nominated and to Jez Lazell for the opportunity.

One of our star finds from Burghead 2023 in the press today! Found by one of our fab volunteers John Ralph bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

'It matters, he feels, that churches are living, working buildings.' Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a lyrical, whimsical, elegiac journey round the holy buildings and sites of Britain the-tls.co.uk/religion/relig…

Peter Ross Katherine O'Donnell Early medieval garnets originate from two main sources, Eastern Europe and South East Asia. We can understand this via PIXE analysis, forcing elements with the sample to give off characteristic X-rays.

Peter Ross Katherine O'Donnell The garnet that this little piece came from probably arrived sometime in the 6/7th C Ad, when gold and garnet jewellery was very fashionable in the Anglo Saxon kingdoms, like that in the Staffordshire Hoard.

Peter Ross Katherine O'Donnell Hopefully such analysis and radiocarbon dating can give us some insight into how this little sliver of garnet ended up as the centre piece of this lozenge shaped ring, possibly representing the wound of Christ, in the 8th C Ad.

We are delighted to announce the #BGPrize2024 longlist. Read more here: thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/inside-the-cov… #longlist #nonfiction Isabel Hilton @newsbrook Alison Flood Peter Hoskin Tomiwa Owolade

This is a great thread on the 'oldest pub' question. But what we can be sure of is that the oldest built structure that's now a pub (or part of a pub) is the Neolithic megalith incorporated into the Oxenham Arms in Devon (the South Zeal menhir)

There’s nothing like a picture of a small angry-looking man sitting in a graveyard to sell tickets to a book festival. Luckily, tickets for the Byres Road Book Festival are free. So please do come along on September 29. I’ll even try to smile.

New #UrbanPrehistory blog post, some nonsense about a Roman altar stone in Cumbernauld. The 'Spoons stone theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/the…