Gavin MacGregor

🆕🔎 This powerful new blog and #openaccess article by Gabriela Oré Menéndez for the SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social reflects on #disability, #accessibility and #inclusion in #archaeology, challenging assumptions about who can participate and belong in the discipline. 🔗 https://cup.org/478hd29

Trialling the 360degree video room to share impressions from our dig on remote Oronsay. 🏺 With @clmorgan.bsky.social on the controls and @archsoundscapes.bsky.social digging in the background. @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

An incredible whirlwind of a day today, installing the 'Faces of Dura-Europos' in the National Museum of Damascus, then greeting wonderful guests, including people from Dura (who travelled across the country to join us) and the Minister of Culture. So grateful for my incredible team and colleagues.

'What a colossal two-fingers to the Scottish people' SNP must demand broadcasting powers after death of BBC Scotland || @neilmackay.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/poli... 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵

Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) – one of the greatest European poets of the 20th century – was born #OTD, 26 Oct A 🎂🧵 Watch “Sorley MacLean’s Island” via @natlibscot.bsky.social – Sorley MacLean in conversation with fellow writer Iain Crichton Smith #poetry movingimage.nls.uk/film/3141

Living With The Sea This is work I did (exactly 20 years ago) & may give you a brief glimpse into the lives of a couple of families who work on the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. Visit this bay at high tide, it looks wild and empty, but as the tide falls... 1/11

Final week to help secure the huge Rothbury Estate for the future, for #NatureRecovery, wildlife, heritage & public benefit. To stop parts being broken up & sold off. Well over £28million donated so far, very close to @northwildlife.bsky.social‘s goal. ➡️ www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...

That’s the common theme in what I’m writing I think. White mid-upper class academic men are allowed to have flaws, allowed to do (actually terrible) things, and have them forgiven/forgotten. But for w-class men (Bill Varley), women (Maud Cunnington), MOC (Arday) one mistake or flaw is unforgivable.

How Does a Grassroots Digital Community Become Cultural Heritage? 'Intangible cultural heritage begins with communities, groups and individuals recognizing their practices as part of their own cultural heritage [But] What exactly is the community?' andrzej.lichnerowicz.pl/en/blog/2026... (via Scour)

And finding those moments, joy and wonder against the relentless storm ...

Hidden Door Festival will be back in 2027 and we're now inviting artists, performers and makers to get involved. We transform overlooked and unusual urban spaces into temporary festivals filled with art, music, movement and stories. Check our website for full details #HiddenDoorFestival

If you would like to support artists, come and buy direct at the #artcarbootsale at the #briggait Glasgow on November 7th and 8th. I'll be selling prints, books, objects and a flag.

Trying to raise funds for veterans to build an Iron Age chariot at @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the superb @timeteam.bsky.social covering it. All funds hugely appreciated gofund.me/6ecd8eeb1

@elizabethsulis.bsky.social’s ‘The Book of Beasts’ removes the distinctions between humans and animals, encouraging us to be less bordered, less exact; more beast, writes Anna Goldreich www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/10/the-...

Really lovely article on archaeology through the eyes of archaeologists' 'spouses, parents, children, and close friends' - just published in Public Archaeology: 'Archaeological Osmosis or How Is Archaeology Seen by Those Who Share Our Lives?' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This Saturday. Fun workshops, a neurodivergent-friendly space, readings from our most exciting eco poets, make your own ‘Book of Bogs’, open mic, bog-themed disco. For poetry lovers, nature lovers, bog lovers. With Brontë Parsonage in Haworth, 10am—5pm. Book here: www.bronte.org.uk/events/poetr...

Decisions about land can have a big impact on the communities who live on or near it. Join our free webinar to explore new community engagement requirements, what they could mean for you and how to have your say in the Scottish Government's consultation. buff.ly/BciZukd

Our Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar this year is "Activating/Excavating Archives", and we're thrilled that @clmorgan.bsky.social will be kicking it off with Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity All welcome! Abstract and sign-up linked below!

The net zero transition has the potential to create up to 40,000 more energy jobs than will be lost, but leaving it to market forces will fail workers. We need a proactive green industrial strategy backed by effective labour market planning. www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...

The cost of carbon pollution is about $2,000 per tonne or $860 per barrel. Far higher than the sale price of the barrel. This means that a company or government not paying to avoid, mitigate or repair that damage is dumping the cost onto someone else. i.e. all of us. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fb reminded me of this article written by @lemoustier.bsky.social @brennawalks.bsky.social @suziebirch.bsky.social and @toriherridge.bsky.social that is worth re-reading again. Published 10 years ago, don't think it's out of date!

The Leiden Statement on the 2027 EAA Annual Meeting The Faculty Board of the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University has shared a statement on its role as host of the 2027 EAA Annual Meeting. Please find the statement and the EAA Executive Board response here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA2027/Leid...

Day 19 of #31DaysOfGraves - Water This is the grave of Lilias Adie, a woman from Torryburn in Fife who was accused in 1704 of being a witch, who was imprisoned, tortured, "confessed" and sadly died while she was locked up. The superstitious villagers buried her between the low and high tide mark.

🏺 I often say #archaeology matters, and here's a brilliant case of exceptional impacts from a workshop course held in a male adult prison. It's uplifting, but also 💔: "The tactile nature of archaeology appealed to participants, as touch is often absent in prison." doi.org/10.1080/1465...

Jackie Kay. Len Pennie. Hannah Lavery. Three distinctive Scottish poetic voices, together for one unmissable Poetry Showcase at St Andrew’s Book Festival London. Don't miss it. Explore the programme and book now: www.standrewsbookfestival.org 16th to 22nd November 2026.

David v Goliath on Teesside: @ladyhaja.bsky.social talks to filmmaker @jeaniefinlay.com about her brilliant, infuriating documentary All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea about the industrial pollution decimating the north-east coast’s ecosystem #AllRiversSpill

And when those seasons, of light whisper through time... The Clava Cairns were constructed around 2000 BC. Like many megalithic monuments incorporate light into their architecture, in this case the midwinter sun shining along the passage. #StandingStoneSunday #scotland

Light finds a Way - Callanish #StandingStoneSunday #isleoflewis

Crowdfunder for ongoing community fieldwork by Thornborough #Archaeology Group. This project is dedicated to geophysical survey at the Neolithic henges of North Yorkshire to fully record these remarkable sites. Thank you. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/recording-...

And when those seasons, of light whisper through time... The Clava Cairns were constructed around 2000 BC. Like many megalithic monuments incorporate light into their architecture, in this case the midwinter sun shining along the passage. #StandingStoneSunday #scotland

Margaret Macdonald ( 1864 – 1933) artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s to 1900s. ##WomensArt #GlasgowGirls

Blue glass bead from #MustFarm - made in Iran in the 9th century BC and lost to the bottom of a fenland river c. 850BC #InternationalArchaeologyDay

Solved the drilling puzzle now for another one from back in the summer. Any ideas what this is? Located up on Ecton Hill, #Wardlow #Derbyshire at the site of the abandoned copper mines.

Check out our South American Archaeology collection, with FREE and #OpenAccess #archaeology like: 🏝️ Human-environment interaction in the Caribbean 🛞 How off-road racing threatens iconic geoglyphs ⛰️ Interpretation of an iconic Andean monument & more! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Materialisation of the collective incredulity-pity-scorn-rage-exhaustion we all feel having to live through peak patriarchal capitalist masculinity

There are still a few places left on my online poetry short course, ‘Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition’. Fortnightly on Tuesday evenings, 20th October - 15 December, 7.00-9.00. More information and booking details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-b...

A new documentary on the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe airs tonight on PBS. I interviewed the lead archaeologist, Shadreck Chirikure, and if you click through, you can watch an exclusive clip showing the team's discovery of Longquan celadon from eastern China. 🧪🏺

CANCER CHANGED EVERYTHING. Now we're firing 200 ceramic boobs in a Roman kiln for Breast Cancer Now! 🎀🔥 💗 We've pledged £500 in total to match donations pound for pound until the fund runs out. Help us raise £1,000 👇 www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-l... #BreastCancerNow

A good example of how questioning human-nature dualism and using creative practices can help to imagine more inspiring and transformative futures than model-based scenario planning.

Applications are open again for @socantscot.bsky.social Audrey Henshall Legacy Fund. Deadline 30th November.

More interesting research that shows the relevance of understanding the deep past to understand the present and for making sustainable decisions for the future theconversation.com/colonisation...

Just one more week to the first ButCH lunchtime discussion "Does Heritage Really Matter" Oct 12th 1.15 - 2 GMT (link below and in alt text) >

There are still a few places left on my online creative writing (poetry) short course, ‘Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition’. More information and booking details can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-b...

When time reflects, we encounter, ripples of disruption ... Hundred Year Stone (1995) by Peter Randall-Page celebrating 100 years of @nationaltrust.org.uk located on Derwent Water. #scupture #Landscape #change #Keswick #lakedistrict