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#Archaeologist #Zooarchaeologist #SGSAH funded #PhD student at #UHI #Orkney researching human- #RedDeer relationships in prehistory and NE #Scotland research officer at #Socantscot

Carving of a cockeral from Dunbeath castle
A carved image of a man on a horse drinking out of a drinking horn shaped like a birds head... although to me it looks like a man blowing up a flamingos butt 🤔😉🤪🦩
Auchmaliddie shields. Found in 1897 in a peat bog these shields date to the late Bronze Age
5 rounded stone tools purposefully placed in a semi circle dated to the Iron Age
A red sculpture made from a telephone box in the Olymoic park in London in 2012 with the cutest cutie pie looking through it... its my daughter so im biased!
Pottery Ewer with bird beak spout, cream in colour with pronounced black nipples and areola with a bulbous belly
The sounds of a cuckoo in the woods
Ceramic vessel in the shaped of a tusked board head
My daughter painting my face with illuminous paint with petroglyphs from Skara Brae and the Ness of Brodgar DigIt! Image
Steatite quarry at Catpund Shetland. A stream runs through the site and the original Norse quarry marks are still visible
A small green glass bead in someone's hand after it had been lifted out of the ground
Overgrown bank and ditch of the broch
The column shows 155 scenes
Red deer stag sitting in a copse in the Strath of Kildonan, Sutherland
The Ring of Brodgar, three of the megaliths with snowy hills in the background
Whistle made from a red deer antler beam. The pedicle and brown tine have been removed.
Bronze Age halberd dated to 2400-551BC. It has four rivet holes, but there are just 3 rivets still in situ. It has a distinctive green patina with worn edges and is 28cm long
The steep climb up Steel Rigg stone stairs case
Book, deer, hunting, nature... what's not to love!
Colosseum and Arch of Constantine
Pectoral cross with original silver suspension chain. Obscured by the chain and slightly mangled at the base of the cross is the inlay detail of a haloed figure representing St Matthew
Standing stones to the west of the Staneydale Temple, 3-4ft in height in an almost circular pattern
Sunday For fear of the Elders I sit on my bum. What's heaven A sea chest full of a thousand gold coins
Red deer metapodial and antler necklace. Some are formed beads, some are just pieces of worked bone and antler