Twitter account of the @ArchScot Learning Team. Scottish archaeology - learning, engagement and participation.

Joined April 2015
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Great final @ArchScot Attainment through Archaeology workshop with the fantastic pupils from @TrinityAc_ESB🤩 Exploring Victoria Park, using #STEM skills to locate, mark out and recreate the former bandstand. Bronze Heritage Hero Awards all round👏 #SPFoundation #HESsupported
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Having lots of fun🦖😄 but also reflecting on learning and skills developed, and sharing feedback🙂
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We have a special Scotland Online Young Archaeologists' Club workshop this Saturday to celebrate St Andrew’s Day!🎉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Exploring Saints and Pilgrimage in Early Medieval Scotland - quizzes, activities and lots of interesting info for 8-16 year olds. Sign up👇 Scotland Online YAC
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📸Cast of a medieval stone mould for a pilgrim’s medal. Made of plaster, stained brown with a cross and a saint side by side. Found in St. Andrews Kirk, North Berwick. Original - East Lothian Council Museums @JohnGrayCentre collection. @ArchScot 3D model👇 skfb.ly/6CzL8
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Exploring Victoria Park in #Leith with young people on our latest Attainment through Archaeology project. 📍Locating the site of the bandstand following an intro to historic maps using the @ArchScot @natlibscot 🗺️Mapping History resource👇 digital.nls.uk/mapping-histo… #HESsupported
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Another busy week for the @ArchScot Learning Team!😅 ⛴️ Return from Shetland Science Fair 🎉#SPFoundation Awards event in Glasgow 🦺4 workshops with pupils in East Ayrshire & Leith 🧑‍🎓Talk to @EdinArch students 💻Scotland Online YAC workshop This week’s random 📸👇😂 #HESsupported
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📸Thanks to P6/7 pupils from Ochiltree Primary School who are taking part in the @CoalfieldCLP dig and who found and identified this artefact for us! #ContemporaryArchaeology
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We are very excited to be at @ScottishPower HQ for the Scottish Power Foundation Awards 2024. We’re delighted to be shortlisted in the education category. Wish us luck!🤞
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We may not have won but what a fantastic evening hearing about all the incredible #SPFoundation projects. 🎉Congratulations to all the winners, so inspiring!🎉
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🌊🔬 We brought our @ScottishPower-funded Energy through Time project to the Shetland Science Fair! ✨Over 2 days, 250 students from Shetland schools got hands-on with archaeology workshops, designed water wheels and tackled climate change’s impact on Shetland’s heritage!
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Brilliant to welcome @crookstoncastle primary to the Castle today for #OutdoorClassroomDay They got a hands-on history lesson, joining in the work of finding and recording the Castle's masons' marks.
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The geophysics team are packed and good to go!😂 We’re SO excited, we’re off to the Shetland Science Fair! Thanks to Shetland Community Benefit Fund & @NLFerries. Loads of fun activities!👇 🗺️Exploring Energyscapes 🌊Impact of Coastal Erosion 🔬STEM in Archaeology #SPFoundation
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Fabulous to see some of the highlights that the Scottish Archaeology sector delivers, not least the amazing work my brilliant @ArchScot colleagues champion @AdoptaMonument @as_learn @HHAwardScot @ScotArchMonth #PublicBenefit #Scotland #CommunityArchaeology #PublicArchaeology
🎉CELEBRATING ARCHAEOLOGY IN SCOTLAND 2024 IS AVAILABLE NOW🎉 Read about exciting community work, new arch frameworks & catch up on the latest arch projects in 2024 Download for free here: archaeologystrategy.scot/mag… #ScotArchStrat
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Replying to @ArchScot
@ArchScot brought in some really interesting artefacts from the Stone Age - some of them were 6,000 years old! Our novel ‘Wolf Brother’ was brought to life and we got a good idea of what life was like at that time #activelearning
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Great to share our work with @ArchScot members, staff and trustees at our Members Day & AGM at @themerchantshse A brilliant talk about the work of veterans at Waterloo from @ProfTonyPollard And heartening to see text by @SirGeoffPalmer next to the bust of James Ewing.
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This Saturday our Scotland Online Young Archaeologists Club workshop is a #HeritageCareersWeek special!🎉 If you're aged 8-16, join us to discover the huge variety of jobs in archaeology and which suits you best. Sign up👇 membermojo.co.uk/scotland_on… @DYWScot @YAC_CBA @ArchScot
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🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that our own @Kieran_Mchip has been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk 2024 Archaeological Achievement Awards in the Early Career Archaeologist category! 🎉 Congratulations Kieran & best of luck ...🤞
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🎉 The #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards 2024 shortlist is here! 🎉 Explore the outstanding nominees across categories like Learning, Engagement, Sustainability, and more. A huge congratulations to all the incredible candidates! Discover the shortlist 👉 archaeologyuk.org/resource/a…
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Really fun final activity making water turbines. Thanks so much to @as_learn for putting together such interesting workshops👏
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🎉We’re delighted to have been shortlisted in the @ScottishPower Foundation Awards 2024 in the Education category for ‘making outstanding efforts to promote learning, inclusion & education equality’. Wish us luck! 🤞 #SPFoundationAwards #ArchScot
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