Samantha Dennis

Archaeologist living at 60 degrees north. Out and about a lot. Island archaeologist. Basket weaver

[Heritage Crafts @heritage_crafts]

It's been two years of waiting and six months of intensive research led by Endangered Crafts Manager Mary Lewis and funded by @ThePilgrimTrust, but the 2023 edition of the Red List of Endangered Crafts is out! https://t.co/M21EwDvPft @jayblades_ @RoyalMintUK #craftsredlist2023

[Paul White @JustPaulWhite]

There is no shortage here. In fact, we have lots of heritage, ethically reared, free-range turkeys left, that we have sweated, cried and slogged our guts out over. If you want a free-range turkey this year, please consider looking around, and supporting a small scale producer.

[lee craigie @leecraigie_]

I just cycled from my house to the western isles then caught a cargo ship to the Faroe Islands. Why? Because they say your soul can only travel as fast as a camel and I really wanted to visit this incredible place with my soul intact. 🐫 🚴 🚢

[Kathleen Jamie @KathleenJamie]

This is real and happening, but friends, good people, are telling me they didn't know about it because it's not on their news. Seems little can be done short term, but the long term involves, again, us and our planetary management.

[Samantha Dennis @sam_jdee]

@JoeRhisga This basket was made using the straw from Scots oats.

[Samantha Dennis @sam_jdee]

Coiled straw basket making has just been added to the list of Critically Endangered crafts. As a basket weaver I feel honoured to appear on the list, but also feeling a little saddened and daunted.

[Heritage Crafts @heritage_crafts]

The 2021 edition of the #HCARedList is now out! The research, funded by @ThePilgrimTrust, adds 27 crafts to the list, showing that the effect of COVID-19 on already at-risk skills. Check out the full list at https://t.co/M21EwDvPft. #endangeredcrafts #heritagecrafts

[Samantha Dennis @sam_jdee]

@KevinKelkenny Lapwing, curlew, teal, greylag?

[Heritage Crafts @heritage_crafts]

The 2021 edition of the #HCARedList is now out! The research, funded by @ThePilgrimTrust, adds 27 crafts to the list, showing that the effect of COVID-19 on already at-risk skills. Check out the full list at https://t.co/M21EwDvPft. #endangeredcrafts #heritagecrafts

[Hamish Napier @NapierHamish]

Anyone know of anyone who's an expert on 7th century Pictish and/or Anglo-Saxon warfare? Writing a battle scene and could really do with some help! I know the Picts didn't use archers...

[Kenny Brophy @urbanprehisto]

Seeing as I have just come across this, here is one of my personal favourite #urbanprehistory blog posts on Ian Ralston's vitrified fort experiment in a council landfill site near Aberdeen in the 1980s....
https://t.co/vBNc0yDLN6

[RNLI Lerwick Lifeboat @LerwickRnli]

Our crew had to carry out important ‘steering checks’ tonight 🎄😉 Is this the biggest tree ever seen in #Shetland? 😄 We’d like to say thanks for supporting @RNLI to help us to keep #SavingLivesAtSea 🙏🏻

Have a Merry (and safe) Christmas wherever you are 🎅🏻🎁🎄

#RNLI

[Samantha Dennis @sam_jdee]

Sun rising between rain showers. 09:08
Happy Solstice!!
#bbcsunrise #shetland

[Samantha Dennis @sam_jdee]

First butterfly sighting of the year #RedAdmiral #Shetland

[National Trust for Scotland @N_T_S]

COMMENT BELOW if you know of an organisation that could make good use of the 1000s of chocolate eggs we're giving away from our cancelled Cadbury Easter Egg Hunts 🍫🥚 Find out where they’ve gone so far ➡️https://t.co/V7mT7w0Kme
#ForTheLoveOfScotland

[Samantha Dennis @sam_jdee]

I think this is a Northern White-tailed bumblebee buzzing about my garden today #Shetland
Bombus magnus #WorldBeeDay2020

[Samantha Dennis @sam_jdee]

Shetland bumblebee #WorldBeeDay2020

[Samantha Dennis @sam_jdee]

@pompei79 @JK_Hutchings Every archaeological project should include a visit from @pompei79. You take absolutely stunning photographs!

[Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79]

Interior and exteriors of some of the Crusader Castles in Jordan:
Qasr Al-Kharanah, Shobak, and Al-Azrak #MuseumsUnlocked #Castles