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The Smiling Abbot: 3D model and photography

This week I was in Llangollen Museum, working with friend and colleague Professor Howard Williams. We were there to record an intriguing sculpted stone, the Smiling Abbot, which likely dates to the fourteenth century.

 

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Fieldwalking in Sutherland Day 13: The view across the sea from Tarbat Ness

Given the likely importance of marine travel for moving people, animals and materials in prehistory, today we visited the peninsular of Tarbat Ness which is not far from the village of Portmahomack. Located across the Dornoch Firth from Loch Fleet this offered a marine-orientated perspective upon the area we have been fieldwalking over the past two weeks.

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