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People digging small trenches in a mountain landscape with overlaid text that reads: Upcoming conference

People digging small trenches in a mountain landscape with overlaid text that reads: Upcoming conference

UPCOMING CONFERENCE: Archaeological Research in Progress

Tickets are now available for this year's conference hosted by @archscot.bsky.social in collaboration with the Society on 23 May in Dumfries & Galloway and online, with discounts for Fellows: www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/get-involved...

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📚 Treasures of the Vikings - My new book is out on May 19th!

A Bifröst of a book that bridges Marvel, VIKINGS, The Northman, and academia, it pairs beautiful photos with the latest thinking on the Viking world, all written in an engaging and accessible style.

🛒 Pre-order now! 📖

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Looking forward to reading this study of a leather wallet with 144 coins, buried in Frisia in the 880s.

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@davidpetts1.bsky.social

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Interior of a church with the words 'Work With Us' overlaid

Interior of a church with the words 'Work With Us' overlaid

WORK WITH US: ReACH Research Officer

We are looking to hire a new member of staff to help deliver Research in Action on Church Heritage (ReACH), our partnership project with @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social.

Find out more and apply before 11:59 PM on 3 May 2026: www.socantscot.org/news/work-wi...

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🆕️ BREAKING NEWS - A fragment of early medieval carved stone interlace found in 2024 is now on display at the Govan Stones, and you can be one of the first people in over 1,000 years to see it!

Thanks to University of Glasgow Archaeology & Clyde Archaeology ⛏️

📼 Tom Horne

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Significant discovery made at home of best Viking-age sculpture collection in Europe A SIGNIFICANT find at the home of one of the most “impressive” collections of early medieval sculptures found in Europe has been made with…

📰⛏️💥 Thanks to Alasdair Ferguson, we got a double-page spread about the latest archaeological discoveries at the Govan Stones in Sunday's The National!

Thanks also to Prof. Stephen Driscoll and Dee Manning for helping me get the latest information.

(£) www.thenational.scot/news/2599463...

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Bearsden openwork romanesque censer on display at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow

Bearsden openwork romanesque censer on display at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow

Bearsden openwork romanesque censer on display at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow

Bearsden openwork romanesque censer on display at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow

"Lily" or suspension mount for the Bearsden openwork romanesque censer on display at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow

"Lily" or suspension mount for the Bearsden openwork romanesque censer on display at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow

A hidden gem! Rare Romanesque censer, 11/12th century, found in suburban Bearsden, on display at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow. Published in Glasgow Arch J 1, 1969 www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

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Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland: The development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period | Open Access E-Books

Hugely excited and proud to say the Rhynie monograph is now published! This is one of the most important sites and landscapes ever discovered for understanding the Picts and the development of the early Pictish kingdoms #careergoalunlocked! #Pictsarethebest!

books.socantscot.org/digital-book...

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Photograph of the book cover of “Rhynie: A Powerful Place of Pictland” edited by Gordon Noble

Photograph of the book cover of “Rhynie: A Powerful Place of Pictland” edited by Gordon Noble

Very exciting delivery this morning! @northernpicts.bsky.social @socantscot.bsky.social! #Rhynie #Scotland #earlymedieval #IronAge #Picts

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Sue has really helped us with the Galloway Hoard beads, she's a legend!

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Silhouette of cross at dusk

Silhouette of cross at dusk

Lecture on Wednesday in London for the British Archaeological Association on the Gosforth Cross #medieval #art #archaeology thebaa.org/events/lectu...

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Star Wars Archaeology with Adrián Maldonado
Star Wars Archaeology with Adrián Maldonado YouTube video by Archaeodeath

Star Wars Archaeology with Adrián Maldonado www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKSe... @archaeonado.bsky.social

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Conference in the Faroes– 14th-15th April 2026 The Faroes and Hebrides: Population and Cultural Change in The Early Viking Period The aim of the conference is to shed light on early Viking Age population movements impacting on or between the Hebri...

A quick shout out for The Islands Book Trust Conference in the Faroes 14th -15th April 2026. The event is titled “The Faroes and Hebrides: Population and Cultural Change in the Early Viking Period” tinyurl.com/5n97msxa

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Two Roman tombstones depicting cavalrymen on horseback riding down an enemy, with colour projected onto them to show how they may originally have been painted

Two Roman tombstones depicting cavalrymen on horseback riding down an enemy, with colour projected onto them to show how they may originally have been painted

Tombstones of two #Roman auxilliary cavalrymen who both died in Britain during the 1st century AD

Dannicus (from Switzerland) and Genialis (from the Netherlands)

Illuminated in colour, to show how they may have originally looked, in the Corinium Museum #Cirencester

📷 Aug 2022

#RomanFortThursday

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Great news for the incredible Tarbat Discovery Centre, and don't miss the list of other intriguing new projects funded this round

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#UrbanMedievalism

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Dunblane Cathedral's medieval square tower floodlit after dark

Dunblane Cathedral's medieval square tower floodlit after dark

Dunblane Cathedral in Stirlingshire, floodlit after dark

Dunblane Cathedral in Stirlingshire, floodlit after dark

Lecturing for the Dunblane Historical Society tonight with these views as an added bonus!

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Legacies of Rome-Roman Silver & its Impact in Scotland by Dr Fraser Hunter. Joint UHI Institute for Northern Studies & Culture Perth & Kinross Public Seminar.

➕Venue Perth Museum, Scotland
➕ 7pm - 8pm
➕ Cost £7.50/ £5.00
➕ Book online through website

tinyurl.com/3damwew5

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Space church!

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Shop | Harvard Art Museums Browse the products and publications available for purchase in the Harvard Art Museums’ shop.

Plus a beautiful book to go with the exhibition: shop.harvardartmuseums.org/products/cel...

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Castle Douglas horned pony cap crosses Atlantic for exhibition The horned cap from southern Scotland would have made the pony wearing it look

For anyone in Boston this summer, some big hitters from the NMS collections are on loan to Harvard Art Museum for the exhibition Celtic Art Through the Ages

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Image of the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age logo with the words We Are Back! beneath.

Image of the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age logo with the words We Are Back! beneath.

Welcome to the brand-new social media page for the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age! The longship has set sail for new shores as we have parted ways with X (Twitter) and are setting up camp here on Bluesky. Follow along for updates on upcoming events, new research, and all things Viking Age!

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Monday, 23rd February Roman Golden Paint Found on Hadrian’s Wall Altar | Iron Age Footprints on a Scottish Beach | Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague Death Watchers

💥 A Whole Lot History 💥

📰 Roman Golden Paint Found on Hadrian’s Wall Altar 🎨🖌🏛

📰 Iron Age Footprints on a Scottish Beach 👣

📰 Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague Death Watchers ✍️ ⚰️

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

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Screenshot of a 3D model of a ceramic cross pendant from Dumbarton Rock castle site

Screenshot of a 3D model of a ceramic cross pendant from Dumbarton Rock castle site

A mysterious ceramic cross pendant found at the fortress of Dumbarton Rock, but is it early or later medieval? Now on display at the Castle alongside other finds from the early medieval hillfort. Read more on scientific analysis by Historic Environment Scotland: blog.engineshed.scot/2025/07/09/u...

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An upcoming exhibition on Roman Scotland at the National Museum of Scotland will include two Mithraic stone altars found at Inveresk, near Edinburgh 🏛

One of the altars was designed to be backlit in the lamplit gloom of a Mithraeum!🕯

Read more: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

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Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England

Great new study on early medieval foodways, specifically a lack of fish in cooking pots! Glad it's not just our #ArchaeoFINS pots that lack 🐟! Implication with the human isotopes is that the Vikings adapted to local cuisine & left their fishy ways behind! doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Staff - Vacancies - Post-doctoral Researcher - University of the Highlands and Islands Current listing of UHI jobs with vacancies from all across our partnership.

👀 Post Doctoral Researcher - Osteoarchaeology (18mths/PT)

"This post is part of a Historic Environment Scotland-funded project to collate, record and disseminate the archive of a 1970s excavation of an important Pictish/Norse cemetery at Newark, Orkney ..."

www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

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Ancient Roman alters to go on display in Edinburgh Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.

Mark your calendars!

Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire

14 November 2026 to 28 April 2027 at National Museums Scotland

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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

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