🗣 It was a real joy to show the Astonishing Glasgow tour around the Govan Stones today! 📷 Astonishing Glasgow 🗣 GS tour led by Dr Tom Horne #Govan #Glasgow #VisitScotland #VisitGlasgow #History

Marching north on a campaign against the Scots, Æthelstan, king of the English, visited the shrine of St Cuthbert at either Cuncacestre (Chester-le-Street) or more likely Ubbanford (Norham) #OTD in 934. He gifted precious items, including books and vestments, to the church there.

👕 Smoulder like Scott the Strathclyde Viking in our range of Asgard t-shirts! We've now got a glorious red Sleipnir one for you 🐎

We've now got Viking 'gripping beast' oval brooches from Asgard, based on a Danish pair found in Lisbjerg, in our early medieval shop at Govan Old! They accessorise delightfully with the gripping end-beasts on the Govan 2 hogback 🐲 The originals (C11331) are in Nationalmuseet

July 7: Feast of Boisil († c.661), prior of Mailros (Melrose, Scottish Borders). Bede calls him 'a priest of great virtue, endowed with a spirit of prophecy'. He died of plague. The village of St Boswells is named after him. Cuthbert, whom he mentored, succeeded him as prior.

The glorious @govanstones, a brilliant museum of stunning early medieval carved stones from the lost Brittonic kingdom of Strathclyde. The collection sits inside the A-listed splendour of Govan Old, and is surrounded by the miraculous survival of a 1,500-year-old graveyard.

Want to know more about the trending #Lewis Gaming Pieces? 📖 Look no further than 'The Lewis Hoard of Gaming Pieces – Evoking and Reassembling a Viking Past?' by Mark Hall and David H. Caldwell in 'The Viking Age in Scotland', edited by me, Elizabeth Pierce and Rachel Barrowman!

The Govan Hogback known as Govan 2 🐖 📷 Dr Tom Horne

This early medieval carved stone covered the grave of a C9th-11th Strathclyde elite before its double reuse as a gravestone for an R•D and then William Bogle, with the former buried beneath it between the C16th to 18th, and the latter in the C18th or 19th. 📷 Dr Tom Horne, Viking Academic

This early medieval carved stone covered the grave of a C9th-11th Strathclyde elite before its double reuse as a gravestone for an R•D and then William Bogle, with the former buried beneath it between the C16th to 18th, and the latter in the C18th or early C19th. 📍The Govan Stones 🛡👑

It's been a few months, but I finally have a new YouTube video out all about the Isle of Iona! There aren't many places in Scotland as special as this wee island and while many visitors only see the Abbey, I take you to some of Iona's less seen spots. youtu.be/ATDBk-ayNjU

An update on my lost Pictish Fort dig! open.substack.com/pub/stirlingar…

The excavation of Loch Glashan crannog, Argyll, led by Jack Scott of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum began #OTD in 1960. A c.C8th bronze and amber brooch was among the items found. The site may have been a workshop serving the elite of Dál Riata. 📸Glasgow Museums

The Ragna’s Islands project has now come to an end. BUT it is not the end! Read our final blogpost for exciting news about forthcoming publications including the new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney by @judithjesch and other resources! blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasislands/…

The Glamis Manse symbol stone, a remarkably impressive example of a Pictish cross slab measuring 2.8m (or over nine feet) high. it is very unusual in that it seems to have been carved in two stages, possibly at widely different times. More pics and info: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glamis/mansest…

When we think of 'typical' #Viking weapons burials, I tend to think of 'Westness 12' from Rousay, Orkney ⚔️🪓⚒️ 'Sword, axe and sword pommel from Westness grave 12 [oval cist- burial, male 35-45 buried with a sword, sickle, arrows and axe]' - X.1992.27 National Museums Scotland. My 📷

#Viking silver broad-band armring from Blackerne, D&G, SW Scotland. Possibly a Southern Scandinavian 'prototype' version that was developed into the larger Hiberno-Scandinavian type seen in the Galloway Hoard. Deposited c. 900, it was found with an amber bead in a cist burial.

I know they're the least social media-friendly content one could post, and perhaps it's all a pointless endeavour But 2,000 years ago these were thriving homes full of life and abuzz with activity! All brochs great & small deserve their moment. 📸 Occumster Broch, #Caithness

Pictish king Onuist and Eadberht, king of the Northumbrians, led their respective armies to Dumbarton Rock #OTD in 756, where the Clyde Britons agreed to a treaty, perhaps involving the payment of tribute as a grudged but necessary alternative to violence. 📸Eddie Mackinnon

When you see one of your books in Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop, thanks to a lovely shop assistant! 📖 The Viking Age in Scotland (Eds. Horne, Pierce, Barrowman Edinburgh University Press)