Exciting talk on a stramash between the #picts and the Alt Clut Britons coming up in Dunoon next month! All welcome, come along to hear Alasdair Jamison's theories on the battle of Mugdock and the Barochan Cross The Govan Stones 🛡👑 Early Scotland

Vikingos, nazis, símbolos nórdicos y tatuajes. Este es uno de los capítulos que más me costó escribir para #LaHuellaVikinga y uno de los que más orgullosa estoy. Había muchísima documentación que consultar, mucho que contar, mucho hasta donde remontarse, muchísima información

Huge new #Viking silver hoard dating c. AD 880x930 from Engeløya, northern Norway. 14 arm-rings and 1 necklace = 1040g ⚖️ "similar to types [from] 🇮🇪, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, north 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿" - nrk.no/nordland/nest-… 5 of the arm-rings are hooked together (paralleled with the Galloway Hoard of c.900).

I just found out that Bill Watterson (the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes) gave a commencement speech in 1990 and it's incredible 1/2

Here's a fine new blog post by Cathy Dagg on bothan - the rounded beehive like sheiling structures found on Harris and Lewis in the Western Isles, which seem very different to their counterparts on the mainland. nosasblog.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/bot…

Delighted to finally share news about the work we've been doing on this hoard. Truly a privilege and highlight of my career.

Introducing… the Peebles Hoard 🥁 ✨ It’s a spectacular collection of bronze, leather and wooden material dating to the Late Bronze Age (c.1000-800 BCE). Many of these objects have never been found before in Scotland. So, as you can imagine, we’re *pretty* excited

The joy of working in a Museum Store is when looking for Palaeolithic artefacts you come across a Medieval bone with doodles engraved on it. The bone is from Eynsham Abbey and has these wonderful motifs and an animal, perhaps a dog? Who practised their engraving? #CuratorLife

Highly recommended!

This is a barnstormer. Thanks for coming back on here to post it!

💛 An absolutely stunning C9-10th #Viking-style GOLD pendant toggle from a Viking cemetery discovered during 1988 excavations at the sublime Carlisle Cathedral to create the subterranean Cathedral Treasury. Car 88 CAT G (015) Au 1 #Vikings #archaeology #history

Very much looking forward to reading this. Tackles a similar time period to #CrucibleOfNations, one that is similarly underrepresented in Scottish history and archaeology

Listen to @em_ehx and 神奈祈, with Dr Kate Olley, talk about their work on Vikings for Schools

In case you missed it, the latest Galloway Hoard documentary film by History Hit💥 is now available to watch on Youtube! Get it watched! National Museums Scotland youtube.com/watch?v=lS7mWK…

"People in the past were just as complex as people are now" 🤔 So how do we start decoding their stories? Orla Craig explains what “one of the most important UK archaeological finds of the century” can reveal about identities in early medieval Scotland: digitscotland.com/what-can-artef…

We're hiring a Head of Fundraising to help secure the Society's future and develop Scotland's heritage hub. Location: Hybrid (remote & in Edinburgh) Hours: 37 per week (full-time) Salary: £60-70,000 p.a. Contract: 2.5 years Apply by Sunday 1 December: socantscot.org/news/now-hirin…

Some thoughts on early medieval identity and the Galloway Hoard 👇

The Galloway Hoard and the Wealth of the Irish Sea Region in the Viking Age⛏️ Our Shindig #Archaeology Podcast with Dr Adrián Maldonado (Adrián Maldonado) of National Museums Scotland has 1000s of views and is trending again on our YouTube: Discover this stunning hoard ⬇️ youtu.be/UJAMAloXs9k

We'll be appearing on BBC Landward with our UHI Shetland colleagues on Episode 21 of Landward - this will be first shown on BBC Scotland on Thursday this week and on other BBC channels from Friday thru to Monday next week. #KameofIsbister, Shetland