Here's something you don't see every day. Our President Professor Jane Geddes's new theory of Sueno's Stone now on a t-shirt, courtesy of @northernpicts.bsky.social! Is this the first time a conference paper has made it to a t-shirt?!

The next lecture in our 2025-2026 season is coming up on Friday 21 Nov! Professor Jane Geddes will present her research on the lost libraries of Pictland. (Lectures are for PAS members only - find out about the many benefits of PAS membership here: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us.)

Next week! Still time to join the Pictish Arts Society in time for our new season of lectures starting next Friday, when Dr Mike King will talk to us about textual and narrative influences on Pictish sculpture. Find out more and join the Society at: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/lectures-202...

The first lecture of our new season is coming up on Friday 24 Oct. Dr Mike King will talk to us about texts that might have influenced Pictish sculpture - from ancient tales to pseudo-scientific treatises. Lectures are for members only, but you can join here: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us

Our new lecture season kicks off on Friday 24 October. Dr Mike King will explore texts that could have influenced the subject-matter of Pictish stone carvings - from ancient tales to hagiography, the bible and more. Lectures are for members only, but there's time to join before the season starts!

Looking forward to day 2 of our online conference today, diving into the latest archaeological discoveries from Pictland with @northernpicts.bsky.social, and new research on Pictish sculpture from Prof Jane Geddes, Dr Victoria Whitworth and Dr Susan Youngs.

Really enjoyed my first attendance @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference today. Great lectures, speakers and visuals. Thanks to everybody involved, especially @fortrenn.bsky.social

Really enjoying the talks this afternoon at the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference! Re the invisible charcoal industry, I'm wondering if some, at least, of their cooking was done using charcoal - this would just increase the need for a managed charcoal industry . . .

Are you stuck inside due to Storm Amy? Why not buy a last-minute ticket to attend our online conference this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon?

Important update, as people are asking: The conference will be recorded, so your ticket will also get you access to the recordings afterwards.

Last chance to book! The 2025 Pictish Arts Society Conference takes place on Zoom tomorrow and Sunday. We have 8 expert speakers on Pictish sculpture, metalwork and metalworking, plus an update on the latest exciting discoveries from @northernpicts.bsky.social. Full agenda and booking link below.

Still time to get your ticket for this weekend's online conference! Full agenda and booking link at the link below.

If you enjoyed the recent The Ancients podcast about the Picts, you can hear more from both experts at our online conference next weekend! Dr Martin Goldberg will speak about Roman silver in Pictland, and Prof Gordon Noble will speak about the latest Pictish archaeological discoveries. Booking link:

If you were intrigued by yesterday's Guardian article about the Book of Kells, why not come and hear more of Dr Victoria Whitworth's research at our online conference next weekend? Dr Whitworth will be speaking on Sunday 5 October about the Pictish cross-slabs at Skinnet and Ulbster in Caithness.

New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic

Next weekend! The Pictish Arts Society conference 2025, with 8 expert speakers on Pictish metalwork and sculpture - from the legacy of Roman silver to new insights on Sueno's Stone, cross-slabs at Skinnet and Ulbster, and Pictish bull carvings. 4-5 Oct, online via Zoom. Agenda and booking link:

The author will be joined by master craftsman and artist Thomas Keyes who uses the vellum-making technology used to make the pages of the Book of Kells, and as uniquely discovered in excavations at the early medieval monastery of Portmahomack, for his Kells-inspire artwork scribalstyles.net

Exciting book launch event!! Dr Victoria Whitworth: The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma is finally out, and you can celebrate it (and snag a copy) at the Tarbat Discovery Centre on 11 October. Tickets at www.tickettailor.com/events/tarba... (1/2)

Just to add that the conference is fully online, not (per the link below) in Brechin. We look forward to seeing you there!

Student unearths 2,000-year-old stone that shows Pictish face carving www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Have you got your ticket yet? The Pictish Arts Society's 2025 online conference is on 4 and 5 October, focusing on sculpture and metalwork in Pictland. 8 expert papers including finds from Burghead and Rhynie, Pictish bull carvings, Pictish weapons, the 'tower' on Sueno's Stone and more. Link below.

Burghead 2025. What a year. Here is a snapshot of the upper citadel. 8/9th C brooch pin like one from Dunadd. A 2nd C spiral bead from inside a 8th/9th C building, very similar to one from the Croy hoard. The building is massive >7m long, a huge central hearth. Also me busy on the John Deere!

Join us on 4 and 5 October for our 2025 online conference! Two days of expert talks on Pictish art and craft - from recycled Roman silver to metalwork at Burghead and Rhynie, plus insights into Pictish weaponry, Sueno's Stone, two Caithness cross-slabs and Pictish bull carvings. Booking link below.

Agenda is up for the Pictish Arts Society conference 2025, happening online on Sat 4 and Sun 5 October. Papers on metal and metalworking in Pictland, plus latest updates from @northernpicts.bsky.social and new research on Pictish cross-slabs and bull carvings. Tickets from £12.94. Not to be missed!

Elgin Museum's archaeology conference has an excellent line-up of speakers and papers, including @northernpicts.bsky.social's Burghead update, Loch Spynie through time, Covesea caves, metalwork and Celtic art, iron production in Agricolan-era Moray... In-person and online, tickets from £5.

UHI Archaeology Institute student Michael Zambon has started a Masters by Research (MRes) investigating an Pictish symbol stone found in an Easter Ross graveyard in 2019. #archaeology #research #thinkuhi #uhiorkney

Wonderful work by our Vice President @monikierockart.bsky.social

Caithness heritage attraction hope as brand-new Pictish cross-slab set to be unveiled in village #medievalsky www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/new-cai...

If you want to play with 3D images, I’ve collected together over 800 images of insular stone sculpture on Sketchfab (plus some Scandinavian) sketchfab.com/mercianmigra... They’re grouped as England, Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales but in no particular order in those folders. #medievalsky

Were Pictish symbol stones painted? 🎨 According to @monikierockart.bsky.social, the influence from Roman painted sculptures and the use of pigment on other Pictish crafts (such as pottery and metalwork) "makes us think that some stones probably were": www.digitscotland.com/what-do-the-...

Final online lecture of our 2025 season! Dr Emma Mackinnon will talk to PAS members on Friday 18th April about the trumpeters on the Aberlemno 3 cross-slab, using other iconographic and textual evidence to interpret their significance. Become a member here: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us

Free, online and in person! The 2025 Jennifer O'Reilly Memorial Lecture: Thomas O'Loughlin, Prof Emeritus of Historical Theology, University of Nottingham, on 'Bede's De tabernaculo and the tabernacle image in the Codex Amiatinus: different media for different exegetical tasks'. Register below.

Finally got to visit the glorious Culross Abbey and its tantalizing Pictish cross fragments this weekend! All that, plus a farmers market and a taco truck - pretty close to heaven

Still time to join the Society for tonight's lecture! Topic: the evidence for Pictish textiles from archaeology and sculpture. Our speaker Dr Alexandra Makin is a textile archaeologist and was a Research Associate on the Galloway Hoard. Join the Society here: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us

Next week! There's still time to join the Pictish Arts Society before our members' lecture next Friday. Annual membership costs from £18, and you get six lectures like this, discounted entry to our annual online conference, exclusive events and more. Find out more: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk

In today's Scotsman, our vice president @monikierockart.bsky.social calls for Historic Environment Scotland to conduct a 'full and open investigation' into how the Aberlemno III Pictish cross-slab came to topple over while inside its protective shelter.

The Society has issued a statement on the damage done this week to the Aberlemno Roadside cross-slab.

Our next lecture is a must-see for anyone interested in Pictish textiles, Pictish women, and/or everyday life in Pictland. Details in the alt text! #MedievalSky

Scotsman article on the heart-breaking damage to the Aberlemno 3 Pictish cross-slab caused by high winds this week. Our President Professor Jane Geddes speaks of its "incredible value" as a work of Pictish art and insists "the stone should stay in Aberlemno."

Our next lecture is coming up on the 21st Feb, delivered by Professor David Griffiths on the Pictish-Norse transition in Orkney. Lectures are for PAS members only - a benefit of membership! - but you can join the Society at www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us. Abstract in the alt text.

Great talk by Joe Fitzpatrick and @northernpicts.bsky.social on recent excavations at East Lomond hillfort in Fife. With carbon dates running from the 3rd century to the 7th, and loads of cool artefacts including a Pictish spearhead and spear-butt as depicted on warrior stones like nearby Collessie.

From 1992 to 2008 the PAS published papers and articles in a journal. Until now they could only be read in the form of original paper copies. Now all 17 journals can be accessed online. Access is free for all. There's some real treasure in there... www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/journals-1

Inspired by the piece on the Old Kilmadock Pictish cross-slab on 'Digging for Britain' last night, I've joined the PAS in time for this Friday's talk.

If you saw the Old Kilmadock Pictish cross-slab on Digging for Britain and would like to know more, you're in luck! Our monthly lecture next Friday from @stirlingdigger.bsky.social will dig deeper into Pictish Stirlingshire. There's still time to join: go to www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us