Recently talked to Pete Kelly from the History Time: Unearthed podcast, about Rhynie, Tap o’Noth and recent work at Burghead. Hae a listen o this! Loving some of the comments too 🤣🤣🤣! Always an armchair expert or three!! 🤣 m.youtube.com/watch?v=XTwO...

If you are in the Cardiff area next week - don't forget I'll be giving a British Academy lecture on our work at Burghead! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

Come join our team as our new Zooarchaeology research technician in our shiny new labs!! Closing date: 25/5/2026 www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/tech...

New lines added to NPixts Store: The Great Wave of Pictavia and the Great Flood! And this weekend - all orders on the NPixt merch store get free UK shipping till Monday midnight! Get yourself some cool Pictish merch and support the Northern Picts project do more research! npixts.teemill.com

This weekend: Big Spring Freepost. All orders on the NPixt merch store get free UK shipping Friday-Monday midnight! Get yourself some cool Pictish merch and support the Northern Picts project do more research! What a deal! npixts.teemill.com

So between our Birlinn volumes King in the North and Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North, there has been almost 12,000 books sold to date! Not bad for the old Picts!

Did you know that our Alumni Postgraduate Scholarship caps tuition fees at just £7,000 for Aberdeen graduates www.abdn.ac.uk/study/fundin... • MSc Archaeology / MSc Archaeology of the North/ Vikings • MSc Osteoarchaeology • MSc Cultural Heritage • MSc Biomolecular Archaeology

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships for the Arts and Humanities. Get in touch if you want to explore projects with us at Aberdeen! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Free UK post and 10% off for today only on the NPixts merch store! All profits go to research projects on the Picts! use the EARTH10 code at checkout. npixts.teemill.com/collection/m...

For all our Danish followers out there - an article in the Danish magazine Historie on Rhynie! historienet.dk/kultur/arkae...

The book launch and our work at Rhynie made the Beeb! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great to see @socantscot.bsky.social new publication Rhynie - A Powerful Place in Pictland @northernpicts.bsky.social landing on people’s doorsteps! Thanks to all the funders and backers we have this gorgeous print copy for sale as well as free #OpenAccess books.socantscot.org/digital-book... 🏺

Finally got my hands on a copy myself. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland have done an incredible job producing this! Looks absolutely gorgeous! Celebrated with a pie from the bakers on the High Street on our Old Aberdeen campus! 🥧🥰📖📒 Buy a copy: fellows.socantscot.org/shop/shop-pr...

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

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...

Great questions! 🌍🌐🦊🙏 The Wild Imperative: Rewilding in the Anthropocene journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The dig t-shirt for East Lomond has landed. Referencing a famous UFO sighting near Newton of Falkland in 1996, this is the dig t-shirt of the season - it's literally out of this world 🤣🤣🤣 npixts.teemill.com/product/east...

Myself and Dr Elisabeth Niklasson from our department will be talking at this conference at Perth Museum on Saturday - book your tickets now! www.culturepk.org.uk/event/the-st...

Our Cultural Heritage at University of Aberdeen lecturer Dr Elisabeth Niklasson was recently in London to receive a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology. Well done Elisabeth!

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Teaching post in Cultural Heritage at our Department: www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/teac...

Till Sunday midnight - free shipping on all UK orders! All profits go to Northern Picts research! Merry xmas! npixts.teemill.com

I wrote an accessible summary of some of our recent work for the online Dutch Celtic Studies publication Kelten. You can read it here! kelten.vanhamel.nl/k-jaarboek-2...

Excited to see Leverhulme Research Leadership Awardee, Professor Gordon Noble @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social, talk about his work at the @britishacademy.bsky.social's flagship Lecture programme that showcases the very best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Sign up now! 👇

Stunning work! #Archaeology 🏺 www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25127/

Radiocarbon dating shows these prints date to the late Iron Age — moments in the lives of people who walked this landscape two millennia ago, a few centuries before the first reference to the Picts. #Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen! More to follow! www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25127/?...

Due to work at Woodhill House Rhynie Man has gone on his holidays to Aberdeenshire Museums Service HQ in Mintlaw. Details below on how to go visit him! www.livelifeaberdeenshire.org.uk/museums/rhyn...

Till Sunday midnight free post on all UK orders! All profits go to Northern Picts research! npixts.teemill.com

OPEN ACCESS - 'Stone and the gods: religious cognition and stone carving in first millennium AD northern Britain'. This World Archaeology article examines the origins of naturalistic stone carving in Northeast Scotland. Download, read, and share widely! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’ve been lucky enough to be asked to give the Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture to the British Academy on Thursday 21st May in Cardiff where I’ll present our latest research results on the major Pictish and Viking Age centre at Burghead, Moray. Sign up! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

For #HillFortsWednesday - Boyne Bay, Portsoy, a castle site in Moray Scotland. Earlier finds from the promontory hint at an earlier fort or settlement here

Thankfully it's #HillfortsWednesday 🍻🥳🙀 Here's our fabulous @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab model of the incredible St David's Head coastal promontory fort in Pembrokeshire, surveyed just before Christmas The rock terrain created a very special place to live ⛰️ Browse online here: skfb.ly/pFoXw

Until midnight 12th January (GMT), 10% off all purchases with the code EXTRA10 at checkout. Spend your Xmas pennies here! All Proceeds to NPicts research! npixts.teemill.com

Not quite Pictish, but some remarkable finds from Iron Age Norfolk! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New year special- free uk post until midnight Sunday- spend your Xmas pennies here! All Proceeds to NPicts research! npixts.teemill.com

A treat for you in the New Year - the work at East Lomond, a major Pictish and late Roman fort conducted by Northern Picts and the Falkland Stewardship Trust will feature on the new series of Digging for Britain. The episode will be broadcast on the 28th January at 20:00 on BBC2.

#PictishSymbolStoneFriday The McManus Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee. Some fabulous Pictish symbol stones! stunning examples…

Friday to Sunday - free socks when you spend over £25 at the NPixts store - Use the code SOCKY All profits go to Northern Picts research! Merry xmas! npixts.teemill.com

Time running out for the 10% off all products deal with code TAKE10 - ends Tuesday midnight

For today only- 10% off PLUS free shipping!!!

Anyone going to see Fortriu Fury tour the Northern Isles in 2026? Should be fairly raucous...! Remember 10% off all products with code TAKE10 at checkout for Black Friday! npixts.teemill.com

Our latest stretch goal achieved - you folks are amazing!! Thanks so much for all the support! You can still sign up for a copy though till the end of the Kickstarter on 6 December. www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

Black Friday Offer: TAKE10 From 9am 21st November to midnight 2nd December there is 10% off all products with code TAKE10 Clothing is organic cotton printed with water-based inks, and shipped in plastic-free packaging. Buy gifts that give back and support Northern Picts research! npixts.teemill.com

New NPixts hoodie just landed. I love it when a plan comes together.... npixts.teemill.com/product/i-lo...

Dont forget Christmas merch available in the NPixts store! All profits go to Northern Picts research! npixts.teemill.com/collection/x...

And we've made it! But if you want a printed copy of the book please keep pledging - we can increase the print run and with the funds we also hope to add a fancier foiled cover to the print run too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

New shirt alert! Thanks to @northernpicts.bsky.social for being such brilliant nerds npixts.teemill.com

We have had a fabulous start for the kickstarter for printed versions of the Rhynie big book, but we need MORE! Please support our project by buying yourself a printed copy of the Rhynie monograph! You have till 6th December to do so! www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

NEW Were the Picts of northern Scotland wiped out by Viking conquest? New radiocarbon dates from the 1st millennium AD settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney paint a more complex picture of cultural interaction in the Northern Isles. #AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵 @northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology

Now's your chance to make Pictish history. Please buy a copy of our Rhynie big book - you have till 6th December to order!