🥁 📚 Introducing the inaugural GOVAN BOOK FESTIVAL! Join us June - August 2026 📖 📍 Govan Old ⛪️ All the June events are FREE and unticketed, and start on Saturdays at 4:30pm 🎉

🎉 Family Fun Day: Saturday the of 30th May, 11am-4pm! See live archaeology in Govan Old's ancient graveyard, plus stone carving and pottery demos! We'll also be joined by TCV Scotland, who will be teaching people of all ages about local natural heritage and biodiversity.

So pleased I finally managed to pop in past @govanstones.bsky.social yesterday to see them in real life. Well worth a visit! And by sheer coincidence I had just caught up with @mattlewishistory.bsky.social's Gone Medieval podcast on the siege of Dumbarton on the way up on the train on Sunday!

@govanstones.bsky.social Chico & Honey were excited to visit the Govan Sarcophagus today.

We have a fabulous FREE lunchtime Talk on Wednesday 27th of May @1pm. Stephen J Clancy of Heritage Buddies will be discussing “Where Buddies Rest: Stories Rise – The Graveyards of Wider Renfrewshire” 🪏⚰️⛪️ @govanstones.bsky.social at Govan Old ⌚️Wednesday 27th of May @1pm

🎉 Family Fun Day: Saturday the of 30th May, 11am-4pm! See live archaeology in Govan Old's ancient graveyard, plus stone carving and pottery demos! We'll also be joined by TCV Scotland, who will be teaching people of all ages about local natural heritage and biodiversity.

I’ve been blessed to have one of @archaeoptics.bsky.social miniatures of the Govan Cross / Jordanhill Cross on my desk for a couple of years now - it was amazing to see the real thing at last! And I may have snapped up a hogback stone from the gift shop to join it.

📚 My new book is out now! Treasures of the Vikings can be ordered from all good book shops, AND I'll also be doing a launch in June at the glorious @govanstones.bsky.social! *HUGE* thanks to everyone for their help, and to my publisher, Amber Books 📖

Very cool that this unassuming church in Glasgow has one of the most significant collections of early medieval sculpture in the British Isles, including this Viking-age sarcophagus dating from around 900 and thought to once contain the relics of the Pictish king St. Constantine.

Govan Old Parish #Church @govanstones.bsky.social #Glasgow #picts

🪨 Govan Stones on Sunday returns with two of our early medieval recumbent gravestones! @govanstones.bsky.social

Damn straight I travelled up to Glasgow for the day specifically to see the Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social Worth it! So very worth it! I thoroughly enjoyed the guided tour with @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

⏰️ One week until publication, and I have just heard that @govanstones.bsky.social will be selling Treasures of the Vikings! 🎉 📚 Now, would anyone like a book launch...? 👀

🪨 Stones on Sunday returns! Today, we've got the early medieval Cuddy Stane, which shares key features with Govan's Sun Stone and the Govan Cross 🏇 ✝️

📚 New book! Eleanor Barraclough's EMBERS OF THE HANDS - Hidden Histories of the Viking Age is now available in our lovely early medieval museum shop 🛍

this comes highly recommended, as someone that own two editions of it already ...

📚 New book! Eleanor Barraclough's EMBERS OF THE HANDS - Hidden Histories of the Viking Age is now available in our lovely early medieval museum shop 🛍

📚 New Book 🚨 We've now got Judith Jesch's brilliant THE SAGAS OF THE EARLS OF ORKNEY in our Viking Age museum gift shop! @judithjesch.bsky.social

Yessss! Listen to her talk about it just last week on my podcast 😁 vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-o...

The Govan Stones on Sunday returns with the Govan Cross, a.k.a. the Jordanhill Cross! 📼 Dr Tom Horne

📰 Our 'Govan 2' hogback made it into A Whole Lot of History, the History Hit newsletter written by our own Dr Tom Horne! open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

📚 New Book 🚨 We've now got Judith Jesch's brilliant THE SAGAS OF THE EARLS OF ORKNEY in our Viking Age museum gift shop! @judithjesch.bsky.social

The Govan Stones on Sunday returns with the Govan Cross, a.k.a. the Jordanhill Cross! 📼 Dr Tom Horne

📰 Our 'Govan 2' hogback made it into A Whole Lot of History, the History Hit newsletter written by our own Dr Tom Horne! open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

☀️ Be cool and visit the Govan Stones this week! We've got a few scorchers coming up over the next few days, so do come see our stunning collection of early medieval carved stone sculpture from the lost kingdom of the Clyde Britons in the blissfully cool A-listed Govan Old ⛪️ 🖼 Simon Dickie

Finally made it back to the @govanstones.bsky.social 1/2

Finally made it back to the @govanstones.bsky.social 2/2

📼 A new series: @govanstones.bsky.social on Sunday, with episode one featuring the Sun Stone!

The Govan Stones on Sunday! A new Sunday series, featuring your favourite early medieval carved stones from the Viking Age kingdom of the Clyde Britons. First up: The Sun Stone! Which stone would you like to see next?

Govan Old and her 1,500-year-old kirkyard ⛪️ 📷 Alistair from @archaeoptics.bsky.social

🐶 Say hello to Bosco, the Govan Stones Dig Dug! ⛏️

The Jordanhill Cross, one of the @govanstones.bsky.social in Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. It's the lower section of a celtic-style cross and is decorated with a figure on horseback and geometric knotwork designs. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #govan #govanstones #scottishhistory

Govan Old and her 1,500-year-old kirkyard ⛪️ 📷 Alistair from @archaeoptics.bsky.social

Danish finds of lead-inset weights of Insular Scandinavian type, likely used to weigh hacksilver bullion. It seems the type originated in longphuirt and/or Great Army winter-camps. Generally lead with a decorative top made from a hacked piece of often gilt copper-alloy Insular metalwork. My 📷 NMD

Archaeologists in Glasgow have unearthed what may be a 1,000-year-old posthole in the churchyard of Govan Old, an early medieval Christian site established by Northern Brittonic Clydesiders around AD 500. @govanstones.bsky.social Read all about it in AWLOH! open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We've been rated 5-STARS on Google! Visit us 7 days, 11am-4pm!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We've been rated 5-STARS on Google! Visit us 7 days, 11am-4pm!

📰 We're in the news! Prof. Steve spoke to 'A Whole Lot of History' about THAT early medieval posthole, and Dee Manning provided the photos. 🔗 Free to read: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

📰 We're in the news! Prof. Steve spoke to 'A Whole Lot of History' about THAT early medieval posthole, and Dee Manning provided the photos. 🔗 Free to read: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Churchill's Secret Army - The amazing archaeological survivals of the 'Stay Behinds' 🪖 📰 Viking Age gateway at the @govanstones.bsky.social in Glasgow's Govan Old ⛪️ 📰 Roman timber recycling at Rolls-Royce in Goodwood 🏛 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

A Very Good Boy gives us *all* the poses in front of the Viking Age hunting dog on the Govan Sarcophagus! Thank you, Houdini! 🐕

"Restoration work on the grounds of a Glasgow church which dates back to the 5th century is set to begin." BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... What an exciting project for @govanstones.bsky.social! Do head along to their Open Day today to find out more about their plans and this amazing site.

A Very Good Boy gives us *all* the poses in front of the Viking Age hunting dog on the Govan Sarcophagus! Thank you, Houdini! 🐕

Come visit our Open Day! We're here until 4pm!

We're all set up for Saturday's free fun, games, archaeology, and natural heritage exploration family Open Day - See you then! ⏰️ Saturday 11th April, 11am-4pm 🎯 See our archaeologists hunt for lost gravestones 🪦 explore Govan Old's natural heritage, watch medieval tiles being made, and much more!

whipped up some art for a family fun day this Saturday!

🎪 Prof. Steve and team prep SATURDAY'S free family Spring Archaeology Open Day ⛏️ Will we see you tomorrow for fun, games, archaeology and natural heritage? ⏰️ Saturday 11th of April, 11am-4pm Thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland and Glasgow City Heritage Trust for funding!

📰 We're in the news! Work to turn 5th Century church into museum to begin www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

⚔️ 9th-century sword hilts ⚔️ Left: Eigg, Inner Hebrides, Sco. (copper-alloy, silver, gilt) Right: Søndersø, Jutland, Den. The immense expense of, and status associated with, the swords owned by Scandinavian elites across the Viking world is self evident here. My 📷 NMS | NMD

📰 We're in the news! Work to turn 5th Century church into museum to begin www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...