Which Govan Stone are YOU missing? 📼 Tom Horne

🐖 We're bringing the hogBACK! @archaeoptics.bsky.social has reopened its hogback production line to get our shop ready for 2026, and we can't wait to sell these exact laser-scanned 3D-printed resin replicas when we reopen! In-store only 🛒

Available exclusively at the amazing Govan Stones!

🐕 A Very Good Boy guards one of our favourite sister sites of early medieval Scotland, but can you tell us which one? Thanks to @bexphotos.bsky.social 📷

🐖 We're bringing the hogBACK! @archaeoptics.bsky.social has reopened its hogback production line to get our shop ready for 2026, and we can't wait to sell these exact laser-scanned 3D-printed resin replicas when we reopen! In-store only 🛒

🎄 Wishing you all a Northern Brittonic Natolic! Merry Christmas from Govan Old, the Govan Stones, and, of course, the Govan Hogbacks. 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

🎄 We and the Govan Hogbacks hope you're having a wonderful Christmas! 🐖 📷 Dr Tom Horne

I paid a quick trip to Govan Old @govanstones.bsky.social while we were in Glasgow, just check it’s still there. Back in Edinburgh now.

🎉 2,900,000+ views for the @govanstones.bsky.social Facebook page in 2025! Thank you to everyone who interacts with and follows the Govan Stones accounts across all our social media channels 🎉

The @govanstones.bsky.social pages are really the model for how socials can make a huge difference for heritage sites

🎄 We and the Govan Hogbacks hope you're having a wonderful Christmas! 🐖 📷 Dr Tom Horne

It's beginning to look a lot like Natolic* at Govan Old, home of the Govan Stones and the Govan Sarcophagus🎄 *Christmas, Brittonic style 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

🎄 Wishing you all a Northern Brittonic Natolic! Merry Christmas from Govan Old, the Govan Stones, and, of course, the Govan Hogbacks. 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

🗣📹📼 Watch the recordings of Prof. Steve's Dalrymple Lectures! Either click FOLLOW THIS LINK here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma... Or, this link should take you to the recordings of both lectures: echo360.org.uk/section/e305...

It's beginning to look a lot like Natolic* at Govan Old, home of the Govan Stones and the Govan Sarcophagus🎄 *Christmas, Brittonic style 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

🗣📹📼 Watch the recordings of Prof. Steve's Dalrymple Lectures! Either click FOLLOW THIS LINK here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma... Or, this link should take you to the recordings of both lectures: echo360.org.uk/section/e305...

1,500 years old and not looking too bad at all.

The core of the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons, thanks to Keara Ellen Photography! www.instagram.com/kearaellen

THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years! Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.

TONIGHT & TOMORROW! The online live lecture link will go onto this webpage nearer the event ~ Glasgow Archaeological Society: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

Prof. Steve spoke about our 'unique' Sarcophagus in his Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture last night. Steve is delivering his second lecture tonight at 18:30, which you can see for free in person and online: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma... 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

Prof. Steve spoke about our 'unique' Sarcophagus in his Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture last night. Steve is delivering his second lecture tonight at 18:30, which you can see for free in person and online: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma... 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

TONIGHT & TOMORROW! The online live lecture link will go onto this webpage nearer the event ~ Glasgow Archaeological Society: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

Two 10th century hogback tombs - Part of the wonderful collection of early medieval sculpture at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. Hogbacks are generally considered as grave markers or stylised 'houses' for the dead. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #TheGovanStones #GovanHeritageTrust

THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years! Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.

The core of the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons, thanks to Keara Ellen Photography! www.instagram.com/kearaellen

1,500 years old and not looking too bad at all.

Lest We Forget.

#medievalsky

Lest We Forget.

It really was a BIG early medieval posthole that was found by UofG Archaeology and Clyde Archaeology this year. We think that it might be the footing for a gatepost that was part of a structure guarding the grand Viking-Age processional way into Govan Old's 1,500-year-old churchyard. 📷 Dee Manning

A great opportunity to see Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years! Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of Glasgow Archaeology for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.

Please SHARE 🚨 It's our LAST DAY before winter, so make Prof. Steve as happy as THIS by visiting the Govan Stones, Govan Old, and our CHRISTMAS SHOP today! ⏰️⏳️🎃❄️🎁

Today's Knowledge Commons share: The "annalistic section" of Cogad Gaedel re Gallaib - discussing the relationship between chronicles and saga relating to vikings in Ireland #history #chronicle #vikings #ireland #medievalsky works.hcommons.org/records/j8c6...

🔜🚨⏳️⏰️ We close at 4pm on Hallowe'en 🎃 This is your LAST CHANCE to see the Stones, Govan Old ⛪️ and our CHRISTMAS SHOP 🎁

🧵/8 Much more to be said on both the Govan stones & the Hogbacks in specific, but pausing this thread for now Felt amazing to scratch this particular itch i'd been meaning to catch since forever & huge thanks to the folks at @govanstones.bsky.social for being absolute legends #TombTuesday

🧵/7 The 'roof tile' pattern on the stones is particularly satisfying to look at if you see the dip at the top it appears that this stone took damage over the years as it was used as a whetstone for sharpening blades, possibly the scythe for the church yard? #TombTuesday

🧵/6 The examples at Govan are both unsually large & heavy, the smallest (Govan #2, nearside left) coming in at around a tonne when weighed in 2014 Govan #2 is also believed to be the earliest, its somewhat slight form similar to examples in Cumbria, also with some lovely knot work #TombTuesday

🧵/5 Hogbacks are something really special - a norse school of stonework in Britain that is curiously absent from Scandanavia itself reminscent of longhouse, if i place them side by side with a pic from back in april at Sagnalet lejre 🇩🇰 a moment #TombTuesday

🧵/4 Now all this really needs more time, both for the kingdom of Strathclyde & the huge quantity of material at the @govanstones.bsky.social (way more than i'd even realised before going) but for now LOOK AT THE HOGBACKS 😳😳😳 #TombTuesday

🧵/3 This churchyard was the site of some of the most significant early christian activity in Scotland & would host some of its most important funerary finds #TombTuesday

🧵/2 ...and this is the church of Old Govan, the current building is from 1888, a little outside our normal dates of interest, but its the site of the church thats of the greatest significance

Am just picking myself off the floor after a weekend of Glasgow, Hadrians wall and more time on coaches than should be allowed but despite all the Roman stuff the real motivation to go was to see the @govanstones.bsky.social & esp their hogbacks & thats going to need a short #TombTuesday thread 🧵👇

🔜🚨⏳️⏰️ We close at 4pm on Hallowe'en 🎃 This is your LAST CHANCE to see the Stones, Govan Old ⛪️ and our CHRISTMAS SHOP 🎁

All our Peter Ross books have been SIGNED BY PETER ROSS, so get yours before we close! 🎄 @peteralanross.bsky.social

🌧☂️⛪️ Avoid the rain with a trip to see the Viking-Age Govan Stones, carved in the lost early medieval kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons! 🎟 Free, and open 11am until 4pm 🐖 The hogbacks are waiting! ⏰️

We close for the winter at the end of October, so why not come along for a wee visit and get an exclusive Govan Stones Christmas card! 🎄

Could any of my lovely followers help get the @govanstones.bsky.social over the line? The hogbacks will be forever grateful!

Popped into Govan Old. The Pictish sarcophagus is looking great. I signed my books in their excellent gift shop. Perhaps pick up a Christmas present while helping @govanstones.bsky.social fundraising?

🎯 Wow! Getting to 98% means that this could be your LAST CHANCE to donate to our fundraiser! tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...