Because GAMLA STENAR 😍

A project on the Book of Kells - the illuminated manuscript dating to c. AD 800 considered by most to be from Columban Iona - is seeking to test the hypothesis that it was actually produced by Pictish monks in Portmahomack, near Inverness. A Whole Lot of History: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

We RE-OPEN at 11:00am on the 1st of April! See you here? 📼 Dr Tom Horne

📼 💥 Pompeii, the Book of Kells, The Alamo, and prehistoric burials ☠️ feature in today's AWLOH 📰 (AND the @govanstones.bsky.social 🪨 👀) open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

Wonderful news!

We RE-OPEN at 11:00am on the 1st of April! See you here? 📼 Dr Tom Horne

One of our many* lovely horses 🐎 Will you be galloping towards our Viking Age carved stones and 1,500-year-old churchyard from the first of April?! *mane-y? 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

Because GAMLA STENAR 😍

🐖 Between 2 (Viking-Age) Hogbacks 🐖 (Or 💥 Your latest AWLOH preview)! Link in the comments ⤵️ Filmed at the @govanstones.bsky.social

Only FOUR (4) days to go until you can walk this path to the Govan Stones! See you then? 📷 Tom Horne, Museum Assistant

📚 FUNDRAISER for Govan Old & the Govan Stones! Bidding open on 'The Great War', H.W. Wilson & Hammerton's remarkable 13-volume series produced as WW1 unfolded. Extensively illustrated with fold-out maps and art. Guide price: £250-500. Collection only. Email bids to [email protected]

📼 Having made this video, I can confirm that this is a genuinely amazing collection of 'real time' #WW1 history.

One of our many* lovely horses 🐎 Will you be galloping towards our Viking Age carved stones and 1,500-year-old churchyard from the first of April?! *mane-y? 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

📚 FUNDRAISER for Govan Old & the Govan Stones! Bidding open on 'The Great War', H.W. Wilson & Hammerton's remarkable 13-volume series produced as WW1 unfolded. Extensively illustrated with fold-out maps and art. Guide price: £250-500. Collection only. Email bids to [email protected]

🏇🏼 #horses

The Govan Sarcophagus. We believe it dates to the late C9th and was for St Constantine, a Pictish king killed by Vikings in 877. His sister's marriage into the royal family of the Strathclyde Britons is the most likely reason for his probable martyrium being in Govan. @govanstones.bsky.social

Great to see Dr Murray Cook writing about the Glorious Govan Stones and Govan Old, the spectacular early medieval oasis of carved stone monuments amid a *surviving* 1,500-year-old graveyard. We open for the 2026 season on April 1st, so start to make your plans! open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

📷 Some days, you just want a photo of Prof. Steve with the Govan Warrior! Are you looking forward to seeing the Govan Stones again from the 1st of April? Let us know in the comments, and we'll see how many tea bags we need to get in! ☕️

Not long until we reopen on the 1st of April! Will you be visiting this Spring?

Not long until we reopen on the 1st of April! Will you be visiting this Spring?

📷 Some days, you just want a photo of Prof. Steve with the Govan Warrior! Are you looking forward to seeing the Govan Stones again from the 1st of April? Let us know in the comments, and we'll see how many tea bags we need to get in! ☕️

Netherton Cross, about a thousand years old, covered with mix of figurative & geometric designs including beast headed figures, snakes, boses & interlace patterns. An example of Govan School sculptural tradition relsting to the Kingdom of Strathclyde @archscot.bsky.social @govanstones.bsky.social

A minute of pure hogbackness 🐖 📼 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social Music: Jotunkvinne Musician: Kveld (from Audiio)

A minute of pure hogbackness 🐖 📼 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social Music: Jotunkvinne Musician: Kveld (from Audiio)

Great to see Dr Murray Cook writing about the Glorious Govan Stones and Govan Old, the spectacular early medieval oasis of carved stone monuments amid a *surviving* 1,500-year-old graveyard. We open for the 2026 season on April 1st, so start to make your plans! open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

Which Govan Stone are YOU missing? 📼 Tom Horne

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