Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.

I had a wee hand in helping research some of the material for this. It looks absolutely amazing!!! Can’t wait to get my copy!!

I wrote a massive TTRPG setting guide encyclopaedia about the ancient Scotland and the Picts who lived in it. It covers everything scholars currently know about life in the 7th century, from landscapes to kingdoms to faith, magic, settlements, and so much more. Check it out! carvedinstone.scot

THE PICTISH ARTS SOCIETY CONFERENCE!! Day 1, Metal and Metalwork Day 2, New research on Pictish Art and it’s Context Book below! facebook.com/events/s/pas...

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!

A Pictish ring was found by volunteer John Ralph during a University of Aberdeen-led dig at Burghead, Moray, #OTD in 2023. Professor Gordon Noble said it further indicated 'the high-status production of metalwork' at the Pictish power centre. 📸National Museums Scotland #medievalsky

Considered to be the pen drawing by a gifted reader of the manuscript from c.880 CE-890 CE. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 855; Grammatica, De rhetorica, Institutiones II, De natura rerum, Miscellaneous, drawings; middle of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.350 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

How about this for a book cover?! Out on 9 October by @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-k...

A little more of Nigg. The first shows the ultra high relief of the Pictish masterpiece, zoom to the lions which roam the desert in St Jerome’s narrative. Then St’s Paul and Antony bowing over the space, books open, where the raven is bringing the consecrated host already broken. Truly spectacular.

Some highlights from the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social field trip to Pictish Easter Ross on Saturday. The puzzlement of Kincardine, the masterpiece of Nigg, the sublime hunting panel of Shandwick and the fresh as the day it was carved spirals and key pattern of Hilton of Cadboll.

NEW RESEARCH REPORT: Dundurn dendrochronological and radiocarbon analysis Read the report by Fellows Prof Gordon Noble and Dr Anne Crone who were awarded a Society grant to dendro-date timbers from an early medieval Pictish site in Perth & Kinross: socantscot.org/uncategorize...

Quite a phenomenal find at Mail today- a c.5000yr old stone axe found redeposited with late Iron Age midden deposits. Found by Marilyn - what a find for one of our undergraduate students ❤️🎉 #UniversityofAberdeen #ArchaeologyShetland #NPicts

Also, my book showed up on the UC press website and I learned that because I got an alert from Google Scholar that I should claim it so really really I'm already done for the week www.ucpress.edu/books/things...

Side 2 finished on recreation of the Skinnet Cross-slab from Caithness. Scheduled for installation at Halkirk next month.

High on a Northumberland hillside near the Roman fort of Bremenium and the ancient road we call Dere Street are the remains of a mausoleum. It is probably the finally resting place of a high-raking Roman soldier and a couple of its stones still feature enigmatic carvings #TombTuesday

Some man for one man!

The last big 'reveal' of the Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard AHRC-funded project: the reading of the long runic inscription. Proud to say I played a small part in cracking it by spotting the two puncts around the final rune. The Hoard has now begun its worid tour! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Great demonstration why we have a PhD advertised on coastal erosion at coastal forts. Pic left shows erosion scar on grass where a huge section of cultural deposits beneath are beginning to slump into sea. Pic Right shows more erosion @drtobydriver.bsky.social @diggermann.bsky.social

Some English language reporting on the really tiny find of a 1,600-year-old golden miniature #padlock with spring mechanism discovered in NW Germany also here by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com: 🏺 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

A little walk up in the Urchany and Farley Forest yesterday #naturesky

Et hop tilbage til Sverige og et af Skandiaviens absolut vildeste steder, gravpladsen ved Valgärde, nord for Uppsala. Gennem en periode på ca. 300 år, fra 500-800-tallet, er der begravet personer her med de vildeste gravgaver, som f.eks. disse to sværd.

Genbrug er i øvrigt ikke nogen ny ide. Allerede i vikingetiden var man begyndt på det der halløj. Dette ringspænde er egentlig producert i Irland, og var allerede et par 100 år gammelt inden det blev gravlagt sammen med en person i nærheden af Snåsa, nordøst for Trondheim.

Discover the secrets of the Book of Kells! 🌀 On 30 Jan, join Dr. Victoria Thompson Whitworth & Master Craftsman Thomas Keyes in Edinburgh or online as they discuss potential ties to Pictish Scotland - a Tarbat Discovery Centre event. 🎟️ Get tickets: buytickets.at/tarbatdiscov...

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

Medieval Ireland and Scotland starter pack - happy to add fellow researchers on request bsky.app/starter-pack...

A selection of some of the bronze vessels from the Late Roman hoard found near Helmsdale, Sutherland. This was deposited sometime in the late 4thC or early 5thC Ad. The strainer and colander are absolutely sensational!

Tired: Western Roman Empire fell. Wired: The Western Roman Empire just quiet quit and then stopped coming to the office at all.

A lump of sea-worn Angus sandstone with a Morayshire interloper.

Some of the amazing early medieval gold thread recovered by our Durham University/ DigVentures excavations at Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

Woden Law in the Scottish Borders. The outworks on this site were originally thought to represent the remains of a Roman siege, but are now considered part of the enclosing works of this complex Iron Age hillfort! More than a dozen roundhouses are recorded within the interior #hillfortswednesday

Todays #Pictish Symbol Stone of fascination from Easterton of Roseisle, Moray. This formed part of stone built cist grave of unusual plan and is carved on two faces, on differing orientations. The elegant Goose and Salmon on one face are some of the very finest of the incised Symbols.

This Thursday, hear from Professor Jane Geddes FSA about ‘Sueno’s Stone’ at Forres. Join in person or online for free! www.sal.org.uk/event/forres...

So that’s #winter here then! Ben Wyvis looking very Christmas Cakey and Beinn a’ Bha’ach Àrd with plenty snow low down.

Nov 18: Feast of Fergus (8thC) ‘the Pict’, bishop. He founded churches across the north and east of Scotland, and may be the Fergustus episcopus Scotiae Pictus present at the Council of Rome in 721. He was buried at Glamis, Angus, his head later translated to Scone, Perthshire.

Managed to mash-up Tarbat and Orkney, spirals and Kings in a lovely blonde sandstone.

Looking across the River Beauly (Farrar) to Wester Lovat

Hillforts rising above the morning fog on Cardigan Bay, Wales, today

Buy a Xmas jumper for the generations and support Northern Picts! 🤶🎄🧑‍🎄 npixts.teemill.com/collection/x...

Women in early medieval Ireland Online seminar that featured “four prominent medieval Irish specialists in the fields of archaeology, literature, and law to present their latest research on women in early medieval Ireland and propose promising avenues for future studies” youtu.be/ebQjYq-rT4c?...

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The amazing massive silver chain collar from Whitecleuch, Lanarkshire. This example is decorated with chip carved Pictish Symbols picked out in distinctive red enamel. This probably dates to the 5-6th C Ad

I made a little early medieval Scotland starter pack - but who have I missed?

Three beautiful #Roman glass bowls (l-r) in a deep purple with white swirls, pale green-blue, & a deep cobalt blue. All of them are about 2000 years old, & would have been a very fashionable piece of tableware (📷 NY Met Museum) 🏺AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientGlass

The Priory really is a lovely little place to take a wee walk with the kids!

Two sides of the same stone. The simply stunning Aberlemno Roadside cross slab.

Here is Phoebe

For #FindsFriday a look back to 2017 and the final season digging Rhynie and snapshot of the amazing fins from that year. Stone and clay crucibles, Late Roman Amphora, clay moulds for handpins, brooches and their elaborate barrel shaped pins. Dating no later than the mid 6th C

Assynt from the Passing Place