OUT NOW! 📚 SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.

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Would highly recommend the new Viking North exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum (York) if you are in the area. Lots to see and thoughtfully presented. #vikingsky

Thanks to everyone who came to our stall at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! We were giving away colourful copies of old editions of our journal ‘Northern Studies.’ You can access our back catalogue for free online! www.ssns.org.uk/our-journal/volumes

We're getting set up in the Leeds Student Union for the @imc-leeds.bsky.social Historic Societies Fair - come down from 10:30am and grab some free copies of the Northern Studies journal!

"Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past"

In my latest post I look at some of the Norwegian characters who are beginning to play a growing and important role in this Tapestry northerntapestry.com/2025/04/20/a...

Returning to #IMC2025 Historical and Archaeological Societies Fair is Scottish Society for Northern Studies ☺️ Make sure to visit their stall in between exploring Making Leeds Medieval! 😁 www.ssns.org.uk www.facebook.com/NorthernStud... bsky.app/profile/nort... #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

On this day in (possibly) 858...

This is the Pictish stone which stands against the graveyard wall in the village of Strathmiglo, Fife. It is very weathered, but you can just about make out the head of a deer and, above it, a rectangular shape, possibly a “tuning fork” symbol.

Carved into the rocks where the sea meets the site of the original Faroese 9th century parliament at Tinganes in the Faroese Capital of Tórshavn, you can find this viking-age sundial. 1/4

A very exciting SSNS Seminar coming up this Thursday (16 Jan, 7pm GMT), as Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm will be discussing ‘Frisia and the Viking Age‘. Online, free, and open to all! Sign up now at www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...

The latest instalment of the Northern Tapestry starts to look at the twilight of the Pictish royalty #picts, #vikings northerntapestry.com/2025/01/04/t...

My latest blog looks at some (often colourful) descriptions of the Picts – as seen through the eyes of others. northerntapestry.com/2024/12/07/w...

Thank you to everyone who has followed me since I joined Bluesky a week ago. northerntapestry.com is an attempt to join up the characters, their stories and historical events in an area covering northern Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Iceland and the Faroe Islands in the early medieval period.

My latest blog looks at the Pictish King Onuist II and what little we know of him, other than how, in alliance with a supposed “King of Scotland,” he defeated the Anglo-Saxon “king” Athelstan – a victory which apparently led to the birth of the Scottish flag northerntapestry.com/2024/11/02/o...