@archaeonado.bsky.social
Galloway Hoard Researcher at National Museums Scotland. Author of Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom and other archaeology content. https://www.nms.ac.uk/profile/dr-adrian-maldonado See also @almostarch.bsky.social
Legacies of Rome-Roman Silver & its Impact in Scotland by Dr Fraser Hunter. Joint UHI Institute for Northern Studies & Culture Perth & Kinross Public Seminar.
➕Venue Perth Museum, Scotland
➕ 7pm - 8pm
➕ Cost £7.50/ £5.00
➕ Book online through website
tinyurl.com/3damwew5
Space church!
Plus a beautiful book to go with the exhibition: shop.harvardartmuseums.org/products/cel...
For anyone in Boston this summer, some big hitters from the NMS collections are on loan to Harvard Art Museum for the exhibition Celtic Art Through the Ages
Welcome to the brand-new social media page for the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age! The longship has set sail for new shores as we have parted ways with X (Twitter) and are setting up camp here on Bluesky. Follow along for updates on upcoming events, new research, and all things Viking Age!
💥 A Whole Lot History 💥
📰 Roman Golden Paint Found on Hadrian’s Wall Altar 🎨🖌🏛
📰 Iron Age Footprints on a Scottish Beach 👣
📰 Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague Death Watchers ✍️ ⚰️
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
A mysterious ceramic cross pendant found at the fortress of Dumbarton Rock, but is it early or later medieval? Now on display at the Castle alongside other finds from the early medieval hillfort. Read more on scientific analysis by Historic Environment Scotland: blog.engineshed.scot/2025/07/09/u...
An upcoming exhibition on Roman Scotland at the National Museum of Scotland will include two Mithraic stone altars found at Inveresk, near Edinburgh 🏛
One of the altars was designed to be backlit in the lamplit gloom of a Mithraeum!🕯
Read more: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
Great new study on early medieval foodways, specifically a lack of fish in cooking pots! Glad it's not just our #ArchaeoFINS pots that lack 🐟! Implication with the human isotopes is that the Vikings adapted to local cuisine & left their fishy ways behind! doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
👀 Post Doctoral Researcher - Osteoarchaeology (18mths/PT)
"This post is part of a Historic Environment Scotland-funded project to collate, record and disseminate the archive of a 1970s excavation of an important Pictish/Norse cemetery at Newark, Orkney ..."
www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...
Mark your calendars!
Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire
14 November 2026 to 28 April 2027 at National Museums Scotland
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
Proud of my colleagues @earlymedieval.bsky.social et al. I saw the years of work that went into this firsthand.
Available NOW, free to read online, completely beautiful and packed with discoveries rewriting the end of Empire in Britain and beyond
Museum job alert!!
Assisstant Curator Renaissance and Early Modern History at National Museums Scotland
Full time but temporary (mat leave cover)
Closes 18 Feb so don't dilly-dally
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/829206
SMA Conference 2026!
The Society for Medieval Archaeology annual symposium will be in York 19 September 2026, on the theme of Heritage Science.
Call for papers and posters closes Friday 10th April 2026
#MedievalArchaeology #MedievalSky
medievalarchaeology.co.uk/sma-conferen...
Some incredible claims being made here. The location of Laithlind as Cumbria speculative, mound is most probably *not* the burial location of Ivarr the Boneless, very doubtful this was the location of palace, have yet to see convincing evidence of ship burial. Worrying hyperbole. #medievalsky
Pictish round barrows, log coffin and decorated IA daub alert!! Finds from Windhill, Muir of Ord in this reel.
Big ups to @hornesupremacy.bsky.social for alerting me to this! If you're not subscribed to his A Whole Lot of History newsletter, you're missing out!!
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Happy St Brigid's weekend! To celebrate we bring you a journey through Europe w/Prof. Jean-Michel Picard, UCD. He has unreal stories of hunting down manuscripts (incl. Napoleon & nazis!) & helps us understand the appeal of Brigid in lands far from Kildare! #brigid open.spotify.com/episode/0Bl4...
Job alert: Director for Historic Churches Scotland, deadline Monday 9th February 2026.
Anderson Knight is delighted to be partnering with our member Historic Churches Scotland to appoint a new Director at a pivotal stage in the charity’s development.
For more information, go to: buff.ly/eteYlh1
🚨 Vacancy alert! 🚨 www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
Join us as our Museum Collections Manager and be in charge of a globally important Museum Collection including, but not limited to, Roman, Greek & Egyptian artefacts, Prehistoric & Romano-British Antiquities, Ango-Saxon & Viking objects, & more!
This is not a drill- Llanbedrgoch finally published!!
It remains exciting! Can't wait to hear more
That'll be Midross near Luss, viking to medieval burial site as it turned out, but sadly not published as yet! www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
Be still my heart
We are too!!
Find out what our favourite osteoarch Jess Thompson has achieved in her first year at NMS!
The only good explanation of what's going on in Greenland I've seen anywhere, by Andrew Jennings, UHI Prof of Island Studies
"There is a lesson here for island nations globally: When you sit on critical resources during a great power conflict, 'sovereignty' becomes a negotiation, not a given."
Hadrian’s Wall and its Trees, ed. by David J. Breeze @archaeopress.bsky.social
Just flipped through a copy of this, and it's rather beautiful. A celebration of life inspired by the death of a tree. All short contributions, from the academic to the poetic
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
