Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display in Kirkcudbright
It resembles a perfume bottle and a Latin inscription on it suggests it had a religious function.
The phenomenal and enigmatic rock crystal and gold 'jar' of Bishop Hyguald from the heart of the Galloway Hoard is NOW on display for the first time ever. It was held back for Kirkcudbright while the rest of the Hoard continues its world tour in Melbourne (1/2)
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A head and shoulders shot of Heather. She's smiling, and is up a hill, with rocks right behind her and a scenic view behind - open space, hills, and a loch or sea coast winding between them
The cover of Gesta - it is grey, with a photograph on the front of an ornate metal vessel.
Congrats to Professor Heather Pulliam, who has been appointed co-editor in chief of Gesta, the leading international journal for medieval art.๐
Gesta is published by the University of Chicago Press:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ges/curr...
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Sharing this again for #MedievalMonday
Iโd only just joined BlueSky when our amazing dendro-isotope dating results for Ancrum Old Bridge ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ were announced 2 months ago, this will reach more folk now.
The ๐งต below includes a link to our ScARF case study with more info.
#dendrochronology #ScotDendro
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fort
We have a fully funded PhD at the Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, on coastal promontory forts - creating a catalogue and archive of this important site type and assessing the past and future impact of climate change www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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'Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' This is one of the most exciting things I've written (so far..!). Thanks to everyone who helped.
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Ooh, thanks!
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Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Mรกel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
Post-excavation artefact specialist at National Museums Scotland: iron, metalworking, craft, Iron Age, early medieval and medieval. Mum, gardener and list-maker.
