Daniel MacLean

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.

And the end of Burghead too…

Aerial photo of a rocky hill summit surrounded by trees

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...

Marilyn with axe

Axe

Axe

Axe

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

Outfought and out thought today.

Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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...

The six degrees of separation in Archaeology

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

The foundations of a circular Roman mausoleum. Its stones are covered in lichen and there is grass growing out of the top.

A relief carving on one of the stones of the mausoleum which resembles the head of a horned animal.

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!

Mystery behind Viking-age treasure find in Scotland may finally have been solved A runic inscription on one of the Galloway hoard’s elaborately decorated arm rings has been deciphered

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

1,600-year-old Roman padlock with spring mechanism discovered in Germany — and it's tiny A miniature gold lock dated to the third to fourth centuries was found by a metal detectorist in Germany.

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.

An Illustration from the Book of Kells

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...

And importantly at Burghead where the quality of the carving is best matched

The appropriate texts were consulted 😂

Though these guys lack the arms of the profile faces centaurs. They are entwined with beast headed tails.

Is it a panel like that on Shandwick but instead of showing the splendour of the hunt and elite display, it’s showing the torments of the damned?

Indeed!! Similar to the long necked guys from the front of Rosie Priory.

Journals | The PAS

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...

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Happy to be added

The Drapers Garden Hoard from the City of London represents the largest group of such vessels excavated and dated under modern conditions:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For Spearman’s re-accounting of the vessels see:

journals.socantscot.org/index.php/ps...