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
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Living the dream! Congrats Prof, and I eagerly await to read more in due course!
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Dunno, bit I *would* 100% read this peer reviewed article...!
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Amazing- honour-price or tribute have both been floated in discussions with historians. Any references you would recommend would be very helpful
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Sweet summer children
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See further on the use of the word here: Stanley (2008) doi.org/10.1515/angl... and Gallagher 2018 kar.kent.ac.uk/72339/
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Could it be a misreading of Orcades, Orkney, usually found at the extremes of such maps? See now a recent article on this by Oisín Plumb pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publicati...
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Willing to take the chance. He's named every podcast but never seen...
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We the people demand to get Tiago interviewed on the Medieval Irish History podcast!!
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It's the miniature, gold version of the double-silver arm ring from the Galloway Hoard bundle! Killer find
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And one last fun fact about the impact of the project: all three Glenmorangie Research Fellows - myself, Alice Blackwell @earlymedieval.bsky.social and Mhairi Maxwell - went on to other jobs at National Museums Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/collections/...
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My major contribution to the Glenmorangie Research Project includes the book #CrucibleOfNations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom (2021) and the hundreds of new photos of objects on and off display we were able to add to the catalogue books.google.co.uk/books/about/...
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The Glenmorangie Research Project also involved working with artists and craftspeople, resulting in 7 craft recreations (like the legendary Pictish Throne) and one new art commission by Simone ten Hompel. Read more about them here: www.academia.edu/97331269/Exp...