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COULD MISSPELLINGS HAVE OBSCURED THE NATURE OF SCOTLAND’S GALLOWAY HOARD? THIS HULK’S KIND OF ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! news.artnet.com/art-world/ga...

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Lecture is ready! "The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..." Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025 A public event as part of our EMPAT project

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And a longer account of Jenny Murray's recent work here: archaeologyorkney.com/2025/02/25/s...

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A 6ft-tall Pictish stone was discovered by Moray man Wayne Miles near Elgin #OTD in 2019. It had been discarded by workers constructing the Barmuckity Business Park, and bears the symbols a notched rectangle and Z-rod beneath an eagle.

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Both of these gilded silver cups were used as containers for Viking Age hoards. The one from Balmaghie (left) was made in the area of modern day Iran and the Harrogate cup (right) is from Continental Europe. Their beautiful designs & utility were appreciated #medievalsky #museum #silkroads #vikings

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You have got to go the new OXO Videogame Museum in Madrid. All the classics are playable, right down to Tennis for Two from 1958, plus a lot of cultural detritus you've never heard of, too. I've been to several of these now and I seriously learned a ton here. Longer post about it soon!

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One of the best ever #Tolkien documentaries is only available until early March - with over one million views on Youtube one of the biggest hits from @artefr.bsky.social etc. And that's not counting the regular tv showings! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlCC...

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#Viking Silver Bullion in Central Scotland? My blog on an intriguing find of Viking hacksilver in Perth and Kinross, as originally reported to Treasure Trove in Scotland, and now on display at Perth Museum and Art Gallery. drtomhorne.com/2025/02/14/v...

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Hello Bluesky, death to X, viva Byzantium!

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Sad but interesting snapshot of the situation in Scotland. Timely though as I'm working on relics of place in the early medieval period at the moment

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The Fowlis Wester (Parish Church) Class 2 #Pictish cross-slab. 3m tall, it includes a cross with (rare) projecting arms and Pictish symbols like the crescent and v-rod. Elsewhere, a figure leads a cow (with bell) in front of a procession of warriors, and two warriors ride side-by-side on horseback.

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'Twas very much a team effort! But thrilled our work is blowing minds around the world, keep those theories rolling in!

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Hah! That bowl may indeed be super, but NMS has a whole Hoard (a St Ninian's Isle Hoard if you will) of Super Bowls, in several Pictish flavours

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Finally, the game for those kids who grew up thinking they were grown-ups

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I wonder if 'community' could mean something like a Scandinavian-type félag partnership between the apparently named owners of some of the other armrings in the Galloway Hoard. Here's me talking about the félag model in my book, A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain (p. 122).

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🏺For this month's #OG_H_AM blog, I've written about our investigations into the ogham stone from Pool, Orkney - a team viewing of the 3D model and a trip to the excavation archive appear to have brought this inscription from the 6th century to the 9th! ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

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Another corker of an article has appeared in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours: Rebecca Thomas on 'The Naming of the Welsh in the Early Middle Ages'. Open Access too! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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So lovely to be at the #SAMuseum for the launch of the Treasures of the Viking Age exhibition, opened by @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social's Dr Martin Goldberg, who spoke about the #GallowayHoard as the wealth of the community.

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If you're as excited as all us #Viking geeks at the latest #GallowayHoard Old English runic inscription research, then you might like my chat with @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social GH Researcher, Dr @archaeonado.bsky.social! youtu.be/UJAMAloXs9k?...

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Now that the last one has been deciphered, here's our explainer on all the runic inscriptions from the Galloway Hoard. Huge thanks to Dr David Parsons for lending us his expertise www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

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Repeat after us the message from the past: “This is the community’s wealth”

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Wow! The Galloway Hoard speaks: 'This is the community’s wealth.' Such fantastic work.

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Fantastic work has been done to unravel the many mysteries of the #Galloway #hoard, this includes providing insights into hoards as representing community and collective wealth not just one individual #medievalsky #vikingsky #skystorians #wealth

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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...

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My digital reconstruction of Dùn dà Làmh - a Pictish hillfort overlooking the River Spey, Laggan, Scotland. © Bob Marshall / badenochstorylands.com 2020. The model was made using GIS survey data and #Blender3D. Historic Environment Record: her.highland.gov.uk/Monument/MHG... #HillfortsWednesday

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Great talk by Joe Fitzpatrick and @northernpicts.bsky.social on recent excavations at East Lomond hillfort in Fife. With carbon dates running from the 3rd century to the 7th, and loads of cool artefacts including a Pictish spearhead and spear-butt as depicted on warrior stones like nearby Collessie.

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Just some delightfully weird early medieval carved crosses from Inchmarnock, Kingarth and Rothesay in Bute Museum

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Doing my best balance-scale impression

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Is this evidence of the earliest relic of St. Brigid? Follow the journey of her name from a Swiss abbey to a must-see exhibition in Dublin! Don’t miss this rare chance to see history up close. #CuratorBlog #MuseumBlog #NMIBlog Read more: 🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

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Happy St Brigid's Day, the day people traditionally spout more ahistorical nonsense about Irish "goddesses" and "pre-Christian customs" than on any other day of the year. Resist the BS! Here's a really good piece by Tiago Veloso Silva as a little antidote: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Just a few early medieval objects spotted in my first visit to the bonkers Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

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I highly recommend this thoughtful piece by Julia Smith, on the history of early medieval as a category of historical study. Just published in Early Medieval England and its neighbours! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Fantastic new dendrochronology dates from Dundurn, dating the construction of the fort to literally a single year in the seventh century.

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It'd be great if a few more businesses followed Glenmorangie's lead.

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Hello to anyone finding out more about #Glenmorangie whisky today. Did you know that from 2008 - 2021, the Glenmorangie Company funded a research project into the early medieval period at National Museums Scotland? It resulted in 3 books, 2 exhibitions and much more: www.nms.ac.uk/collections/...

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The big news is of course that, as former Glenmorangie Research Fellows at NMS, @earlymedieval.bsky.social and I are now two degrees of separation from Harrison Ford www.scottishfield.co.uk/cask-and-sti...

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