Oops… - they still had books in Scotland too… - and sale in the National Museum’s bookstore…
Adrián Maldonado
@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
Glasgow mafia strikes again! Hi Cathy! Also staying tuned in case anything early medieval turns up...
Dr Will Wyeth@willwyeth.bsky.social · 6d ago
With today's theft of Vix torc, here's what has been taken... The torc was found as part of a burial & placed around neck of the interred. Despite its size, it weighs only 480g (less that half the weight of the Snettisham Great torc). It is STUNNING. #Archaeology #Gold #Torcs 🏺 1/2
A Viking-age boatyard on Eigg - new page on some old finds in National Museums Scotland. Inspired by the @seamuseum.bsky.social Galloway Hoard exhibition, which features a new 3D-printed replica of one of these boat stems. Don't miss the two incredible new 3D models by @hugowhymark.bsky.social
A Viking Age boatyard on Eigg | National Museums Scotland
Two oak boat stems dating to 880-1050 AD from the isle of Eigg show the arrival of Scandinavian seafaring technology to Scotland.These rare survivals revea
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A mould for a C6th/ 7th pilgrim's flask has been excavated at a monastery in the Judean desert, 10 miles east of Jerusalem. It supports the idea that the flasks like those in the treasuries at Monza & Bobbio were made in & near Jerusalem. www.timesofisrael.com/forget-keych...
Oooh this looks like essential reading.
Sidestone Press@sidestone.bsky.social · 2w agoOUT NOW! Royalty and Ritual. The landscape of power in early medieval Scotland and Europe. Get a printed copy or peruse online at www.sidestone.com/books/royalt... @pictishartssociety.bsky.social @insuhi.bsky.social
New from Jane Kershaw so definitely worth reading! @jk-viking.bsky.social
School of Archaeology@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨Dr Jane Kreshaw @jk-viking.bsky.social has edited a new special issue of our #Archaeometry Journal titled: "The movement and circulation of silver in early medieval north‐west Europe". Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754754...
💥 What a weekend of the 18th and 19th July we'll have at the @govanstones.bsky.social. Includes LIVE ARCHAEOLOGY all weekend in our 1,500-year-old churchyard, Vanguard Centre medieval weapons workshops, a Hobby Clan dig, Giant Chess & a FREE TALK with Little Kingdoms author, @alexharvv.bsky.social!
What can hoards reveal about life in post-Roman Britain? A @ukri.org AHRC funded project exploring the last Roman hoards deposited in Britain is reshaping what we know about 5th century society. Discover the research and learn more about hoards in museums across the UK here blogs.kent.ac.uk/hoards
Stories spun from the smallest, simplest crosses in the National Museum of Scotland www.facebook.com/share/v/1Dnu...
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Unmissable lecture for anyone interested in Pictish art. Professor Heather Pulliam of the University of Edinburgh delivers this year's Groam House Museum Annual Academic Lecture on monsters in Pictish sculpture. Online this Thursday 25 June at 7.30pm, tickets £3 members/students and £6 non-members.
What lies beneath? Pictish Monsters and the Living Frame - Groam House Museum
Find out all about Pictish monsters in this talk by Heather Pulliam, Professor of Medieval Art at Edinburgh School of Art
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🗣 Wed 24th June, 6:30pm! 'The Viking Great Army in Northern Britain' - my History Scotland webinar and Q&A - is tomorrow!🎙 Date: 24 jun • 18:30 • £10 @historyscotland.bsky.social 🔗 Link in comments ⤵️
For Father's Day I wanted to chill out and see some archaeology so here's me having a lie down in the ditch of the Antonine Wall
Brand new!! The Medieval Stones of Millport, by me and John Parnell. Direct outcome of a public lecture for Cumbrae Historical Society, and a total joy to co-produce. 13 medieval stones in 22 pages. Available to buy ONLY in Millport and ALL proceeds help secure a future for these incredible stones
🪙 The Chapelyard Dirham A thread about a new Galloway dirham 🧵 SW Scotland has produced some amazing Viking-Age finds, with the hoards from Talnotrie and Galloway and the dirham from Stevenston Sands of particular note for those of us who study silver economies and long-distance trade networks.
It's [hopefully] going to be a really interesting couple of weeks! We're doing a research dig at the Viking site at Woodstown Waterford, with support from @ria.ie, @nationalmons.bsky.social and Waterford City & County Council, in a collaborative project between Irish & Norwegian archaeologists
Just got my hands on Treasures of the Vikings by Tom Horne and it's even more glorious than I thought. Huge full-page images of Viking objects and up to date context from @hornesupremacy.bsky.social. Plus some Galloway Hoard items looking fab as ever. Congrats Dr Tom!
Nice review of Cummings and Driscoll eds 2025 in the latest Current Archaeology. Shouts out "first-class" chapters like one on early medieval Celtic Britain, which I was proud to have co-written with Stephen Driscoll. Means a lot coming from Prof Richard Bradley! the-past.com/review/books...
The Archaeology of Britain: an introduction from earliest times to the twenty-first century | The Past
This is the third edition of a book which first appeared in 1999 and was first revised ten years later. Much has happened since then, and even the editors h ...
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📚 My publishers are pleased with sales of my book, and you can hear me talk about it on the 13th of June! I'm excited that my launch event is at the @govanstones.bsky.social, so you can see me wax lyrical about Viking artefacts surrounded by hogbacks! 📍 Glasgow ⏰️ 4:30pm 🎟 Free - NO ticket needed!
What's on in June! Winter has arrived and our new exhibitions are officially open: Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard, Pearling Elders and SEA KIN. www.sea.museum/en/whats-on
Goodbye Sydney, you've been beautiful!! It's been amazing meeting so many of you this past week at @seamuseum.bsky.social. The Galloway Hoard is on very good hands - perfect for checking out this winter. Stay tuned to the website for plenty more Hoard-themed events! www.sea.museum/en/whats-on/...
NOW OPEN: Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard 🚣♂️ EXCLUSIVE CURATOR TALK: Island of the Vikings Join us this Friday 29 May (11am–12pm) to hear a FREE talk from visiting curator Dr Adrián Maldonado. www.sea.museum/galloway-hoard Produced by National Museums Scotland
Hello Sydney! Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard is NOW OPEN at @seamuseum.bsky.social Preview for teachers tonight, then I'm doing a FREE public lecture "Island of the Vikings" tomorrow 29 May. Plus I'm here all weekend for pop-up tours, so come say hi! www.sea.museum/en/whats-on/...
Things are kicking off here in Sydney. Staff introduction and tour before the media and social media previews, and then exclusive members' talk and tour. Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard opens at the Australian National Maritime Museum 28 May!! www.sea.museum/en/whats-on/...
