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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I had a wee hand in helping research some of the material for this. It looks absolutely amazing!!! Can’t wait to get my copy!!

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 26/09/2025

I wrote a massive TTRPG setting guide encyclopaedia about the ancient Scotland and the Picts who lived in it. It covers everything scholars currently know about life in the 7th century, from landscapes to kingdoms to faith, magic, settlements, and so much more. Check it out! carvedinstone.scot

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Carved in Stone

A storyteller's guide to Pictland. Available now for pre-order!

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

THE PICTISH ARTS SOCIETY CONFERENCE!! Day 1, Metal and Metalwork Day 2, New research on Pictish Art and it’s Context Book below! facebook.com/events/s/pas...

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PAS Annual Conference 2025

Event in Brechin, United Kingdom by The Pictish Arts Society on Saturday, October 4 2025

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Burghead 2025. What a year. Here is a snapshot of the upper citadel. 8/9th C brooch pin like one from Dunadd. A 2nd C spiral bead from inside a 8th/9th C building, very similar to one from the Croy hoard. The building is massive >7m long, a huge central hearth. Also me busy on the John Deere!

8/9th C penannular brooch pin, very similar to one from
Early Medieval royal hillfort Dunadd

A black and yellow spiral glass bead made in the 1st/2nd C. Very similar to one in the Early Medieval Croy hoard which dates to the 8th C

A Pictish building in plan. The left of the image shows a massive stone built hearth with associated flue or quenching pit. To the right is the base of a low stone wall which supported a far greater turf wall. On the outside of the turf wall are a line of post holes which may be associated with the support for the roof of the building.

An archaeologist busy pretending to excavate with a child’s toy ride on tractor

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Hopefully! There is a half of a clay mould for making rings like this from the Pictish levels at Brough of Birsay. The analysis on the red inset is still ongoing. If it is garnet it is likely reused from an earlier object. Intriguingly there is also a little sliver of garnet found at Birsay too…

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

A Pictish ring was found by volunteer John Ralph during a University of Aberdeen-led dig at Burghead, Moray, #OTD in 2023. Professor Gordon Noble said it further indicated 'the high-status production of metalwork' at the Pictish power centre. 📸National Museums Scotland #medievalsky

The kite-shaped ring has a garnet or red glass centre.

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It is amazing! The three gathered berries at the points of the lozenge signifying the Trinty and outlining crosses across the ring. The lozenge representing Christ and the blood red garnet, his wound on the cross. Alas it is not yet on display in the NMS, but hopefully soon.

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

7th/8th C so far but we would hope to refine that date down with further radiocarbon dating of the secure context the ring came from

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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/...)

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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...

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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.

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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.

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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...

Aerial photo of a rocky hill summit surrounded by trees

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The six degrees of separation in Archaeology

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David McGovern @monikierockart.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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

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.

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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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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

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 31/01/2025

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/...

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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.

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A little walk up in the Urchany and Farley Forest yesterday #naturesky

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.social · 24/01/2025

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.

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.social · 24/01/2025

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.

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Archaeology Scotland @archscot.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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...

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The appropriate texts were consulted 😂

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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?

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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

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The Pictish Arts Society @pictishartssociety.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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

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Journals | The PAS

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Medieval Ireland and Scotland starter pack - happy to add fellow researchers on request bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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...

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The Drapers' Gardens Hoard: A Preliminary Account | Britannia | Cambridge Core

The Drapers' Gardens Hoard: A Preliminary Account - Volume 40

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

For Spearman’s re-accounting of the vessels see: journals.socantscot.org/index.php/ps...

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A selection of some of the bronze vessels from the Late Roman hoard found near Helmsdale, Sutherland. This was deposited sometime in the late 4thC or early 5thC Ad. The strainer and colander are absolutely sensational!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Tired: Western Roman Empire fell. Wired: The Western Roman Empire just quiet quit and then stopped coming to the office at all.

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David McGovern @monikierockart.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A lump of sea-worn Angus sandstone with a Morayshire interloper.

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Some of the amazing early medieval gold thread recovered by our Durham University/ DigVentures excavations at Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

Fragments of gold thread recovered from archaeology excavation

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James O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Woden Law in the Scottish Borders. The outworks on this site were originally thought to represent the remains of a Roman siege, but are now considered part of the enclosing works of this complex Iron Age hillfort! More than a dozen roundhouses are recorded within the interior #hillfortswednesday

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Todays #Pictish Symbol Stone of fascination from Easterton of Roseisle, Moray. This formed part of stone built cist grave of unusual plan and is carved on two faces, on differing orientations. The elegant Goose and Salmon on one face are some of the very finest of the incised Symbols.

A Pictish carved stone with Goose and Salmon symbols

A Pictish Carved stone with notched crescent, crescent and v-Rod, mirror and comb symbols

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This Thursday, hear from Professor Jane Geddes FSA about ‘Sueno’s Stone’ at Forres. Join in person or online for free! www.sal.org.uk/event/forres...

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Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

So that’s #winter here then! Ben Wyvis looking very Christmas Cakey and Beinn a’ Bha’ach Àrd with plenty snow low down.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Nov 18: Feast of Fergus (8thC) ‘the Pict’, bishop. He founded churches across the north and east of Scotland, and may be the Fergustus episcopus Scotiae Pictus present at the Council of Rome in 721. He was buried at Glamis, Angus, his head later translated to Scone, Perthshire.

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