Daniel MacLean
@danielmaclean.bsky.social
Early Medievalist, Pictus obsessus and bronze vessel nerd. 46/282 Munros. With some added Crofting and Common Grazings.
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Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.
October 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.
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!!
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
Check it out!
carvedinstone.scot
Carved in Stone
A storyteller's guide to Pictland. Available now for pre-order!
carvedinstone.scot
September 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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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
Check it out!
carvedinstone.scot
Carved in Stone
A storyteller's guide to Pictland. Available now for pre-order!
carvedinstone.scot
September 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
Check it out!
carvedinstone.scot
THE PICTISH ARTS SOCIETY CONFERENCE!!
Day 1, Metal and Metalwork
Day 2, New research on Pictish Art and it’s Context
Book below!
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Day 1, Metal and Metalwork
Day 2, New research on Pictish Art and it’s Context
Book below!
facebook.com/events/s/pas...
PAS Annual Conference 2025
Event in Brechin, United Kingdom by The Pictish Arts Society on Saturday, October 4 2025
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September 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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...
Day 1, Metal and Metalwork
Day 2, New research on Pictish Art and it’s Context
Book below!
facebook.com/events/s/pas...
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!
September 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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!
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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
September 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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
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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
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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/...)
August 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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/...)
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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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...
Out on 9 October by @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-k...
July 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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...
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.
June 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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.
June 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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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...
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...
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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...
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...
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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
June 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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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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...
www.ucpress.edu/books/things...
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.
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April 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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...
www.ucpress.edu/books/things...
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Side 2 finished on recreation of the Skinnet Cross-slab from Caithness. Scheduled for installation at Halkirk next month.
March 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Side 2 finished on recreation of the Skinnet Cross-slab from Caithness. Scheduled for installation at Halkirk next month.
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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
February 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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!
Feb 18: Feast of Daniel (d. 660) bishop of Cenn Garad (Kingarth, Isle of Bute); he is remembered in the 'Chronicle of Ireland', one of a cluster of individuals from northern Britain that strongly suggests the Irish written chronicle tradition first began in Scotland, on Iona
St Blane's © Akerbeltz
St Blane's © Akerbeltz
February 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Some man for one man!
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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...
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
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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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
February 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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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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/...
🏺 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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.
www.livescience.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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/...
🏺 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
January 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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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.
January 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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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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.
January 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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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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...
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...
January 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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...
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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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
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
Journals | The PAS
www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk
January 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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
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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Medieval Ireland and Scotland starter pack - happy to add fellow researchers on request bsky.app/starter-pack...
January 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Medieval Ireland and Scotland starter pack - happy to add fellow researchers on request bsky.app/starter-pack...