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Portmahomack in the news! Come see the inscribed stone mentioned here on display at National Museums Scotland, and then head up to the Tarbat Discovery Centre for ultimate enlightenment www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic
Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish
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September 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Have you got your ticket yet? The Pictish Arts Society's 2025 online conference is on 4 and 5 October, focusing on sculpture and metalwork in Pictland. 8 expert papers including finds from Burghead and Rhynie, Pictish bull carvings, Pictish weapons, the 'tower' on Sueno's Stone and more. Link below.
Conf | The PAS
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September 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Next week! There's still time to join the Pictish Arts Society before our members' lecture next Friday. Annual membership costs from £18, and you get six lectures like this, discounted entry to our annual online conference, exclusive events and more. Find out more: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk
pictishartssociety.bsky.social The Pictish Arts Society @pictishartssociety.bsky.social · Mar 7
Our next lecture is a must-see for anyone interested in Pictish textiles, Pictish women, and/or everyday life in Pictland. Details in the alt text! #MedievalSky
Flyer for the Pictish Arts Society March online lecture, with images of the Orkney Hood in the National Museum of Scotland, and the Kirriemuir 1 cross-slab in the Meffan Museum in Forfar. The title of the lecture is "Pictish textiles: what can we learn from the surviving evidence?" The speaker is Dr Alexandra Makin. The abstract is: "Surviving evidence for the making, use and meaning of textiles in Pictish society is limited due to the environmental conditions in which tools, fibres and fabrics were buried or discarded. However, there are tantalizing hints in extant artwork and archaeological finds. In this presentation Alexandra Makin will draw on this evidence to give an overview of what we know and can learn about this important of art form. One that covered, protected and decorated people's bodies and homes, and sent powerful messages about individuals and groups to those who saw and could 'read' them." Alexandra Makin is a professional embroiderer and textile archaeologist specialising in the early medieval period (450-1100 CE). She holds a Ph.D. from Manchester University and was a Research Associate on Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard, an AHRC funded project run by National Museums Scotland and University of Glasgow. Currently, Alexandra is a Third Generation Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her book, The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery, was published in Oxbow’s Ancient Textiles Series in 2019. Her co-edited volume Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation, Re-creation came out in April 2024. Alexandra also works as a finds specialists for archaeological units, and founded and runs Early Medieval Embroidery and its YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@EarlyMedievalEmbroidery
March 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Our next lecture is a must-see for anyone interested in Pictish textiles, Pictish women, and/or everyday life in Pictland. Details in the alt text! #MedievalSky
Flyer for the Pictish Arts Society March online lecture, with images of the Orkney Hood in the National Museum of Scotland, and the Kirriemuir 1 cross-slab in the Meffan Museum in Forfar. The title of the lecture is "Pictish textiles: what can we learn from the surviving evidence?" The speaker is Dr Alexandra Makin. The abstract is: "Surviving evidence for the making, use and meaning of textiles in Pictish society is limited due to the environmental conditions in which tools, fibres and fabrics were buried or discarded. However, there are tantalizing hints in extant artwork and archaeological finds. In this presentation Alexandra Makin will draw on this evidence to give an overview of what we know and can learn about this important of art form. One that covered, protected and decorated people's bodies and homes, and sent powerful messages about individuals and groups to those who saw and could 'read' them." Alexandra Makin is a professional embroiderer and textile archaeologist specialising in the early medieval period (450-1100 CE). She holds a Ph.D. from Manchester University and was a Research Associate on Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard, an AHRC funded project run by National Museums Scotland and University of Glasgow. Currently, Alexandra is a Third Generation Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her book, The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery, was published in Oxbow’s Ancient Textiles Series in 2019. Her co-edited volume Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation, Re-creation came out in April 2024. Alexandra also works as a finds specialists for archaeological units, and founded and runs Early Medieval Embroidery and its YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@EarlyMedievalEmbroidery
March 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Our next lecture is coming up on the 21st Feb, delivered by Professor David Griffiths on the Pictish-Norse transition in Orkney. Lectures are for PAS members only - a benefit of membership! - but you can join the Society at www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us. Abstract in the alt text.
Flyer for the Pictish Arts Society lecture on 21st February at 7.30pm via Zoom. The speaker is Professor David Griffiths of the University of Oxford and his lecture title is 'The Pictish-Norse Transition in Orkney'. The accompanying photo is by Dr Anna Ritchie and shows excavations at the multi-period Buckquoy site in Orkney. Lectures are for PAS members only - if you are interested in joining, go to https://www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us. The talk will review some recent re-interpretations of Northern Isles' archaeology signifying the move from the Iron Age/Pictish era into the Viking Age. Initially focusing on the site of Buckquoy, where some new radiocarbon dates have been obtained, we will look critically at the various archaeological traits which have been taken as indicative of a Pictish or Norse presence. The clear boundaries which we once thought existed between these cultures and periods have begun to grow more complex and nuanced, with interpretations of the transition becoming more situational rather than all-encompassing or broad-brush. The talk will widen out to look at other areas, sites and landscapes, and examine the possibility that the Viking 'conquest' itself might have been a more localised and drawn-out affair than previously considered. David Griffiths FSA Scot is Professor of Archaeology at Oxford University. He has been active in archaeological research in Orkney since the mid-1980s, and directed a landscape research project at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick and Birsay Bay between 2003 and 2018, published in 2019 as "Beside the Ocean" (Oxbow), the data from which is continuing to generate spin-off scientific and interpretation projects.
February 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM