At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

A bargain price for this huge, well-researched and well-written book on eleventh-century Scotland.

'change the world' is somewhat disingenuous here.

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I'm an Architectural Illustrator from Edinburgh. I visually reconstruct heritage buildings and monuments in #Blender3D guided by archaeology, measured survey data, and by working in collaboration with historians and archaeologists.

Website: bobmarshall.co.uk

25% off the husband @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's novel PAGANS if you pre-order the paperback from Waterstones by Friday.

Four words that no copywriter (my day job) ever wants to hear!

'It's a good start'

Not really. Burghead has its bull carvings but no symbol stones, Elgin has a Class II cross-slab but as the location of the coin find isn't known it's hard to say if it relates to the findspot of the slab, and there are no symbol stones anywhere near Croy.

I wrote about it here and got some good input from a number of academics. It's more likely that this material came north at different times, see footnote 5 for a comment from Rory Naismith.

Joe Fitzpatrick and Gordon Noble will be updating us on 'Excavations at East Lomond' at our conference in Glenrothes on 1 November. Exciting finds include a Pictish axe, pin and a rare carving of a human face. Photos courtesy of G Noble/Aberdeen University/Northern Picts Project

We are #hiring! #TeamCFA has a busy autumn ahead, with excavations scheduled across the UK. From prehistoric settlements to a medieval city centre, we have a wide variety of sites which would interest any archaeologist!

To find out more, visit our website: https://www.cfa-archaeology.co.uk/careers

Anyway, my most N London story is when son went to new friend's house for primary school playdate he said there was a Nobel Peace Prize for the mum framed in the bathroom and I said "haha that's because she has four kids and they're making a joke" but it turned out she'd won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Have hit the limits of both sites now - if anyone knows where I might find issues of the Irish Times from 1946 and 1948-50 without buying a full newspaper subscription, please let me know. (The Internet Archive has nothing after 1945, and FmP/BNA has 1947 but nothing else in the 1940s).

More great research help from Google AI Overview.

If you enjoyed the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference, you may like to know that our online lecture season is about to kick off. Talks on textual influences in Pictish art, aDNA and isotope analyses of Pictish burials, and a new approach to the Pictish symbols, among others. Details below.

They must have been after the free goody bag:

I came across a huge queue last Wednesday night in Glasgow, and assumed people were queuing for a concert or a club. Turned out they were queuing to get into a new branch of Uniqlo!

Looking forward to day 2 of our online conference today, diving into the latest archaeological discoveries from Pictland with @northernpicts.bsky.social, and new research on Pictish sculpture from Prof Jane Geddes, Dr Victoria Whitworth and Dr Susan Youngs.

My new laptop has a special Copilot button - I think I can safely say that's never going to be pressed.

Ahh, thank you - it was very much a team effort. Glad you enjoyed it! They were all excellent papers, with a surprising amount of new finds and research, and more to come tomorrow!

There was a great talk on woodland management and charcoal at the @highlandhet.bsky.social conference last weekend, in relation to the craftworking site at Culduthel. IIRC the speaker was Dr Scott Timpany from UHI.

A write-up of my talk from last weekend's Highland Archaeology Festival Conference. Featuring some new (and still developing) thoughts on Curetán's late seventh-century bishopric of Ross, and whether we can see a glimpse of it in Adomnán's Life of Columba. All thoughts and feedback welcome!

Full-on day - did two bits of client writing work, had a briefing call with another client, conducted seven online soundchecks for the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference tomorrow, and did some urgent amends for a third client. Time to lie down now.

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