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
Find out more about Hyguald's rock crystal jar, and all about the Galloway Hoard, at the dedicated National Museums Scotland pages (2/2): www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...
Investigating the Galloway Hoard rock crystal jar | National Museums Scotland
Some of the Galloway Hoard's most precious treasures were found packed in a silver-gilt lidded vessel. One of them was a unique object made of rare rock cr
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November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Find out more about Hyguald's rock crystal jar, and all about the Galloway Hoard, at the dedicated National Museums Scotland pages (2/2): www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...
Here's a link to the full preprint research paper, available open access: Foster, Sally 2025, "Life in pieces: lessons in the value of fragments from the secret lives of the Stone of Scone/Destiny". The Antiquaries Journal, doi.org/10.1017/S000...
LIFE IN PIECES: LESSONS IN THE VALUE OF FRAGMENTS FROM THE SECRET LIVES OF THE STONE OF SCONE/DESTINY | The Antiquaries Journal | Cambridge Core
LIFE IN PIECES: LESSONS IN THE VALUE OF FRAGMENTS FROM THE SECRET LIVES OF THE STONE OF SCONE/DESTINY
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November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Here's a link to the full preprint research paper, available open access: Foster, Sally 2025, "Life in pieces: lessons in the value of fragments from the secret lives of the Stone of Scone/Destiny". The Antiquaries Journal, doi.org/10.1017/S000...
November 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Reposted by Adrián Maldonado
Hotter than the fires of hell alright, and dramatic when it's being done, heat, smoke, action - images of iron-smelting at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Hotter than the fires of hell alright, and dramatic when it's being done, heat, smoke, action - images of iron-smelting at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
And just because it's that time of year, I held my nose and dived back into the bad place myself to rescue one of my favourite threads: the original Pictish Vision of Hell: A Halloween Thread twitter-thread.com/t/1057601508...
The Pictish vision of Hell: a Halloween thread by @amaldon(Adrián Maldonado) | Twitter Thread Reader
The Pictish vision of Hell: a Halloween thread
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October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
And just because it's that time of year, I held my nose and dived back into the bad place myself to rescue one of my favourite threads: the original Pictish Vision of Hell: A Halloween Thread twitter-thread.com/t/1057601508...