is an award-winning project run by @UoA_Archaeology uncovering the archaeology of Pictish society in Scotland. Winners 2021 Current Archaeology Research Project
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News! Winners of @CurrentArchaeo (thx!!!!) Research Project 2020. Thanks SO much for all your votes and support over ten years. in particular to our funders @HistEnvScot @LeverhulmeTrust @aberdeenuni. Here's to another ten years!
Go @UoA_Archaeology !!!!
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Free Mug at the NPixts store when you spend £35. Use the code NPixtsMUG at checkout. Ships worldwide. All profits go to Northern Picts research!
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Last day at Sands of Forvie complete! We found a giant shellfish cooking pit- around 2m across and over 1m deep with at least eight separate use phases - around 0.5m thick deposit of shells extended from this pit for around 5m from the edge of the pit! Quite the feasting site!
For our Professional Archaeology fieldwork course we are out at Sands of Forvie nature reserve looking at a series of shell middens - previous examples we dug here have turned out to be Pictish in date. We’ve found associated fire pits and some animal bone. Weather 🤣❤️
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Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore!
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Aberdeen peeps - I'll be talking all things Picts and Rhynie at Aberdeen Waterstones on 2nd November - sign up here for the talk or a copy of the book (and talk!). Please share to all those who may be interested!
We'll be talking at this on 3rd October! Not to be missed - get your tickets here:
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New NPixts T-shirt just landed - Turn it up a Notch! Based on one of our favourite symbols - the enigmatic notched rectangle! Get it at npixts.teemill.com/, all profits go to Northern Picts research!
Two new designs added to the NPixts Store:
Uncivil Serpent and
Pictish Bestiary
And until midnight on Thursday 17th September, 10% off your order with the code TENOFF. NPixts merch store- all proceeds go to Northern Picts research!
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Until midnight on Thursday 17th September, 10% off your order with the code TENOFF. NPixts merch store- all proceeds go to Northern Picts research!
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Free UK Shipping from tomorrow until midnight Sunday, 5th July. No code needed. All profits go to Northern Picts research
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Our online Certificate of Archaeology is still accepting applications for study beginning in the next few weeks.
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As part of an international symposium at the University of Aberdeen there are a small number of free tickets to two keynote lectures held on Sunday at 7pm on the Bayeux Tapestry and Early Medieval Hilltop Settlements. Use this link to secure a ticket: abdn.eventsair.com/sachsensy…
We are now back at the labs and laying out finds to dry- here is just a small selection- all of these will be written up for a much richer view of Pictish Burghead and Pictish life than we have ever had before!!
Well the finds keep on coming at Burghead 2026! Two incredibly lovely pins from the upper and lower citadels of the fort! These may have been for women’s head coverings - 7th-8th century Pictish fashion!
Absolutely incredible find today- a very substantial mortar stone from the floor layer of a building found next to the middle rampart of the fort at Burghead. Likely to be from an early phase of the fort- 7th century AD perhaps!!
A great wee video from Graeme Roger (Wildbird) with short interviews from the Northern Picts team - a teaser for our open day on Saturday (10-4pm) and our community talk at Burghead Village Hall (7.30pm Friday evening!).
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