Prof Gordon Noble (University of Aberdeen) will give the Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2023 on May 10
The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. AD 300 as a noted enemy in Roman Britain and disappeared at the end of the first millennium AD during the Viking Age. Until recently the Picts have been difficult to trace due to limited archaeological investigation and documentary sources, but innovative new research has produced critical new insights into the culture of a highly sophisticated society who forged a powerful realm dominating much of northern Britain.
This talk will outline some of the major successes of the Northern Picts project at the University of Aberdeen, which recently won the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year.
Professor Gordon Noble has undertaken award-winning landscape research and field projects working on projects from the Mesolithic to Medieval periods. He has two major current projects, Northern Picts, funded by the University of Aberdeen Development Trust and Historic Environment Scotland, is focused on the post-Roman societies of northern Britain. The second, Comparative Kingship, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is examining the early royal landscapes of Ireland and Scotland. Research for the Northern Picts and Comparitive Kingship projects won Research Project of the Year 2021 in the Current Archaeology Awards, the leading UK archaeology awards programme.
