28 May 2013
On Saturday 8 June this year, there will be a training session on how to explain Trusty’s Hill and what the recent finds can tell us about the significance of this once royal stronghold of a lost Dark Age kingdom. This … Continue reading
Ronan Toolis
20 May 2013
A new leaflet, Discover Dark Age Galloway, has been launched by the Galloway Picts Project, promoting many of the Dark Age sites that survive in Dumfries and Galloway. Last year’s excavation revealed that Trusty Hill once very likely lay at the … Continue reading
2 May 2013
Just received the bayesian analysis of the radiocarbon dates from Derek Hamilton of SUERC, which suggests that the early medieval occupation of the summit began in cal AD 475-560 and ended in cal AD 560-630. The occupation of the summit … Continue reading
6 April 2013
The final lecture of the DGNHAS 2012-13 lecture programme took place at the Gatehouse of Fleet community centre, where 135 people came along to hear Chris and myself outline the results so far from the ongoing post-excavation analyses. It was … Continue reading
3 April 2013
The Post-Excavation Research Design has now been been added to the results section of the Galloway Picts website. The Post-Excavation Research Design outlines our programme of post-excavation analyses and provides our specialists with the specific research questions we want their … Continue reading
8 March 2013
The Data Structure Report has now been been added to the results section of the Galloway Picts website. This provides a more detailed account of the interim results, which will help our specialists understand the archaeological contexts of the finds … Continue reading
29 November 2012
Received some interesting feedback on the summary report, concerning vitrified forts. So I thought I would outline why we think that vitrification took place at the end of the fort’s occupation and not at the time of its construction. Vitrified forts … Continue reading
26 November 2012
The summary report has now been been added to the results section of the Galloway Picts website. This summarises the main interim findings from the excavation earlier this year. A fuller interim report will be available soon.
22 November 2012
The results of the laser scan survey have now been added to the results section of the Galloway Picts website. Unfortunately no ogham was apparent, and a few other discrepancies in previous depictions of the carvings here have been noted. … Continue reading
8 November 2012
Just found out that one of our volunteers recently joined the Scotland’s DNA project and has been told that he has Pictish DNA in his ancestry. So we can now say that we had at least one Pict working at … Continue reading