Discovering the Picts: the Aberlemno Environs

An illustrated talk by Professor Gordon Noble jointly hosted by Angus Alive and the Abertay Historical Society.

In Spring 2022 the University of Aberdeen recovered a newly discovered Pictish symbol stone from a field near Aberlemno, bringing the number of Pictish carved stones from this area to nine. Now geophysical survey and excavation are uncovering evidence for a major elite settlement and burial landscape of the Pictish era at Aberlemno. This talk will outline all the new discoveries and reveal the latest on the new Pictish stone from Aberlemno.

Professor Gordon Noble has undertaken award-winning landscape research and field projects working on projects from the Mesolithic to Medieval periods. He was director and co-founder of Strathearn & Royal Forteviot (SERF), a successful archaeological project researching a site that became one of Scotland’s early royal centres. He now works on major projects including one focusing on the post-Roman societies of northern Britain.

Since completing his PhD in 2004, Gordon has held a temporary lectureship in Durham (2004-5) and from 2005-8 undertook British Academy funded postdoctoral research on the perception of the forested environment in prehistory at the University of Glasgow. Gordon was appointed as lecturer to the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen in July 2008. In 2012 he became Senior Lecturer, Head of Department in 2015, Reader in 2017 and Professor in 2019. He is also an Honorary Curatorial Fellow to the University Museums.

Adults £6.  Juniors £4.