Gordon Noble
Dr Gordon Noble, has undertaken landscape research and directed field projects across Scotland. He has worked on a wide range of landscapes and archaeology 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 a major project funded by the University of Aberdeen Development Trust and Historic Environment Scotland researching the post-Roman societies of northern Britain called 'Northern Picts'. Gordon has also worked on AHRC funded projects on topics from the third millennium BC to 19th century rural settlements at Bennachie and works with the National Trust for Scotland on hunter-gatherer landscapes in upper Deeside. Public engagement is a big part of his research and to date three major exhibitions of the work of Northern Picts has been on display at the Tarbat Discovery Centre and King's Museum, Aberdeen. Northern Picts research has also featured on BBC 4 'Digging for Britain' and many other media venues.
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 at Aberdeen in July 2008 and in 2012 he became Senior Lecturer and Head of Department in 2015. He is also a Honorary Curatorial Fellow to the University Museums.
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 at Aberdeen in July 2008 and in 2012 he became Senior Lecturer and Head of Department in 2015. He is also a Honorary Curatorial Fellow to the University Museums.
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standard for elite sites in post-Roman western Britain and offers rare insight into a region
within the former Roman Empire where emergent socio-political structures were unaffected
by ‘barbarian’ incursion. Alcock argued that the main defences belonged to a Norman period
castle, but whilst this has been rejected the original dating continues to be wrongly quoted.
This paper demonstrates via stratigraphic analysis and new radiocarbon dates that the
Norman phase is a misnomer and that the early medieval site was a strongly defended multi-
phase fort.
and eastern Scotland have been excavated, but in 2012
aoc Archaeology excavated sites at Greshop in Moray,
and Bankhead of Kinloch in Perthshire. Both were
small cemeteries with between three and five barrows
excavated, and despite plough truncation, particularly
in the case of Greshop, the sites revealed important
information about the monument construction and the
individuals buried there, as well as providing a suite of
new radiocarbon dates. The destruction and ongoing
threat to all cropmark sites, including scheduled
monuments, is also discussed.
standard for elite sites in post-Roman western Britain and offers rare insight into a region
within the former Roman Empire where emergent socio-political structures were unaffected
by ‘barbarian’ incursion. Alcock argued that the main defences belonged to a Norman period
castle, but whilst this has been rejected the original dating continues to be wrongly quoted.
This paper demonstrates via stratigraphic analysis and new radiocarbon dates that the
Norman phase is a misnomer and that the early medieval site was a strongly defended multi-
phase fort.
and eastern Scotland have been excavated, but in 2012
aoc Archaeology excavated sites at Greshop in Moray,
and Bankhead of Kinloch in Perthshire. Both were
small cemeteries with between three and five barrows
excavated, and despite plough truncation, particularly
in the case of Greshop, the sites revealed important
information about the monument construction and the
individuals buried there, as well as providing a suite of
new radiocarbon dates. The destruction and ongoing
threat to all cropmark sites, including scheduled
monuments, is also discussed.
This is the first dedicated book on the Picts that covers in detail both their archaeology and their history. It examines their kingdoms, culture, beliefs and everyday lives from their origins to their end, not only incorporating current thinking on the subject, but also offering innovative perspectives that transform our understanding of the early history of Scotland.
This is the first account of this northern heartland of Pictavia for a more general audience to take in the full implications of this and of the substantial recent archaeological work that has been undertaken in recent years. Part of the The Northern Picts project at Aberdeen University, this book represents an exciting cross disciplinary approach to the study of this still too little understood yet formative period in Scotland's history.
surprising new insights on antiquarian finds
of metalwork. The Pictish silver hoard from
Gaulcross in north-eastern Scotland provides
an excellent example. Recent fieldwork,
including metal-detecting, has clarified the
size and composition of the hoard, and
uncovered 100 new silver items, including
coins, fragments of brooches and bracelets,
ingots and parcels of cut, bent and broken
silver known as Hacksilber. Comparisons
with other hoards and with Pictish symbol
stones illustrate the circumstances and date
of deposition, the origin of the silver and the
forms of society emerging in Scotland in the
post-Roman period.