NOSAS talk by Adrian Maldonado - Beyond Picts and Vikings: Northern mainland Scotland 800-1100

Adrian Maldonado speaking about the artefacts and carved stones from the end of the Pictish period and Viking Age in the northern mainland. This is a re-recording of a talk given person at Strathpeffer on 28th October 2023 for NOSAS's 25th anniversary celebrations.
Dr Adrián Maldonado is a Galloway Hoard Researcher at NMS. He is responsible for supporting the delivery of academic and public engagement outcomes as part of the AHRC-funded research project, unwrapping the Galloway Hoard, as well as contributing to the wider research of the Galloway Hoard project.
Adrian's esearch interests include early medieval Scotland, the Viking Age, early Christianity, the archaeology of death and burial and medievalism in pop culture.
Adrián joined NMS in 2018 as Glenmorangie Research Fellow for the fourth phase of the Glenmorangie Research Project. This included a three-year reassessment of the collections relating to the ninth to the twelfth centuries AD, including the Viking Age, the decline of the Pictish kingdoms, the emergence of the Gaelic-speaking kingdom of Alba and the kingdom of Scotland. The project culminated in the book Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom (2021).

[@clarkduncan3715]

Excellent

[@David-mo5jw]

The plain stubby cross without a top shaft looks like thors hammer

[@thehigherwhy4210]

I'd love the author to explain his chart at 42 minutes showing all of the Viking graves (with pins) that are in Moray, Banff and Buchan - it is widely known (e.g. Graham-Campbell et al) that there are no viking graves below the Black Isle (with a curious, debatable example at Ballindalloch, which is now believed to not be Viking); so how could Maldonado have a chart with dozen(s) of Viking graves?! Surely if these aren't Viking graves it is problematic for his theory.... 😕

[@amaldon]

It is a map of finds of pins, not graves

[@keenie7681]

Too many "ah's"to listen. Great subject, poor speaker.