Archive - Rabbit Holes of Early Medieval Scotland

An eighth-century royal circuit in Moray and Easter Ross?

In which I examine the possible significance of 'David' sculpture in the Moray Firthlands

Dec 27 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

November 2024

Cantray and Kilravock: The early medieval place-names of Strathnairn

In which I consider what these names might tell us about early medieval settlement along a stretch of the River Nairn

Nov 26 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

October 2024

Uncovering Ros and Moreb: A talk for NOSAS

The findings of my MA research, using distribution maps to illuminate the political geography of the Moray Firthlands from 700–900 AD.

Oct 26 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

September 2024

Auldearn: A place-name mystery revisited

In which I take a new look at this puzzling place-name, and come to an unexpected conclusion.

Sep 29 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

March 2024

The pierced Anglo-Saxon coins of Moray: A clue to early lordship?

In which I investigate whether a series of ninth-century coin finds can tell us anything about the distribution of power centres in early medieval Moray

Mar 17 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

January 2024

I'm giving an online talk on the 16th Feb

Come and hear me talk about the landscape context of Sueno's Stone

Jan 27 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

December 2023

November 2023

Sicut rivulus descendit in Massat: A lost Pictish cultic site?

In which I ponder the significance of a lost river confluence mentioned in a twelfth-century charter of Kinloss Abbey

Nov 5, 2023 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

October 2023

'Tubernafein': A folkloric, literary or historical place-name?

In which I investigate how a lost well in Moray might have got its intriguing name.

Oct 28, 2023 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

Where are Scotland’s early medieval water mills?

In which I try to find any evidence at all for water-mills in northern Scotland prior to 1150

Oct 14, 2023 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

An early mention of Sueno’s Stone in the Historia Regum Britanniae?

In which I examine Alex Woolf’s idea that Sueno’s Stone makes a cameo appearance in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s twelfth-century History of the Kings of…

Oct 4, 2023 •

Fiona Campbell-Howes

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