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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
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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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
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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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
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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December 2023
An early Christian burial ground at Knockando?
In which I go in search of the lost early medieval ecclesiastical site of ‘Pulvrenan’
Dec 16, 2023
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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Wood or church? Deciphering the place-name 'Kilbuiack'
In which I try to figure out if a now-lost Moray place-name is relevant to my research.
Dec 3, 2023
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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Wood or church? Deciphering the place-name 'Kilbuiack'
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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
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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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
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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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
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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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
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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August 2023
Does Sueno’s Stone record the battle of Sigurd the Powerful and Máel Brigte ‘Tooth’?
In which I examine W.F. Skene’s suggestion that Sueno’s Stone records a legendary ninth-century battle.
Aug 24, 2023
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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Does Sueno’s Stone record the battle of Sigurd the Powerful and Máel Brigte ‘Tooth’?
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Did ‘vikings’ conquer Moray in the 9th century?
Or was it a twelfth-century geographical misunderstanding?
Aug 18, 2023
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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Did ‘vikings’ conquer Moray in the 9th century?
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July 2023
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Jul 31, 2023
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