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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
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Fiona Campbell-Howes

December 2023

An early Christian burial ground at Knockando?
In which I go in search of the lost early medieval ecclesiastical site of ‘Pulvrenan’
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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.
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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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
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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.
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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
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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…
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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.
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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Did ‘vikings’ conquer Moray in the 9th century?
Or was it a twelfth-century geographical misunderstanding?
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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July 2023

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Welcome to Rabbit Holes of Early Medieval Scotland!
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June 2023

Bell, broch or bloomery? Deciphering the ‘tower-like object’ on Sueno’s Stone
In which I consider an intriguing new theory about a key element of the stone’s battle iconography
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
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