📷 Some days, you just want a photo of Prof. Steve with the Govan Warrior!
Are you looking forward to seeing the Govan Stones again from the 1st of April?
Let us know in the comments, and we'll see how many tea bags we need to get in! ☕️
Sandstone cross back dropped by church, above which blue sky. Lens flare partly obscures decoration on weathered, lichen covered surface. But central boss and interlace pattern visible.
Side of cross at top, with relief carving of spiralling snake motion with open mouth.
Netherton Cross, about a thousand years old, covered with mix of figurative & geometric designs including beast headed figures, snakes, boses & interlace patterns. An example of Govan School sculptural tradition relsting to the Kingdom of Strathclyde
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A minute of pure hogbackness 🐖
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Music: Jotunkvinne
Musician: Kveld (from Audiio)
A minute of pure hogbackness 🐖
📼 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
Music: Jotunkvinne
Musician: Kveld (from Audiio)
@stirlingdigger.bsky.social
Great to see Dr Murray Cook writing about the Glorious Govan Stones and Govan Old, the spectacular early medieval oasis of carved stone monuments amid a *surviving* 1,500-year-old graveyard.
We open for the 2026 season on April 1st, so start to make your plans!
open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
Which Govan Stone are YOU missing?
📼 Tom Horne
Which Govan Stone are YOU missing?
📼 Tom Horne
Image of hogback miniatures
🐖 We're bringing the hogBACK!
@archaeoptics.bsky.social has reopened its hogback production line to get our shop ready for 2026, and we can't wait to sell these exact laser-scanned 3D-printed resin replicas when we reopen!
In-store only 🛒
Available exclusively at the amazing Govan Stones!
Cute wee dog on a hillfort in Scotland
🐕 A Very Good Boy guards one of our favourite sister sites of early medieval Scotland, but can you tell us which one?
Thanks to @bexphotos.bsky.social 📷
Image of hogback miniatures
🐖 We're bringing the hogBACK!
@archaeoptics.bsky.social has reopened its hogback production line to get our shop ready for 2026, and we can't wait to sell these exact laser-scanned 3D-printed resin replicas when we reopen!
In-store only 🛒
Govan Hogbacks and a Christmas tree with a Viking helmet.
🎄 Wishing you all a Northern Brittonic Natolic!
Merry Christmas from Govan Old, the Govan Stones, and, of course, the Govan Hogbacks.
📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
Govan Hogbacks and a Christmas tree
🎄 We and the Govan Hogbacks hope you're having a wonderful Christmas! 🐖
📷 Dr Tom Horne
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Govan Old Church, with its bottom half lit and its top half dark, seen through a graveyard with a tree and a lamppost with a purple light at the top.
I paid a quick trip to Govan Old @govanstones.bsky.social while we were in Glasgow, just check it’s still there. Back in Edinburgh now.
Chart of Facebook views
🎉 2,900,000+ views for the @govanstones.bsky.social Facebook page in 2025!
Thank you to everyone who interacts with and follows the Govan Stones accounts across all our social media channels 🎉
The @govanstones.bsky.social pages are really the model for how socials can make a huge difference for heritage sites
Govan Hogbacks and a Christmas tree
🎄 We and the Govan Hogbacks hope you're having a wonderful Christmas! 🐖
📷 Dr Tom Horne
Govan Sarcophagus and Christmas tree
It's beginning to look a lot like Natolic* at Govan Old, home of the Govan Stones and the Govan Sarcophagus🎄
*Christmas, Brittonic style
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Govan Hogbacks and a Christmas tree with a Viking helmet.
🎄 Wishing you all a Northern Brittonic Natolic!
Merry Christmas from Govan Old, the Govan Stones, and, of course, the Govan Hogbacks.
📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
Webpage
Webpage
Webpage of recorded lecture video.
Information about the Dalrymple Lectures with Prof. Steve Driscoll.
🗣📹📼 Watch the recordings of Prof. Steve's Dalrymple Lectures!
Either click FOLLOW THIS LINK here:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
Or, this link should take you to the recordings of both lectures:
echo360.org.uk/section/e305...
Govan Sarcophagus and Christmas tree
It's beginning to look a lot like Natolic* at Govan Old, home of the Govan Stones and the Govan Sarcophagus🎄
*Christmas, Brittonic style
📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
Webpage
Webpage
Webpage of recorded lecture video.
Information about the Dalrymple Lectures with Prof. Steve Driscoll.
🗣📹📼 Watch the recordings of Prof. Steve's Dalrymple Lectures!
Either click FOLLOW THIS LINK here:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
Or, this link should take you to the recordings of both lectures:
echo360.org.uk/section/e305...
Govan Old's churchyard.
1,500 years old and not looking too bad at all.
Govan and Glasgow
The core of the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons, thanks to Keara Ellen Photography!
www.instagram.com/kearaellen
Details of the talks
THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
Event details poster
TONIGHT & TOMORROW!
The online live lecture link will go onto this webpage nearer the event ~ Glasgow Archaeological Society:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
Govan Sarcophagus
Prof. Steve spoke about our 'unique' Sarcophagus in his Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture last night.
Steve is delivering his second lecture tonight at 18:30, which you can see for free in person and online: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
Govan Sarcophagus
Prof. Steve spoke about our 'unique' Sarcophagus in his Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture last night.
Steve is delivering his second lecture tonight at 18:30, which you can see for free in person and online: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
