Pictish culture and discoveries to be highlighted at Portmahomack talk

A CHAMPION of an acclaimed Easter Ross museum is gearing up to give the final talk of its 2019 season next week.

The Tarbat Discovery Centre teamed up with Aberdeen University on the Northern Picts Project which has uncovered some fascinating evidence about the lives led by our ancestors.

“The King in the North: the Latest Progress on the Northern Picts Project” is the subject when the talk is held at Portmahomack’s Carnegie Hall tonight at 7.30pm.

Professor Gordon Noble, head of archaeology at the University of Aberdeen will describe the latest progress on understanding the development of the Pictish kingdoms of northeast Scotland – with particular reference to recent results of excavations at Burghead and Mither Tap, two early medieval forts that help illuminate the nature of power in early medieval Scotland.

This vibrant area of research continues, and Professor Noble’s talk will reveal more recent findings since the publication this year of ‘The King in the North. The Pictish Realms of Fortrui and Ce’.

Signed copies of the book, which is co-written with Dr Nicholas Evans, will be available on the night. All author profits will be donated to the Tarbat Discovery Centre in Portmahomack.

The centre displays the findings of the only excavated Pictish monastery in Scotland as well as the heritage found around the Tarbat peninsula.

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