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Discoveries at Portmahomack in Easter Ross (1994 to 2008) were initially hailed as the first modern sighting of a Pictish monastery. The intensive period of post-excavation analysis that followed has defined six successive settlements on the same spot: a high status cemetery-settlement with contacts in Cumbria and Sussex (6/7^th century), a purpose-built monastery with vellum and metal workshops and pieces from a dozen carved stone monuments (8^th century), a trading farm (9^thcentury), a parish church (12^th century), a fishing village (13^th century) and a township of iron workers (15^th century). advanced the idea that this sequence reflects contemporary political or ideological movements in wider Britain, Ireland and Europe.

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This evening lecture will be part of an experimental video link as the lecture will be live cast to Aberdeen from National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh.