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Professor Gordon Noble

Professor Gordon Noble
Professor Gordon Noble
Professor Gordon Noble

MA (Aberdeen), MA (UCL), PhD (Reading), FSAScot

Personal Chair

Accepting PhDs

51cg
Email Address
g.noble@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272333
Office Address

Department of Archaeology 51cg St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road Aberdeen AB24 3UF Scotland Room No. 203

School/Department
School of Geosciences



Biography

Professor Gordon Noble has undertaken award-winning landscape research and field projects working on projects from the Mesolithic to Medieval periods. He has two major current projects, Northern Picts, funded by the 51cg Development Trust and Historic Environment Scotland, is focused on the post-Roman societies of northern Britain. The second, Comparative Kingship, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is examining the early royal landscapes of Ireland and Scotland. Research for the Northern Picts and Comparitive Kingship projects won , the leading UK archaeology awards programme. 

Public engagement is a big part of his research with Northern Picts having featured in numerous exhibitions and on five series of BBC 2 'Digging for Britain', The History Channel, Smithsonian Channel, National Geographic, Radio 4 'In Our Time' and many other media venues. 

Gordon was appointed as lecturer to the department at Aberdeen in July 2008. In 2012 he became Senior Lecturer, Head of Department in 2015, Reader in 2017 and Professor in 2019. He is also a Honorary Curatorial Fellow to the University Museums.

Latest book:

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"the best overview of this fascinating people to date: clear, essential, and revelatory reading" -- Professor Neil Price

"the Northern Picts project, led by Gordon Noble...has been truly revolutionary" -- Archaeological Journal

“This book is a triumph. It marks a milestone in Pictish studies, and will be the starting place for all those interested in the Picts...It marks a step-change in, perhaps even a coming of age for, Pictish studies.” -- Pictish Arts Society

"Picts is an extraordinary work that covers seven centuries of Pictish history and archaeology"-- Current Archaology

A short interview with Prof G!

Qualifications

  • History of Art First Class Honours 
    2000 - 51cg 
  • Masters Archaeology 
    2001 - University College London 
  • PhD Archaeology 
    2004 - University of Reading 
  • Pg Cert Teaching 
    2007 - University of Glasgow 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

 

  • Research Theme Leader
  • Honorary Curatorial Fellow to University Museums
External Memberships
  • 2013-16 External Examiner, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading

    2017-21 External Examiner, Department of Archaeology, University of Newcastle

    2018-22 External Examiner, Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

  • 2015 External panel member for undergraduate teaching programme review, University of Edinburgh

  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (elected fellow 2006; Council member 2009-12)
  • Reviewer (Journals): 

    Antiquity, World Archaeology, European Journal of Archaeology, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Journal of Maritime Archaeology, The Scottish Archaeological Journal, Papers from the Institute of Archaeology University College London, Journal of Irish Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

  • Reviewer (Grants):

    Arts and Humanities Research Council; Leverhulme Trust; Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland; National Geographic; Riksbanken Sweden; Nordic Research Council

  • Televison & Media Work

    - Digging for Britain; BBC2 - digs led by Gordon have appeared on five different series' of this popular   BBC2 programme: 2015 (twice), 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026

    - Lost Cities with Albert Lin; Disney+ 2024

    - Landward; BBC, 2021, 2022, 2024

    - Scotland from the Sky; BBC Scotland 2019

    - Ancient Murders Unearthed; Sky History TV Channel 2023

    - Mystic Britain: Lost Tribe of Scotland; Smithsonian Channel 2020

    - History Hit, Subscription Documentaries featuring Dan Snow, Suzannah Lipscomb, Lucy Worsley, Mary Beard and others. Hour long documentary on the Picts 2025

    -Radio 4 In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg 2017

Latest Publications

  • Farming in the shadows of Rome: A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental record from Loch Clunie – Perthshire

    Jones, S., Blauuw, M., Hunter, F., López-Costas, O., Martínez-Cortizas, A., Mighall, T., Noble, G.
    Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 915-932
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A Powerful place of Pictland

    Noble, G., Cruickshanks, G.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Featured Articles
  • Architectural Evolution and Social Dynamics: Gurness and the ‘Broch Villages’ of Iron Age Orkney

    Noble, G.
    Antiquity
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Symbols and subsistence: an integrated approach to animal-human relationships in early medieval Scotland, Antiquity

    Britton, K., Czere, O., Fawcett, J. P., Koster, L. J., Mitchell, J. S., Roderick, K., Müldner, G., Evans, N., Stenhouse, A. R., Sayle, K. L., Hamilton, W. D., Talamo, S., Donald, C., Boyle, A., Sheridan, A., Thompson, J., Birch, S., Mann, B., Hall, D., Dittmar, J. M., Wright, J., Girdland Flink, L., Curtis, N., Oxenham, M., Masson-MacLean, E., Noble, G.
    Antiquity
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain

    Silva, M., Booth, T., Anastasiadou, K., McCabe, J., Barrington, C., Kelly, M., Williams, M., Mohamedy, Y., Masters, M., Gilardet, A., Tait, F., Swali, P., Peto, J., Glocke, I., Leggett, S., Koster, L. J., Fewlass, H., van Tiel, B., Bealin-Kelly, E., Crawford, M. R., Aldred, O. R., Allen, M. G., Biddulph, E., Booth, C., Boston, C. V., Bricking, A., Brown, L., Buckland, K., Clarke, C., Craig-Atkins, E., Curtis, N. G. W., Davie, A., Delbarre, G., Preez, J. D., Evis, L. H., Falys, C., Gibson, M., Gilbert, D., Hemer, K. A., Hood, A., Hoole, M., Kreisheh, A. N. R. H., Knight, M. G., Mays, S., Parfitt, K., Pryor, A. J. E., Redfern, R., Sayle, K. L., Seaman, J., Shell, C., Stark, S., Stoakley, M. C., Teoaca, A. C., Thompson, J. E., Walker, D., Western, G., Wilmott, H., Witkin, A., Young, A., Clough, S. J., Sheridan, J. A., Grzybowska, M. A., Loe, L., Holst, M. R., Schulting, R. J., Britton, K., Noble, G., Armit, I., Buckberry, J., Barnes, I., Brace, S., Thomas, M. G., Girdland-Flink, L., Maldonado, A., Heather, P., Lee, J. C., Speidel, L., Skoglund, P.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers

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Prizes and Awards

Research Project of the Year 2021 Current Archaeology Awards

Leverhulme Leadership Award (2016–22)

Outstanding Research Award Individuals Further Stage of Career – Non Stem, 51cg 2021

Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement Senior Award 2016

Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellow. Ritual and remembrance at the third millennium BC prehistoric monument complex at Forteviot, central Scotland. AHRC Award AH/I02657X/1 2012

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2005–8

 

Research

Research Overview

Prehistoric and early medieval Europe with particular interests in: Scotland, Ireland, Sweden & Denmark

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Archaeology.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Archaeology

  • Supervising
  • Accepting PhDs

Research Specialisms

  • Archaeology
  • Environmental Geoscience

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Current Research

Comparative Kingship 2017-

The nature of the societies and social, ideological and political frameworks that filled the chasm left by the demise of the Roman Empire in the 5th  century AD – both within and beyond the Empire’s boundaries – is one of the most contentious debates about  late- and post- Roman Europe. This project adopts an innovative interdisciplinary focus that tackles  the formation of the socio-political landscapes  of Northern Britain and Ireland,  utilizing archaeological, historical, toponymic and  palaeoenvironmental methodologies along with Bayesian-modelled chronologies,  to create a new  synthesis of the  dramatic changes that  ultimately led to the formation of the state societies that existed beyond the edges of the Roman Empire.

Funding: Leverhulme Trust Leadership Award

 

Northern Picts 2012-

Northern Picts is a project that aims to uncover the archaeological traces of Pictish society in northern Scotland. The project to date has had some spectacular successes. We have begun to uncover a major and undocumented Pictish royal centre at Rhynie and discovered a significant portion of a major Pictish silver hoard at Gaulcross. We have scaled sea cliffs to discover forgotten Pictish forts and centres of power. Find out more .

Funding: 51cg Development Trust (private donation) and Historic Envrionment Scotland (PI)

Project partners: Tarbat Discovery Centre, National Museums of Scotland, University of Chester, University of Glasgow, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Rhynie Woman, CMS Archaeology, Forestry Commission Scotland, Aberdeenshire Council, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Mainz

Bennachie Landscapes Project 2012-

North-east Scotland contains landscapes of world-leading importance for history, archaeology and community heritage. This project focuses on building heritage-based partnerships and involves an interdisciplinary community-centred research project concentrating on the past, present and future significance of one of north-east Scotland's most celebrated cultural and physical landmarks: the hill of Bennachie and its environs.

Funding: AHRC Development Grant (PI)

Project partners: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Bailies of Bennachie, Aberdeenshire Council, Forestry Commission

Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe: The Forest as Ancestor.

A book length study of the social role of trees and woodlands in prehistory with case studies from Britain and Ireland and South Scandinavia. Incorporating environmental, anthropological and archaeological approaches, this study aims to formulate new approaches to the study of past landscapes. The final book is published by Cambridge University Press.

Funding: British Academy (PI)

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: Archaeology.

Accepting PhDs, particularly on the following subjects:

- Early Medieval Archaeology

- Prehistoric Archaeology

- Field Excavation and Survey

Funding and Grants

In the course of my career Professor Noble has led on successful research grants totalling over £2.5 million, £2.25 of which has been raised while at Aberdeen (2008-21).

Recent major grants:

  • 2021-2024    Principal-Investigator, 'The Citadel Project: Rescue- and Research-led Excavations at an Early Medieval Power Centre'; Historic Environment Scotland (£257,431)
  • 2017-2022    Principal-Investigator, 'Comparative Kingship: the early medieval kingdoms of Northern Britain and Ireland'; Leverhulme Trust (£971,149)
  • 2012-2022    Principal-Investigator, ‘Northern Picts: ’, 51cg Development Trust; Historic Environment Scotland (£351,249)
Teaching

Programmes

Teaching Responsibilities

Course co-ordinator of undergraduate modules:

  • AY3009 Scottish Archaeology
  • AY3010 Professional Archaeology I
  • AY3011 Archaeological Fieldwork Portfolio

Additional teaching on a range of other modules including Archaeology of the North, Advanced Archaeological Practice, Archaeologies of Social Life and Landscape Archaeology

Publications

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  • Farming in the shadows of Rome: A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental record from Loch Clunie – Perthshire

    Jones, S., Blauuw, M., Hunter, F., López-Costas, O., Martínez-Cortizas, A., Mighall, T., Noble, G.
    Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 915-932
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A Powerful place of Pictland

    Noble, G., Cruickshanks, G.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Featured Articles
  • Architectural Evolution and Social Dynamics: Gurness and the ‘Broch Villages’ of Iron Age Orkney

    Noble, G.
    Antiquity
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Symbols and subsistence: an integrated approach to animal-human relationships in early medieval Scotland, Antiquity

    Britton, K., Czere, O., Fawcett, J. P., Koster, L. J., Mitchell, J. S., Roderick, K., Müldner, G., Evans, N., Stenhouse, A. R., Sayle, K. L., Hamilton, W. D., Talamo, S., Donald, C., Boyle, A., Sheridan, A., Thompson, J., Birch, S., Mann, B., Hall, D., Dittmar, J. M., Wright, J., Girdland Flink, L., Curtis, N., Oxenham, M., Masson-MacLean, E., Noble, G.
    Antiquity
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain

    Silva, M., Booth, T., Anastasiadou, K., McCabe, J., Barrington, C., Kelly, M., Williams, M., Mohamedy, Y., Masters, M., Gilardet, A., Tait, F., Swali, P., Peto, J., Glocke, I., Leggett, S., Koster, L. J., Fewlass, H., van Tiel, B., Bealin-Kelly, E., Crawford, M. R., Aldred, O. R., Allen, M. G., Biddulph, E., Booth, C., Boston, C. V., Bricking, A., Brown, L., Buckland, K., Clarke, C., Craig-Atkins, E., Curtis, N. G. W., Davie, A., Delbarre, G., Preez, J. D., Evis, L. H., Falys, C., Gibson, M., Gilbert, D., Hemer, K. A., Hood, A., Hoole, M., Kreisheh, A. N. R. H., Knight, M. G., Mays, S., Parfitt, K., Pryor, A. J. E., Redfern, R., Sayle, K. L., Seaman, J., Shell, C., Stark, S., Stoakley, M. C., Teoaca, A. C., Thompson, J. E., Walker, D., Western, G., Wilmott, H., Witkin, A., Young, A., Clough, S. J., Sheridan, J. A., Grzybowska, M. A., Loe, L., Holst, M. R., Schulting, R. J., Britton, K., Noble, G., Armit, I., Buckberry, J., Barnes, I., Brace, S., Thomas, M. G., Girdland-Flink, L., Maldonado, A., Heather, P., Lee, J. C., Speidel, L., Skoglund, P.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
  • Iron Age and early medieval settlement at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire: ARO68

    Simon, M., Cameron, A., Noble, G.
    Glasgow: GUARD Archaeology Ltd.. 131 pages
    Books and Reports: Other Reports
  • Environmental and Scientific Analyses

    Noble, G., Hamilton, D., Jones, S., Koster, L., Mainland, I., Mcmanus, E. T., Niehaus, S., Oxenham, M., Prado, S., Ramsay, S., Roshem, E., Fawcett, J. P., Masson-MacLean, E., Britton, K., Czere, O.
    Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland: The development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period. Noble, G. (ed.). Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 203-255, 53 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Excavation Results:: Cairn More

    Noble, G., O'Driscoll, J., Masson-MacLean, E.
    Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland: The development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period. Noble, G. (ed.). Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 109-126, 28 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland: The development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period

    Noble, G. (ed.), Cruickshanks, G., Evans, N., Gondek, M., MacIver, C., Masson-MacLean, E., O'Driscoll, J., Taylor, S.
    Books and Reports: Edited Collections
  • A Major Centre? Rethinking Lismore’s Place in the Ecclesiastical Landscapes of Early Medieval Britain

    Noble, G.
    Antiquity
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Stone and the gods: religious cognition and stone carving in first millennium AD northern Britain

    Noble, G.
    World Archaeology
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Illuminating the Painted People of Early Medieval Scotland: Forts, Warfare and Symbols of Power

    Noble, G.
    Kelten, vol. 105
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Defining the Sacred: Pre-Christian Belief in Early-Medieval Pictland

    Noble, G., Evans, N.
    Pre-Christian Religions, Rituals, and Beliefs in Central and Northern Europe: Interdisciplinary Investigations. Szczepanik, P., Steinforth, D. (eds.). Brepols Publishers, pp. 69-85, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Silver-Working at the Craw Stane Complex, Rhynie, North-East Scotland

    Cruickshanks, G., Noble, G.
    Silver Beyond Empire: The transition between late Roman and early medieval Europe. Blackwell, A. E., Hunter, F., Rau, A., Goldberg, M. (eds.). Sidestone Press Academics, pp. 281-284, 4 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland

    Noble, G., Griffiths, D., Hillerdal, C., Allison, J., Hamilton, D., Batey, C.
    Antiquity, vol. 99, no. 408, pp. 1623-1639
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Excavations at Cullykhan, Castle Point, Troup, Aberdeenshire

    Greig, M., Maclagan-Wedderburn, L., Noble, G.
    Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, vol. 31, pp. 1-69
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Early Medieval Sculpture in its International Context: the Pictish Symbol Tradition of Early Medieval Scotland

    Noble, G., Goldberg, M.
    Early Medieval Sculpture in Stone. Semple, S., Hawkes, J. (eds.). Boydell & Brewer, pp. 51-62, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Preliminary Results of the Comparative Kingship Project at Aberlemno: An Elite Centre of the Fifth to Twelfth Centuries AD

    Noble, G., O'Driscoll, J.
    Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology: Contributions in Honour of Anna Ritchie. Kilpatrick, K. (ed.). Scottish Society for Northern Studies, pp. 130-154, 25 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • The fortified sites of early medieval Scotland: historical sources, archaeological investigation and place-names

    Noble, G., Evans, N.
    Onomastications: A Festschrift for Simon Taylor. Clancy, T., Hough, C., Whyte, A., Williamson, E. (eds.). Clò Gàidhlig Oilthigh Ghlaschu
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Beyond the north-western frontiers of the Roman Empire: exploring the impacts of the Romans on farming communities in north-eastern Scotland

    Jones, S., Noble, G.
    Cultural Landscapes of North-east Scotland: Collaborative Research in History and Archaeology. Shepherd, C. (ed.). Oxbow Books, pp. 33-52, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Life, Death and Environment at Lagore Crannog: parasites, land-use and a royal residence in later prehistoric and early medieval Ireland

    Jones, S., Gleeson, P., López-Costas, O., Martínez Cortizas, A., Mighall, T., Noble, G.
    Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 172, 106105
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Reconsidering the Forres cross-slab (Sueno's Stone), part 1: dating and historical context

    Loggie, R., Campbell-Howes, F., Noble, G.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 153, pp. 225-243
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Flavours of Pictish Life: using starch grains and phytoliths to trace late Roman and early medieval culinary traditions

    Prado, S., Noble, G.
    Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 58, 104695
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Les "âges obscurs" des Pictes sous un nouvel éclairage

    Noble, G.
    L' Archéologue, vol. 170, pp. 46-53
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The role of geoarchaeology in the interpretation of fragmented buildings and occupation surfaces: The case of coastal settlements in northeast Scotland

    Reid, V., Milek, K., O'Brien, C., Sveinbjarnarson, ?. G., Noble, G.
    Geoarchaeology-An International Journal, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 238-267
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Defining the Sanctissimus: The Early Medieval Church Enclosures of Pictland

    Noble, G., Gonzalez Bojaca, L. L., Worsman, R., O'Driscoll, J.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 153
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Building Isolation and Connection, tracing monastic use of crannogs in medieval Scotland

    Stratigos, M., Noble, G.
    Islands, Monasteries and Water. Tubingen University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • A new chronology for the Welsh hillfort of Dinas Powys

    Campbell, E., Seaman, A., Lane, A., Noble, G.
    Antiquity, vol. 97, no. 396, pp. 1548 - 1563
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Radiocarbon dating of human remains from Navan Fort: their implications for understanding the wider ceremonial complex

    Gleeson, P., O'Driscoll, J., Noble, G., Murphy, E., McDowell, J.
    Journal of Irish Archaeology, vol. 32, pp. 53-69
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • New zooarchaeological evidence from Pictish sites in Scotland: implications for early medieval economies and animal-human relationships

    Masson-MacLean, E., Niehaus, S., Fraser, E., Lee, V., Prado, S., Czére, O., Fawcett, J., O'Driscoll, J., Girdland-Flink, L., Noble, G., Britton, K.
    Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, vol. 2, 1208908
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK

    Morez, A., Britton, K., Noble, G., Günther, T., Götherström, A., Rodríguez Varela, R., Kashuba, N., Martiniano, R., Talamo, S., Evans, N., Irish, J., Donald, C., Girdland Flink, L.
    PLoS Genetics, vol. 19, no. 4, e1010360
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • In search of Picts at Aberlemno

    Noble, G., O'Driscoll, J.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Featured Articles
  • Woodland Dwelling in the Neolithic of Northwest Europe: Archaeological Perspectives

    Noble, G.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • Early medieval hilltop and enclosed settlements of Scotland during the first millennium AD

    Noble, G.
    Perchement et réalités fortifiées en Méditerranée et en Europe (Vème-Xème siècles): Formes, rythmes, fonctions et acteurs. Pergola, P., Castiglia, G., Essa Kas Hanna, E., Martinetto, I., Segura, J. (eds.). Archaeopress, pp. 433-447, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Burning Matters: the Rise and Fall of an Early Medieval Fortified Centre. A New Chronology for Clatchard Craig

    Noble, G., Evans, N., Goldberg, M., Hamilton, D.
    Medieval Archaeology, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 266-303
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Review of the Atlas of the Hillforts of Britain and Ireland. By Gary Lock & Ian Ralston

    Noble, G.
    Medieval Archaeology, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 490-533
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • A hut on the hill: a multi-proxy microbotanical and micro-algae approach to a Pictish roundhouse floor at Cairnmore, Aberdeenshire

    Prado, S., Noble, G.
    Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 46, 103652
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Caroline Rosa Wickham-Jones, MA MSocSci FSA HonFSAScot MCIfA

    Harden, J., Bates, M., Bates, R., Britton, K., Clarke, A., Dawson, S., Finlay, N., Macinnes, L., Noble, G., Shepherd, L.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 151, pp. 15-26
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North

    Noble, G., Evans, N.
    Birlinn Ltd. 320 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Review of Stonehenge and Middle to Late Neolithic Cremation Rites in Mainland Britain (c.3500-2500 BC) By Christina Willis

    Noble, G.
    Current Archaeology, vol. 393, pp. 58
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Environmental reconstruction and formation processes in a large Mesolithic lithic scatter at Nethermills of Crathes, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

    Tipping, R., Bates, R., Cameron, A., Clarke, A., Duthie, S., Ewan, L., Kinnaird, T., Mann, B., Noble, G., Ross, I., Sabnis, H., Wickham-Jones, C.
    Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 45, 103605
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Lake and crannog: A 2500-year palaeoenvironmental record of continuity and change in NE Scotland  

    Jones, S., López-Costas, O., Martínez Cortizas, A., Mighall, T., Noble, G., Stratigos, M.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 285, 107532
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Identifying Social Transformations and Crisis during the Pre-Monastic to Post-Viking era on Iona: New Insights from a Palynological and Palaeoentomological Perspective

    Jones, S. E., Allison, E. P., Campbell, E., Evans, N., Mighall, T., Noble, G.
    Environmental Archaeology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 168-192
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Pikten - das bemalte Volk

    Noble, G.
    AiD Magazin Archeology, no. 6/21
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Prehistoric Communities of the River Dee: Mesolithic and other lithic scatter sites of central Deeside, Aberdeenshire

    Wickham-Jones, C., Noble, G., Bates, R., Cameron, A., Clarke, A., Collinson, D., Duthie, S., Kinnaird, T., Ross, I., Sabnis, H., Tipping, R.
    Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, vol. 97, pp. 1-196
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Itinerancy, Ritualisation and Excavating Understanding

    Noble, G.
    Norwegian Archaeological Review, vol. 54, no. 1-2, pp. 68-71
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials
  • Digitally Recording Excavations on a Budget: A (Low-Cost) DIY Approach from Scotland

    Masson-MacLean, E., O'Driscoll, J., McIver, C., Noble, G.
    Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 595–613
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Settlement, landscape and land-use change at a Pictish Elite Centre: Assessing the palaeoecological record for economic continuity and social change at Rhynie in N.E. Scotland

    Jones, S., Evans, N., Martínez Cortizas, A., Mighall, T., Noble, G.
    The Holocene, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 897-914
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Building crannogs in the 9th–12th centuries AD in northern Scotland: An old tradition in a new landscape

    Stratigos, M., Noble, G.
    Seasonal settlement: In the medieval and early modern countryside.. Dixon, P., Theune, C. (eds.). Sidestone Press Academics, pp. 179-189, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Multi-isotope analysis of the human skeletal remains from Blair Atholl, Perth & Kinross, Scotland: insights into the diet and lifetime mobility of an early medieval individual

    Czére, O., Fawcett, J., Evans, J., Sayle, K. L., Müldner, G., Hall, M. A., Williams, B., Mitchell, J., Noble, G., Britton, K.
    Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, vol. 27, pp. 31-44
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • New evidence for upland occupation in the Mesolithic of Scotland

    Wickham-Jones, C. R., Noble, G., Fraser, S. M., Warren, G., Tipping, R., Paterson, D., Mitchell, W., Hamilton, D., Clarke, A.
    Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 86, pp. 13-42
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • New dates for enclosed sites in north-east Scotland: results of excavations by the Northern Picts project

    Noble, G., O'Driscoll, J., MacIver, C., Masson-MacLean, E., Sveinbjarnarson, O.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 149, pp. 165-196
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Survey and Excavation at an Iron Age Enclosure Complex on Turin Hill and Environs

    O'Driscoll, J., Noble, G.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 149, pp. 83-114
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Monumental Cemeteries of Pictland: Excavation and Dating Evidence from Greshop, Moray, and Bankhead of Kinloch, Perthshire

    Mitchell, J., Cook, M., Dunbar, L., Ives, R., Noble, G.
    Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, vol. 26, pp. 21-34
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Prehistoric Forteviot: Excavations of a ceremonial complex in eastern Scotland

    Brophy, K., Noble, G.
    Council for British Archaeology, York. 352 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Re-imagining Navan Fort: new light on the evolution of a major ceremonial centre in Northern Europe

    O'Driscoll, J., Gleeson, P., Noble, G.
    Oxford Journal of Archaeology, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 247-273
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • How aerial technology helped us discover the largest Pictish settlement in Scotland

    Noble, G.
    The Conversation
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
  • The problem of the Picts: Searching for a lost people in northern Scotland

    Noble, G.
    Current Archaeology, vol. 364, pp. 28-35
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Dunnicaer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland: a Roman Iron Age promontory fort beyond the frontier

    Noble, G., Evans, N., Hamilton, D., MacIver, C., Masson-MacLean, E., O'Driscoll, J., Cruickshanks, G., Hunter, F., Ingemark, D., Mainland, I., Taylor, S., Wallace, C.
    Archaeological Journal, vol. 177, no. 2, pp. 256-338
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Strathearn Environs & Royal Forteviot: the Prehistoric Monument Complex

    Noble, G., Brophy, K.
    Council for British Archaeology
    Books and Reports: Books
  • The Upper Dee Tributaries Project: Finding the Mesolithic in the mountains of Scotland

    Fraser, S. M., Noble, G., Warren, G., Tipping, R., Paterson, D., Mitchell, W., Clarke, A., Wickham-Jones, C.
    Holocene Foragers in Europe and Beyond: Papers Presented to the Ninth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe MESO 2015, Belgrade, Serbia. Borić, D., Antonović, D., Mihailović, B., Stefanović, S. (eds.). Serbian Archaeological Society, pp. 64-69, 6 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Warrior ideologies in first millennium AD Europe: New light on monumental warrior stelae from Scotland

    Hall, M., Evans, N., Hamilton, D., Mitchell, J., O'Driscoll, J., Noble, G.
    Antiquity, vol. 94, no. 373, pp. 127-144
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Kinneddar: A Major Ecclesiastical Centre of the Picts

    Noble, G., Cruickshanks, G., Dunbar, L., Evans, N., Hall, D., Hamilton, D., MacIver, C., Masson-MacLean, E., O'Driscoll, J., Paskulin, L., Sveinbjarnarson, O.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 148, pp. 113-145
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Fortified settlement in early medieval Northern Britain and Ireland

    Noble, G., O'Driscoll, J.
    Hillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer Continent: Papers from the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Conference, June 2017. Lock, G., Ralston, I. (eds.). Archaeopress, pp. 97-116, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • A Powerful Place Of Pictland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On A Power Centre of the 4th to 6th Centuries AD

    Noble, G., Gondek, M., Campbell, E., Evans, N., Hamilton, D., Taylor, S.
    Medieval Archaeology, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 56-94
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Tracing pre-Christian cosmologies in Pictland

    Noble, G.
    Tidens landskap: En vänbok till Anders Andrén. Ljung, C., Andreasson Sjögren, A., Berg, I., Engström, E., Hållans Stenholm, A., Jonsson, K., Klevnäs, A., Qviström, L., Zachrisson, T. (eds.). Nordic Academic Press, pp. 85-87, 9 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • The King In the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce

    Noble, G., Evans, N.
    Birlinn, Edinburgh. 208 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society

    Sanchez-Quinto, F., Malmström, H., Fraser, M., Girdland Flink, E., Svensson, E. M., Simoes, L., George, R., Hollfelder, N., Burenhult, G., Noble, G., Britton, K., Talamo, S., Curtis, N., Brzobohata, H., Sumberova, R., Götherström, A., Storå, J., Jakobsson, M.
    PNAS, vol. 116, no. 19, pp. 9469-9474
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Assessing the ploughzone: The impact of cultivation on artefact survival and the cost/benefits of topsoil stripping prior to excavation

    Noble, G., Lamont, P., Masson-MacLean, E.
    Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 23, pp. 549-558
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A new chronology for crannogs in north-east Scotland

    Stratigos, M., Noble, G.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 147, pp. 147-173
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The development of the Pictish symbol system: inscribing identity beyond the edges of Empire

    Noble, G., Goldberg, M., Hamilton, D.
    Antiquity, vol. 92, no. 365, pp. 1329-1348
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Warm air and glowing pyres: Cremating bodies in the Late Neolithic of mainland Scotland

    Brophy, K., MacGregor, G., Noble, G.
    Neolithic Bodies. Bickle, P., Sibbesson, E. (eds.). Oxbow Books, pp. 74-91, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Little House in the Mountains? A small Mesolithic structure from the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland

    Warren, G., Fraser, S., Clarke, A., Driscoll, K., Mitchell, W., Noble, G., Paterson, D., Schulting, R., Tipping, R., Verbaas, A., Wilson, C., Wickham-Jones, C.
    Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 18, pp. 936-945
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Picts in Moray: Latest Results of the Northern Picts Project

    Noble, G.
    Forgotten, Hidden & Lost: Unearthing Moray's Archaeology: Proceedings of the Elgin Museum Archaeology Conference 2017. Trythall, J., Herbert, C. (eds.). The Moray Society, pp. 38-48, 11 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Rhynie: new perspectives on settlement in Pictland in the 5th and 6th centuries AD and the context of Pictish symbol stones

    Gondek, M., Noble, G.
    Life on the Edge: Social, Political and Religious Frontiers in Early Medieval Europe. Semple, S., Orsini, C., Mui, S. (eds.). Braunschweigischen Landesmuseum, pp. 59-69, 11 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Early Medieval Shellfish Exploitation in Northwest Europe: Investigations at the Sands of Forvie Shell Middens, Eastern Scotland, and the Role of Coastal Resources in the First Millennium AD

    Noble, G., Turner, J., Hamilton, D., Hastie, L., Knecht, R., Stirling, L., Sveinbjarnarson, O., Upex, B., Milek, K.
    Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 582-605
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Cremation Practices and the Creation of Monument Complexes: The Neolithic Cremation Cemetery at Forteviot, Strathearn, Perth & Kinross, Scotland, and its comparanda

    Noble, G., Brophy, K., Hamilton, D., Leach, S., Sheridan, A.
    Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 83, pp. 213-245
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Early Medieval Shellfish Gathering at the Sands of Forvie, Aberdeenshire: Feast or Famine?

    Noble, G., Turner, J. R., Hamilton, D., Hastie, L., Knecht, R., Stirling, L., Sveinbjarnarson, O., Upex, B., Milek, K. B.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 146, pp. 121-152
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Monumental Cemeteries of Northern Pictland

    Mitchell, J., Noble, G.
    Medieval Archaeology, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 1-40
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe: The Forest as Ancestor

    Noble, G.
    Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 230 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Archaeological Excavations at Nethermills Farm, Deeside, 1978-81

    Wickham-Jones, C. R., Kenworthy, J. B., Gould, A., MacGregor, G., Noble, G.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 146, pp. 7-55
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The land before symbol stones: a geophysical survey of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire and the excavation of a Middle Bronze Age structure near the Craw Stane, Barflat

    Gondek, M., Noble, G., Ramsay, S., Sheridan, A.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 145, pp. 125-151
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • (Re)discovering the Gaulcross Hoard

    Noble, G., Goldberg, M., McPherson, A., Sveinbjarnarson, O.
    Antiquity, vol. 90, no. 351, pp. 726-741
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Bennachie Colony: A Nineteenth-Century Informal Community in Northeast Scotland

    Oliver, J., Armstrong, J., Milek, K., Schofield, J. E., Vergunst, J., Brochard, T., Gould, A., Noble, G.
    International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 341-377
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Life is the Pits! Ritual, Refuse and Mesolithic-Neolithic settlement traditions in North-East Scotland

    Noble, G., Christie, C., Philip, E.
    The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland. Brophy, K., MacGregor, G., Ralston, I. B. M. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, pp. 171-199, 29 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Transforming Place and Architecture through Cremation: Cremation Traditions at the Third Millennium BC Monument Complex at Forteviot, Central Scotland

    Noble, G.
    What’s New in the Neolithic?. Larsson, L. (ed.). University of Lund
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Fortified Settlement and the Emergence of Kingdoms in Northern Scotland in the First Millennium AD

    Noble, G.
    Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe: Defended Communities of the 8th‐10th Centuries. Christie, N., Herold, H. (eds.). Oxbow Books, pp. 26-36, 11 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Prehistoric, Roman and Early Medieval Aberdeenshire

    Noble, G.
    The Buildings of Scotland. Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen. Sharples, J., Walker, D., Woodworth, M. (eds.). Yale University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Rediscovering the Gaulcross Hoard

    Noble, G.
    British Archaeology, vol. Jul/Aug, pp. 38-43
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Prehistoric, Roman and Early Medieval Aberdeenshire

    Noble, G.
    The Buildings of Scotland. Aberdeenshire: North and Moray. Walker, D. W., Woodworth, M. (eds.). Yale University Press, pp. 9-21, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Construction, process, environment: altering the landscape in Neolithic lowland Scotland

    Noble, G., Brophy, K.
    Landscapes, Histories and Societies in the northern European Neolithic. Mischka, D., Furholt, M., Hinz, M., Noble, G., Olausson, D. (eds.). Kiel University, pp. 65-80, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Landscapes, Histories and Societies in the northern European Neolithic

    Noble, G. (ed.), Mischka, D. (ed.), Furholt, M. (ed.), Hinz, M. (ed.), D, O. (ed.)
    Vol. 4, Kiel University, Kiel. 312 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • The Neolithic: Essays on the Local History and Archaeology of West Central Scotland

    Noble, G.
    Commissioned by West of Scotland Council. Glasgow Museums. 13 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports
  • Crannogs, castles and lordly residences: new research and dating of crannogs in north-east Scotland

    Stratigos, M., Noble, G.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 144, pp. 205-222
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 'A very royal place’: Rhynie and the Picts

    Noble, G.
    Current Archaeology, vol. 289, pp. 22-28
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Between prehistory and history: the archaeological detection of social change among the Picts

    Noble, G., Gondek, M., Campbell, E., Cook, M.
    Antiquity, vol. 87, no. 338, pp. 1136-1150
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Historical Archaeology and the 'Colony': Reflections on fieldwork at a 19th-century settlement in rural Scotland

    Oliver, J. M., Noble, G., Shepherd, C., Knecht, R., Milek, K. B., Sveinbjarnarson, O. G.
    Bennachie and the Garioch: Society and the Ecology in the History of North-East Scotland. Shepherd, C. (ed.). The Bailies of Bennachie, pp. 103-124, 22 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Great crowns of stone: the recumbent stone circles of Scotland (Book Review)

    Noble, G.
    Antiquity, vol. 86, no. 332, pp. 584-586
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Prehistoric woodland ecology

    Noble, G., Bell, M.
    Image, Memory and Monumentality: Archaeological Engagements with the Material World. Jones, A. M., Pollard, J., Allen, M. J., Gardiner, J. (eds.). The Prehistoric Society & Oxbow Books, pp. 80-92, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Excavations at a multi-period site at Greenbogs, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and the four-post timber architecture tradition of Late Neolithic Britain and Ireland

    Noble, G., Greig, M., Millican, K., Anderson, S., Clarke, A., Johnson, M., McLaren, D., Sheridan, A.
    Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 78, pp. 135–171
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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