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2023
Book review
Findlater, The Armorial of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount with a photographic facsimile
In a SHR review of 2008, heraldry in Scotland was said to be in the midst of a revival, with interest greater than at any time since the resurgence in the 1970s that had witnessed the founding of the Heraldry Society of Scotland.1 The present volume is produced by that...Blackwell, Alice
Medieval Scotland, heraldry, charters, and seals
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2022
Book chapter
After the Traprain Treasure: Hacksilber hoarding in 5th/6th-century Scotland
After the supply of late Roman silver was cut off in the 5th century, this precious metal became a finite resource in northern Britain until new supplies were introduced during the Viking Age. In between these two periods of abundant supply, the chronology of silver use and recycling in early...Goldberg, Martin ; Blackwell, Alice
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2020
Audio
The Declaration of Arbroath
2020 marks the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath, one of Scotland's most important historical artefacts. To mark the anniversary we spoke to two experts to understand more about how it was created, and why it still resonates today. In this podcast we are joined by National Museums Scotland's...Wylie, Alice ; Blackwell, Alice ; Broun, Dauvit
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2020
Book chapter
'Artefacts' In: Campbell, E. and Driscoll, S. T. (2020). Royal Forteviot. York: Council for British Archaeology
Only two certain early medieval artefacts are known from the Forteviot cropmark complexes: one from the SERF excavations (Bead 1), and one from fieldwalking by the Dunning Historical Society (Bead 2). Perhaps coincidentally, both came from the northern part of the Dronachy Field. A further bead (Bead 3) was discovered...Blackwell, Alice
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2019
Book chapter
Norrie's Law, Gaulcross and beyond: widening the context of hacksilver hoarding in Scotland
This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. Far from a ‘dark age’, Early Medieval Scotland (AD 300–900) was a crucible of different languages and cultures, the world of the Picts, Scots, Britons...Blackwell, Alice ; Goldberg, D Martin
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2019
Book
Scotland in Early Medieval Europe
This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. Far from a ‘dark age’, Early Medieval Scotland (AD 300–900) was a crucible of different languages and cultures, the world of the Picts, Scots, Britons...Blackwell, Alice
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2019
Book chapter
Introduction
This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. Far from a ‘dark age’, Early Medieval Scotland (AD 300–900) was a crucible of different languages and cultures, the world of the Picts, Scots, Britons...Blackwell, Alice
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2018
Doctoral thesis
A reassessment of the Anglo-Saxon artefacts from Scotland: material interactions and identities in early medieval northern Britain
This thesis identifies and interprets the 5th to 9th-century Anglo-Saxon artefacts found within modern Scotland. It uses them to consider material expressions of ethnogenesis and to examine political, economic and ecclesiastical relations within early medieval northern Britain. In total, 221 objects are catalogued and discussed. The earliest finds suggest contact...Blackwell, Alice
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2018
Journal article
Scotland's Early Silver: the most precious metal for 1,000 years
Alice Blackwell takes a look at some of the valuable and beautiful items which form part of National Museum of Scotland's winter exhibition of 1,000 years of silver in ScotlandBlackwell, Alice
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2018
Journal article
Denarii diplomacy: exploring Scotland’s silver age
Silver was introduced to the inhabitants of Iron Age Scotland by the Roman army. An exhibition currently running in Edinburgh reveals the impact of this exotic material throughout the 1st millennium AD.Blackwell, Alice
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2017
Journal article
International network of scholars to explore the role of silver in Early Medieval Europe
A major grant awarded to National Museums Scotland will allow historians to explore the role that silver played in the emergence of the Early Medieval kingdoms of Europe.Blackwell, Alice
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2017
Journal article
How silver became Scotland's precious metal of choice
Silver - not gold - was the most powerful material in the formative history of Scotland in the first millennium AD, yet none was mined here. How did silver become Scotland's precious metal of choice?Blackwell, Alice
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2017
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2017
Journal article
Hacked up pieces of silver are helping to unravel the story of Early Medieval Scotland
They will feature in Scotland's Early Silver exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland this autumnBlackwell, Alice
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2017
Book
Scotland’s Early Silver: transforming Roman pay-offs to Pictish treasures
Based on the exhibition Scotland's Early Silver, opening at the National Museum of Scotland, 13 October - 25 February 18. In Scotland, silver, not gold, was the most important and powerful precious metal for a thousand years, from the arrival of the Roman army until the dawn of the Viking...Blackwell, Alice ; Goldberg, D Martin ; Hunter, Fraser
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2016
Book chapter
4.1.1 Copper alloy
Excavation on the headland at Auldhame has revealed one thousand years of burial activity and liturgical practice, the nature of which changed over the course of the millennium. It has charted the birth and death of a church, from a monastic settlement established in the seventh century AD, which then...Blackwell, Alice
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2016
Book chapter
Gleaming eyes and the elaboration of Anglo-Saxon sculpture
This paper presents the results of the analysis of an Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft fragment from Aberlady, East Lothian that confirm the long-suspected belief that the drilled eye sockets found among Northumbrian and Mercian sculpture originally contained separate eye insets. A tin lining was positively identified in one of the drilled eye...Blackwell, Alice
polychromy, colour, iconography, Early Medieval, sculpture, Anglo-Saxon, and Insular
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2015
Journal article
Seventh century or seventeenth century?
Blackwell, Alice ; Kirk, Susy
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2015
Book
Early Medieval Scotland: Individuals, communities and ideas
The elaborately carved Hilton of Cadboll stone, the house-shaped Monymusk Reliquary and the sumptuously decorated Hunterston brooch (all on view in the National Museum of Scotland) are evidence of the sophistication of Scottish craftsmen in the time AD 300-900, formerly known as the 'Dark Ages'. A pioneering partnership between National...Clarke, David V ; Blackwell, Alice ; Goldberg, D Martin
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2014
Journal article
The legacy of nineteenth-century replicas for object cultural biographies: lessons in duplication from 1830s Fife
The St Andrews Sarcophagus and Norrie's Law hoard are two of the most important surviving Pictish relics from early medieval Scotland. The entanglement of their later biographies is also of international significance in its own right. Soon after discovery in nineteenth-century Fife, both sets of objects were subject, in 1839,...Foster, Sally M ; Blackwell, Alice ; Goldberg, D Martin
facsimiles, early photography, Norrie's Law hoard, St Andrews Sarcophagus, entanglement, and plaster casts