History in Moray: Expert uncovering Burghead's Pictish past
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One of the world's leading experts on the Picts will be giving guided tours around Burghead this weekend.
As every local history fan knows, Burghead was a major Pictish fort and settlement about 1500 years ago.
Dr Gordon Noble heads up the archaeology department at the University of Aberdeen.
This coming Saturday he will be showing the public the trenches connected to the university's ongoing excavations in Burghead.
In addition, Dr Noble will be talking about previous and recent finds and also looking at the village's Pictish well.
The tours are taking place on the hour from noon to 3pm, starting at the Burghead Visitor Centre where folk can view some of the sculpture uncovered from the site.
They are free but donations to the visitor centre are welcome.
Last year Dr Noble led a team which uncovered evidence of a Pictish hilltop settlement at Tap o’ Noth, near Rhynie.
The discovery that about 4000 people may have lived at the site in more than 800 huts completely changed historical perspectives.
Previously, it had been thought that settlements in Scotland did not reach that size until about 500 years later.
