Moray Firth History

Exploring the past of the Fraserburgh-Beauly-Wick indented triangle. A northern Scottish perspective on #coastalhistory from @UHIHistory.

[Stories of Scotland Podcast @StoriesScotland]

Very excited about this wee show about the history of the Culbin & the folklore of Isobel Gowdie.
Delicate little project, but been intriguing to make.
@Nairn_Festival @MoraySpeyside @Moray_Firth @highlandmuseums @XpoNorth @SpiritHighlands

[Northern Picts @northernpicts]

Our new interpretive video of Burghead Pictish fort. Check it out below and here:
https://t.co/3WsYu7d6fn
Thanks to @HistEnvScot for funding and to @HistEnvScot @ScotArchStrat, @UoA_Archaeology and @LeverhulmeTrust for funding the excavations.

[Lauren MacColl @Laurenmaccoll1]

https://t.co/48lojGfvEM

[The Scotsman @TheScotsman]

The little-known writings of a 17th-century scholar have helped to illuminate the Highlands as “dynamic and connected to the world” in the 100 years before Culloden, via @alicampsie75
https://t.co/h6kLKNzEBD

[Bruce Mann @diggermann17]

Delighted to have hosted the very first AGM of the brand new NE Scotland Heritage Network. Supported by @MuseumsGalScot we have 40 member organisations from #Moray #Aberdeenshire and #Aberdeen and I look forward to working with all, from small groups to national orgs #support

[Mikey Rennie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 🔴⚪️⚽️ @watterloony]

St Mary’s Chapel, Coastguard houses, Lookout, Pillbox, Seatown ruins, Rattray Head Lighthouse
@VisitScotland #visitscotland @visitabdn #visitabdn #rediscoverabdn #beautifulabdn #Aberdeenshire #Scotland @originalfm @northsound1 @BBCNorthEast

[Northern Picts @northernpicts]

Sampling cows fit for kings! Our isotope group @UoA_Archaeology are analysing these tiny enamel samples from Burghead to explore Pictish dairying practices & the trading of early medieval cows 🐄 🥛 w/ Jovita Fawcett @WhatKatieDigs @Orshi_Cz
Funded @LeverhulmeTrust; @HistEnvScot

[Findhorn Bay Arts @FindhornBayArts]

Moray Polaris FREE Cyanotype kits are available to pre-order! Walk, Create, Reflect & Connect.

Be part of a community arts project mapping 100 miles of the Moray Way, creating artwork and inspiration packs for residents of local care homes.

Info: https://t.co/xY3ZEtAH3P

[David Worthington @WorthingtonD]

Alexander Garden of Troup's 1683 account of the Banffshire littoral of the Moray Firth, where fishers were also farmers, and seals, seabirds, the sand and the soil each imposed themselves on everyday life. #CoastalHistory #EarlyModern https://t.co/iEOfW75l9l

[UoD Archives & RM @UoD_Archives_RM]

1/2 This week's Peto Collection #poll features 3 photographs taken by Michael Peto in #Moray/#Banffshire in 1954. We have 1) A fisherman with net 2) View through the #railway viaduct in #Cullen 3) Harbour view at #Buckie #archives #DundeeUniCulture #Scotland

[David Worthington @WorthingtonD]

Ballone Castle today, looking out across the Moray Firth from the Tarbat peninsula. It passed between the Dunbars of Tarbat and Munros of Meikle Tarrel before Sir Rorie MacKenzie of Coigach acquired it in 1623. The MacKenzies made substantial additions to it in subsequent years.

[Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe Database @SSNEdatabase]

The SSNE is a free database containing over 8,000 biographies of British and Irish migrants to Northern Europe in the early modern period, created by Professor Steve Murdoch (@Prof_Murdoch) and Dr Alexia Grosjean (@LinguaLexy) and hosted by @univofstandrews

[Anji Hancock @mudarrisa]

Local ramble along the moray coastal trail. New discovery of The Cabrach Well at Cummingston - or The Collach as locals tend to call it. Speculation is that this may have come from ‘an coileach’ - the Gaelic for ‘the eddy’ ? #cummingston #well #walk #moray #history #gaelic

[pacoulmag @pacoulmag]

Tomb and effigy of George Baird "Provost of the Burgh of Banff" died in 1636
St Mary's Churchyard Banff #Scotland

[David Worthington @WorthingtonD]

Granted, my interest in surviving
sixteenth- and seventeenth century material culture around northern Scottish firthsides will probably always be a niche one, but it doesn't seem to be waning. #EarlyModern

[Am Baile - Highland History & Culture @HighlandHistory]

Fishing boats at #Nairn, early 20th century. Dominating the photograph is INS 117, "Moy Hall", a steam drifter built in 1910

[source: @HighlandFolk]

[NMS Learning & Engagement @NMSEngage]

Our friends at @ElginMuseum have some great learning resources! https://t.co/g051fUbclC
We really like the carved symbol soaps which remind us of the Burghead Bull carved stone, from Moray, in our own collections. https://t.co/zQY6qhIpTK

#MuseumLearning

[David Worthington @WorthingtonD]

Here are further details for our online network's inaugural roundtable on 'Fractured Coasts', 22 July: https://t.co/KpKsNE66g3 We have a tremendous lineup, including @brdemuth, @david_gange, @E_Devienne and Gerald Bigelow. #FracturedCoasts #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies

[Alan Hendry @HNM_AHendry]

Why did coastal Picts avoid eating fish? Intriguing research by @ShirleyCurtisS1 🐟 @GroatNews @Moray_Firth @Rossnews