About the Author

Gordon Noble is Professor in Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen and has undertaken award-winning landscape research and field projects, working on projects from the Mesolithic to Medieval periods. He is author of Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth and Fire (Edinburgh University Press 2006), Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe: The Forest As Ancestor (Cambridge University Press 2017) and co-author of King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce (Birlinn 2019). He works on two current major projects: Northern Picts and Comparative Kingship, the research for which won the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year 2021, a highly prestigious accolade. His research has featured on BBC 2 Digging for Britain, BBC Radio 4 In Our Time and many other media outlets.

Nicholas Evans is a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust funded Comparative Kingship: the Early Medieval Kingdoms of Northern Britain and Ireland project at the University of Aberdeen. He is a historian whose research and teaching have focussed on the medieval Celtic-speaking societies of Britain and Ireland. He is the author of The Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles (Boydell Press, 2010), A Historical Introduction to the Northern Picts (Aberdeen University/Tarbat Discovery Centre, 2014) and co-author of King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce (Birlinn 2019).

Reviews

'Picts is an extraordinary work that covers seven centuries of Pictish history and archaeology, but is also engagingly written with the general reader in mind'
*Current Archaeology Magazine*

'An impressive book that brings together between its covers pretty much all that is currently known about its elusive and enigmatic subject'
*Undiscovered Scotland*

'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. We will be indebted to Noble and Evans for many years to come.'
*The Pictish Arts Society*

'A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated volume'
*West Highland Free Press*

'Both archaeologically and historically rich and provides an entirely new synthesis and viewpoint on a critical era of Scotland's history'
*Deeside Piper and Herald*

'this intriguing study by two Aberdonian academics will help to dispel the myth that Pictland was merely rough and unsophisticated'
*Country Life*

'This is an irresistible glimpse into their [the Picts'] shadowy world'
*Little Brown Book Group*

'You'll discover fascinating info about, and images of, some of the beautifully carved Pictish artefacts that have been discovered in the North of Scotland'
*Scottish Field*

'This is a volume that scholars of early-medieval Britain have needed for many decades now... not only accessible, but thoroughly enjoyable, and one that should be on the bookshelf with other essential books of early medieval Britain' 
*Medieval Archaeology*