An opportunity to be part of history. Help us print a nationally important book that will transform our understanding of the Picts.

Craw Stane with Tap o’ Noth (Credit: Cathy MacIver)

The Society needs your help to print a monograph which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society:

Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland: The development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot

The book will become essential reading for all students and researchers of Scotland’s late Roman Iron Age, early medieval and Pictish past and will have a lasting impact on developing future understanding of this period. 

As part of our commitment to open access, Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland will be published as an e-book.The e-book is already in production – it has been written, copy edited and is in the process of being typeset. However, we need your support to enable us to print this highly anticipated title.

We would like to be able to print at least 400 hardcopies, however, the printed version will only be produced if we hit our target by the deadline on 6 December 2025. 

If the campaign is not successful, it will only be produced as an e-book.

To find out more and place your pre-order or donate, please visit our crowdfunding campaign page on Kickstarter.