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The Govan Stones is an internationally-important museum collection of early-medieval carved stones displayed at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow, Scotland.[1]

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  1. 36 relations: Annals of Ulster, Arthgal ap Dyfnwal, Barochan Cross, BBC News, British Museum, British people, Brittonic languages, Causantín mac Cináeda, Celtic Britons, Channel 4, Dumbarton Castle, Glasgow, Govan, Govan Old Parish Church, Harland & Wolff, Hen Ogledd, Historia Regum, Hogback (sculpture), Kenneth MacAlpin, Kingdom of Strathclyde, Normans, Picts, River Clyde, Sarcophagus, Scandinavia, Scotland, Scots language, Scottish Reformation, Siege of Dumbarton, Symeon of Durham, The Govan Stones, Thing (assembly), Time Team, Time Team series 4, University of Glasgow, Vikings.

  2. Archaeological collections
  3. Museums in Glasgow
  4. Viking Age sites in Scotland

Annals of Ulster

The Annals of Ulster (Annála Uladh) are annals of medieval Ireland.

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Arthgal ap Dyfnwal

Arthgal ap Dyfnwal (died 872) was a ninth-century king of Alt Clut.

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Barochan Cross

Barochan Cross is an ancient Scottish Celtic Christian cross whose construction has been dated to the early Middle Ages, between the 8th and the 11th century.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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British people

British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Brittonic languages

The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; yethow brythonek/predennek; and yezhoù predenek) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic.

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Causantín mac Cináeda

Causantín mac Cináeda (Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Choinnich; died 877) was a king of the Picts.

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Celtic Britons

The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Dumbarton Castle

Dumbarton Castle (Dùn Breatainn) has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Scotland. The Govan Stones and Dumbarton Castle are Viking Age sites in Scotland.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Govan

Govan (Cumbric: Gwovan; Scots: Gouan; Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of southwest Glasgow, Scotland.

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Govan Old Parish Church

Govan Old Parish Church is a former parish church serving Govan in Glasgow from the 5th or 6th century AD until 2007. The Govan Stones and Govan Old Parish Church are Govan.

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Harland & Wolff

Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding and fabrication company headquartered in London with sites in Belfast, Arnish, Appledore and Methil.

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Hen Ogledd

Yr Hen Ogledd, meaning the Old North, is the historical region that was inhabited by the Brittonic people of sub-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages, now Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands, alongside the fellow Brittonic Celtic Kingdom of Elmet.

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Historia Regum

The Historia Regum ("History of the Kings") is a historical compilation attributed to Symeon of Durham, which presents material going from the death of Bede until 1129.

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Hogback (sculpture)

Hogbacks are stone carved Anglo-Scandinavian sculptures from 10th- to 12th-century northern England and south-west Scotland.

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Kenneth MacAlpin

Kenneth MacAlpin (label; label; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), and King of the Picts (848–858), of likely Gaelic origin.

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Kingdom of Strathclyde

Strathclyde (lit. "broad valley of the Clyde",, Cumbria) was a Brittonic kingdom in northern Britain during the Middle Ages.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.

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Picts

The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.

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River Clyde

The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Clyde Watter, or Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde, in the west of Scotland.

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Sarcophagus

A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Scottish Reformation

The Scottish Reformation was the process whereby Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church, and established the Protestant Church of Scotland.

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Siege of Dumbarton

The siege of Dumbarton was a successful four-month siege of the Brittonic fortress at Dumbarton Rock in 870, initiated by the Viking leaders Amlaíb, King of Dublin, and Ímar.

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Symeon of Durham

Symeon (or Simeon) of Durham (died after 1129) was an English chronicler and a monk of Durham Priory.

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The Govan Stones

The Govan Stones is an internationally-important museum collection of early-medieval carved stones displayed at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow, Scotland. The Govan Stones and The Govan Stones are Archaeological collections, Govan, museums in Glasgow and Viking Age sites in Scotland.

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Thing (assembly)

A thing, also known as a folkmoot, assembly, tribal council, and by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by a lawspeaker.

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Time Team

Time Team is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014.

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Time Team series 4

This is a list of Time Team episodes from series 4.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Vikings

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

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See also

Archaeological collections

Museums in Glasgow

Viking Age sites in Scotland

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Govan_Stones

Also known as Govan Stones.