Together they created the Kingdom of Alba. The Picts took part in one of the most decisive battles in Scottish history - the Battle of Dun Nechtain (Dunnichen). If the Picts had lost, Scotland ...

Tree ring science is the latest tool unravelling the past at Scotland’s early historic sites.

Archaeologists on the Orkney island of Rousay have uncovered the preserved handprint of a Pictish metalsmith. They found the print on a stone anvil excavated from a substantial Iron Age settlement.