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 ...

The Picts had to decide which Christian church to follow, the Columban or Northumbrian. There were differences between the two, for example, the way in which monks shaved their hair, the designs ...

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

When the Romans first came to northern Scotland in the first century A.D., they found the Highlands occupied by fierce, tattoo-covered tribes they called the Picts, or painted people. From the ...