A Pictish stone is a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs. A few have ogham inscriptions.

2024年10月23日 · Hundreds of Pictish stones are scattered across Scotland with curious symbols that archaeologists and historians have studied for years, here’s what we know about them. The Picts are famous for...

2024年1月10日 · The best Pictish Stones are found in the east of Scotland, from Angus through Aberdeenshire and Moray. We might not know what the strange symbols carved into these stones mean, but that’s all the more reason to visit them and make up your own mind. Many Pictish stones are in remote locations, so you’ll find it easier to reach them but car.

Pictish symbol stones are what we commonly call stones that were carved during the Pictish period of Scottish history (roughly over 600 years from around AD 300 to AD 900), which carry Pictish symbols or representative art, such as animals.

2023年5月2日 · Pictish stones are the enigmatic remnants of a group that once struck fear into the hearts of the Roman empire while sparking curiosity in the minds of scholars today. Occupying the mist-shrouded lands of what is now northern and eastern Scotland, the Picts were as mysterious to their contemporaries as they are to scholars today.

2017年7月31日 · The Pictish stones in the Index of Medieval Art, especially the Class I stones, are part of a wider discussion of very early medieval society in Scotland. The Picts are the people that sixth-century and later texts blame for the beginning of the end of Roman Britain.

2022年8月10日 · One of the most enduring legacies that we have from the Picts are their intricately carved stones that are dotted across the Northern Scottish landscape. The earliest of these were created during the pre-Christian 6th century, while others were created after the new faith took hold in the Pictish heartland.

Over 1500 years ago these so-called “enigmatic” structures appeared predominantly in the north east of what has become Scotland. Lack of defacing suggests that carvings of geometric Pictish Symbols, Christian Crosses, Celtic animal, bird and fish objects, and more, were acceptably placed together.

The Picts are known chiefly for their elaborately but regularly decorated memorial stones found in profusion throughout eastern Scotland from Shetland to the Firth of Forth. However, much...

Datasheets are available for Pictish Symbol Stones, Early Medieval Cross Slabs and Cross Incised Stones. The distribution of surviving stones is weighted towards the east, but there are carved stones on the west, albeit not in northwest Sutherland (see Map 8.1).