Picts Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The archaeological excavation at the Burghead fort in Moray has yielded a significant discovery: a Pictish ring with an intricate setting. This find
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found evidence that people in almost all corners of the world have practiced tattooing for thousands of years. Tattoos are a part of
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Already three centuries ago (in 1726), John Toland wrote that brochs or the so-called 'Pictish Towers' "are apt all over Scotland to make
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have been ascribed exotic origins in fact descended from indigenous Iron Age society and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Knowledge about the Picts is still limited and every discovery related to these people shed new light on the ancient history of Scotland.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stunning new reconstructions have revealed how Scotland's largest known Pictish fort may have looked over one thousand years ago. Three-dimensional images of Burghead
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time ever we get the chance to see the Conan Stone, a rare Pictish stone decorated with strange, massive mythical
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jarlshof is an ancient settlement near Sumburgh Head, the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. It is one of the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Aethelflaed, (870 - 918 AD) is among the brave female warriors of old times who are usually left outside the official historical records.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Legend tells Merlin's precious treasure is hidden in a cave at Dinas Emrys in the mountains of North Wales. Dinas Emrys is a
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Inchbrayock stone, also known as the Samson stone is a remarkable and truly fascinating ancient artifact. Found in 1849, in the graveyard
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Celts reached a high level of civilization, yet this civilization ceased to exist long ago. Its rich culture and art survived until modern times,
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Carved stones represent a unique legacy of the Picts. Many of them give evidence of the advanced skills of artists; some of the stones
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Beautiful Isle of May is today inhabited by sea birds and seals and the remote island is owned and managed by Scottish Natural Heritage as a National Nature Reserve.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - In ancient times the Sculptor’s Cave in Moray, Scotland was a place where many strange and unpleasant events took place. Today, it’s considered a site of great
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - It is said that prehistoric Skara Brae, which is older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Egypt, was home to the “little people”.
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News
AncientPages.com - Very little is known about the mysterious Picts and yet, they played a vital role in the history of Scotland. These brave and determined people repelled the conquests of
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to very ancient poems, Odin's sons, Weldegg, Beldegg, Sigi, Skiold, Sæming, and Yngvi, became kings of Franconia, East Saxony, West Saxony, Sweden, Denmark,
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Most people have seen the Saltire, Scotland's national flag. With its symbol as a diagonal cross, the blue flag is easily recognizable. Not everyone knows the
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Not much is known about the mysterious Picts, yet they played a vital role in the history of Scotland. These brave and determined people
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Ancient Symbols
AncientPages.com - The stone, a solid pink granite boulder, measures 0.5 x 1.68 x 0.36m and weighs c.670kg. It was incised with odd carvings on two adjoining faces by the Picts
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News
AncientPages.com - When a farmer ploughing an Aberdeenshire field in 1978 uncovered a six-foot high Pictish stone carved with a distinctive figure carrying an axe, it quickly earned
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