How seat fit for a king has cast new light on Scotland's dark ages

The Scotsman (sleeping, strong and handsome built) ^ | Friday, November 27, 2009 | Tim Cornwell

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The first Pictish throne to be built for a millennium has been unveiled by researchers investigating the lives of Scotland's most mysterious tribal people. The team spent a year crafting the oak of five Scottish trees into a design modelled on ancient carvings in a project that cost around £10,000. Raised thrones were important symbols of Pictish power for church leaders and kings, but none survive. The project at the National Museums of Scotland (NMS) is part of a three-year research programme, sponsored by the Glenmorangie whisky company, and aims to improve understanding of Scottish history from 300AD to 900AD... Eight or nine Pictish stone carvings show thrones. But the NMS began with the best example, the Fowlis Wester stone from Perthshire. Discovered early last century, built into a church that protected it from weathering, it shows a clear, detailed side-view, including the distinctive Pictish "key" pattern... One possible piece of a Pictish throne, a curved terminal, or end-piece, of gilded wood, does survive in Ireland. There are stone thrones of the era from England and others on the continent, but none from Scotland.

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	Researcher Alice Blackwell tries the new throne				Theodor de Bry engraving, 1588

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[decimon]

You strike that pose and when the other guy starts laughing you lop his head off.

[americanophile]

There’s nothing like going to all that time and expense to build a replica throne, then model it with the museum secretary...what?

[hennie pennie]

Scotland?

Dark Ages?

Silly, Scotland never experienced any dark ages!

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[enraged]

10,000 for that?

[SunkenCiv]

;’) Sure they did — when my Scots ancestors sailed away to America.

Probably were on the lam...

But dunno why they’d leave Scotland then...

[SunkenCiv]

You got a good look at her, right?

[gimme1ibertee]

OK....I just KNOW sonmeone’s gonna post that pic of the Scottish barstool,made to accomodate the gentleman’s “assets”....:)

[SunkenCiv]

In the movie, his role was played by Sean Connery.

[SunkenCiv]

Ya mean yer hopin’, ya perv. ;’)

[gimme1ibertee]

LOLOL!!!

BTW,that’s a popular anatomical pose for the old medical reference books.

[gimme1ibertee]

That would be me,and,your point is...? :P

[RegulatorCountry]

Yer shield’s nae gud wen yer olden’ it blouddy bahkwarrrds mahn! Old it in blouddy front of ya, ya does!

[SunkenCiv]

I was just a little hurt that no one remarked on the source I posted...

[SunkenCiv]

And the Picts vanished why? ;’)

[Charles Henrickson]

This Thread Is Useless Without Picts!

[Brass Lamp]

And the Picts vanished why? ;’)

A: They had an influx of non-assimilating immigrants.

B: Conan got'em.

[SunkenCiv]

LOLOL!