Archaeologist Murray Cook (bottom center) excavates fragments of a Pictish cross slab.Posted on 11/06/2022 5:45:28 AM PST by bani
Archaeologists and volunteers have discovered a stone bearing a mysterious inscription and carved birds that the Picts of Scotland crafted more than a millennium ago.
The cross slab, found in a small cemetery last month, dates to between A.D. 500 and 700, and sheds new light on the historic interaction between heritage and faith in the northern U.K.
The Picts, or “Painted People,” were so-named by Roman historians because of their supposed war paint and tattoos (“picti,” is the Latin word for “paint”). They lived in northern and eastern Scotland in the early medieval period.
Likely descended from Celtic tribes, the Picts are famous for successfully resisting Roman conquest. While the Romans painted the Picts as barbarous and backward, they were largely subsistence farmers, growing grain and herding domesticated animals.
After the Roman Empire withdrew from the British Isles in the fifth century A.D., Pictish society grew to form a permanent but unstable monarchy intent on protecting its territorial boundaries.
Archaeologist Murray Cook (bottom center) excavates fragments of a Pictish cross slab.
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The inscription reads “we’ve been trying to reach you regarding your cars’s extended warranty”
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Within 200-400 years of the Irish migration to Western Scotland the Picts had disappeared. This coincides to about 600 - 800 AD.
Thanks SteveH. Bani is the same troll, different nick. Banned twice. Clickbait to ‘borrowed’ and mostly pretty old material, classic blog pimping, see the “ancientarcheology” keyword.
will try to take note (yikes)
The Picts and the Celts, judging by the lines on the cross, had the same ideas regarding design of monuments. I still cut that design today.
I think Mozart already took all the notes. /rimshot
Something about a lair of the white worm.
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Were they absorbed into other populations? Have DNA studies been done? Are those of us who are of Scottish ancestry their descendants?
Celtic people reached the modern day Scottland-England border. Not surprised Picts adopted Celtic cultural motifs.
Isn’t that racist?
” Pictish society grew to form a permanent but unstable monarchy intent on protecting its territorial boundaries.”
The inscription reads “we’ve been trying to reach you regarding your car’s extended warranty”
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She smiled and laughed at your comment.
It is widely believed Picts were Celts (so the similarity wouldn’t be coincidence).
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