Posted on 11/27/2009 12:03:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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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Most likely froze their nads off!
He’ll get splinters in his arse if he sits like that. ;)
That throne is tiny. You’d have to be a wee man to sit on that.
Or shish kebabed.
That throne is tiny.
Not what I'd expect for royalty.
I know mine were on the lam but have never been able to find out just what they did or were accused of, probably fighting against the Brits:).
...sure did, it’s now I pictured the Pictish. Couldn’t see the throne though.
There’s nothing like going to all that time and expense to build a replica throne, then model it with the museum secretary...what?
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Exactly. I would have liked seeing a full picture of the throne without having it obscured by someone sitting in it. How dumb to put her there.
:’) Well, he *was* a barbarian...
That be the McNachtan throne ye’re sitting on, lassie.
Well, after all, the Scots are always engaged in a fight to the death with their lifelong enemies, the Scots.
“My mother’s maiden name was Clark, which is Scottish.”
The Clark tartan is also the Clergy tartan - and a very pretty one it is, too.
http://www.virtualscotland.co.uk/scotland_articles/tartans_scotland/tartan_clergy.htm
Careful with that axe, Eugene.
It’s kind of hard to see the actual construction of the throne. Is the seat curved outward like a barrel? Seems difficult to stay seated.
Didn’t know the Picts were that organized. I always thought they were more of a nomadic type people. Interesting.
for posting later:
Archaeologists return to site of ‘lost Pictish monastery’
https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/archaeologists-return-to-site-of-lost-pictish-monastery-1-4708593
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