Posted on 05/12/2013 5:57:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Until recently historians had believed that Fortriu -- one of the most powerful Kingdoms of the “painted people” -- had been based in Perthshire.
But recent research has now placed the Pictish stronghold much further north to the Moray Firth area.
And it was revealed today that a team of archaeologists from Aberdeen University are to embark on a series of excavations on the Tarbat peninsula in Ross-shire where archaeologists have already uncovered evidence of the only Pictish monastic settlement found in Scotland to date...
The team of archaeologists also plan to examine the Pictish cross slabs found at Shandwick, Hilton and Nigg in an attempt to understand the power structures that led to the formation of the early Pictish kingdoms.
Preliminary excavations of a hill fort at Easter Rarichie in Ross and Cromarty have already revealed a remarkable stone-walled structure that may be an important settlement dating to the Iron Age or Pictish period...
It was revealed two months ago that a recently discovered DNA marker suggests that 10 per cent of Scottish men are directly descended from the Picts. Known as “’Picti’” by the Romans ‘Painted Ones’ in Latin - the empire of Pictish tribes constituted the largest kingdom in Dark Age Scotland. They repelled the conquests of both Romans and Angles before disappearing from history by the end of the first millennium.
The Picts took part in one of the most decisive battles in Scottish history -- the Battle of Dun Nechtain , also known as the Battle of Nechtansmere -- when the Picts defeated the Northumbrian forces of King Ecgfrith.
Historians have claimed that the Pictish triumph laid the foundations for a distinctive Scottish state, which endured until the Act of Union in 1707.
(Excerpt) Read more at scotsman.com ...
Okay. Thanks for the info.
I have nothing against naked women, far from it, but having been to Scotland there are darn few days a woman could dress (or undress) like that. :-))
The Moray Firth is near the Colin Firth.
The term Pict disappears around the time of the founding of the Kingdom of Alba. Since we don’t know what the Picts called themselves, they may not have thought this was any significant change.
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