Excavation leader Gordon Noble works at the site.Image credit: University of Aberdeen
Posted on 04/06/2022 8:39:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Scotland shed "genuine tears" upon discovering a stone covered with geometric carvings that the Picts, the Indigenous people of the region, designed about 1,500 years ago.
The team unexpectedly found the 5.5-foot-long (1.7 meters) carved stone while doing a geophysical survey in Aberlemno, a village with Pictish roots. The stone has several geometric shapes showing abstract Pictish symbols, such as triple ovals, a comb and mirror, a crescent and double discs. Some of the carved symbols overlap, suggesting that they were carved in different time periods, the researchers said.
It's unclear what all of the symbols mean, but the "best guess is that they are a naming system representing Pictish names," Gordon Noble, excavation leader and a professor of archaeology at the University of Aberdeen, told Live Science in an email...
The new finding is one of only about 200 such stones known to archaeologists. Other stones with Pictish symbols are also from Aberlemno, which is known for its unique standing stones, including a slab that may depict scenes from the Battle of Nechtansmere, a Pictish victory over the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in 685 A.D. that is tied to the creation of what would become Scotland.
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Excavation leader Gordon Noble works at the site.Image credit: University of Aberdeen
Looks like they were stoned while working with stone.
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“It’s unclear what all of the symbols mean,”
Let the power of suggestion decide! /s
Clearly they are design drawings of bath towel hangers or front door knockers.
Robert E. Howard, the guy who created Conan the Barbarian in 1930s pulp fiction, created some much more notable (but less marketable, I guess) characters, one of which was Bran Mak Morn, a king among 'the people of the heather'.
The Picts never halted the Romans. There wasn’t enough of value to make the total conquest worth the money.
The Wall was built by Hadrian (who gave up Roman territory elsewhere, so he could concentrate on what we now call homosexual pedophilia) and the Antonine Wall further north was abandoned.
Geography favored Hadrian’s Wall, and it served as a boundary between the Empire and the lands beyond, such that taxes could be collected for imports and exports.
I can translate one of the symbols to read, "Let's go Brandon".
Beat me to it.
ISWYDT...................
The Romans were stretched about as far as their empire had ranged during their four centuries of occupation, so yeah, not worth the trouble. As I read somewhere, the whole invasion was largely due to Claudius, emperor at that time, wanting to take Romans’ minds off of domestic issues. Some things just don’t change. And 400 years of Latin-speakers inhabiting the British Isles is why we have so much latin embedded in English, which is Germanic in origin. History is a fascinating thing; I wish I had more time to study it.
Claudius didn't have the physique to lead troops in battle, but he wanted to have at least one conquest in his legacy. In recent years the amount of political alliance, trade, and Roman patronage in Britain has been talked about, also the possibility that Gen. Agricola made a recon in force in Ireland. There's some evidence (not enough) that the Romans had a trading post and port just north of what is now Dublin -- not a conquest, just a presence. Claudius' successor Nero added to Roman holdings in Britain, and future emperor Vespasian rocketed across the entire south, in one season, reducing all the hillforts.
Classic!
The Pictish symbols look similar to some crop circles.
The Picts seem to still be all around the British Isles, where today they paint their symbols in the fields of the farms and everyone calls them “crop circles”. LOL
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