guy Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 (edited) (Scene from the movie “The Eagle”) New research is shedding light on these little-known people from Scotland: A standing stone known as the Craw Stane marks the royal settlement at Rhynie. Tap o’ Noth is visible in the background. I know very little about the Picts, but I hope there will be further scholarship. Quote ”The Picts emerged some 1,700 years ago in what is now northeastern Scotland—known in some sources as Pictavia, or Pictland—and left virtually no written records of their own and very few traces on the landscape they once inhabited. The handful of Pictish dwellings that have been discovered suggest they were a thinly spread population of farmers living in simple turf-walled houses, not the ferocious barbarians the Romans portrayed. Believed to have descended from Iron Age Celtic tribes, the Picts were culturally and linguistically distinct from their neighbors, the Gaels, who inhabited what is now western Scotland, and the Britons, in what is now southern Scotland. The formation of their identity as a distinct group was likely accelerated by the presence of the Romans.“ https://www.archaeology.org/issues/441-2109/letter-from/9932-scotland-picts Excellent video review of the Picts: Edited August 21, 2021 by guy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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