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Showing posts with label Picts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picts. Show all posts
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Picking Apart the Picts: The Value of Aberdeen's Newest Discovery

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Ancient Origins One of the greatest mysteries of Scotland lies in the northeastern portion of the country. Though named for the Scots ...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Millennium Old Structure Unearthed at Medieval Pictish Fort in Scotland

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Ancient Origins Archaeologists have recently uncovered the traces of a millennium old building at the location of the Pictish fort of B...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Does the Fierce Reputation of The Picts Reflect Reality?

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Ancient Origins It’s not that the Picts, a group of British Isle inhabitants, were that different from native Britons around the fourt...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

Face of a Pictish Male Who was Violently Murdered 1,400-Years-Ago is Reconstructed in Incredible Detail

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Ancient Origins A team of Archaeologists excavating a cave in the Highlands of Scotland, were amazed to discover a superbly preserved s...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Burnt Hill Fort in Dark Ages Scotland Was Likely the Stronghold of the Mysterious Rheged Kingdom

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Ancient Origins For years, scholars thought a Scottish Dark Ages hill fort that met a violent, fiery end was a stronghold of the Pictis...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Striking Pictish Dragon Carving Discovered During Storms in Orkney

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Ancient Origins An 8th century carving of a Pictish dragon (also called a Pictish beast) has been discovered on an eroding cliff face ...
Friday, May 20, 2016

History Trivia - Battle of Dunnichen

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May 20 685 The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere was fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbria...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

History Trivia - Battle of Dunnichen - Picts victorious

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May 20,  325 Roman emperor Constantine called the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical Christian council. 685 The Battle of Dunni...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Discovery of Pictish Fort Reveals Iron Age Look-Out post for Sea Raiders

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Ancient Origins In the fifth or sixth century AD, Picts on the eastern Scotland coast set up a fort on a stone outcrop just offshore, ...