Ancient scottish art

Panel on front of Celtic Pictish mediaeval Christian cross slab, Aberlemno churchyard, Tayside. Scotland. Seahorse motif

The Picts were an ancient race of people that inhabited the northern territories of what is known today as Scotland. Recorded as uncultured savages in defamatory Roman accounts, new findings suggest the Picts had developed written language as far back as 1,700 years ago.

Statistical analysis has shown that signs carved by an ancient Scottish people were a long-forgotten language – it may help decode animal language too

PICTISH SYMBOLS, PLACENAMES & PERSONAL Names The name Pict first appears in writings by Eumenius in AD297. Picti was used by Romans to describe the 'painted' people living north of the Antonine...

The POOKA is a solitary Irish fairy presented variously in a large body of lore collected in the 19th century. In the works of T. Crofton Croker (1825–7), the pooka is malevolent and demonic, spoiling blackberries, and taking the form of a horse and offering unsuspecting mortals a dangerous ride. In Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends (1887), the pooka is benevolent and helpful, like the Scottish brownie. Known also as the phouka or púca, a common speculation links the pooka to the English folk…

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The Celtic Picts of Scotland were the original inhabitants of the area, as modern genetic research has confirmed.

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A colourful miniature attributed to the French artist Jacques Le Moyne depicting an early inhabitant of the British Isles, a member of the Picts, in a head-to-toe floral tattoo.

Pict with Drinking Horn This 9th century warrior of the Pictish tribe drinks from an eagle, the ancient symbol of power. From Invergowrie, Scotland and now in the Museum of Scotland, it is an unusually droll carving, certainly a caricature, perhaps in the category of the Scandinavian insult stones, which were carved as an artistic and bloodless "thumbing of the nose" to a perceived insult. It is the earliest artistic rendering of drinking on Scottish stones.