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Author : Iain Fraser
Publisher : Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015079291350
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Author : Anthony Jackson
Publisher : Australian Geographic
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009017909
Author : Iain Fraser,Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art, Pictish
ISBN : NYPL:33433073713467
Author : Iain Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1849172994
The symbol stones of the Picts remain one of Scotland's greatest archaeological enigmas. First appearing on record in the third century AD, the kingdoms of the Picts stretched from Shetland to the Forth. In the eighth century the Picts were absorbed into the kingdom of Alba, the core of what was to become the medieval kingdom of Scotland.The Picts are best known today for the wealth of highly accomplished stone sculpture that they left behind. Among these are many that bear a distinctive group of symbols, some apparently abstract and decorated with the geometrical motifs of Celtic art, others beautifully naturalistic. There have been many attempts to decipher the significance of the symbols, but their meaning remains obscure.Brought up to date with recent discoveries and a new introduction, The Pictish Symbol Stones of Scotland draws together all the known symbol-bearing stones and artefacts, providing succinct descriptions and suggestions for further reading. Fully illustrated, with modern and antiquarian photographs as well as detailed scale drawings, Pictish Symbol Stones provides the definitive resource for anyone, academic or amateur, with an interest in Pictish sculpture.
Author : Inga Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
ISBN : 1870068033
Author : James Carnegie Earl of Southesk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Art, Pictish
ISBN : UCAL:B4109461
Author : Alastair Mack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
ISBN : 1874012067
Author : M. O. H. Carver
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Picts
ISBN : NYPL:33433050846652
This study of the Picts aims to clarify the debate over their provenance, influence and eventual disappearance as they were subsumed into the greater Scottish ethnic mix with the arrival of the Vikings. It forms part of The Making of Scotland series.
Author : Elizabeth Sutherland
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UOM:39015039881159
This guide to the Picts covers all known Pictish stones. It incorporates the latest discoveries, along with a full listing of symbols and their possible meaning, a complete gazetteer, and location maps with ordnance survey grid references.
Author : Alan Weir
Publisher : Austin Macauley
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1528950569
The 50 or so mysterious Pictish symbols and the stones displaying them have become central to all discussion of the Picts. Generations of scholars have sought to interpret the symbols with little agreement. This book takes an indirect approach to the situation. The present layout of Class I stones hints at an arrangement in chains in which adjacent stones in a chain are linked by a common symbol. This is investigated and the chains identified. Between the River Tay and the Dornoch Firth, virtually all stones belong to a chain and the chains seem to be practically complete. The chains appear to have superseded stones created and positioned independently. The stone pattern is more complicated than isolated chains of stones and special junction stones are used to register the crossing of two or more chains. Auxiliary stones are also identified, which give information about a chain or chains. The identification of the chains and the conventions used in junction and auxiliary stones permit the meaning of more than 20 symbols to be understood as they are used in the chains. These are not suggested to be the original meanings of the symbols but they provide hints to assist in assessing what the original meaning of some symbols might be. This particularly applies to significant symbols called crescent and V rod, Pictish beast, and Z rod. The purpose of the chains can only be hinted at here but Pictish scholarship will soon clarify this.
Author : Stuart McHardy
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912387816
Stuart McHardy examines the Pictish symbols which have been discovered on various items across Scotland. The book sets out a cohesive interpretation of the Pictish past, using a variety of both temporal and geographical sources. This interpretation serves as a backdrop for his analysis of the symbols themselves, providing a context for his suggestion that there was an underlying series of ideas and beliefs behind the creation of the symbols.
Author : Norman J. Penny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786290235
Author : Tim Clarkson
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907909030
The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they lost their unique identity, their language and their vibrant artistic culture. Amongst their few surviving traces are standing stones decorated with incredible skill and covered with enigmatic symbols - vivid memorials of a powerful and gifted people who bequeathed no chronicles to tell their story, no sagas to describe the deed of their kings and heroes. In this book Tim Clarkson pieces together the evidence to tell the story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance.
Author : Iain W. G. Forbes
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781445612157
A fascinating new study into the Picts, one of Europe’s most enigmatic peoples.
Author : Gordon Noble,Nicholas Evans
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788851930
Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores of the Moray Firth. The implications for our understanding of this period and for the formation of Scotland are unprecedented and still being worked through. This is the first account of this northern heartland of Pictavia for a more general audience to take in the full implications of this and of the substantial recent archaeological work that has been undertaken in recent years. Part of the The Northern Picts project at Aberdeen University, this book represents an exciting cross disciplinary approach to the study of this still too little understood yet formative period in Scotland's history.