And you’ve got some fancy jewellery ... A silver Pictish brooch used to fasten clothing such as cloaks and capes. The Romans called the Scottish tribes the ‘Picti’ which means “the ...

The Picts, called Picti by the Romans from the Latin for “Painted Ones,” were northern tribes who made up the largest kingdom in Dark Age Scotland, per the BBC. Noteworthy warriors ...

The delicate piece of jewelry was well-preserved and ... joined a neighboring kingdom and “evolved into Scotland.” Photos show the Pictish ring before and after being cleaned.

The building of a power centre for Pictish elites has been dated with ... funding was awarded from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The site was earlier excavated in the 1980s with large ...

Archaeologists on the Orkney island of Rousay have uncovered the preserved handprint of a Pictish metalsmith. They found the print on a stone anvil excavated from a substantial Iron Age settlement.

When the Romans first came to northern Scotland in the first century A.D., they found the Highlands occupied by fierce, tattoo-covered tribes they called the Picts, or painted people. From the ...

The Northern Picts project team said the fort was one of the "most impressive" in Scotland and resembled early medieval fortifications known elsewhere in Scotland. Archaeological work at the ...