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 ...

What the Picts thought is unrecorded ... This embryonic kingdom would become the country we now know as Scotland.

Just over a metre of the original two metre-tall (6ft) stone survives. Rare 1,200-year-old Pictish stone discovered The beasts were carved down the side of a cross. John Borland, of Historic ...

A "remarkable" Pictish ring thought to be at least 1,000 years old has been discovered by a volunteer on a dig in Moray. The find was made by John Ralph at the site of a fort in Burghead.

A unique ‘Celtic’ bangle, a Pictish spearbutt and a rare shipwreck ... of years of life across the length and breadth of the country. A prehistoric site on a stretch of eroding coastline ...

The Gaelic influence has given us 'Inver' (meeting of the waters) and 'Dun' (fortress) as prefixes, while 'Aber' (river mouth) is Pictish and ... in the south of the country, we move to the ...

Excavation work near Doune on a Pictish stone of potential “international significance” is to feature in a BBC TV show early in the new year. The Old Kilmadock and its Pictish stone will soon ...