About nmrs database news showcase shop education links contact The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) records and interprets the sites, monuments and buildings of Scotland's past, promotes a greater appreciation of their value through the maintenance of the National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS) and presents them by means of publications and ...

The web's first site dedicated to the ancient people of Scotland known as ...

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The Picts Information on the Picts, the barbarians who so often ravaged the Britons from the north, is somewhat scarce. The only text left to us by the Picts is their king-list, which gives the names and the lengths of the reigns of 60 or more Pictish kings. The list ends with Causantin mac Cinaeda, who died in 876. Thereafter, this record of the Picts was no longer used. The only other written ...

A Consideration of Pictish Names (Being prompted by a request for advice on a 1st century Pictish name) by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn copyright 1996 Heather Rose Jones, all rights reserved I. Introduction - What Do We Mean By Pictish With Respect To Names A. Early Use of Picti The first question that must be considered, in any discussion of Pictish names, is, What do we mean by 'Pict'

THE PICTS ORIGENS The Picts were the first unified people who could be called a Scottish Nation. Their fascination for our own time is only matched (and at least partly caused) by the gaps in our knowledge about them. They left behind a considerable legacy of stone carvings, metalwork, and circular drystone fortifications called brochs (There are some excellent pictures of brochs on the ...

The Shadowy Painted People 1.2 by Kym n Dhoireann The Picts are a people of great speculation and controversy, with amazing outlandish claims made about them by Pagan and non-Pagan alike, Scot and non-Scot. It seems that many people think that there is so little known about the Picts that we can make up anything we want. This is not new for, while Margaret Murray (The God of the Witches), made ...