Remarkable Ancient Carved Stone Gives Clues To Dark Age Scots
The Picts—a name thought to refer to “painted ones” in Latin since they had a habit of painting their bodies with dye—were a large community in Dark Age Scotland, which seems to have disappeared from history around the end of the first millennium. Until then, they were able to resist the conquests of both Romans and the Angles and took part in the Battle of Dun Nechtain in the year 685, which is considered by some historians to have led to the foundation of Scotland....