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The Picts

The Ancients

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The Pictish Stones in Abadinsha

These picks drinking wine from amfor are at top a massive hill in Abadinsha who'd have thought. It is so fascinating how this recent archaeological evidence it's pushing the Pictish story back into the late antique period in Britain too. Our mind might immediately go to Pictish stones to beautifully carved once again a socio-pidem medieval period. Do you think that actually maybe these stones these artefacts may have their origins further back in theLate antique period too? We think so, we certainly have evidence now that they're certainly a vibrant tradition in the fifth and sixth centuries through objects like Rynie Lortney as well as Danakir stone carvings.

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