The Picts
The Ancients
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The Archaeology of the Pictish Kingless
In terms of our histories we really only have one series of documents and that's the Pictish kingless in terms of native or indigenous documents. But other than that it's external sources like Beed, Athavans, Life of Columba and also the Irish annals which have tweets of the day. So it's very slim sources indeed in terms ofOur histories. And then in combination with that it's been the slimness of the archaeological record. There's still very few settlement sites for example and relatively few well excavated or preserved burial sites as well. We're going to get to the archaeology very soon but let's start with the types of sources that we have for these
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