The excavation team on the Brough of Deerness. (Frank Bradford/www.frankbradfordpix.com)
The excavation team on the Brough of Deerness. (Frank Bradford/www.frankbradfordpix.com)
This could only mean one thing: viking housewives were tidy and didn’t keep any dead Picts lying around.
This thread is useless without Picts
(sorry)
Keep digging!
Cool! Rugged folk.
The Pictish symbol stone was lying prone, under the floor of the property, and appears to have been damaged during the construction of the house, possibly in the 19th century.
Approximately 4ft 6in long, the stone is thought to have been made in the 8th century AD, when Christianity was being brought to Orkney. The carving shows both a Christian cross and a Pictish “sea creature” symbol.
What no Picts?
I believe that most of those who lived in Scotland were ethnic Picts with the Scottish representing the Celtic leaders who established themselves in the eyes of foreigners as leaders of a nation but never the real rulers of much of the highlands of what is now Scotland.
And yes a Picture is worth a thousand words.
Quite an attractive property. Nice view, but it doesn’t look like the basement would flood very often.
I’m appalled at your attempts at humor on such a important subject.
Archeology in the Orkneys requires serious Pict and shovel work.
O woad! Woad is me!
“One question that has yet to be answered though, is what happened in the transition between the Pict and the viking villages, and, as yet, no evidence has been found of an integration between the two.”
I’ll take slaughter for 500, Alex.
