HeyJaredPictish Puzzles and Cryptic Celts
These are my ponderings about all things Pictish, but I also like to wander into related territories, such as the Coligny calendar, Celtic mythology, and other things that take my interest.
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THE INCHBRAYOCK PICTISH STONE (opens the original)
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The Pictish stone found at Inchbrayock in the Mearns is unusual. Over the years it has attracted a lot of interest, but with no realistic explanation of what we are seeing. It certainly is Pictish, well late Pictish that is, it has no symbols, and its cross is of a typical Pictish shape, with internal key pattern and interlace. On the reverse, we have a Pictish horseman with a hound and deer and one of those strange long-necked crocodilian beasties. But the iconography on the lower panels is lar
WHY THE PICTISH SYMBOLS AREN’T NAMES (opens the original)
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Nine years ago in 2017, I wrote an article explaining why the Pictish symbols cannot represent personal names. Since then, the idea that they are personal names has been promoted as ‘what most people believe’, and it has reached the status of a factoid even harder to dislodge. This is greatly influencing the way the symbol stones are being thought about - as some sort of gravestone or territorial marker proclaiming the name of some elite person.So here is an updated version of my original articl
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