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CONTENTS 6 Foreword 8 List of Contributors 12 List of Figures 14 List of Tables 18 Fig. 1.1: A cultural geography of northern Britain in the seventh century. 20 Fig. 1.2: Places mentioned in the text. 21 Introduction 22 F.T. Wainwright and the Problem of the Picts 24 PART ONE NAMES AND TEXTS 34 From Ancient Scythia to the Problem of the Picts: Thoughts on the Quest for Pictish Origins 36 Ideology, Literacy and Matriliny: Approaches to Medieval Texts on the Pictish Past 66 Pictish Place-names Revisited 88 PART TWO STORIES IN STONE 140 The Problems of Pictish Art, 1955-2009 142 Tales from Beyond the Pict: Sculpture and its Uses in and around Forteviot, Perthshire from the Ninth Century Onwards 156 Saints, Scrolls and Serpents: Theorising a Pictish Liturgy on the Tarbat Peninsula 190 The Forms of Two Crosses on Pictish Cross-slabs: Rossie Priory, Perthshire and Glamis no. 2 222 The Interpretation of Non-ferrous Metalworking in Early Historic Scotland 242 PART THREE LANDSCAPES FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD 264 Pictish Archaeology: Persistent Problems and Structural Solutions 266 Together as One: The Landscape of the Symbol Stones at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire 302 The Early Medieval Landscape

Author

Driscoll, Stephen T., Geddes, J., Hall, Mark A.

Published

2010

Language

EN