The Arrangement of the Class I Pictish Stones North of the River Tay, Paperback / softback Book

The Arrangement of the Class I Pictish Stones North of the River Tay Paperback / softback

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The 50 or so mysterious Pictish symbols and the stones displaying them have become central to all discussion of the Picts.

Generations of scholars have sought to interpret the symbols with little agreement.

This book takes an indirect approach to the situation.

The present layout of Class I stones hints at an arrangement in chains in which adjacent stones in a chain are linked by a common symbol.

This is investigated and the chains identified. Between the River Tay and the Dornoch Firth, virtually all stones belong to a chain and the chains seem to be practically complete.

The chains appear to have superseded stones created and

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