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The Picts: Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum
Jill Harden
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Description for The Picts: Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum
Paperback. This extensively illustrated book explores all the available information on the Picts in an appealing, accessible and authoritative way. Editor(s): Burnet, Andrew. Series: Discover Scottish History. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 3F; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 190 x 5. Weight in Grams: 310.
The Picts were a sophisticated and powerful people who dominated much of what is now Scotland for hundreds of years, before uniting with the Gaels to form the nation of Alba (later Scotland). Their language has all but disappeared, but their cultural heritage survives, above all in the form of hundreds of incised and carved stones, many marked with their distinctive symbols. Pictish symbols have provoked much curiosity and prompted many interpretations, some more fanciful than others. They are still the subject of debate among experts. This extensively illustrated book explores all the available information on the Picts ... Read more
The Picts were a sophisticated and powerful people who dominated much of what is now Scotland for hundreds of years, before uniting with the Gaels to form the nation of Alba (later Scotland). Their language has all but disappeared, but their cultural heritage survives, above all in the form of hundreds of incised and carved stones, many marked with their distinctive symbols. Pictish symbols have provoked much curiosity and prompted many interpretations, some more fanciful than others. They are still the subject of debate among experts. This extensively illustrated book explores all the available information on the Picts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Historic Environment Scotland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Discover Scottish History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849170345
SKU
V9781849170345
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