Long before the clans, long before the kings of Alba, a people ruled the north who didn’t follow the same rules as anyone else. The Romans called them the Painted Ones. We know them as the Picts. They lived between the 3rd and 9th centuries, scattered across the wild lands of what is now northern Scotland. To outsiders, they were ghosts. They left no written words, only carved stones marked with spirals, beasts, and symbols that still puzzle historians today. Those stones are all that remain of

The mystery of Sueno’s Stone. Sueno’s Stone is a class 3 Pictish stone on the outskirts of Forres, in Moray. While there are theories, no one really knows who or what the symbols on the stone represent… #suenosstone #forres #scotland #pict | Scotland Unplugged

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