Tour Scotland Video Brough of Birsay Pictish Symbol Stone

Tour Scotland travel video of Brough of Birsay Pictish Symbol Stone from Orkney Islands in the National Museum on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. Carved into the face of the stone are symbols of a mirror and a crescent and V-rod. Beneath these is a fine example of the eagle symbol. Then, at the base of the stone are armed Pictish warriors. Originally over six feet tall, the Birsay stone was found in fragments during the 1935 excavation of a later Christian cemetery on the Brough.

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