Tour Scotland Photograph Video Pictish Warrior Stone Abbot House Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Pictish Warrior stone in Abbot House on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. This stone of Pictish horsemen was discovered in nearby Inverkeithing. The Picts were a tribal confederation of peoples who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval periods. They are thought to have been ethnolinguistically Celtic. Where they lived and what their culture was like can be inferred from the geographical distribution of brochs, Brittonic place name elements, and Pictish stones. Picts are attested to in written records from before the Roman conquest of Britain to the 10th century, when they are thought to have merged with the Gaels. They lived to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde, and spoke the now-extinct Pictish language, which is thought to have been closely related to the Brittonic language spoken by the Britons who lived to the south of them.

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