Spring Drive From Anstruther To Sundial Dunino Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, North on the B9131 road from Anstruther, to visit the sundial in the graveyard by the parish church in Dunino, Fife. An old Sculptured stone probably of pictish origins which was reused as sundial from 1698. Locals leave coins on the sundial for luck. The Picts were a confederation of Celtic-speaking peoples who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late British Iron Age and Early Medieval periods. Picts are assumed to have been the descendants of the Caledonii and other Iron Age tribes that were mentioned by Roman historians or on the world map of Ptolemy. Pictland, also called Pictavia by some sources, achieved a large degree of political unity in the late 7th and early 8th centuries through the expanding kingdom of Fortriu, the Iron Age Verturiones. By 900, the resulting Pictish over-kingdom had merged with the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata to form the Kingdom of Alba (Scotland); and by the 13th century Alba had expanded to include the formerly Brittonic kingdom of Strathclyde, Northumbrian Lothian, Galloway and the Western Isles.

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