Staredam Pictish Standing Stones On Visit To Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer 4K travel video of Staredam Pictish standing stones on visit to Perthshire. This pair of stones sit in the middle of a field located on the southern edge of Birnam Wood in Central Perth and Kinross, Staredam lies 1¼ miles North West of Waterloo and 2½ miles South East of Dunkeld. They don’t appear ever to have formed part of a circle. One stone is particularly interesting, as it has an inscribed cross on it, supposedly carved by a passing missionary. When the first settlers arrived in Scotland over 10,000 years ago, they began to erect incredible monuments, some of which can still be seen today. The purpose of these stones is a puzzle that modern day archaeologists can only speculate over; these ancient sites may forever remain shrouded in mystery. Many sites are believed to have been used for religious or ceremonial purposes. 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. Where they lived and what their culture was like can be inferred from early medieval texts and Pictish stones. Their Latin name, Picti, appears in written records from Late Antiquity to the 10th century. They lived to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde. Early medieval sources report the existence of a distinct Pictish language, which today is believed to have been an Insular Celtic language, closely related to the Brittonic spoken by the Britons who lived to the South.

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