Winter Bonhard Pictish Standing Stone On Visit To Rural Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Winter 4K travel video, on the Monday before Christmas, of the Bonhard Pictish Standing Stone on a dreich visit to rural Perthshire. Dreich is a Scots word for dull and cloudy. 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. Winter solstice, or hibernal solstice, is an astronomical phenomenon marking the shortest day and the longest night of the year. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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