Pictish Stone Interior Parish Church On Visit To Forteviot Strathearn Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of a carved Pictish stone in the interior of the parish church in Forteviot on ancestry visit to Strathearn, Perthshire. Forteviot, Scottish Gaelic: Fothair Tabhaicht, is a village on the south bank of the River Earn between Dunning and Perth. The parish church is first recorded about the year 1172; the present building dates from about 1778. The present village was rebuilt in the 1920s by John Alexander Dewar, 1st Baron Forteviot of the Dewar's whisky family. Forteviot Church contains eight exceptional fragments of at least three Pictish crosses that originally stood outside in the local landscape linking with the famous Dupplin cross. The Picts, Scottish Gaelic: Cruithneach, were a group 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. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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