Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive, with Scottish music, East on the A917 road to the Pictish Standing Stone of Sauchope in Crail on visit to East Neuk Of Fife. A Pictish Class III sculptured cross slab, dating probably from the 8th or 9th century AD. It stands in Victoria Gardens, having been moved from its original position near Sauchope in 1851, and moved again in 1929 to its current location. It is a roughly oblong block of sandstone which stands 1.4m high and is 0.6m wide. The stone is carved on both faces. On the South face the ornament comprises a hunting scene with two, or possibly three, figures on horseback and least one dog. A haloed cross with two dogs beneath it has been carved on the North face.
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
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