Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish bagpipes music, of a Cross Slab Pictish Symbol Stone in the Churchyard on ancestry visit to Aberlemno, Angus, Britain, United kingdom. This majestic early eighth century slab bears a ringed cross which spans the length and breadth of the slab and is outlined by roll mouldings. At the centre of the cross head is a circle, outlined by roll moulding, which contains seven interlinked triple spirals. The side arms contain diagonal key pattern, while the upper and lower arms are filled with interlace forming cruciform designs. The shaft below contains three roundels interlinked by the dense interlace that fills them. The background to the cross is filled with animals seen in profile. Either side of the upper arm of the cross is an animal with its head turned back and away from the cross, that on the left with a serpent’s body grasped in its jaws. To the left of the shaft there are three quadrupeds and a serpent biting one another, ingeniously designed to form four spirals, one above the other. On the right of the shaft is a double spiral knot composed of two creatures with elongated beaks, and below are two elegant seahorses confronted in a figure of eight, protecting a triquetra knot between their lower fins. One of the finest and most historically important Pictish stones in Scotland. Cross slabs are a mix of Christian and earlier pagan symbols, a reminder of a time when the new Christian religion slowly merged with older folk traditions and gave rise to an extraordinary period of artistic carving mixing and melding the two traditions of symbols. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome
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