Pictish Symbol Stones With Music On History Visit To Aberdeenshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Pictish Symbol Stones on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Aberdeenshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Aberdeenshire formed one of the heartlands of the northern Picts between the fourth and ninth centuries AD. The Picts are known chiefly for their elaborately but regularly decorated memorial stones found in profusion throughout eastern Scotland from Shetland to the Firth of Forth. Militaristic and aristocratic, their society had several grades, including cavalry and footmen, a peasantry, part of whom was bonded to the land, all ruled by tribal chiefs and kings. The origins of this society lie in the Celtic Iron Age of the area. The symbol stones are decorated in a structured way with a series of animal and object symbols current in late Roman Iron Age times, third and fourth centuries AD, mirrors, combs, cauldrons, geese, hounds. They were erected from perhaps as early as the fifth century AD but were chiefly in use in the sixth and seventh centuries. A Pictish stone is a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs. A few have ogham inscriptions. Located in Scotland, mostly north of the Clyde to Forth line and on the Eastern side of the country, these stones are the most visible remaining evidence of the Picts and are thought to date from the 6th to 9th century, a period during which the Picts became Christianized. The earlier stones have no parallels from the rest of the British Isles. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. @tourscotland All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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