Tour Scotland very short 4K Summer travel video clip of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and sporran and walking by a Pictish Standing Stone on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the East coast of the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Rosss, Britain, United Kingdom. It was erected about AD 800. It seems likely that, at the time, the entire peninsula from the mouth of the Cromarty Firth to Tarbatness was the estate of the monastery at Portmahomack and that the stone was carved at its instigation. It is said to be one of the most magnificent of all Pictish cross slabs. On the seaward-facing side is a Christian cross, and on the landward-facing side are secular depictions. The latter are carved below the Pictish symbols of crescent and v-rod and double disc and Z-rod: a hunting scene including a woman wearing a large penannular brooch riding side saddle. Like other similar stones, it can be dated to about 800 AD. 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. Summer in Scotland officially runs from June through August
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