Early Scotland

Published in 2007, this is the printed version of Dr Fraser Hunter’s lecture at Groam House, a museum of Pictish sculpture in Rosemarkie, Scotland.

Two of the monuments in the fine collection of Pictish sculpture at St Andrews Cathedral Museum in Fife, Scotland.

Victorian illustration of a Pictish warrior, from Cassell’s Illustrated History of England.

The Neighbours of the Picts by Professor Leslie Alcock, published in 1993 by Groam House Museum Trust.

Dun Carloway broch on the Scottish island of Lewis is a huge stone tower built in the Iron Age. Photograph by James Valentine, 1871.

St Columba embarking from Ireland to Scotland in 563 AD. Illustration from The Church of England by H.D.M. Spence (1898).

Pictish symbols, a hunting scene and other figures carved on a Dark Age stone at Aberlemno in Angus. Illustration from John Stuart’s Sculptured Stones of Scotland (1856).

View of the River Add from the summit of Dunadd hillfort in Argyll. The fort was a stronghold of early Scottish kings in the Dark Ages.

Pictish symbols (a salmon and the mysterious 'Pictish beast') on the Craw Stane at Rhynie in Aberdeenshire. Illustration from The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland (1903).

David I, king of Scotland, on a Mitchell's cigarette card from c.1930.