Article: The Art of the Picts: Sculpture and Metalwork in Early Medieval Scotland.(Book Review)

The Art of the Picts: Sculpture and Metalwork in Early Medieval Scotland

George and Isabel Henderson Thames and Hudson, 40 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 500 23807 3

The Picts, to most people outside Scotland, are a totally mysterious and marginal dement in the ancient population of northern Britain. Their art is as obscure as their history, and their language and literature a mere blip on the consciousness of even the most educated. Yet to any archaeological tourist of Scotland their presence is attested by settlement sites, sculptured stones and pieces of rich metalwork in the National Museums of Scotland. Specialist literature concerning them abounds, ...

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