The Friends Of Perth & Kinross Archive: Pictish And Medieval Sculpture In Highland Perthshire

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 02:00 pm UTC+00:00

AK Bell Library, York Place,, PH2 8EP Perth, United Kingdom | Perth

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The Friends Of Perth & Kinross Archive: Pictish And Medieval Sculpture In Highland Perthshire
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Although Perthshire was part of Pictland, the corpus of Early Medieval sculpture in north-west or “Highland” Perthshire comprises very few Pictish stones. The prominence of simple crosses – linear, sunken and outline – which have their origins in the Scots’ kingdom of Dál Riata, suggests not only the spread of Christianity from the west but perhaps even gradual Scottish settlement.
In this talk, John Borland will give an overview of the early medieval sculptures of Highland Perthshire, following their distribution from west to east along the glens and straths, highlighting what is rare and unusual. He will examine the distribution of the sculpture to see what that tells us about its cultural origins and thus assess just how “Pictish” this part of Perthshire was.
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AK Bell Library, York Place,, PH2 8EP Perth, United Kingdom, 13 York Place, Perth, PH2 8EP, United Kingdom,Perth, Perth and Kinross

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