- It was noted in the highly influential work of 1955, The Problem of the Picts, that the subject area was difficult, with the archaeological and historical records...
- The Picts were an Iron Age society that existed in Scotland from 79 to 843 CE when the Dál Riata king, Kenneth Mac Alpin, took the Pictish Kingship.
- Julius Caesar said that the Picts “dye themselves with woad, which produces a blue color, and makes their appearance in battle more terrible.
- A combination of enigmatic carved stones and a written language (ogham script) that long defied interpretation has ensured the mysterious aura of the Picts.
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- These carved stone slabs are the only record the Picts left of their history; the rest of their story is told by later Roman, Scottish, and English writers.
- Much of what we know about the Picts comes from the Romans, who praised the military prowess of these ancient Celtic people.
- Pict, (possibly from Latin picti, “painted”), one of an ancient people who lived in what is now eastern and northeastern Scotland, from Caithness to Fife.
- Carved around the eighth century by the Scottish Picts. At the top of this face are two Pictish symbols: a "crescent and V-rod" and a "double-disc and Z-rod".