A host of historic sties across Scotland will share over 2,000 years of history as HES announced its 20-25 summer events ...

Although it’s well over 70 years since I left my ancestral home of Camelon I have never lost my interest in the fantastic ...

Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?

A magnificent Pictish stone that has stood for around 1,200 years and features some of the most impressive carvings of the ...

The Pictish symbol stones at Aberlemno are “perhaps the most extraordinary and beautiful of all carved stones in the British Isles”, according to Historic Environment Scotland. So the news that ...

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers ...

These days I’m sometimes happily surprised by the correct use of me and I; people overcorrect and say “Sarah gave the wine to ...

Britannica said Saint Patrick is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland and was probably responsible, in part, for the Christianization of the Picts and Anglo-Saxons. He was known as ...

A comparison between the Picts and the Scotti is made by focusing on the designs of their brooches and the use of different languages. The theory that the Scotti originated in Ireland, and took ...

The Kingdom of Scotland was founded in 843 AD when Kenneth MacAlpin unified the Picts and Scots, though its story stretches ...

It was ‘terrarum fine’ - the end of the world - and for around 20,000 soldiers who had marched north, crossing hills, swamps and rivers to ...