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

Practical

Enjoy code: 961933
Type
Lecture
Target groups
Youth, Elderly, Adult
Source
TheList
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Available tickets

Thursday
21/11 2024 2:00pm
AK Bell Library 2--4 York Place PERTH
Provided by The List

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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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