Angus. King of the Picts, gave the prelate a duney tract known as the Boar Chase, and the pious Bishop promptly changed its name to St. Andrews.

The Picts took part in one of the most decisive battles in Scottish history - the Battle of Dun Nechtain (Dunnichen). If the Picts had lost, Scotland might never have existed.

The 'everyday world' of the Picts is being illuminated by a 'golden spell' in archaeological discovery, with Dunnicaer sea stack near Dunnottar Castle (left) holding vital new evidence about the ...

Stand in Aberlemno and you find yourself at the heart of a landscape of deep importance to the Picts - and a place where villagers care very much about their history indeed.

The result of this battle was one of the most decisive in Scottish history. If the Picts had lost, Scotland might never have existed. For the Angles of Northumbria it was simply a disaster ending ...

The origins of the Picts were local to the British Isles and not from large scale migration from exotic locations in the east, new research suggests. The study is helping to shed new light on the ...

The Picts victorious at the Battle of Dunnichen – 685 AD The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page.

Dr Alex Woolf, senior history lecturer at the University of St Andrews, said Pictish writings were destroyed after they were decimated by the Vikings. He said: “Some Picts were literate.

Stand in Aberlemno and you find yourself at the heart of a landscape of deep importance to the Picts - and a place where villagers care very much about their history indeed.

The Picts took part in one of the most decisive battles in Scottish history - the Battle of Dun Nechtain (Dunnichen). If the Picts had lost, Scotland might never have existed.