The Picts and Their Symbols by W.A. Cummings
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The Picts and Their Symbols
Summary
Cummings tackles the task of interpreting the symbol stones and explores their use to reconstruct history and society. Using the Irish Ogham stones, Hiberno-Saxon inscriptions and both archaeological and historical clues, he weaves many strands of Pictish and Celtic history into this linguistic detective story.
The Picts and Their Symbols Summary
Table of Contents
Three stones by the roadside; symbols, pictures and stories; the Pictish symbols; symbols of what?; Pictish names; the Ogham code; the Drosten stone and Trusty's hill; symbols on silver; the battle and the king; Pictish family trees; unusual stones - unusual symbols; mirror and comb?: Pictish sex symbols?; who used the symbols?; Pictish graffiti; Constantine: the king without a symbol; shifting centres of power. Appendices: expanded symbol list; bilingual Ogham - Latin inscription in Wales; some unsolved symbols.
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GOR003928851
9780750922074
0750922079
The Picts and Their Symbols by W.A. Cummings
Used - Very Good
Hardback
The History Press Ltd
1999-08-23
224
N/A
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