To their astonishment, they found the carved Pictish stone. "I just brushed my hand, and there was a symbol," Zack Hinckley, an archaeologist at the University of Aberdeen who took part in the ...

As part of their work, they dug a small test pit to see whether the remains of any buildings could be present, but they quickly came upon a carved Pictish symbol stone measuring 5.5 feet long.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Scotland have stumbled across the 'find of a lifetime' - a rare symbol stone carved by the Picts, the lost 'painted people' of Scotland, that dates back to around the fifth or ...

EXPERTS have uncovered a rare stone in Scotland with baffling symbols carved into it. Indigenous people who lived there around 1,500 years ago are thought to have left the markings. Three oval… ...

The 5.6ft-long stone was found in a farmer’s field by a team from the University of Aberdeen while they were were carrying out surveys to try to build a greater understanding of the important ...

The 600-year-old petroglyphs, depicting humans and abstract forms, are usually obscured by sand and have not been seen in ...

Pictish symbols, including triple ovals, a comb and mirror, a crescent and V rod, and double discs, are intricately carved across the stone, which appeared to have been built into the paving of a ...

Archaeologists struck lucky after they unearthed a rare Pictish symbol stone near to the location of the most significant carved stone monuments ever discovered in Scotland. The 1.7 metre-long ...

More than 500 Neolithic carved stone balls have been found, mostly in northeast Scotland but also in the Orkney Islands, England, and Ireland, and one in Norway.