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The Picts were an Iron Age society that existed in Scotland from ca AD 300–
843 when the Dalriadic Scot, Kenneth, son of Alpin, took the Pictish Kingship.
The Picts are recorded in the writings of their contemporaries—the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons and the Irish but, other than a copy of their King list, they left no written record of themselves (Wainwright et al. 1955; Anderson 1973). The Picts did, however, leave a range of finely carved stones inscribed with glyphs of unknown meaning, known as ‘Pictish Symbol Stones’.
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