8th century warriors from Aberlemno in Angus

 Read about the carvings here

Tim Clarkson The Picts a history

 Just ordered this from the library. Hope it's good.

Newline designs 28mm Picts

 Here. They are reviewed on this blog.

The Picts: Scourge of Rome

 This looks good. Anybody read it?

The Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North: Noble, Gordon, Evans, Nicholas: 

Review

Picts is an extraordinary work that covers seven centuries of Pictish history and archaeology, but is also engagingly written with the general reader in mind'-- "Current Archaology"

"Noble and Evans have written a book to read and cherish."-- "The Scotsman"

this intriguing study by two Aberdonian academics will help to dispel the myth that Pictland was merely rough and unsophisticated'-- "Country Life"

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated volume'-- "West Highland Free Press"

Both archaeologically and historically rich and provides an entirely new synthesis and viewpoint on a critical era of Scotland's history'-- "Deeside Piper and Herald"

This is an irresistible glimpse into their [the Picts'] shadowy world'-- "Little Brown Book Group"

An impressive book that brings together between its covers pretty much all that is currently known about its elusive and enigmatic subject'-- "Undiscovered Scotland"

About the Author

Gordon Noble is Professor in Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen and has undertaken award-winning landscape research and field projects, working on projects from the Mesolithic to Medieval periods. He is author of Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth and Fire (Edinburgh University Press 2006), Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe: The Forest As Ancestor (Cambridge University Press 2017) and co-author of King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce (Birlinn 2019). He works on two current major projects: Northern Picts and Comparative Kingship, the research for which won the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year 2021, a highly prestigious accolade. His research has featured on BBC 2 Digging for Britain, BBC Radio 4 In Our Time and many other media outlets.

Nicholas Evans is a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust funded Comparative Kingship: the Early Medieval Kingdoms of Northern Britain and Ireland project at the University of Aberdeen. He is a historian whose research and teaching have focussed on the medieval Celtic-speaking societies of Britain and Ireland. He is the author of The Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles (Boydell Press, 2010), A Historical Introduction to the Northern Picts (Aberdeen University/Tarbat Discovery Centre, 2014) and co-author of King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce 

A Pictish hood

 Read about it here

Pictish Currach

 These boats are interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currach

Gripping Beast plastic Picts

 Anybody got these?

Strongholds of the Picts The fortifications of Dark Age Scotland

This I shall have to get. Buy here. 

Angus Konstam (Author), Peter Dennis (Illustrator)

When the Romans withdrew from Britain, the north of the country was ruled by the most mysterious of the ancient British races, the Picts. Much of what is known about these “painted” warriors, comes from the remains of the fortifications that they left scattered around Scotland. Although the Picts are famous as sea raiders, they were also subjected to attacks from a number of opponents. To their south, the Romano-British reoccupied the abandoned Roman fortifications and hired Saxon mercenaries to strike against the Picts. Meanwhile, from the west a new group, the Scoti, attacked from Ireland. This book covers the fortification of the ancient Picts in all their conflicts and discusses the importance of these sites as religious centres and seats of power, while using the latest archeological evidence to help unravel the mystery of this ancient race.

Pictish stones were they coloured?

 News article on the BBC. 

"Mounted Pictish Warrior V-VI Century AD" Artist P. Goldek (2014)

 

Warriors depicted on a Pictish symbol stone found at the Brough of Birsay

 I am gradually learning about the Picts

Pictish Warrior AD 297-841 Paul Wagner (Author), Angus Konstam (Author), Wayne Reynolds (Illustrator)

 This book looks good. Blurb reads

First mentioned by name in AD 297, the Picts inhabited Northern Britain from the end of the 3rd century AD to the 9th. They rose to power in the devastation following Emperor Septimus Severus's repression of the Caledonians in AD 208, and dominated Northern Britain for over 500 years, before vanishing mysteriously. The Picts represent a high point of Celtic civilisation, remaining free and unconquered beyond the borders of the Roman world, and rising to become the first barbarians to form a recognisable 'nation'. This title takes a detailed look at their origins, and examines Pictish heroic and warrior society, covering education and training, appearance and equipment, the status of women, and the experience of battle.

Battle of Dun Nechtain 685

 Wikipedia on this battle between Northumbrians and Picts

Pictish symbol stone depicting what was once generally accepted to be the battle