27 10 568 https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/361/Pictish_Beast.svg.png aff7c237abf8e726d9ce7c9890f624c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Pictish Beast Description An account of the resource The most common animal symbol of all is the Pictish Beast. The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal depicted on Pictish symbol stones. It is not easily identifiable with any real animal, but resembles a seahorse, especially when depicted upright. Suggestions have included a dolphin, a kelpie and even the Loch Ness Monster. Recent thinking is that it may be related to the design of dragonesque brooches, S-shaped pieces of jewelry from the mid-1st to 2nd century CE that depict double-headed animals with swirled snouts and distinctive ears. These have been found in southern Scotland and northern England. The strongest evidence for this is the presence on the Mortlach 2 stone of a symbol very similar to such a brooch, next to and in the same alignment as a Pictish Beast. The Pictish Beast accounts for about forty per cent of all Pictish animal depictions, and so was likely of great importance. It is thought that it was either an important figure in Pictish mythology, and/or a political symbol. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/362/key-pattern.png 0428fa56689d6eb7bf72b4cda78ff267 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Key Pattern Description An account of the resource Key Patterns (repeated vertical and horizontal lines). Know here as the Key Pattern, or a meander or meandros (Greek: Μαίανδρος) it is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif. Such a design is also called the Greek fret or Greek key design, although these are modern designations. On the one hand, the name "meander" recalls the twisting and turning path of the Maeander River in Asia Minor, and on the other hand, as Karl Kerenyi pointed out, "the meander is the figure of a labyrinth in linear form". Among some Italians, these patterns are known as Greek Lines. 'J. Romeilly Allen was of the opinion that the essential difference between the classical Key patterns and those used by the Christian Celts of Britain and Ireland, consisted in the introduction of diagonal lines by the latter.' - George Bain, Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/363/TrippleSpiral.png e1adbf229e6f2651c285f0e1197119ef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tripple Spiral Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/364/knotwork_vectorwithtran.png 0d7780b89b27823bfa13e0df0d8cc355 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Knot-work Subject The topic of the resource According to artist George Bain, Religion and Pagan laws had the greatest influence on the art form of Celtic knots, playing an important role in there design. The interlacing of human form and Celtic knots evolved from laws forbidding drawing portraits of human figures as this was tantamount to copying a work of the creator, “God the Almighty,” explains Bain in his book Celtic Art. Similarly, it was forbidden to draw animals or plants. Angels and mythic creatures, on the other hand, were not of the earthly realm. And Saints had departed this realm. Thus, Celtic knot patterns were used to represent most of the human form, while heads, appendages and tails were often depicted using more life-like representations. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/365/Tripple-Spiral.png 3ee7c6aae7d1de3a1e8089096e990331 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tripple Spiral Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/366/cross.jpg 5fc3f144c2a0cb739d4f550d8d2c8f1a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rosemarkie Cross design and pattern detail Subject The topic of the resource Detail from the front of the Rosemarkie Stone. Rosemarkie Stone https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/376/Meshed-4.obj 292e11b831b5a4499b2ae0ed550bbdb6 https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/376/Meshed-4.obj.1.mtl fef66f0812e51f6d2342b5fdc7ddef6e https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/376/Meshed_color.png 10f371b4f89b8143b8ac91d9a8a8a9d0 3D Object camera_offset 200 scale 20 Z_rotation 175 X_offset 80 Y_offset -40 Y_rotation 20 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rosemarkie Stone OBJ 4 https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/378/RosemarkiePast.1.unity3d 7df5778a85f3382418c7b66695d23aaf Unity3D Unity3D web player files. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rosemarkie Stone Past Unity https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/1/379/inverness_Museum.png 70136b2f5dd02b0d0100a60069445841 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Inverness Museum Subject The topic of the resource Eight Class 1 stones are on display, including the Ardross Wolf and a fragment from Little Ferry Links(Sutherland) that matches a piece in Dunrobin Castle Museum. There are also examples of Pictish metalwork showing the symbols. Open all year (free) Museum https://openvirtualworlds.org/broadlands/files/original/380/Tain_Museum.png a0f9479d830f91cdbefbfe301ca6f720 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tain Museum Subject The topic of the resource Outside the museum door, in the churchyard, is the The Ardjachie Stone, it is an uncut but decorated red sandstone boulder discovered by farmers in 1960 on the Ardjachie Farm in the Tarbat peninsula of EasterRoss. On it are depicted several dozen cup or ring marks probably dating to the Bronze Age. It also has an inverted-L design with a wheel image above. It is a Class I Stone. Visible all year -it is just inside the churchyard gate to Castle Brae, outside the museum doorway. In the museum itself are fragments of two Pictish stones found at Edderton Churchyard in 1992, and also a fragment of the Nigg Stone, found in 1999. Museum