1 20 14 https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/404/The_Eagle_Stone.jpg b620faaa3f31de6e1c616581f2227ef0 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 Eagle Stone Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource image courtsey RCAHMS Subject The topic of the resource The Clach an Tiompain (in English, the "Sounding Stone") or The Eagle Stone is a small Class I Pictish stone, located on a hill on the northern outskirts of Strathpeffer in Easter Ross, Scotland. The stone was originally located further down the hill, towards Dingwall, but was moved to its current site in 1411. One old traditional story, is that the stone marks the site of a Scottish clan battle that took place in 1411 between the Clan Munro and a branch of the Clan MacDonald, and that the stone commemorates a Munro victory as it is marked with their symbol, an eagle. Groam House Pictish Stone Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/403/Rectangle_with_Tripple_Disc.jpg 37a3caa430bbd619912a47d85aa1be65 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 Motif with Triple Disc Description An account of the resource The triple disc is a Pictish symbol of unknown meaning, that is found on Class I and Class II Pictish stones. The symbol is found in various combinations with other symbols, notably with the crescent and v-rod. The symbol is constructed from a larger central circle flanked with two smaller circles on either side. It is sometimes shown with a "bar" bisecting all three circles. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/402/Serpent_Z_Rod..jpg 3545885881555bddae97632834807af0 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 Serpent & Z-rod Description An account of the resource The serpent or snake, is thought to be a symbol of medicine/healing, although this is unknown. The Z-rod, like the V-rod, may represent a broken arrow or spear, but again this is a Pictish symbol of unknown meaning. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/401/Broken_Sword_or_Tuning_Fork.jpg 49a4c9b3f1786b635d44bc52ce32d8de 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 Broken Sword or Tuning Fork Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/400/Rectangular_Motif_and_Z-rod.jpg 43888fcc5a0dc49d0ba6a2569d39846d 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 Motif and Z-rod Description An account of the resource This symbol is known as the rectangular Motif and Z-Rod, again, this Pictish symbol is of unknown meaning. Also sometimes a square shaped motif with Z-rod symbol is represented. It is thought that the rectangle in the centre of the lower half of these shapes, may represent a doorway. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/399/DDZROD.jpg 762509acbcc3ee3abd58be4434268b17 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 Double Disc Z-Rod Description An account of the resource The double disc is a Pictish symbol of unknown meaning, that is frequently found on Class I and Class II Pictish stones, as well as on Pictish metalwork. The symbol can be found with and without an overlaid Z-rod (also of unknown meaning), and in combinations of both. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/398/mirror_and_comb.jpg 466fafa24b8b70f775ae53558c77b0ed 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 Mirror and Comb Description An account of the resource Another object commonly inscribed on Pictish stones is the mirror, often paired with a comb. The comb and mirror are thought to be symbols of female wealth and prestige, and may denote a woman’s memorial, although they are also heavily associated with mermaids. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/397/kells2.jpg 7fdb34fe8501aacc7cbead506e0087cb 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 Human Figures Subject The topic of the resource Human Figures Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Description An account of the resource The representations of human figures by Celtic Artists were influenced by the Pagan Laws that forbade the copying of the works of the Almighty Creator. In Celtic Zoomorphic ornaments the physical appearance of man was not copied. His legs, arms, body, topknot, hair and beard interlaced with each other. Portraiture of a living person, in his created form was a heinous crime. The portrayal of the Saints of the sacred Gospels in the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne was that of a persons who had long departed from earthly habitation and of the angels who were migrants of the Heavenly Host. - George Bain, Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Book of Kells George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/396/plant_forms.jpg 88cff282a496ee6aaada969748aab4e6 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 Plant Forms Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Description An account of the resource The reference to the plant forms which rarely occur in the Book of Kells and not at all in the Book of Durrow and Lindisfarne, have been used to prove that the two latter books belong to an earlier period. It is the author’s opinion (George Bain), based upon many evidences, that the Book of Lindisfarne is later than the Book of Kells. Foliated ornaments entered Southern Britain with the Roman invasions, and forms of Gothic foliage came with the invaders after the fall of Rome, but they differ from those of the Pictish Stones of East Scotland and those of the Book of Kells. In the portions of that book that have been available to the author for research, namely the “studio” publication in colours, of some of its most important pages, and “Celtic Illuminative Art” in black and white, by Rev. Stanford F.H. Robinson, M.A., the examples, with one exception, emerge from pots or beakers. The extreme minuteness of these examples make it probable that the pots have not been noticed and no known mention of them has hitherto been made. Without any possible doubt, this is a pagan and, later, a Christian symbol and its use was a religious one and not merely decorative. - George Bain, Celtic Art, the Method of Construction. George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/394/knotwork_-GB-from-book.png 8d27ffce27c20554b31cad58814247ee 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 Interlace Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Description An account 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. George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/393/BainSpirals.jpg e3a6d1bc9432eeaab736421a8115c42e 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 Spirals Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Subject The topic of the resource A spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point. Description An account of the resource The noble spirals of Aberlemno, Shandwick, Tarbat, Hilton of Cadboll, Nigg the Tara Brooch, and the Ardagh chalice led the way to the great art of the scribes, who produced the supreme masterpieces of the world’s decoration of books, profusely embellished with spiral art. The few survivors of a great artistic period, the books of Durrow, Kells, Lindisfarne and St. Chad will shed a light for future generations upon the greatness of the art and the other cultures of the Picts and the Briton. - George Bain - Celtic Art, The methods of Construction. George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/392/crescent_with_knotting1.jpg ceb33d931050a068c2cc9a84a28d919a 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 Crescent V-rod with interlace Description An account of the resource Underneath the Crescent with interlace, the symbols may be the back and front of a mirror, alternatively the larger one may be a mirror case. Groam House Rosemarkie Stone https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/391/double_disc_and_z-rod1.jpeg 1db75c8aabdd543a0c1adc1e7b8a8ed5 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 double disc and z-rod Description An account of the resource Beneath the double disc and Z-rod is a double sided comb. Groam House Rosemarkie Stone https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/388/back-cross-together.jpg d2f06d70c585368363f7f3ff5d4ee4e0 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 Cross on the back of Rosemarkie Stone Description An account of the resource Vector Image Groam House Rosemarkie Stone