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David MacRitchie, a Scottish folklorist (1851-1925), argued that fairies were based on a real diminutive or pygmy-statured population that lived in Scotland during the late Stone Age: "Postulations based on the premise that fairies constitute a folk…

The Picts spoke a Brittonic language, similar to Welsh or Cornish. In the first millennium BC, the common root of the native languages spoken across the British Isles was Celtic. But these languages evolved with time. In Ireland and the far west of…

Archaeological excavations have shown that Pictish settlements contained sheep, cattle and pigs. They also grew crops such as barley and oats. Depictions in the stone carvings show scenes of hunting wild animals and fishing.

The original location of the Rosemarkie Stone was most likely within a Pictish settlement or monastery, it later was used as a floor slab in Rosemarkie Church and also stood in the Churchyard, before being moved and preserved within Groam House…

The Picts would have travelled by land and sea. As well as being skilled stone masons the Pictish people would have had to work together building housing, growing crops, tending livestock, hunting, weaving, making tools and clothing, carving boats…

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