Artistic representation of an unknown, possibly mythical creature in Pictish stone monuments
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Maiden Stone, detail of eastern face.Line drawing of Pictish beast.
The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of the Picts of Scotland. The great majority of surviving examples are on Pictish stones.
The Pictish Beast accounts for about 40% of all Pictish animal depictions, and so was likely of great importance.[citation needed] The Pictish Beast is thought[by whom?] to have been an important figure in Pictish mythology, and possibly even a clan or political symbol.[citation needed]
The PictishBeast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of...
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Bride of Lammermoor (1818). Pictish stones dating from the 6th to 9th centuries featuring what has been dubbed the PictishBeast may be the earliest representations...
unshaped and include incised symbols of animals including fish and the Pictishbeast, everyday objects such as mirrors, combs and tuning forks and abstract...
deliberate defacement. Among the depictions are two Pictish symbols: an eagle above a PictishBeast, a sheep, the oldest evidence of a European triangular...
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An islander, Tammas, claimed to have survived a confrontation with the beast and, after much cajoling from Dennison, reluctantly gave his description...
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