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Hunting Picts - Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus (Paperback)
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Hunting Picts - Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus (Paperback)
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The Drosten stone - one of Scotland's premier monuments - came to
light during restoration work at St Vigeans church, near Arbroath,
in the 1870s. A rare example of Pictish writing, the Drosten stone
is just one in an astounding collection of exquisitely preserved
Pictish sculptures discovered in and around the church. The
carvings on these stones revel in Pictish inventiveness, teeming
with lively naturalistic animals and innovative compositions of
monsters and people, as well as both Pictish symbols and everyday
objects. The sculptures' iconography also draws on a deep knowledge
of Christian and classical literature, witness to a highly literate
and cosmopolitan society. This definitive study of St Vigeans'
Pictish stones, generously illustrated with plates of the full
collection, begins in the recent past, when the sculptures began to
emerge as a remarkable historic entity. It then explores the
history of the sculptures, including an analysis of the carvings,
the geology of the stones and attempts to extract meaning and
context for this unique stone collection as part of a powerful
ecclesiastical landscape.
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