September
07
/ 2019
Scientists have begun unravelling the mystery of an ancient Scotsman found in a mysterious “six-headed” burial and now believe his death was connected to a violent period of Highland clan warfare. Between 1994 and 2007, as part of the Tarbat Discovery Programme, archaeologists excavated around the ancient Pictish church of St. Colman at Portmahomack on the tip of Tarbat Ness in northeast Scotland. Not only did they discover an extensive 6th century Pictish monastic settlement but surrounding this “magnificent building” were hundreds of fragments of elaborate Pictish symbol stones; testimony to the highly-sacred nature of this northern spiritual sanctuary. In 1997, 88 additional burials were reported dating to between the 13th to 16th century and a 2008 article in The
