February
11
/ 2020
A new paper published by Cambridge University Press, presents evidence of a “heroic warrior ethos” that had spread across Northern Europe during the first millennium AD. The researchers say that while evidence from burials of later prehistoric to early medieval dates are exceptionally limited, a recently discovered carved monolith depicting a warrior with weapons reveals a “martial ideology and warrior ethos” in late Roman and post-Roman Europe. Powerful Pictish stones are slowly revealing their secrets. Very few Iron Age and early medieval burials have been found complete with weaponry in northern Britain, but the researchers say the newly discovered Tulloch Stone expresses “materialisations of a martial ideology.” Found in September 2017 by workmen upgrading the A85/A9 junction outside Perth in
