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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 Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the ... The symbols and patterns consist of animals including the Pictish Beast, the "rectangle ...
Pictish stones dating from the 6th to 9th centuries featuring what has been dubbed the Pictish Beast may be the earliest representations of a kelpie or kelpie-like creature. [54] Victorian artist Thomas Millie Dow sketched the kelpie in 1895 as a melancholy dark-haired maiden balanced on a rock, [55] a common depiction for artists of the period ...
A salmon and Pictish Beast are carved on the south-facing side. Dingwall Stone in Dingwall — Class I stone; Dunnichen Stone, a class I stone found at Dunnichen, Angus, now on display at the Meffan Institute in Forfar. A replica stands at its former position in front of Dunnichen church. Eagle Stone (Clach an Tiompain), Strathpeffer Class I stone.
The top panel shows a Pictish double-disc with (mostly) triple-spiral decoration. The second panel shows a large Pictish Beast with three small animals: two horned sheep and another quadruped with a long tail. The third panel is usually referred to as a hunting scene.
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Among the depictions are two Pictish symbols: an eagle above a Pictish Beast, a sheep, the oldest evidence of a European triangular harp, and hunting scenes. Scholars interpret the scene as representing a story of the biblical King David .
The sea-horse also appears in Pictish stone carvings in Scotland. The symbolism of the carving (also known as "Pictish Beast" or "Kelpie") is unknown. Although similar but not identical to Roman sea-horse images, it is unclear whether this depiction originates from images brought over by the Romans, or had a place in earlier Pictish mythology. [15]