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The Picts, the most powerful nation in northern Britain for some 500 years, mysteriously disappeared from contemporary records in the ninth century. All that remains of the language they spoke are a few fragments in the names of places or people. Their most enduring memorial is a unique system of symbols carved on stone monuments, engraved on objects of silver and bronze and scratched on the walls of caves - symbols whose interpretation has been as elusive as that of the Egyptian hieroglyphs before the discovery of the Rosetta stone. In this important book, Dr Cummins seeks to unravel the code behind these mystifying symbols by following up a variety of histroical and archaeological clues. In doing so he opens up a deeper understanding of who the Picts were and the world in which they lived. This book is a must-have for anyone interested in the Picts and fascinated by the perennial mysteries of the Dark Ages.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Huh?
29 Aug 2010
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I know Mr Cummins is a respected scholar in all things Pictish, but his circular logic on many things and jumping to conclusions left me infuriated. I don't believe he proved his theories to be any more credible than the ones he discredited. Too many gaps, too many unproven associations.
Although his theories are interesting I note he is listed on the back cover as a "former senior lecturer in geology at the University of Nottingham", not an archeologist or anthropologist, or even a professor of linguistics.
I believe there is still much to do in the way of research in this area and resist jumping to any conclusions in the matter until more has been done.
The connexion between various names and the symbols he is associating them with seem too pat, and without any tangible evidence, with no basis in culture or mythology or anything but convenience and numeric distribution of the occasions of usage of both. The only one which rang true was the possible use of mirror and comb to represent someone deceased, and then only because the cultural mythos of the connexion between the spirit and the mirror was brought into the discussion.
Although his theories are interesting I note he is listed on the back cover as a "former senior lecturer in geology at the University of Nottingham", not an archeologist or anthropologist, or even a professor of linguistics.
I believe there is still much to do in the way of research in this area and resist jumping to any conclusions in the matter until more has been done.
The connexion between various names and the symbols he is associating them with seem too pat, and without any tangible evidence, with no basis in culture or mythology or anything but convenience and numeric distribution of the occasions of usage of both. The only one which rang true was the possible use of mirror and comb to represent someone deceased, and then only because the cultural mythos of the connexion between the spirit and the mirror was brought into the discussion.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A Great Book. However. . .
14 Jan 2010
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"Decoding the Pictish Symbols" is a reprint of "The Picts and Their Symbols," a fact not noted in the product description (unless Amazon adds that tidbit in the future).
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