When the Romans first came to northern Scotland in the first century A.D., they found the Highlands occupied by fierce, tattoo-covered tribes they called the Picts, or painted people. From the ...

The Picts - possibly named after the Latin word for painted, or “picti,” - were fierce people who lived in ancient and ...

HES says the idea they painted their carved stones is speculative. Many academics agree the Picts were descended from indigenous Iron Age people of northern Scotland, and the term "Picti" was ...