I was going to write a spy novel but ended up in Baltimore, 1805, and somehow that morphed into Scotland or, as it was called by the Romans at that time, Caledonia. It is unknown for certain what the people called themselves, but the term people use today is Picts. I KNOW the rumors about the origin of the name, but evidence is scarce, so I am not going to repeat it.
What intrigued me about the Picts is their art. They had no written language and they lived in the Highlands of Scotland and thereabouts which apparently has soil not conducive to well-preserved archeological finds, but they did leave behind hundreds of stones with very intriguing carvings of animals and items that people still don’t understand. I wrote the following series of posts on some research I did for the project.