Pictish Beast

The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is a conventional 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 Pictish Beast accounts for about 40% of all Pictish animal depictions, and so was likely of great importance.

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