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Pictish monuments Some of this sculpture belongs with mainstream Pictish art, for example, the carved sarcophagus in the Cathedral Museum at St. Andrews, and the massive recumbent grave covers in the Pictish sculpture museum at Meigle, Perthshire. Other sculpture reflects the presence of the Scots of Dalriada in eastern Pictland after the takeover by Kenneth mac Alpin in the mid-ninth century, for example, the freestanding cross at Dupplin. On the other hand a large fragment of a cross-slab recently discovered at Applecross has ornament closely paralleled at St. Vigeans which suggests that sculptors trained in the east were working for patrons in the Dalriadic west. The sculpture without symbols shows late-North • Single monuments • Two or more monuments o Hogbacks and ~ kindred monuments (after lang) umbrian traits such as the spreading of vine-scroll over the crosshead. This hybrid sculpture is less accomplished than the sculpture ofearlier periods, but its value as evidence for strains of influence in the religious life of Scotland in the ninth and tenth centuries is considerable. Two slightly later schools ofsculpture are characterised by a collection of sculpture in the parish church of Govan Strathclyde, and the hogback (and kindred) monuments. ~~; ~~ ~t? o kms o 25, 50 75 100 I i i i o 10 20 30 40 50 60 miles IBH Pictish and Picto-Scottish monuments without symbols

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