Pictish stone

Okay kiddo, have you ever seen big rocks with pictures carved into them? That's kind of what a Pictish stone is!

But let me explain a bit more. Pictish stones are special rocks that were made a really long time ago by a group of people called the Picts. The Picts were people who lived in Scotland a really long time ago, even before the knights and castles that we read about in fairy tales.

The Picts were really clever and they figured out how to carve pictures into stones using special tools. They would use these stones to tell stories, show off how strong and brave they were, or even to give thanks to important people or their gods for things like good crops.

Now, you may be wondering how they made these pictures since they didn't have paper or pencils like we have now. Well, they used special symbols and designs which represented different things. It was kind of like a secret code. Some of the symbols they used were animals like snakes or wolves, while others were shapes like circles or lines.

These stones were really important to the Picts and people today still think they are pretty cool. Scientists and archaeologists (people who study old things) have even found and studied Pictish stones to learn more about the Pictish people and what life was like a very long time ago.

So, that's the story of the Pictish stone - a special rock with pictures on it that tells us about the clever people who made them a very long time ago!