Upcoming Events

Pictish Room Open Day – Saturday 24^th August

Come along and meet Shiltron of Fortriu – here’s what they have to say:

We have been invited to attend Aberlemno village Hall on Saturday the 24th of August to support the open day in the Pictish room. We are the first re-enactment group to be bringing the big Pictish H shield (as depicted on the Ardchattan Stone) back to the battlefield in over a thousand years! Be sure to find out why the Picts were so feared by the neighbours, the neighbours went so far as to invite the Angles to settle Northumbria to face the raging tide of the Pictish war machine.

The mighty Roman empire, that conquered most of Europe was fought to a standstill on each of the three invasions into Pictland. The Legion Espania (the 9th Legion), Ceasers legion, the legion that conquered Spain all on its own, one of the Legions that destroyed Boudicca was stood down after the last failed invasion into the land of the Picts. Around a hundred and fifty thousand legionnaires were sent in to subjugate and enslave the Picts, many to leave their ghosts in Pictland forever! The Pictish tribes United and sent the Romans home, to think again, before starting The Great Conspiracy and being instrumental in ejecting the Romans from Britain. 

These Notorious fighting men from North of the Fourth were held in awe by their enemies, so much so, that the Romans built Hadrian's wall and the Antonine wall to try and contain them within their own lands. Ten years after completion of the 39-mile-long Antonine wall the Romans retreated to the 83 mile long wall of Hadrian because the Romans had less troops? Just one of the many things that is repeated by Roman historians that doesn't add up!

Aberlemno is the home of the Aberlemno number two, the Cross slab said to represent the battle of (Crane Lake) and the rise of the Pictish Nation to withstand the Northumbrian power.

We will be doing a weapons demonstration and discussion on the use of the distinctive Pictish H shield. Please, come along and support this great community project and rediscover the past. 

Remember this is a non-ticketed event please make donations to Aberlemno Village Hall, it is so important to support these places. They look to the needs of the local community whilst being guardians of our historic past. 

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