Maiden Stone Pictish Tattoo Design egypt built of intersecting and carefully

built of intersecting and carefully placed circles in a hexagonal pattern

This impressive integrated knotwork is designed to fill the entire outer surface of the upper arm

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Maiden Stone Pictish Tattoo Design egypt built of intersecting and carefullyThe carvings on the Maiden Stone date to the 4th century. Found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the pink granite monolith is one of the finest examples of a Pictish cross slab. The stone commemorates a local Maiden who made (and lost) a wager with a stranger, who turned out to be the Devil. She fled, and uttering a prayer just as he caught up to her, was turned to stone.