The Battle of Mugdock (AD 750)

Pictish warriors on an 8th-century sculptured stone at Aberlemno in Angus.

In the eighth century, under the rule of their king Onuist son of Urgust (��engus mac Fergusa), the Picts became the dominant power in North Britain. Onuist had secured his position as the paramount Pictish king by destroying various rivals during a series of bitter conflicts in the late 720s. Early in the following decade he invaded D��l Riata, the homeland of the Scots, ravaging much of it and bringing the rest under...