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Infoseepage
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Among the other Pictish scene collages it has one which is identifiable as the story of Samson and the jawbone, in which he is captured, breaks free of his bindings and picks up a jawbone and then brags about how he'd killed a thousand men with nothing more than the jawbone of an ass. Apparently Pictish people found this biblical story particularly impressive.

Infoseepage
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They've got a copy of the stone on the display showing how it might have been painted in different pigment schemes, one with the more expensive types of pigments used for illuminated gospels and the other more common earthy pigments.

Pretty neat to see them this way. Just like armorial achievement panels, these things were often richly painted, not bare stone.

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The museum has a sword dedicated by one of the Graham families which is said to have belongs to James Graham, the Marquees of Monrtose, who was a brilliant military commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. He at first fought for the Covenanters and was a signatory, but later came to side with the king. He essentially wanted a state in which church and state were separated, not one in which religion held sway in all matters.