The Painted Ones: Tattoos, Body-Paint, or Branding? 

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Camelot Chat! I’m your hostess, Shannon Watson, and today’s episode is The Painted Ones: Tattoos, Body-Paint, or Branding?

Incidentally, this one’s for all you fans of Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 film, King Arthur! Because today, we will be talking tattoos… Pictish tattoos, that is.

Pictish people–certainly the warriors, but possibly also the women–were recorded by ancient writers as having been covered in some sort of strange designs. Blue and green and possibly multi-colored markings. A type of ancient inky graffiti that might, just possibly, have been… tattoos.