In favour of the Strathearn location, see information about the excavations
at Forteviot here:

http://www.gla.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/serf/

Hilary


on 7/11/08 6:49 pm, raymonds1888 at r_stirton@... wrote:

> --- In PictsArt@yahoogroups.com, "Craig Horne" <comedycraig@...> wrote:
>> If this post is till open i would love to know if Perth was a strong
> hold of the Fortriu, or who was the tribe around Perth????
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>> Is there a consensus among the group with regards the location of the
>> important Pictish province of Fortriu? I know that Alex Woolf has
>> swayed a lot of people with his theory that it was centred on Moray
>> but other leading scholars in the field like Nick Aitchison and James
>> E Fraser in their latest books maintain it was centred around the
>> Strathearn area of Perthshire.
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