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This picture showing Sueno's Stone on the outskirts of Forres was taken by Tom McPherson.
The 23ft-high Pictish monument is ornately carved from local sandstone and would once have overlooked the marshy floodplains of the River Findhorn and Mosset Burn.
On one side it features a pile of decapitated heads and what appears to be a battle scene.
The other side shows Christian crosses.
Archaeological excavations carried out in 1990 and 1991 suggest that it may originally have been one of two monumental stones.
Indeed, several maps from the 18th century show a second stone, whose whereabouts has now long been forgotten.
Although this is disputed, the stone is thought by some to be named after Sweyn Forkbeard who was driven into exile in Scotland by his father, the King of Denmark.
Sweyn later returned back across the water to depose his father and claim the Danish throne for himself.
After launching numerous raids against England over the years, he finally launched a full-scale invasion in 1013 and was crowned king on Christmas Day.
However, Sweyn's reign only lasted five weeks.
Following his death, he was succeeded on the English throne by Canute – the king who, according to the famous legend, once commanded the tide not to come in.
The Stuart kings of Scotland were all Sweyn's descendants, as are the modern-day royal family of Denmark.
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