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Here is an actual Pictish stone, reproduced for clarity. It's based on an actual pictish stone that has been significantly weathered by time.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/HiltonofCadboll01.JPG
There's a big difference between the vaguely Celtic, but cool, symbols on your Ankh-Cross (which again, I think is neat) and the symbols on that Pictish stone.
As for the meanings of the pictish stone symbols?
We haven't a fucking clue. We have a lot of guesses, but being that the Gaels of the Highlands are almost completely lost to history, their predecessors the Picts are one of the least-known people.
Now, there has been a lot of really, really cool Scholarship lately.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Discovery-Middle-Earth-Mapping/dp/039308163X <- The Discovery of Middle Earth points out a lot of the geometric logic the celts used, and points out a lot of lost history. And argues that it may be that the old celtic scrollwork has actual geometric or mathematical meaning.
I'm not sure if that's true, but it's a fascinating hypothesis.
There is a lot to be learned, but unfortunately, the archaeology has in general been either poorly done many years ago or very poorly funded and done recently as a labor of love.
And so there's much that we really don't know. There's a lot just waiting to be learned.
But the recent scholarship on the Celts, in France and Germany and in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland has opened our eyes to a number of facts that we didn't know before.
A sampling:
We've learned all of this in the last 10-30 years. I'm looking forward to seeing what we can learn in the next hundred.