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3 days ago · Scotland - Unification, Kingdom, History: In 843 Kenneth MacAlpin, King Kenneth I of Scots, also became king of the Picts and crushed resistance to his assuming the throne. Kenneth may have had a claim on the Pictish throne through the matrilineal law of succession; probably the Picts too had been weakened by Norse attacks.
16 hours ago · Rare traces of working life on a Scottish island some 1,500 years ago have been discovered. Excavations at Coultorsay on Islay have revealed the remnants of an iron-smelting workshop which was in use between the 6th and 9th Century. A shale bracelet, a bone needle, metalworking waste and part of a rotary quern give a tantalising glimpse into ...
1 day ago · By AD 1000, the political landscape had irrevocably changed. Under a dynasty of Gaelic-speaking kings, the Picts and Scots began to unite, forming a single, cohesive nation that transcended previous hostilities. This book narrates the extraordinary journey of how ancient North Britain evolved into the medieval kingdom of Scotland.
3 days ago · Romans, Picts, and Early Christianity. When the Romans left Scotland around 410 AD, the Picts took control of the land. Abernethy is strongly connected to this period, with its first church – possibly a simple wood and wattle structure – believed to have been built by St. Ninian.
3 days ago · On the other hand, the two types of structures may not represent two wholly distinct cultures, and the two peoples may have together constituted the ancestors of the people later known as the Picts. See article: flag of Scotland
4 days ago · Four peoples—the Picts, the Scots, the Britons, and the Angles—were eventually to merge and thus form the kingdom of Scots. The Picts occupied Scotland north of the Forth. Their identity has been much debated, but they possessed a distinctive culture, seen particularly in their carved symbol stones.
1 day ago · Hawick's Common Riding – featuring the Cornet, a young, unmarried, local man who becomes the central figure of the events – is by tradition the first of the Borders’ Common Ridings each year. It commemorates an incident at Hornshole near the town in 1514, the year after Flodden in which many of the men of Hawick were killed.
