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May 26, 2020 · A key to these Bronze Age people, who lived between 2400 and 1800 BC, is the the skeleton of a woman whose bones were found in a grave cut into solid bedrock at Achavanich in Caithness in...
- Alison Campsie
- Who Were These people?
- The Tribes
- Epilogue
The ancients in Scotland around this time were modelled in what is recognisable as a “Celtic” tribal society. However recent DNA testing proves the ethnic stock of the inhabitants of Scotland then was the same as that of the original hunter-gatherers who inhabited Scotland after the retreat of the glaciers and ice caps at the end of the last ice ag...
We do not know how much the Romans knew of the lands and inhabitants of Scotland when Claudius first ordered the invasion of Britannia in 43 AD. Pytheus had famously sailed Britain’s waters in 325 BC and Claudius would have been well aware of his findings. The reliable Pliny the Elder suggests that historical mapping expeditions in the vicinity of ...
The Dalriadic Scots would, in a much later period achieve dynastic supremacy over the Picts following generations of conflicts and struggle and the pan northern power Alba was the child of this shotgun marriage. Pictishness, its language and culture were smothered under the Gaelic language, church and culture however the Scots in these areas were s...
From the twelfth century there are sources that allow the stratification in society to be seen in detail, with layers including the king and a small elite of mormaers above lesser ranks of freemen and what was probably a large group of serfs, particularly in central Scotland.
We imagine life in medieval Scotland to be the picture painted in Scottish ballads with kings, queens, knights and wonderful castles at the forefront of life back then. There may have been all these things but the reality of life during the middle ages for the Scots was very different.
Oct 23, 2024 · Around 2000 years ago, ancient Celtic people known as the Picts roamed Scotland, and to the Romans who controlled large portions of Britain at the time they were considered worthy foes.
- Thomas Mackay
Apr 27, 2023 · Mysterious 'painted people' of Scotland are long gone, but their DNA lives on. A new look at eight skeletons from two Pictish cemeteries reveals that the enigmatic Picts weren't from afar, as...
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Sep 4, 2024 · Some 2,000 years ago, Scotland was home to a group of people known as the Picts. To the Romans who controlled much of Britain at the time, they were but mere savages, men who fought completely naked, armed with little more than a spear. But the Picts were fearsome warriors.
