HOMECOMING SCOTLAND, SCOTLAND'S EARLY HISTORY.

HOMECOMING SCOTLAND, SCOTLAND'S EARLY HISTORY.

HOMECOMING SCOTLAND, SCOTLAND'S EARLY HISTORY as recorded. Part 1.

Prehistoric Man;
The Picts, believed to be of non-Aryan origin, and stated to have been named Picti by the Romans on account of the tribal habit of painting the body, seem to have inhabited the whole of North Britian and to have spread over the North of Ireland. Picts Houses are most frequent in the northern counties of Caithness and Sutherland and in the Orkney Islands. Celtic Goidels, Brythons and Belgae arrived from Belgic Gaul during the latter part of the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age, and except in the extreme north of the mainland and in the islands, the civilisation and speech of the people were definitely Celtic at the time of the Roman Invasion of Britain.
The Roman Invasion;
In A.D. 80 Julius Agricola extended the Roman conquests in Britain by advancing into Caladonia as far as the "Grampian" Hills, but after a victory at Mons Graupius (since corrupted to Grampius) he was recalled and no further advance was made for about sixty (60) years, when the Roman frontier was carried to the isthmus between the Forth and Clyde and marked by the Wall of Pius, towards which ran military roads from the cheviots. The Roman occupation of Southern Caledonia was not so effective as that of South Britain, and before the close of the second century the northern limit of Roman Britain had receded to Hadrian's Wall.