Known as 'Picti' by the Romans, meaning 'Painted Ones' in Latin, these northern tribes constituted the largest kingdom in Dark Age Scotland. They repelled the conquests of both Romans and Angles, ...

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The Roman system of controlling of the tribes north of Hadrian's Wall broke down. Scouting was abandoned and forts like ...