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Show Scotland's First Settlers Came From Old Ireland Just when the Picts settled in Scotland no one knows. Neither do we know all the facts about their race, though it seems likely they were Celts, or at least partly Celtic. The early Picts decorated their bodies with pictures or designs of one kind or another. Their name is believed to mean "Painted People." Peo-ple." They were of warlike nature. Time and again they made raids on the Romans, and sometimes they forced their way across Hadrian's wall. The Picts were in Scotland before the Scots. The first clear record of Scots getting to Scotland gives the time as about the year 495. The Picts had been in Scotland for hundreds hun-dreds of years before that. An old record tells us that the Picts used "chariots" in battle. We do not know what their chariots were like, .but they probably were two-wheeled carts of a rather crude type. The Scots came in from Ireland, strange as it may seem. Certain old maps label the northern part of Great Britain as "Scotia Nova," meaning "New Scotland." Ireland, or at least part of it, once held the name of "Scotia." For a long time the Picts and the Scots did not get along together. There were scores of battles, large and small, between them. Eleven hundred years ago, a Scottish Scot-tish king, Kenneth MacAlpin, led an army against the Picts. The Picts fell beneath his attack, and in a few years their lands were placed in the kingdom of Scotland, as MacAlpin called his realm. That ended the warfare between the Picts and the Scots. |