When the Romans first came to northern Scotland in the first century A.D., they found the Highlands occupied by fierce, tattoo-covered tribes they called the Picts, or painted people. From the ...

Together they created the Kingdom of Alba. The Picts took part in one of the most decisive battles in Scottish history - the Battle of Dun Nechtain (Dunnichen). If the Picts had lost, Scotland ...

Pictish occupation of a fort on a well-known hill in Aberdeenshire has been confirmed by archaeologists. The Mither Tap, a summit on Bennachie, near Inverurie, has the remains of an ancient fort ...