The Romans and the Picts

Before I start a quick comment. Any historical information or details added to this Blog is researched from historic reference books none of the date’s times or names used are from personal opinion or experience except where noted. Like us all, i have opinions and i also like to voice them now and then with a bit of poetic licence :-)

Between the time 80-84 AD a Roman general called Agricola, decided that the land of Caledonia - now known as Scotland, should be added to the Roman Empire.
The Romans soon moved in and defeated the Picts, who were then the native Celtic people, at a place known as Mons Graupious. The Romans made the error of underestimating the Celtic tribes of the Picts and did not really consolidate their victory therefore, in 142 AD, The Roman Emperor Antonine had no option but to build a defence rampart AKA the antonine wall, against these peoples at a point where Caledonia was at its narrowest.
The area of choice was between the river Clyde and the river Forth just down from our house :-)Antonine's wall however, was soon abandoned as the Romans were pushed further south to the new Hadrian’s wall which effectively cut Britain in half.
Hadrian’s wall became the new frontier between Roman Britain and the Pictish nations until the 5th century.
It did not stop them though….. Come back soon for the next episode.