Roman writers depicted the Picts as fearsome warriors — savage, barbarous, troublesome and backward. While the Celtic people south of modern-day Scotland became Romanized following the Roman ...

Believed to have descended from Iron Age Celtic tribes, the Picts were culturally and linguistically distinct from their neighbors, the Gaels, who inhabited what is now western Scotland ...

In Scotland, the majority of people are not actually Scots, but Picts. Even in Argyll, the stronghold of the Irish Scots, two-thirds of members of the Oisin clan are Pictish Celts. However ...

Doug McKenna, Stockton. PICTS and Scots are thought of as the indigenous Celtic people of Scotland. However, there were actually five main groups of people who contributed to the ethnic make-up of ...

It is unclear whether the Picts were Celts or not, although the evidence of placenames accepted as Pictish tends to suggest they were, speaking a variety of Brythonic Celtic language, similar to ...

A Viking Great Army camp discovered on a Northumbrian hilltop gives physical backing to early chroniclers' accounts of raids against the Celtic Picts, experts say. The 49-hectare site in the ...

These Cruthin later became known as Picts in north Britain". When the Celts/Gaels arrived in the early years AD they did so in numbers "numerically far inferior to the natives". They conquered the ...