Ralph had uncovered a rare 1,000-year-old Pictish ring ... They eventually joined a neighboring kingdom and “evolved into Scotland.” Photos show the Pictish ring before and after being ...

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 ...

The largest weighs about 3kg - nearly twice as heavy as the Crown of Scotland made about 1,000 years later ... what will eventually become the kingdom of Scotland. With the collapse of the ...

The Gaels gave Scotland its name from 'Scoti', a racially ... At the heart of the Gaelic kingdom – Dál Riata – was a formidable hill fort. The rocky outcrop of Dunadd, Argyll, was far more ...

A three-dimensional reconstruction has depicted how a significant Scottish Pictish fort may have looked more than 1,000 years ago ... of power within the Pictish kingdom between AD500 and AD1000.

The other is Falkland’s role in Outlander, the TV adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s series of time-travelling historical novels.

The number of Scots aged 100 and over has soared to 1,000. Scotland also has its highest ever number of people aged 90 and above, in a sign of the nation’s ageing population. Last night ...