Celtic Scotland

The series on Scottish antiquities published by Batsford and sponsored by Historic Scotland aims to present authoritative scholarship in a style and format which the general reader can understand. It has now covered most periods of Scottish history and prehistory, but the title given to this book may raise false expectations, since its coverage stops in ad 500, just as the eminently Celtic Scots, who were to give the country its name, arrived from Ireland. As the author points out, our Iron Age ancestors in all probability did not conceive themselves as being Celtic; it was nineteenth‐century philologists who made...