Revealing the prehistoric origins of Scotland

Hadrian’s Wall is often blamed for splitting Ancient Britain in two but newly published archaeological research reveals that the peoples of Scotland and England were already culturally divergent long before the Romans arrived in Britain. The nucleated fort of Trusty’s Hill in Galloway [Credit: GUARD Archaeology Ltd] An array of brochs, duns, crannogs and souterrains are found widely across Scotland but are not evident in northern England or further south. Surprisingly, that...