CALEDONIA
, the See also:Roman name of See also:North See also:Britain, still used especially in See also:poetry for See also:Scotland
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It occurs first in the poet See also:Lucan (A.D
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64), and then often in Roman literature
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There were (I) a See also:district Caledonia, of which the See also:southern border must have been on or near the See also:isthmus between the See also:Clyde and the Forth, (2) a Caledonian See also:Forest (possibly in See also:Perthshire), and (3) a tribe of Caledones or Calidones, named by the geographer See also:Ptolemy as living within boundaries which are now unascertainable
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The See also:Romans first invaded Caledonia under See also:Agricola (about A.D
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83)
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They then fortified the Forth and Clyde Isthmus with a See also:line of forts, two of which, those at Camelon and Barhill, have been identified and excavated, penetrated into Perthshire, and fought the decisive See also:battle of the See also:war (according to See also:Tacitus) on the slopes of See also:Mons Graupius.' The site—quite as hotly contested among antiquaries as between Roman and Caledonian —may have been near the Roman encampment of Inchtuthill (in the policies of Delvine, Io m
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N. of See also:Perth near the See also:union of See also:Tay and See also:Isla), which is the most northerly of the ascertained Roman encampments in Scotland and seems to belong to the See also:age of Agricola
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Tacitus represents the result as a victory
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The See also:home See also:government, whether averse to expensive conquests of barren hills, or afraid of a victorious See also:general, abruptly recalled Agricola, and his See also:northern conquests—all beyond the See also:Tweed, if not all beyond Cheviot—were abandoned
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The next advance followed more than fifty years later
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About A.D
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140 the district up to the See also:Firth of Forth was definitely annexed, and a rampart with forts along it, the See also:Wall of See also:Antoninus See also:Pius, was See also:drawn from See also:sea to sea (see BRITAIN: Roman; and GRAIIAM's DYKE)
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At the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the Roman forts at Ardoch, north of See also:Dunblane, Carpow near See also:Abernethy, and perhaps one or two more, were occupied
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But the See also:conquest was stubbornly disputed, and after several risings, the See also:land north of Cheviot seems to have been lost about A.D
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18o-185
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About A.D
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208 the See also:emperor Septimius See also:Severus carried out an extensive punitive expedition against the northern tribes, but while it is doubtful how far he penetrated, it is certain that after his See also:death the Roman See also:writ never again ran north of Cheviot
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See also:Rome is said, indeed, to have recovered the whole land up to the Wall of Pius in A.D
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368 and to have established there a See also:province, See also:Valentia
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A province with that name was certainly organized somewhere
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But its site and extent is quite uncertain and its duration was exceedingly brief
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Through-out, Scotland remained substantially untouched by Roman influences, and its See also:Celtic See also:art, though perhaps influenced by Irish, remained See also:free from Mediterranean infusion
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Even in the See also:south of Scotland, where Rome ruled for See also:half a See also:century (A.D
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142-180), the occupation was military and produced no civilizing effects
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Of the actual See also:condition of the land during the See also:period of 'Roman See also:rule in Britain, we have yet to learn the details by excavation
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The curious carvings and ramparts, at Burghead on the See also:coast of See also:Elgin, and the underground See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone houses locally called " wheems," in which Roman fragments have been found, may represent the native forms of dwelling, &c., and some of the "See also:Late Celtic" See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal-See also:work may belong to this age
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But of the See also:political divisions, the boundaries and capitals of the tribes, and the like, we know nothing
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Ptolemy gives a See also:list of tribe and See also:place-names
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But hardly one can be identified with any approach to certainty, except in the extreme south
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Nor has any certainty been reached about the ethnological problems of the See also:population, the See also:Aryan or non-Aryan See also:character of the Picts and the like
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That the Caledonians, like the later Scots, sometimes sought their fortunes in the south, is proved by a curious tablet of about A.D
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220, found at See also:Colchester, dedicated to an unknown See also:equivalent of See also:Mars, Medocius, by ohe " Lossio Veda, See also:nepos [ = See also:kin of] Vepogeni, Caledo." The name Caledonia is said to survive in
1 This, not Grampius, is the proper spelling, though Grampius was at one time commonly accepted and indeed gave rise to the See also:modern name Grampian.the second syllable of See also:Dunkeld and in the See also:mountain name Schiehallion (Sith-chaillinn)
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