And looks like it will fall again:
"Net migration into Scotland increased significantly in recent years, rising from +22,200 in the year to mid-2021 to +61,600 in the year to mid-2023, the highest level in the past decade."
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The Romans were southern Europeans and thus genetically distinct from Celts, Saxons, and Normans, but I haven't seen much on the genetic "signature" of Romans in the British isles.
And looks like it will fall again:
"Net migration into Scotland increased significantly in recent years, rising from +22,200 in the year to mid-2021 to +61,600 in the year to mid-2023, the highest level in the past decade."
LOL. Gotta love the Scots. No foreign power ever controlled them. Ever. And if you dare suggest it ever happened at any time every in their history, well them's fightin words!! One of my favorite quotes (admittedly it may be fictional) is from the Roman attempt at occupation of what today is Scotland - "ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant." Roughly translated as the Romans make a desert and call it peace.
I remember as a kid hearing of Hadrian’s Wall and thinking of something like the Great Wall of China. When I finally made a trip to England, I took a side trip to see the wall. Instead of a massive wall of unscalable height, there was this puny 3’ pile of rocks that I could jump over. Turns out, the wall really wasn’t one of defense, but rather a line to tell the Scotts that the Romans didn’t want to mess around with them if you stay north of this line.
Great vid. Thanks for posting. We were right there last August! But we only drove by on our way from Edinburgh to Fort William with a long stop at Stirling to visit the castle there.