(I COULD BE MISTAKEN but)
didn’t the Scots manage to keep the Romans OUT?
“(I COULD BE MISTAKEN but)
didn’t the Scots manage to keep the Romans OUT?”
You surely didn’t think the Scots kicked them out without first keeping the Roman money? These are Scots, after all.
The Romans never bothered to finish up in Caledonia (Roman-era Scotland was Scot-Free) because there was nothing of much value, the climate may not have been to their liking, and there were bigger priorities on the continent. There are various anachronistic modern nationalist myths about resistance to the Romans, generally found in lands that have had two or three new owners since Rome was a going concern in those areas.
Did you read the article?
The pieces are thought to have been high-status objects imported from the Roman world. The research team suggests that the items in the hoard had been collect by non-Romans, such as the Picts, through looting, trade, bribes, or as military pay.
The Romans couldn’t control those Scots, and couldn’t vanquish those rock throwing thugs, so finally built Hadrian’s Wall and they stayed in England. That wall is still the dividing line between England and Scotland.
There have been suggestions that Hadrian’s wall had gates backed up by garrison forts on the English-side. These could have acted like customs port-of-entries as well as a the obvious military bastions that they were.