Early Celtic Scotland
For thousands of years Scotland was characterized by thinly spread tribes, villages, or settlements. Skara Brae and the standing stones of Lewes attest to an inventive but widely scattered folk often weakend by weather change and other natural occurrences. By 800 BC (2800 years ago), the people we call Celtic swarmed into Europe and then into Scotland, often killing the natives and occupying the better pastures and lands. By the 1st century, they had prospered, settled, and begun to expand in numbers and in wealth.
