Free Download Angus Konstam, "Strongholds of the Picts: The fortifications of Dark Age Scotland "
English | ISBN: 1846036860 | 2010 | 64 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
When the Romans left Britain around AD 410 the island had not been fully subjugated. In the Celtic fringe of Caledonia – now Northern Scotland – these unconquered native peoples were presented with the opportunity to pillage what remained of Roman Britain. By way of response the Post-Roman Britons of what is now Scotland did their best to defend themselves from attack, and to preserve what they could of the economic and administrative systems left behind by the Romans. While some old Roman forts were maintained, the Post-Roman Britons in the area created new strongholds, or re-occupied some of the long-abandoned hill-forts first built by their ancestors before the coming of the Romans. Meanwhile the Caledonians – who evolved into the Picts – relied on fortifications to maintain control over their land.
