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A thane was a local administrator in eastern Scotland, equivalent to the son of an earl, who collected revenue and services from the estates under his control. The term thane was introduced by King David I in the 12th century, and later replaced by baron or regality.
Ivory seal of Godwin, an unknown thegn – first half of eleventh century, British Museum In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn (pronounced / θ eɪ n /; Old English: þeġn) or thane [1] (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties.
Clan Brodie is a Scottish clan of uncertain origin, possibly Pictish, with a history of involvement in clan conflicts and the civil war. The clan's chief is Alexander Brodie of Brodie, and its seat is Brodie Castle in Morayshire.
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801.
Scotland in the High Middle Ages is a relatively well-studied topic and Scottish medievalists have produced a wide variety of publications. Some, such as David Dumville, Thomas Owen Clancy and Dauvit Broun, are primarily interested in the native cultures of the country, and often have linguistic training in the Celtic languages.
Map of Scottish provinces in 1689. Before the early 13th century "Scotland" (Latin: Scotia, Old Irish: Alba) was considered to extend only between the Firth of Forth and the River Spey. [1] Within this area the provinces directly subject to the kings of Alba by the 12th century were Fife, Strathearn, Atholl, Gowrie, Angus, the Mearns, Mar, and ...
Seabegs Wood was the site of a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. [1] At Seabegs, the outline of Antonine's Wall, has lasted. [2] Archaeologists from previous generations recorded this and stated that the ditch was deep and waterlogged. [3] There is an underpass under the Forth and Clyde Canal nearby known locally as the Pend. [4]
The recorded history of Scotland begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, when the province of Britannia reached as far north as the Antonine Wall. North of this was Caledonia , inhabited by the Picti , whose uprisings forced Rome's legions back to Hadrian's Wall .