Scotland Tribes
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The first map of Scotland is given in Ptolemy's Geography (second century CE). By the fourth century the northern tribes seem to have consolidated according to Ammianus Marcellinus, into the Dicalidones while the Vacomagi, Taezali and the Venicones have become the Verturiones.

South of Antonine's wall on the Forth-Clyde line, the British tribes were semi-pacified by Roman occupation.

The Dicalidones and the Verturiones were the ancestors of the Picts who first appear in the record in the third century CE.

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