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From at least 700 BC, the native people of Scotland were a Celtic race, named by the
Romans as Picts. From about the mid 4th century AD, Scots from Ireland began to settle in Scotland.
Following the departure of the Romans from
 Britain
in the 5th century, Scotland was invaded from the south by Germanic Angles, an Anglo-Saxon people.
The native Picts absorbed many external cultures, especially the Gaelic culture of the Scots.
In the 6th century, St Columba brought christianity from Ireland, first to the island of Iona, then later to mainland Scotland. The Pictish Kingdom of Scone, with Scone as its capital, grew in importance. A Culdee cell of holy men was established at Scone from the 6th century, and it was on the Hill of Credulity at Scone that the Pictish King Nectan formally embraced the customs of the Church of Rome in 710. It can thus be seen that the Moot Hill was already an important sacred site long before it was used for the crowning of the Kings of Scots. The early history of Scone as a centre of religion continued for many centuries. In 906, King Constantine proclaimed on the Hill of Credulity that the religious laws and customs of the Celtic or Culdee Church be established. Scone remained a College of the Culdee Church until 1114, when it was superceded by a monastery founded by Alexander I. |
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