User talk:78.19.160.11

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I don't know what point you are making. Are you saying that we should not use the name "Scotland" for this period, because the Gaelic "Scots" were not present? That's true, but its an unresolvable problem with national names. For example there is an article on Prehistoric France, even though the Franks had not yet arrived, and so the name 'France' is anachronistic. In this case the name is just the most useful way of identifying a location. Paul B (talk) 18:38, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

There was a theory that some Picts were not Celts (in the sense that they did not speak a Brythonic language), but I think that's fairly fringy these days. Picts is just a generic term for non-Romanised Britons of the north. See Picts. I'm sure there were more Celts in what we now call England and Wales, because the highlands does not sustain a large population. Paul B (talk) 18:53, 1 May 2008 (UTC)