Unit 4 - Pre-Viking Age Scotland: Britons, Picts and Scots
Multiple-choice exercise
Choose the correct answer for each question.
Who were the Picts?
- Immigrants into Scotland from Spain
- Pygmies who lived in tunnels
- descendants of the indigenous people of Scotland
- people who painted or tattooed themselves
- an Iron Age people who lived in Scotland through the Roman period and whose kingdom developed in the post-Roman period
The Dalriadan kingdom was of ................ origin.
- Scottish
- Irish
- British
- Pictish
- Viking
An example of a high status fortified site is
- Dumbarton Rock
- Burghead
- Dunadd
- Forteviot
- Glasgow
What was the Brough of Birsay?
- A large island off the west coast of Shetland
- one of the larger Orcadian islands
- a Pictish settlement site
- a tidal island with archaeological evidence of high status actvitiy
- a Dalriadan stronghold
What were the wags of Caithness?
- local comedians
- Pictish round houses
- brochs
- aisled halls
- roughly rectangular stone built houses with rounded ends