Okay, welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie, and this is Episode 131, the Scott Cast, part 8, the expansion of

Pigland.

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So today we'll begin the account of what was going on with the pics following the withdrawal

of Rome, and we're going to start it with a rather discouraging fact.

Is it a nice one I can start an episode on an up note?

So here's that fact.

In the group A version of the Pictish chronology, there are only three Pictish kings who had

any of their deeds recorded before Kenneth Macalpen showed up.

Just three.

Everything else is pretty much just a chronology, just simple markers indicating the passage

of time.

So that's tough, I'll admit it.

But it isn't fatal for us.

There's still stuff to be gleaned there, and there's still archaeology.

And we knew a lot of this was going to be mysterious when we started, right?

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