Caledonians
A P-Celtic people of ancient Scotland, part of the larger Pictish population, who occupied land from the Tay valley to the Great Glen and gave their name to the Roman name for Scotland, Caledonia. The Caledonian confederation included peoples over an even wider area, as far north as Sutherland. As P-Celts, the Caledonii may have been more closely related to the Britons, who are ancestors of the modern Welsh, than they are to the Q-Celtic Scots, who came from Ireland.
