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foundation myth (583 words) |
 | About the year 200 a people called the Maeatae were named along with the Caledonians as an enemy of Britannia and Hadrian's wall was crossed in the early 180's and Antonine's wall remained out of commission until about 212. |
| The Maeatae dwelt next to the Antonine wall aned that them and the Caledonians were the two main tribes north of the Forth/Clyde ismuth. |
| Later the references become Caledonians and Maeatae or Caledonians and Verturiones (Fortrenn) and finally that both these tribes were Picts. |
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Maeatae Information (130 words) |
| The Maeatae were a confederation of tribes who lived probably between Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall or possibly just on either side of Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. |
| Near the summit of Dumyat hill in the Ochils, overlooking Stirling, there are remains of a fort and the name of the hill is believed to be a corruption of "Dun Maeatae" - the hill of the Maeatae. |
| They appear to have come together as a result of treaties struck between the Roman Empire and the various frontier tribes in the 180s AD under the governorship of Ulpius Marcellus. |
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