Caledoniden
Caledoniden is the ethnographic designation used for the Iron Age tribes that inhabited Caledonia, the northern part of Britain corresponding roughly to what is now northern Scotland. The name appears in classical sources as Caledonii or Caledones, describing a group of communities living beyond the Roman frontier. In archaeology and historical writing, Caledoniden refer to the collective of tribes rather than a single unified polity.
Historical sources from the Roman period describe the Caledoniden as formidable opponents to Roman expansion in
Linguistically and culturally, the Caledoniden are poorly attested. Their language is not directly recorded, and scholars