Matt Newsome wrote:-

To imagine invading Celts coming to Scotland from Austria in pre-historic times, wearing tartan kilts, is pure fiction!
Matt is spot on. The Celts of Scotland most certainly did not come into Britain from Austria wearing tartan kilts, because the Celts of Scotland (or any other Celts in the British Isles for that matter) did not originate from Austria. Recent population genetics analyses have shown that the Celtic peoples of the British Isles (whether Gaelic or Brythonic) are not closely related to the people of Central Europe (including Austria). They are much more closely related (genetically speaking) to the Basques of Northern Spain, and it is now thought that migrants from this region of the Iberian peninsula repopulated the British Isles at the end of the last Ice age, and that these ‘Iberians’ represent the ancestors of the native Britons (Celts), including the Highland Scots.

Sorry Austrians, but your ancestors did not migrate to Scotland wearing tartan kilts. Now has anyone managed to find a well-preserved pair of prehistoric lederhosen buried in a peat bog in the Scottish Highlands?

Rob