358 SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS .—H. 
The transition to the Iron Age was gradual here. The parade objects from 
the Lowlands belong stylistically to the Arras school of Yorkshire and must 
have been the property of chieftains derived from the Parisii who settled 
there. Whether such chieftains led the Late Bronze Age contingent to 
Traprain Law or arrived later is still uncertain. 
La Tene Celts coming direct from the continent across the North Sea 
and landing round the mouth of the Tay and on the Moray Firth must 
be responsible for the erection of Gallic and vitrified forts which have no 
parallel in England. They introduced a fully fledged iron industry and 
were the only people in Scotland to preserve the Celtic fashion of wearing 
safety-pins. They arrived with a culture still in the La Téne I stage and 
therefore before 200 B.c. The Gallic forts and most vitrified forts (Dun- 
troon, Dunagoil, Finavon) were abandoned before the Roman period. 
The little stone forts of Galloway, Bute and Argyll as well as the galleried 
duns and brochs constitute a group distinguished by their fine masonry 
from the earth-houses and Bronze Age villages. All are so small that they 
cannot have been villages or tribal refuges, but rather the castles of a chieftain 
with his retainers. ‘Their distribution, agreeing significantly with that of the 
“neolithic ’ chambered cairns, indicates a colonising movement (doubtless 
in several waves) up the west coasts. The brochs and contemporary 
dwellings of the subject population (group 1) and caves in the castle-area 
of Galloway and Bute have yielded a series of relics distinctive of the 
Glastonbury complex of south-west England. And the architecture of the 
castles has its nearest parallels in Cornwall. The castle-lords would then 
be Brythonic Celts arriving from that quarter. ‘They must have superseded 
the chiefs of group 3 in Bute and Argyll and subjugated group 1 in the Far 
North, but not in Aberdeenshire. 
The crannogs have yielded no relics distinctive of the Glastonbury com- 
plex, and cannot therefore be connected directly with the crannogs of 
Somerset. But pile-dwellings had been established in Yorkshire by 
Hallstatt folk. And a remarkable bridle-bit from Lochlee is an early 
derivative of the Arras bits. 'The crannogs must therefore have been built 
by refugees from Yorkshire who arrived before a.D. 1oo—how much is 
uncertain. 
Rev. Dr. A. B. Scorr.—The historical sequence of peoples, culture, and 
characteristics in Scotland from 400 B.C. to A.D. 950 (2.45). 
The correct historical sequence of the Celtic peoples, culture, social 
habits, and political organisations in what is now Scotland. The trend of 
the Celtic migrants generally, and the trend in the British Isles. The Celts 
who crossed to Ireland by way of Britain. ‘Those who settled in Ireland 
direct from the continent of Europe. The mass-divisions of the Celts 
(1) in Britain, (2) in Ireland; and their locations. The first emigration 
of Iro-British Celts towards what is now Scotland. Where they settled. 
The social and political effect of their coming. The transportation of 
southern British Celts into what is now Scotland by the imperial Romans. 
The counter-movement when imperial Roman power was withdrawn. 
The Iro-Gaelic and Iro-Dalriad thrust in Argyll. The arrival of the 
Christian religion. "The peoples who received and spread Christian culture. 
uae. prgodsafanies of the leading Christian teachers in what is now 
cotland. 
Mr. A. O. CurLE.—Prehistoric Shetland—the excavations at Farlshof (3.30). 
Mr. ALEX. KEILLER.—The Megalithic monuments of the North-east (4.0). 
