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Ancient Corstorphine

We know that Cramond had the second-oldest house in Scotland and how people dressed before the Romans came.

Castell Henllys Iron Age Village Reconstruction (Copyright dave challender) 
The Huldremose woman’s clothes = By Nationalmuseet, CC BY-SA 3.0,
10,000 years ago eating hazelnuts and berries
Corstorphine Loch’s 3000 years ago (Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1893)
Newbridge, Edinburgh Cairn and stone circle

The chariot below was buried 7000 years ago at Newbridge.

The people of Corstorphine wore torcs with amazing workmanship

Dumfries (1853,1105.2)
© The Trustees of the British Museum. CC4

With the Romans’ arrival, the people of Corstorphine were removed from the land the Romans wanted. Men were made to work in quarries to get stones for roads. Local community leaders lived alongside the Romans and paid taxes in the form of their crops, animals or manpower.