Wall of Severus as the mid-5th century predating the 8th-century reign of the Saxon King Offa of Mercia by 300 years. Septimius Severus arrived in Caledonia in 208 after Picts began making a series of attacks and incursions since 197. During these military operations in Scotland, the Wall of Severus was reportedly built. Cassius Dio, a Roman historian who lived at the time of Severus, makes no direct mention to any new fortification but does allude to the existing Antonine and Hadrian Walls. Late Roman historians interchange the name Severan Wall with the Antonine Wall. Other historical writers like Bede - an 8th-century
Scotland and the Thirty Years' War now Earl of Forth and Lord General of the Royalist forces in England. Both men survived the war and died peacefully in their beds. Some notable Scottish contemporary published sources Contemporary Poetry and Fiction Scotland and the Thirty Years' War Scotland and the Thirty Years' War deals with the complicated involvement of the kingdom of Scotland in the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648. Scotland and Scots were heavily entangled in both the diplomatic and military events centred on the Holy Roman Empire (roughly equating to modern Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic). There were a number of reasons for this