Scotland in the Early Middle Ages to be adopted for house building, often combining layers of stone with turf. Place-name evidence, particularly the use of the prefix "pit", meaning land or a field, suggests that the heaviest areas of Pictish settlement were in modern Fife, Perthshire, Angus, Aberdeen and around the Moray Firth, although later Gaelic migration may have erased some Pictish names from the record. Early Gaelic settlement appears to have been in the regions of the western mainland of Scotland between Cowal and Ardnamurchan, and the adjacent islands, later extending up the West coast in the 8th century. There is place name and archaeological
Whaling in Scotland the Firth of Tay. The fleet encountered Carl Anton Larsen of the "Jason", near Joinville Island, on 24 December 1892. Four ships took part: The success of the 1892-93 expedition led directly to the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902–04, and to Dundee being chosen for building the "Discovery" for the Discovery Expedition of 1901–04. Due to the work of Scottish whalers, sealers and other sailors, several place names in or near Antarctica have Scottish origins: Whaling in Scotland The first evidence for whaling in Scotland is from Bronze Age settlements where whalebones were used for constructing and decorating dwelling