@AL, In addition, Skara Brae in particular was once a hub of the ancient world that commanded the same significance in that side of Great Britain on par to what London does today on the other side, archaeologist (and notably gifted story telling orator) Neil Oliver, discuses this particular footnote in greater detail and how it worked that far back then ~ https://youtu.be/nrRXkbuSIwE?si=szV-lDIcMBaj679_ .

..There is a generally humoured perception related to Neil Oliver's observation of the advanced carving skills of ancient Scotland that gives rise to such articles as the following, the idea is that part of Scotland was particularly well known for an ancient technique known as 'white Quartz Cladding' - the only other place well known for utilising this technique at the time since was ancient Egypt, and so the theory runs, that influences to some degree may have crossed at one point, like Manetho's list from 3rd century BC (circa 2,300 years ago) which Scottish chronicler - John of Fordun compiled before the year 1384.

I.e., https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ancient-egyptians-borrowed-a-scottish-design-for-pyramids-622307.html

@AL, yes and as a side note, in relation to the aforementioned naming attribute of 'Scyt' to either Scythia or Scandinavia, whether one influenced the naming of the other (common back then in a pre-globalised world that was still seldom fully explored as it is today, and so people would often name the land settlement after themselves more than naming themselves after the land/nation they derived from as is more common nowadays).

It's interesting to note, that Scotland back then was only seperated from Scandinavia by what was once just a river - called the 'Norwegian trench' (see in the image attached above), so the argument could go either way, also that the people of Alba (Scotland) also influenced Scandinavia as much as vice versa if not more so..>

.. in fact, it was easier to get to Scandinavia back then than to Ireland when Doggerland was still there prior to being covered by the North Sea nowadays (16,000 years ago), most of the Highland regions to the West of Scotland were still on and off covered in ice sheets, most didn't tend to live there (unless Eskimo-esque lifestyle), but the ancient proto-Scots would live in pockets of settlements dotted along the Eastern half of Scotland up to Aberdeenshire, extending to the Orkney Isle, like Skara Brae - the best preserved neolithic site in all of Europe.

@AL, As I said last year, on the historical stuff you were talking about, this research will explain things better, Ulster had been settled more than once by the Scots, but they came from Scotland originally, that's why the archeology and placenames in Scotland predate the ones in Ulster, and why the meticulous Greek Geographer, Ptolemny, who recorded the first ever map of Ireland made no mention of them in his map from 140 AD, because the second wave of Scots had not come to Ulster yet until the 4th century AD..>

..When these second wave of Scots came to Ulster, they were recognised as distinct by Maewyn Succat of Conchessa and Calpurnius in his Epistle to the chieftain Corroticus as a distinct seperate people from the Hiberni (the actual Irish of that time), the second wave Scotti settlers of N. Hibernia were 'Regulus Nobilis', and the Hiberni were the 'Populi' (Populous) as they were recorded. The Scotti settlers of N. Hibernia always continued to regard themselves as Scotti and called their settled land as Scotia...>