The first inhabitants to settle on the…
908 CE
The first inhabitants to settle on the estuary fringes of the rivers Tay and Eden during the Mesolithic (middle stone age) had come between 10,000 to 5000 BCE from the plains in Northern Europe.
This had been followed by the nomadic people who settled around the modern town around 4500 BCE as farmers clearing the area of woodland and building monuments.
A monastery had been established in the mid-eighth century by the Pictish king Oengus I, traditionally associated with the relics of Saint Andrew, a number of bones supposed to be the saints's arm, kneecap, three fingers and a tooth believed to have been brought to the town by St Regulus.
King Causantín mac Cináeda (Constantine I or II) in 877 built a new church for the Culdees at St. Andrews and later the same year had been captured and executed (or perhaps killed in battle) after defending against Viking raiders.
The town of Saint Andrews becomes the seat of the bishop of Alba in 906, with the boundaries of the see being extended to include land between the River Forth and River Tweed.