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=== Scotland === [[Cumbric]] and [[Pictish]] were Brittonic languages spoken in Scotland until around the 12th century, and ''caer'' ("fort") was a place-naming element in both languages.<ref name="BLITON" /><ref name="PNF" /> * Caerketton, Midlothian ("Fort of Catel")<ref name="BLITON" /> * [[Caerlanrig]], Roxburghshire (''{{lang|cy|Caerllanerch}}''; "Fort Clearing")<ref name="BLITON" /> * [[Caerlaverock]], Dumfriesshire ("Fort of Llywarch")<ref name="BLITON" /> * [[Carcluie Loch|Carcluie]], Ayrshire ("Fort of Clewein")<ref name="BLITON" /> * Carden, Fife. Formerly ''Cardenni''<ref name="PNF" /> * [[Cardonald]], Renfrewshire ("Duμnwal's fort")<ref name="BLITON" /> * Carleith, Dunbartonshire<ref name="BLITON" /> * [[Carmichael, South Lanarkshire|Carmichael]], Lanarkshire ("Fort of Saint Michael") * Carmuirs, Stirlingshire<ref name="BLITON" /> * Carmurie, Fife ("Fort of the Sea")<ref name="PNF" /> * [[Carmyllie]], Angus ("Fort of the warrior")<ref name="cpns" /> * [[Carpow]], Perthshire (''{{lang|cy|Caerpwll}}''; "Fort of the sluggish stream")<ref name="PNF" /> * [[Carriden House|Carriden]], West Lothian ("Fort [[Eidyn]]") * [[Carruthers]], Dumfriesshire ("Fort of Rhodri")<ref name="BLITON" /> * [[Carstairs]], Lanarkshire ("Fort of the Tarras")<ref name="BLITON" /> * [[Crail]], Fife ("Fort of the rock")<ref name="PNF">{{cite book |last1=Simon |first1=Taylor |last2=Markus |first2=Gilbert |title=The Place-names of Fife |date=2006 |publisher=Shaun Tyas |isbn=9781900289771 |edition=Illustrated}}</ref> * [[Cramond]], Midlothian ("Fort [[River Almond, Lothian|Almond]]") * Kair, Kincardineshire ("Fort")<ref name="cpns" /> * Keir, Aberdeenshire ("Fort")<ref name="cpns">{{cite book |last1=Watson |first1=W.J. |last2=Taylor |first2=Simon |title=The Celtic Place-Names of Scotland |date=2011 |publisher=Birlinn LTD |isbn=9781906566357 |edition=reprint}}</ref> * [[Keir, Dumfries and Galloway|Keir]], Dumfries-shire ("Fort")<ref name="BLITON" /> * Keir, Stirlingshire ("Fort")<ref name="pp">{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Mark A |last2=Driscoll |first2=Stephen T |last3=Geddess |first3=Jane |title=Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages |date=11 November 2010 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004188013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6d55DwAAQBAJ |access-date=30 June 2019}}</ref> * Keirhill, West Lothian<ref name="BLITON" /> * Keirs, Ayrshire<ref name="BLITON" /> * [[Kirkbuddo]], Angus ("Fort of Buiteoc")<ref name="pp" /> * [[Kirkcaldy]], Fife (''{{lang|cy|Caercaledin}}''; "place of the hard fort" or "place of Caled's fort")<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=726|title=Fife Place-name Data :: Kirkcaldy|website=fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk}}</ref> * [[Kirkintilloch]], Dunbartonshire. Formerly ''Caerpentaloch''<ref name="BLITON" />
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