I have no idea, but it was pretty early on. Wheat even now
doesn't grow there well, season is too short. My guess is
that the vikings brought it in when they came, shortly after
the Romans left Britain, but that is a guess, the people
there before that may have farmed grain.
Phosphor wrote:
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> > Oats and rye were the big grain crops of the early north,
> > above the area where wheat grows well.
>
> when do u think oats was first grown in the Highlands?
>
> andrew