When most people think of Scottish clans, they think of the Gaelic Highlanders such as the MacDonalds and Camerons and MacGregors. But there was an entirely separate clan system outside of the Highlands, and it was not Gaelic at all. The “riding clans” or “Border reivers” were tribes of thieves and raiders along both sides of the Anglo-Scottish Border from around the years 1300-1600.
