ocr: Gulloden Index Places Help True vestige of a tribal society, the clan (from the Exit Back Gaelic clann, offspring, tribe, in turn from the Latin planta, a shoot) was the basic social unit of the - Scottish Highlands. It was made up of families who' considered themselves descended from common: ancestors and often bore the same surname,together with their followers. The clan chief, who bore the title ofl - Lord, was the owner of all the lands on which the members of his clan lived; the latter, in exchange, for Bookmark the right to farm this land, were obliged to follow him into war. Each clan w ...