Fairhurst, H. (1967). The archaeology of rural settlement in Scotland. Trans Glasgow Archaeol Soc 15. Vol 15(4), pp. 139-158.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
The archaeology of rural settlement in Scotland |
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Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Trans Glasgow Archaeol Soc 15 |
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Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society |
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15 (4) |
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139 - 158 |
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So little is known of the medieval period in Scotland that archaeologists and historical geographers should tackle the problem at both ends simultaneously - at 18th cent and Iron Age settlements. The visible pattern of rural settlement mainly dates from the 18th cent improvements, and documents earlier than this scarcely exist. Glasgow University field-workers have studied whole township areas - arable, shielings and dwellings - at Lix (W Perths) and Rosal (Sutherland), as a first step in identifying regional variants; but these are post-1750 settlements with no medieval traces. There are few sites like Kilphedir (Sutherland) where hut circles, a broch, an Early Christian place-name, Clearance townships and more modern dwellings attest intermittent occupation over the centuries. The upland hut circles here (which might have belonged to the lower strata of the broch society) were evidently abandoned when technology permitted the clearance of heavy lowland soils. It may be that the cooperative effort required for such developments led to the multiple-tenancy arrangements, with intermixed holdings and loosely clustered houses, that were characteristic of late medieval Scotland (see also 68/244). |
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1967 |
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05 Dec 2008 |
