Cultural Landscapes of North-east Scotland

Collaborative Research in History and Archaeology

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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The authors explore multifaceted aspects of the competing cultural landscapes that comprise the northeast of Scotland. This interdisciplinary collection uses a deep temporal perspective at a range of scales, from microlandscape studies to largescale geological and archaeological environments. It presents collaborative research carried out by a local conservation group, the Bailies of Bennachie, and the University of Aberdeen across a twelveyear period – the ‘Bennachie Landscapes Project’. Far from being a cultural backwater, the book shows how key physical and social processes have interacted in the landscape of northeast Scotland since prehistory. Authors present new understandings of glacial geology, Mesolithic settlements, Roman, Viking and medieval settlements and environments, and recent crofting landscapes. Today’s landscape is shown to be an extraordinarily rich resource for cultural and environmental history that is well worthy of continued protection and care. The research is itself used as a means of reaching into the wider community and engaging in a twoway process of education that connects the various participants.This book, therefore, explores ways of ‘doing’ environmental archaeology and cultural landscape studies that are not mainstream. All of the studies have a greater or lesser degree of community input. Some are communitydriven, others more academically oriented. But all add value to the others and help to create a better understanding of the cultural landscapes of northeast Scotland. The narrative flows from late glacial times, through prehistoric and historic periods forward, through the actions of the present engaging communities, seamlessly on and into the future.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-15
Mått170 x 241 x 17 mm
Vikt668 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagCasemate Publishers
ISBN9798888571576

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List of corresponding authors List of figures List of tables List of plates Foreword Colin ShepherdPart One1. Introducing the cultural landscapes of north-east Scotland Bruce Mann2. A major glacial lake in north-east Scotland Andrew Wainwright3. Beyond the north-western frontiers of the Roman Empire: exploring the impacts of the Romans on farming communities in north-eastern Scotland Samantha Jones and Gordon Noble4. Identifying early medieval secular and ecclesiastical landscapes of power and community around Rhynie and Burghead Nicholas Evans5. ‘The banchor of Kildrummy’: a forgotten religious landscape? Alexander Forbes6. North-eastern Vikings? The presence and absence of a Norse–Scottish cultural landscape in north-east ScotlandCharlotta Hillerdal7. Trodden paths: Fetternear bishop’s palace and its landscape in medieval times Penelope Dransart8. Land for the landless: squatter encroachment in the uplands Jeff Oliver9. Exploring the effects of post-medieval crofting on the modern hillside ecosystem: vegetation history as cultural legacyLouise Smith, Jeff Oliver, Gill Plunkett, Kate Britton, and J. Edward SchofieldPart Two10. When the ice goes, the river flows: evidence of Mesolithic settlement from Deeside and the north-east Sandra Davison11. The Shepherds Lodge kailyard: experiments in reconstructing a 19th-century upland rural garden Christine Foster12. ‘Colonising the margins’: excavation and environmental analysis within a late medieval settlement area on the Pittodrie estate Colin Shepherd and Iain Ralston, with contributions from Jackaline Robertson, J. Edward Schofield, and Tim Kinnaird13. Thirteen years on: the Bennachie Landscapes Project experience. Learning from the past, shaping the future Colin Shepherd and Jo Vergunst