Cultural Landscapes of North-east Scotland

Collaborative Research in History and Archaeology

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2025
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-88857-157-6 (ISBN)

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Presents regional inter and multidisciplinary studies examining and showcasing the cultural landscapes and international interactions of NE Scotland from glacial to early modern times

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.

Colin Shepherd is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen and has been involved with the Bennachie Landscapes Project since its inception. He completed his PhD at Exeter in 1997 and has written widely about the agrarian history and cultural landscape of north-east Scotland.

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List of plates

Foreword
Colin Shepherd

Part One
1. Introducing the cultural landscapes of north-east Scotland
Bruce Mann
2. A major glacial lake in north-east Scotland
Andrew Wainwright
3. 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 Noble
4. Identifying early medieval secular and ecclesiastical landscapes of power and community around Rhynie and Burghead
Nicholas Evans
5. ‘The banchor of Kildrummy’: a forgotten religious landscape?
Alexander Forbes
6. North-eastern Vikings? The presence and absence of a Norse–Scottish cultural landscape in north-east Scotland
Charlotta Hillerdal
7. Trodden paths: Fetternear bishop’s palace and its landscape in medieval times
Penelope Dransart
8. Land for the landless: squatter encroachment in the uplands
Jeff Oliver
9. Exploring the effects of post-medieval crofting on the modern hillside ecosystem: vegetation history as cultural legacy
Louise Smith, Jeff Oliver, Gill Plunkett, Kate Britton, and J. Edward Schofield

Part Two
10. When the ice goes, the river flows: evidence of Mesolithic settlement from Deeside and the north-east
Sandra Davison
11. The Shepherds Lodge kailyard: experiments in reconstructing a 19th-century upland rural garden
Christine Foster
12. ‘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 Kinnaird
13. Thirteen years on: the Bennachie Landscapes Project experience. Learning from the past, shaping the future
Colin Shepherd and Jo Vergunst

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2025
Zusatzinfo	90 b/w, 60 colour
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 241 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Technik ► Bauwesen
ISBN-13	979-8-88857-157-6 / 9798888571576
Zustand	Neuware