부산대학교 도서관

The ruins of abandoned settlements remain visible throughout much of rural Scotland. These represent former townships, farmsteads and shielings which were widespread until relatively recently and began their fall into large-scale decline and abandonment during the eighteenth century. Despite being such a common feature in the landscape relatively few of these abandoned settlements have been recorded in any detail. Since October 2006 the Scotland's Rural Past Project at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) has been working with community groups to discover, survey, and record a small fraction of the thousands of these sites that have the potential to tell a story of rural settlement from the medieval period onwards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]