the end game: as scotland’s historic land-use assessment project reaches completion what have we...

THE END GAME

As Scotland’s Historic Land-use Assessment (HLA) project nears completion what have we learned?

Susan Hamilton, Kirsty Millican and Mike Middletonwww.rcahms.gov.uk

The Historic Land-use Assessment

Landscape: ‘... an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors’

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Historic Land-use Assessment: Sources

Current Ordnance Survey (C) Crown Copyright and database right 2013. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100020548

Roy 1747-55 First Edition Ordnance Survey

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography RAF Aerial Photography 1946-7

Medieval burgh. Culross, Fife

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Medieval rig and furrow cultivation

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Historic Land-use Assessment

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Historic Land-use Assessment

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HLA: applications

Context: Archaeological records clustering within landscape types medieval village cores (left) and designed landscapes (right)

HLA: applications

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HLA: applications

The Historic Land-use Assessment

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