How many historic rural settlement sites are there in Scotland?
Nobody has counted, but there are tens of thousands. A recent study by RCAHMS of ruined and unroofed structures on the first edition Ordnance Survey six inch maps located 25,000 sites. Although they are not rare they are still important. Every one of those places relates to the lives of our ancestors; each one was home to people whose successors may still live locally, may have moved to the towns, or may have been one of the hundreds of thousands of people of Scots origin who sought their fortune – or met their fate – around the world.
