What types of buildings and structures are there and what were they used for?
As well as houses which were often shared by people and their cattle, historic rural settlements may include barns, cart sheds, corn-drying kilns, limekilns, mills, middens (rubbish tips or pits), kale yards, stackyards, gardens, illicit whisky stills, shielings, and many other specialised nuildings and enclosures.