Recent research into Anglo-Norman urban design (Barrett, 2019) highlighted the lack of determined archaeological excavation in Moray’s burghs: especially the very scanty nature of evidence for the built environment. A […]
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Timmer Lum at Rotherhill
Smoke extraction by chimney posed some problems for the clay walled house, and those built of similar variants (2). No great difficulties arose with the central hearth, a fire lit […]
Continue readingNotes on ‘Stake and Rice’ in Elgin
This is not a mis-spelt menu! …… but a type of internal partition walling, an example of which has recently been found in a ruined house in Elgin. The derelict […]
Continue readingThe East Grange Mill – A Note on its Primary Machinery
The manuscript map by the Rev. Timothy Pont circa 1590 shows a mill at East Grange but no details of it are known. Some information is available about its form […]
Continue readingClay Building in the Lower Spey Valley
“A dry pair of shoes and a good hat” — which being translated means a sound foundation and a good thatch — is the old Devonshire recipe for the longevity […]
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