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Age of Clans

The Age of Clans explores Scotland in the post medieval period. Explore Jacobite battles at a Cathedral and a Fort, or read about trackways used to move cattle, horses and humans across the landscape. Alternatively, you can learn about remote Hebridean communities from local Gaelic tradition, and discover hidden gems in the northern Cairngorms.

Dunkeld Cathedral and battle site - Dunkeld And Dowally, Perth And Kinross

We have arrived at August and the 'Age of Clans and Clearances' is upon us, so why do we find ourselves at a semi-ruinous medieval Cathedral? Nestled among the hills on the banks of the River Tay, this would have been a beautiful spot even before the creation of the designed landscape of which the cathedral is now part. Yet Dunkeld Cathedral was the site of a pivotal battle between Cameronian Regiment (the 26th Foot) and the Jacobite clans. This was an urban battle and that was perhaps key to the Cameronian regiment's success.

Boyken Burn settlement, Fermtoun – Dumfries and Galloway

The fermtoun of Boyken Burn in the valley of the Dumfriesshire Esk is a remarkable survival of a complete farming settlement pre-dating the Agricultural Improvements that took place mainly from the middle of the 18th and into the early 19th centuries. In the Esk Valley the pattern and the names of the settlements are known from documents of the late 14th century and most of them continue as modern farms, probably on or close to the sites of their predecessors whose remains have been destroyed, but at Boyken Burn no modern farm has been established and the earlier remains survive, occupying a band of ground sandwiched between modern cultivation below and commercial forestry above.