Atlas of Scottish History to 1707Peter G. B. McNeill, Hector L. MacQueen Scottish Medievalists and Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, 1996 - Reference - 462 pages An Atlas of Scottish History to 1707 provides a wealth of information about Scotland's history from the Roman's and Vikings onwards. With information on early Scottish place names, parish churches, acts passed during rule, Sheriffdoms, baronies, lordships, earldoms, overseas trade, linguistics, maps, diagrams, and more, the atlas pulls together information and resources to paint a picture of early Scotland. It contains not only maps, but also diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts where these are necessary. |
Contents
The location and shape of Scotland | 2 |
Land and sealevel changes | 8 |
Subsistence potential of the land | 14 |
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60 miles Abbey Aberdeen Angus Arbroath areas Argyll army assessments Atholl Balliol Baltic Banff barony Berwick upon Tweed bishops Bothwell boundaries Brechin Buchan burghs Burntisland Caithness Castle Cathedral centre churches about 1300 clans Crail Culross Cupar customs diocese Dornoch Douglas Dumbarton Dumfries Dunbar Dunblane Dundee Dundee Perth Dunfermline Dunkeld Dysart earl earldom East ecclesiastical Edinburgh Edward Elgin England English estates exports Fife fifteenth century Firth Forest Forfar Gaelic Galloway Glasgow Haddington Hamilton Highlands Inverkeithing Inverness Irvine Isles James Jedburgh Kelso Kincardine king Kinghorn Kinross Kintyre Kirk Kirkcaldy Kirkcudbright Lanark lands Leith Linlithgow Loch Lochmaben Lord lordship Lothian Melrose miles 60 Montrose Moray northern Norway Orkney P(RB Paisley Parish churches parliament Peebles Perth PGBM Pictish Place-dates Place-names ports presbyteries Renfrew Roman Ross Roxburgh royal Scone Scotland Scots Scottish Selkirk settlement sheriffdoms Shetland ships shires sixteenth St Andrews Stirling thirteenth century trade West Whithorn Wigtown wool