Woodland management in medieval Scotland

The Holocene history of Pinus sylvestris woodland in the Mar Lodge Estate, Cairngorms, Eastern Scotland

Factors influencing moth assemblages in woodland fragments on farmland: Implications for woodland management and creation schemes

0006-3207/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2012.04.019 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 (0) 1786 466544; E-mail address: [email protected] (E. Fuentes-Monte As a consequence of long-term deforestation, woodland cover has been drastically reduced in the United Kingdom. The remaining woodland consists mainly of small, highly fragmented woodland patches wit...

Medieval religious houses in Scotland with an appendix on the houses in the Isle of Man

health rules are reminiscent of the Regimen sanitatis Salerni. Some of the material was borrowed, such as proverbs from Dryden, Pope, La Rochefoucauld and Rabelais. Franklin continually added and revised, and some of his statements found their way into common American parlance. The last number (1758) contained a series of adages entitled 'The way to wealth' and this appeared even in Chinese, Ru...

Goose management in Scotland: An overview

This paper reviews the changing status of goose populations in Scotland since the 1940s, and the changing policies and management activities employed over that time. The size of all goose populations has risen since the 1940s due to protection measures, changes in agriculture and levels of shooting, in the UK and elsewhere. The development of goose policies in response to public interest and pr...

Small-Scale Evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland

This paper presents the results of the excavation of two dry-stone structures in the abandoned blackhouse village of Bereiro, near to the township of Crowlista, Isle of Lewis. The research was undertaken as part of a wider landscape project investigating human occupation on the Uig peninsula from prehistory to the post-medieval period (the Uig Landscape Project). The excavation aimed to collect...