SRP - Pentland Hills Group

In support of the Scotland’s Rural Past project a small group of volunteers, led by Jill Strobridge, are recording a number of old farmsteads in the Pentland hills.

From the SRP project website:

Scotland’s Rural Past (SRP) is a five-year, nationwide project, which will support local communities across Scotland to investigate deserted rural settlements dating from the medieval and post-medieval periods. The project, which was launched in October 2006, is hosted by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the National Trust for Scotland, Historic Scotland, and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Through the work of the Historic Rural Settlement Trust these organisations have recognised the need to improve our understanding of these rural sites and encourage their conservation by involving local people.

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When the Scotland’s Rural Past team offered survey training courses as part of their project to record the rural landscapes falling into abandonment across Scotland a group of people including several from EAFS (Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society) took advantage of this and decided to record and research some of the ruined farmsteadings and related buildings found throughout the Pentland hills including sites like Threipmuir, Craigentarrie and Redford whose ruins still dominate their local landscapes as well as Acrehead near Bavelaw whose low grass covered foundations have long vanished from modern maps.