For over a decade, the Historic Land-use Assessment (HLA) Project – a partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS – has undertaken the challenge of mapping Scotland’s historic landscape character. By 2015 the Project will have delivered 100% coverage and, for the first time, Scotland will have a map providing time-depth. The final stages of this project provide a valuable opportunity for review and reflection, and in this presentation we review where we have got to and think about some possibilities for the future. Kirsty Millican and Mike Middleton Computing Applications in Archaeology 2013 (25-28 March) University of Western Australia

1. THE END GAME
As Scotland’s Historic Land-use Assessment (HLA) project
nears completion what have we learned?
Susan Hamilton, Kirsty Millican and Mike Middleton
www.rcahms.gov.uk

2. The Historic Land-use Assessment
Landscape: ‘... an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the
result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors’
(Article 1, European Landscape Convention)
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3. Historic Land-use Assessment: Sources
Current Ordnance Survey (C) Crown Copyright
and database right 2013. All rights reserved.
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Roy 1747-55 First Edition Ordnance Survey
Orthorectified AP (C) Nextperspectives
RCAHMS Aerial Photography RAF Aerial Photography 1946-7

4. Medieval burgh. Culross, Fife
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5. Medieval rig and furrow cultivation
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6. Historic Land-use Assessment
Current Ordnance Survey (C) Crown Copyright and database right 2013.
All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100020548

7. Historic Land-use Assessment
(C) Nextperspectives

8. HLA: applications
Context: Archaeological records clustering within landscape types
medieval village cores (left) and designed landscapes (right)

9. HLA: applications
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10. HLA: applications

11. The Historic Land-use Assessment
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