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Mapping the past of rural areas
03/10/2006
A grant of £594,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund will allow 22,000 ruins in rural areas across Scotland to be recorded and cared for.
The ruins were identified in a 2001 survey by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) and more than 2,000 volunteers will not take part in a five-year project to chart abandoned farmsteads, townships, crofts, weaver's cottages, mills, quarries, field systems and illicit stills.
Another grant of £142,500 to preserve an 18th century croft house and horse mill at Auchtavan in Glen Feardar, near Braemar, part of the Cairngorms National Park, was also announced today.
Culture Minister Patricia Ferguson said:
"Scotland has a rich and varied history, and its unique landscape has many stories to tell us. I welcome this opportunity to record Scotland's natural heritage.
"I am particularly pleased that this project will provide so many volunteers with the skills to undertake such preservation in the future."