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Heritage Sites: Places of Archaeological and Historic Interest
A wholly natural landscape has not existed in this area since the earliest settlers re-colonised the area after the last Ice Age. They immediately began to make their mark by cutting down trees, establishing camps and lighting fires. Gradual clearance of natural tree cover, the cultivation of land and the construction of settlements, burial mounds, boundaries and roads started the process by which people came to shape and dominate the landscape. Although the Borders is covered by plants and inhabited by wild creatures, the hand of man is apparent everywhere and the whole landscape is managed to a greater or lesser degree.
The remains of prehistoric sites, later medieval tower houses and churches, industrial monuments all form part of the historic fabric of the Scottish Borders. These leaflets bring together a wide range of these sites, grouped around the largest settlements for the reader’s convenience and located by National Grid reference for use with Ordnance Survey maps, of which a range exists at various scales for the Borders. Landranger 1:50,000 scale maps are recommended, although more detail appears on 1:25,000 scale maps of the Pathfinder and Outdoor Leisure Series.
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