5.7.4 Rivers as Routeways

Priority 1: The area includes significant lochs and river systems, and wetland in the form of upland peat bogs. While much subsequently altered (see Environment priorities), the importance of rivers and lochs for transportation, communication and trade, and the full nature of crannog settlement, remains largely unknown.

Priority 2: The Tay estuary includes an extensive and unexplored intertidal zone, which in the past was fringed with coastal wetlands in the form of estuarine saltmarsh on the Carse of Gowrie and the head of the estuary. While the importance of both the estuary and its main tributary rivers for transportation, communication, and trade has been established since at least the Bronze Age (Strachan 2010), the full extent of use of these environments in the Iron Age, has not been fully realised.

Research Questions

PKARF Qu 5.28: Can we identify evidence for transport and communication on rivers and lochs in relation to crannog use?

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PKARF Qu 5.29: Given the significant changes to the intertidal, sub-tidal and estuary littoral since the Iron Age, how best can we recognise waterlogged remains in the intertidal and within the reclaimed Carse of Gowrie, to identify new sites and previously unrecognised activities?

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01/06/2025
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