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Dumfriesshire - A Frontier Region (Hardcover)
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Dumfriesshire - A Frontier Region (Hardcover)
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Straddling the main western route into Scotland, Dumfriesshire was
the focus of successive waves of immigrants from the Stone Age
people onwards. They were followed by the Beaker people of the
Bronze Age, and later the Celts, renowned for their iron-working
skills, their horsemanship and their militancy. After a brief spell
of Roman rule, Dumfriesshire became part of the Cumbrian kingdom of
Rheged. Then came the Northumbrian conquerors, Viking invaders and
finally Anglo-Norman settlers. Chief among them was Robert de Brus,
who was granted the lordship of Annandale, and in 1306 his
descendant King Robert Bruce usurped the throne. In an age of
turbulence, Dumfriesshire was the main battleground of the Wars of
Independence, a target of repeated English invasions, a prey to
reiving, and victim of the sixteenthcentury religious wars. With
the restoration of peace following the Union of 1707 came land
improvement and the development of farming, which would become the
mainstay of the region's economy. This comprehensively researched
book demolishes a number of popular myths, and is a highly readable
account of a region which can justly be described as the cockpit of
southern Scotland.
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