ABSTRACT
The key volume is M. Lynch et aI., The Scottish Medieval Town. E. Ewan, Townlife in Fourteenth-Century Scotland (Edinburgh 1990) provides an overview of society in the burghs. Duncan, Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom, has a good chapter on towns while B. Dicks, The Scottish medieval town, a search for origins, in G. Gordon and B. Dicks (eds), Scottish Urban History (Aberdeen 1983) pp. 23-51 considers the problem of urban origins in Scotland. The potential for analysing the evolution of Scottish town plans is brought out by N.P. Brooks and G. Whittington, Planning and growth in the medieval Scottish burgh: the example of St Andrews, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 2, 1977, 278-95. ].B. Hunter, Medieval Berwick on Tweed, Archaeologia Aeliana, 10, 1982, 107-24 looks at the evidence for the layout and functions of this important centre. Stringer, Earl David, looks at the rise of the contrasting centres of Inverurie and Dundee. Many reports of excavations in Scottish towns are contained in recent volumes of PSAS but several important ones remain unpublished. More general summaries of the findings for Aberdeen and Perth have been produced: ].c. Murray (ed.), Excavations in the Medieval Burgh of Aberdeen 1973-81 (Edinburgh 1982) and P. Holdsworth (ed.), Excavations in the Medieval Burgh of Perth 197~81 (Edinburgh 1988). ].S. Smith (ed.), New Light on Medieval Aberdeen (Aberdeen 1985) is also worth reading. See also W.B. Stevenson, The monastic presence in Scottish burghs in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, SHR, 60, 1981,97-118.
