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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Cottown Clay House - 1850]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Culture]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Earth houses have a long history in the British Isles. Today many people still admire the picturesque mudwall or ‘cob’ cottages of Devon and Somerset. However, earth was also a popular building material in parts of Scotland, with mudwall dwellings once being common in Dumfriesshire, Angus, and the Carse of Gowrie (beside the River Tay).

In the Carse of Gowrie local clays were used for building from pre-historic times through to the nineteenth century. Today about forty clay buildings survive in the Carse of Gowrie. The former school house at Cottown is a particularly fine example of the type of clay building that was once common in the Carse.

The Cottown School House was begun in the mid-eighteenth century. However, like many vernacular buildings its form evolved over time. The University of St Andrews’ Open Virtual Worlds team and Smart History collaborated with the Tay Landscape Partnership and Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust on a representation of the buildings at Cottown as they may have appeared in the nineteenth century. 

The Cottown School House is now cared for by the National Trust for Scotland.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[reconstructions]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2016]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[In Copyright (InC)]]></dcterms:license>
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    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Reconstruction]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[181]]></dcterms:identifier>
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