Medieval Tay

Learn about medieval Perth, a place of trade and politics, and the working landscape that surrounded it.

Table of Contents

Perth 1440 Reconstruction

Orchards

Abernethy Reconstruction

Kinafauns Old Parish Church

Elcho

Historic Environment Scotland Entry

Unicorn Report

Historic Environment Scotland Blog Entry

Rait Report

Minecraft

Moncreiffe Hill, located just south of Perth, was long believed to have the remains of two hillforts on its summits, but this had never been proven through excavation. A dig team, led by Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust and Tay Landscape Partnership (TayLP) with support from AOC Archaeology and a host of fantastic volunteers undertook the excavations. This dig revealed some amazing large fort defense walls, made from large stone blocks – perfect for modelling a Minecraft world…

Minecraft Build

Moncrieffe Hill was created as part of the Tay Landscape Partnership’s UNEARTH The Mystery of Prehistory festival in Perth City 2015. It took the team at ImmersiveMinds over 4 weeks to complete and is, to date, the largest heritage build they have undertaken. While the historical emphasis was on Moredun Top Fort, Moncrieffe Hill itself had to be recreated in its entirety. As with all Crafting the Past Minecraft builds, the landscape was created at 1:1 scale and topographically accurate, using data from a variety of GiS ported in to Minecraft. From there, Moredun Top Fort was recreated on this hill from archaeological drawings and discussions with the team at the TayLP. Areas of interest brought to digital life focused on typical fort structures -roundhouses, farmland and of course, the iconic defence walls.

A multi user minecraft server is available server is available at turret.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk port 9001.

DOWNLOADS

Explore the Hillfort! – Download

Download this zip file to explore Moredun Top Hillfort – for use on PC/MAC/Linux