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Medieval land assessment These units served an important fiscal role as the basis on which military service iforinsecum servitium) and taxes were assessed. The origins of the system may be traced back to the house system of seventh-century Dalriada as recorded in Senchus fer nAlban. The geographical distribution of the units is explicable in terms of population movements and settlement patterns during the Dark Ages .. --., "" 10203040 50 80 -of Scots to Pictland, Scandinavians to the Western Isles, Northern Isles and Caithness, and Gallgaidhil to Galloway. Not part of the same system but fulfilling a similar function was the ploughgate, normally what a plough-team could handle in one year -usually about 104 acres of arable land. -kmo 25 50 7S 100 10 20 30 AO .50 eo Pennylands in Scotland before 1600 Ploughgates in Scotland before 1600 285

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