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Rebuilding Shiaba

Reviving a Historic Scottish Township and Lessons for Repopulating Remote Scotland

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Eric Sandelands
Nov 14, 2025
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Shaiba (image courtesy of Isle of Mull Cottages)

It is hard to read James Crawford’s wonderful book Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland without your mind racing off to all sorts of places, and ultimately asking the question “what if?” It is packed with examples of human activity in villages, townships and other locations now long abandoned.

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