Autorentext

Paula Martin edits the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, and is a tutor with the Open University. As an archaeologist and teacher, she enjoys explaining places through their surviving buildings and townscape (sometimes the spaces can be as important as the buildings). She is currently working with a historian, an archaeologist and an architectural historian on a project studying a variety of burghs for Historic Scotland. She lives near Cupar.

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Cupar was created a royal burgh in 1328, though its name is Pictish, suggesting that there had been an important settlement there since the 7th or 8th century if not earlier. Until the 16th century it was among the richest royal burghs in Scotland, but declined in the 17th century, its trade handicapped by its distance from the sea.