The Flora MacDonald research project is an interdisciplinary project, exploring the landscape and post-medieval settlement history of the Hebridean Island of South Uist. The study area is centred upon Milton, a township or baile from the early 18th century. At the time of the project’s inception, there was recognition in Scotland that there was a relative lack of archaeological investigation into medieval and later rural settlement remains, and this was seen as an important subject for further research Archaeological fieldwork in the Hebrides had in the main concentrated on the well-preserved prehistoric to Norse sites along the coastal area.