“…Scholars from Great Britain, Estonia and Holland have been doing research in this sphere over the last 10 years [16], [25], [28], [1]. Studies carried out by British authors mostly focus on former settlements, relying heavily on archaeological finds and going as far back as the Iron Age [17]. For example, in Estonia, where archaeological materials are harder to come by, they use natural materials (paleographic and geographical) [26], as well as historical archives from the time of the Swedish rule to reconstruct landscapes and settlement of the 13 th century Northern Estonia [13].…”