The Rows - Theories of Origins II

The second theory of the development of the rows is as follows: they evolved to offer the inhabitants better security from potential invaders. This theory suggests that businesses and living accommodations were deliberately built at a higher level joined by linked walkways and accessed by staircases dotted along their length. The staircases could then have been protected by shutters and gates to prevent invaders gaining access to the upper levels, giving inhabitants an extra level of protection (after the city walls and gates). This theory seems less likely - after all, invaders could simply have set fire to the lower levels, since undercrofts were supported by wooden beams, although that would have destroyed much of the value that lay in capturing the city.

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