In a series of studies since the 1980s, the long-held view that the Anglo-Scottish war of 1296-1328 ended with the severing of the cross-border landholding network that had developed in the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries has been challenged and overturned. The treaty which ended the war made provision for the return of the heritage of specific Anglo- Scottish nobles or their successors and, although the number of restorations made good before the re-opening of hostilities with Edward Balliol's English-backed invasion of 1332 remained low and the attitudes of leading figures in the Bruce regime in Scotland decidedly lukewarm towards the process, it appears that the possibility of a pan-British nobility holding property in both kingdoms and their constituent territories had not ended with Robert Bruce's ‘final’ forfeitures of his domestic opponents in 1314. For the top echelons of the Anglo-Scottish secular nobility, the decisive moment in that respect perhaps occurred as late as the death on 30 November 1335 of David de Strathbogie, earl of Atholl, but to date the demise of the reality of significant cross-border landholding to that event is to read history backwards and, more importantly, is also to ignore the continued existence of a network of such landholding into the fifteenth century in the form of the estates of the great Border abbeys.