Jörðgarð Map of the Week #93 - Typical Border March Settlement

[Mark Oliva]

I am very partial to small settlements as I believe they would be more the norm in a fantasy setting where the world is always growing, and not many maps of them.

Generally agreed. If you look at today's big cities in the Dark or Middle Ages, you usually will find that they weren't very big then. How many small settlements there were varied greatly from location to location.