Broxy Kennels Fort, Souterrain and Surrounding Landscape, Perth

Contents

Summary ? Kenneth Green

Acknowledgements

Contributors to the volume

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PART 1: Introduction and Results ? Kenneth Green with John-James Atkinson, Christina Mollie Dogherty, Charlotte Hunter, Maureen Kilpatrick and Alun Woodward

Introduction ?

Broxy Kennels

Archaeological Background ?

Results of the Investigations at Broxy Kennels ?

Metal Detecting and Significant Finds (Figure 4) ?

The Main Ditch Excavations ?

Machine Excavated Slot Trenches ?

The Souterrain ? John James Atkinson ?

Other Features around the Fort ? Christina Mollie Dogherty

The ?Palisade? ? John James Atkinson ?

Investigations at Scone 1 and 2 ? Charlotte Hunter and Maureen Kilpatrick

Archaeological Evaluation of Temporary Works Area 5 ? Alun Woodward

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PART 2: Dating and the Environment ?

Radiocarbon dating and Chronological modelling ? Derek Hamilto

Archaeobotany ? Susan Ramsay ?

Micromorphology ? Carol Laing

Multi-element analysis of souterrain deposits ? Clare Wilson ?

Animal Bone ? Catherine Smith

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PART 3: Material Culture ?

The Lithic Assemblages ? Torben Bjarke Ballin ?

Stone Artefacts ? Beverley Ballin Smith ?

The Prehistoric Pottery ? Beverley Ballin Smith

Clay and Fired Clay ? Beverley Ballin Smith ?

Metalwork ?? Gemma Cruickshanks and Leanne Demay

Vitrified Material ? Gemma Cruickshanks

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PART 4: Discussion ? Kenneth Green

Environmental and archaeological evidence earlier than the fort ? Beverley Ballin Smith

The establishment of the fort ? Kenneth Green

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Bibliography

Appendices

Index

About the Author

Kenneth Green has worked as a Project Officer for GUARD Archaeology since 2020, having joined as a graduate in July 2011. He has worked on a wide variety of commercial archaeology projects across Scotland including large infra-structure projects such as Dunragit, Dumfries and Galloway and Fanellan, near Inverness, and of course directed the Cross Tay Link Road, Perth excavation. He has excavated Mesolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age

sites across Scotland and more recently directed the excavation of a Medieval moated enclosure in Ayrshire. He has published the results of investigations at Partick Castle, Glasgow and the early Neolithic of Hillhouse Farm, Kilmarnock.