Broxy Kennels Fort, Souterrain and Surrounding Landscape, Perth

Contents

Summary – Kenneth Green

Acknowledgements

Contributors to the volume

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

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

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

PART 4: Discussion – Kenneth Green

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

The establishment of the fort – Kenneth Green

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.