Broxy Kennels Fort, Souterrain and Surrounding Landscape, Perth

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 Agesites 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.

• 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