Broxy Kennels Fort, Souterrain and Surrounding Landscape, Perth
By (author) Kenneth Green With John-James Atkinson With Christina Mollie Dogherty With Charlotte Hunter With Maureen Kilpatrick With Alun Woodward
Paperback (Published)
(April 2026)
ISBN: 9781805832935
8.31 x 11.69 inches
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Excavation of Broxy Kennels Fort revealed a 6th‑century BC multivallate hilltop settlement later modified with a souterrain and new ditches in the 5th–4th centuries BC. After a brief hiatus, an unenclosed settlement continued until the late 1st century AD, with only sporadic later activity before the site was lost to ploughing.
Archaeological excavation of almost the entirety of Broxy Kennels Fort to the north of Perth, was undertaken in advance of a new road development. It revealed a multivallate fortified settlement on a hill overlooking the River Tay. The fort constructed in the 6th century BC initially comprised two ditches that encircled the hill with a north-east entranceway that led to the interior.
Around the late 5th-early 4th centuries BC, parts of the settlement’s defences were altered to accommodate a souterrain constructed into one of the silted-up ditches. The alteration necessitated a further short ditch either side of the entrance, followed by a final outer ditch that encircled the hill. Other changes within the enclosure may also have occurred at this time with material from clearance of structures being dumped in the ditches.
After a short hiatus, an unenclosed settlement within the interior of the fort persisted from the 4th century BC until around the late 1st century AD. Other than traces of sporadic activity from the early medieval period to the post-medieval era, the site was to all intents and purposes lost to the plough.
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
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.
- By (author) Kenneth Green
- With John-James Atkinson
- With Christina Mollie Dogherty
- With Charlotte Hunter
- With Maureen Kilpatrick
- With Alun Woodward
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