Excavation of a timber round-house and broch at the Fairy Knowe, Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, 1975-8

Lorna Main (Author)

J Barber (Contributor)

W E Boyd (Contributor)

D Caldwell (Contributor)

A Clarke (Contributor)

G Collins (Contributor)

P Davidson (Contributor)

D Dungworth (Contributor)

F Hunter (Contributor)

D Ingemark (Contributor)

G McDonnell (Contributor)

A S Robertson (Contributor)

L Slater (Contributor)

C Smith (Contributor)

M Spearman (Contributor)

S Willis (Contributor)

A Young (Contributor)


Keywords:
Crucible, Copper Alloy, Clay, Pottery, Iron, Farmhouse, Industrial Fired Clay, Posts, Copperalloy Artefacts, Metalworking, Glass, Animal Bone, Bone, Timber Roundhouse
Period(s):
Iron Age, Roman, Post Medieval

Abstract


Reports on work that revealed evidence of occupation of what was essentially a fortified farmhouse by a native elite group practising a mixed-farming economy. There are a number of specialist sections on: `Wooden posts' by John Barber (301--2); `Palaeobotanical remains' by W E Boyd (310--16); `Animal bone' by Catherine Smith & Archie Young (316--20); `Iron Age and Roman pottery' (321--31), `Objects of fired clay' (332--5) and `Industrial fired clay objects' (371--6) by Steven Willis; `Medieval and post medieval pottery' by David Caldwell (331--2); `Roman glass' by Dominic Ingemark (335--7); `Other glass finds' (337--8), `Copper alloy' (338--46), `Lead' (352--6) and `Iron' (356--67), `Analysis of the cannel coal bangle fragment 409' (390), `Amber' (390--1), `Worked bone and antler' (392--3) and `Discussion of the artefact assemblage' (393--401) by Fraser Hunter; `Roman coins' by Anne S Robertson (346--7); `EDXRF analysis of copper-alloy artefacts' (347--52) and `EDXRF analysis of crucible and mould fragments' (376--7) by David Dungworth; `Preliminary metallurgical analysis of some iron objects' by Gerry McDonnell (367--9); `Ironworking debris' by Michael Spearman & Fraser Hunter (370); `Metalworking debris within the brooch' by Liz Slater (370--1); `Stone' by Ann Clarke (377--86); and an `Analysis of the deposits on sandstone mortars 302 & 473' by Peter Davidson (390).

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Published
30-11-1999
How to Cite
Main, L., Barber, J., Boyd, W. E., Caldwell, D., Clarke, A., Collins, G., … Young, A. (1999). Excavation of a timber round-house and broch at the Fairy Knowe, Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, 1975-8. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 128, 293–417. https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.128.293.417
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