Perth High Street Archaeological Excavation 1975‑1977. Living and working in a medieval Scottish Burgh. Environmental remains and miscellaneous finds.

This Fascicule includes a full analysis of the mammal, bird and fish bone assemblages, botanical remains, feathers, mollusca and a compilation of reports on the worked bone, stone, flint and glass assemblages.

Contents and Introduction by Olwyn Owen

The Environmental Remains:

Catherine Smith ‘The history of the environmental remains’

the late George W I Hodgson, Catherine Smith, Angela Jones: ‘The mammal bone’

Catherine Smith and A S Clarke ‘The bird bone’

Andrew K G Jones: ‘The fish bone’

I H M Smart and R B Longmore ‘The human bone’

David Heppel, Catherine Smith and David McKay ‘The mollusca’

Ruby Cerón-Carrasco ‘The feathers’

Mary Fraser and Catherine Smith ‘The botanical remains’

Catherine Smith ‘The environment of medieval Perth’

The Miscellaneous Finds:

Arthur MacGregor, with the late Nicholas Q Bogdan, Mark A Hall and Catherine Smith ‘The worked bone’

John Hunter, with the late Nicholas Q Bogdan and George Dalgleish ‘The medieval glass’

Catherine Smith, J Lawson Brown and Mark A Hall ‘The stone objects’

the late James B Kenworthy ‘The flint’

References

Appendix 1: Glossary

Acknowledgements

with illustrations by Dave Munro and Tamlin Barton