Burgage plots of medieval Perth: the evidence from excavations at Canal Street

Abstract

Excavations undertaken in 1985 revealed four burgage plots with occupation spanning the mid-thirteenth to the early-fifteenth centuries. Evidence for malting, in the form of a kiln and coble, was recovered in an area relatively undeveloped until the eighteenth century. There are specialist reports on:`The pottery' by Peter Cheer (712--18); `The artefacts' by Adrian Cox (718--24) including a note on the `Coins' by Nicholas Holmes (724); `Animal bone' by Catherine Smith (725--6); `Botanical remains' by Alan Fairweather (726--7).

Iron-working in medieval Perth: a case of town and country?

“…If ore availability was not a pressing issue, such 'loss' may not have been a point of much concern for the Highland smith. was limited (eg Blanchard 1983;Holdsworth et al 1987;Stones 1989), with some further excavations reaching publication in the recent past Coleman 1996;Cox 1996;Moloney & Coleman 1997).…”