SAIR40Artefactual, Environmental and Archaeological Evidence from the Holyrood Parliament Site Excavations
Holyrood Archaeology Project Team: Gordon G Barclay and Anna Ritchie (Editors)
with contributions from Adrian Cox, Derek Hall, Effie Photos-Jones, Robin Murdoch, Julie Franklin, Shelley Brown, Torben Bjarke Ballin, Catherine Smith, Claire Thomas, Nicholas Holmes, Dennis Gallagher, Jo Dawson, Stephen Carter, Tim Holden, Mhairi Hastie, Ruby Cerón-Carrasco and Simon Stronach.
ISBN 978 0903 903 660
Published in February 2010 by The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, in association with The Council for British Archaeology and Historic Scotland, in Adobe Acrobat format. Available free of charge (see Terms & Conditions of Use).
Preface
A summary of these specialist reports (Parts 1 and 2) was published in 2008 in the monograph on the Holyrood Parliament Site Project: Scotland's Parliament Site and the Canongate: Archaeology and History by the Holyrood Archaeology Project Team, Chapter 3.9 & 3.10 (HAPT 2008). Except for sections 3.9 and 3.10, Chapter 3 in that monograph has been repeated here as Part 3, in order to provide the archaeological context for the artefactual and environmental evidence alongside the specialist reports.
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| i | Title Page |
| iii | Table of Contents |
| vi | List of Illustrations |
| vii | List of Tables |
| viii | Preface and Acknowledgements |
| 1 | Part 1: The Artefact Reports |
| 1.1 | Introduction by Adrian Cox |
| 1.1.1 | Summary of the artefact and ceramic evidence by Adrian Cox and Derek Hall |
| 1.2 | Pottery by Derek W Hall |
| 1.2.1 | Scottish and English fabrics |
| 1.2.2 | Fabrics imported from the Low Countries |
| 1.2.3 | Fabrics imported from France |
| 1.2.4 | Fabrics imported from Germany |
| 1.2.5 | Fabrics imported from Spain |
| 1.2.6 | Fabrics imported from unknown sources in northern Europe |
| 1.2.7 | Conclusion |
| 1.2.8 | Selected catalogue of pottery from the main Parliament site |
| 1.3 | Metal Objects by Adrian Cox |
| 1.3.1 | Copper alloy objects |
| 1.3.2 | Lead alloy objects |
| 1.3.3 | Iron objects |
| 1.4 | Iron-Making and -Working by Effie Photos-Jones |
| 1.4.1 | Introduction: setting the scene |
| 1.4.2 | The Scottish bloomery |
| 1.4.3 | Energy sources and natural resources |
| 1.4.4 | Typology and distribution of the Holyrood metallurgical waste |
| 1.4.5 | Holyrood fuel and metallurgical waste: slag morphology and slag analysis methodology |
| 1.4.6 | Discussion |
| 1.5 | Glass by Robin Murdoch |
| 1.6 | Ceramic objects by Adrian Cox |
| 1.7 | Ceramic and stone building material by Julie Franklin |
| 1.7.1 | Introduction |
| 1.7.2 | Floor and wall tiles |
| 1.7.3 | Roof slates with thanks to Shelley Brown for stone identification |
| 1.7.4 | Roof tiles |
| 1.7.5 | Brick and daub |
| 1.8 | Stone objects by Adrian Cox |
| 1.9 | Flaked stone by Torben Bjarke Ballin |
| 1.9.1 | Raw material |
| 1.9.2 | Assemblage composition |
| 1.9.3 | Debitage |
| 1.9.4 | Cores |
| 1.9.5 | Tools |
| 1.9.6 | Possible ballast flint |
| 1.9.7 | Dating |
| 1.10 | Bone and antler objects by Adrian Cox, with species identifications by Catherine Smith |
| 1.11 | Leather objects |
| 1.11.1 | Leather-covered ball by Adrian Cox |
| 1.11.2 | Shoe and miscellaneous fragments by Claire Thomas |
| 1.12 | Coins and jetons by Nicholas Holmes |
| 1.13 | Clay tobacco pipes by Dennis Gallagher |
| 1.13.1 | Edinburgh makers |
| 1.13.2 | Imported and 19th-century pipes |
| 1.13.3 | The pipes in relation to the site |
| 1.14 | Artefacts From Queensberry House |
| 1.14.1 | Pottery by Derek W Hall |
| 1.14.2 | Iron objects by Adrian Cox |
| 1.14.3 | The industrial waste from the basement of Queensberry House by Effie Photos-Jones |
| 1.14.4 | Glass by Adrian Cox |
| 1.14.5 | Leather by Adrian Cox |
| 1.14.6 | Stone and ceramic building material by Adrian Cox |
| 1.14.7 | Clay tobacco pipes by Dennis Gallagher |
| 1.14.8 | House of Refuge finds by Jo Dawson |
| 2 | Part 2: The environmental remains |
| 2.1 | Summary of Results by Stephen Carter |
| 2.2 | Carbonised plant remains by Tim Holden and Mhairi Hastie |
| 2.2.1 | Methodology |
| 2.2.2 | Main excavation site |
| 2.2.3 | Queensberry House |
| 2.2.4 | Discussion |
| 2.3 | Mammalian, bird and molluscan remains by Catherine Smith |
| 2.3.1 | Selection criteria for mammal bone samples |
| 2.3.2 | Summary of animal bone by period |
| 2.3.3 | The domestic livestock |
| 2.3.4 | Discussion of the mammalian and bird remains |
| 2.4 | Fish remains by Ruby Cerón-Carrasco |
| 2.4.1 | Methodology |
| 2.4.2 | Result |
| 2.4.3 | Discussion by period |
| 2.5 | Soils and sediments by Stephen Carter |
| 2.5.1 | Sediment sources and processes of accumulation |
| 2.5.2 | Soils |
| 2.5.3 | Materials and methodology |
| 2.5.4 | Results |
| 2.5.5 | Sediment depth and distribution |
| 2.5.6 | Discussion |
| 2.5.7 | Conclusions |
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Part 3: The archaeological evidence from the Parliament site by Simon Stronach, Adrian Cox, Derek Hall and Stephen Carter. |
| Part 3 is Chapter 3, reprinted from Scotland's Parliament and the Canongate: archaeology and history (HAPT 2008) | |
| 3.1 | Introduction by Simon Stronach |
| 3.2 | Summary of the archaeological evidence by Simon Stronach |
| 3.3 | Early features by Simon Stronach |
| 3.4 | Period 1: 12th–14th-century ditch by Simon Stronach |
| 3.5 | Period 2: 14th–15th-century burgage plots by Simon Stronach |
| 3.5.1 | Medieval accumulation |
| 3.5.2 | Boundaries and backlands |
| 3.6 | Period 3: 16th–17th-century tenements and gardens by Simon Stronach |
| 3.7 | Period 4: 17th–18th-century townhouses and formal gardens by Simon Stronach |
| Haddington House | |
| Balmakellie and Queensberry House | |
| Canongate frontage | |
| Lothian Hut | |
| 3.8 | Period 5: 19th-century military barracks and modern features by Simon Stronach |
| Haddington House | |
| Quartermaster's store and military features | |
| Tenement and Queensberry House | |
| 3.9 | Conclusions by Simon Stronach |
| Pre-burghal settlement, pre-1128 | |
| The medieval period, 1128–1580 | |
| The post-medieval period, 1580–1707 | |
| The early modern period, 1707–1825 | |
| The modern period, 1825–present day | |
| 4 | References |
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