Tayside Fife Archaeol J 11

Excavations confirmed the possibility that a series of parallel banks and ditches within a strip of rough ground at Woodlea concealed remnants of the Roman road from Dunblane to Ardoch.

This paper discusses the provenance of a greyware pottery fabric that has been recovered from excavations in Perth. The results of ICPMS analysis are detailed and the results are discussed with regard to comparative types of pottery from Denmark, East Anglia and the northeast of England. Includes

A carved oak figurative panel found in Perth in 1925 and currently on display in Perth Museum is here dated to the second quarter of the sixteenth century, and assessed in terms of other Scottish late medieval/Renaissance figurative panels and in terms of its possible association with Perth's medieval leper hospital in Bridgend. Includes

Two copper alloy seal matrices found using metal-detectors and allocated via Treasure Trove to Perth Museum and Art Gallery are here assessed in terms of their hunting iconography and their documenting of identity and office in the lower/middle ranks of the Earldom of Strathearn.

Survey of the derelict Findo Gask Airfield recorded extensive World War II buildings, including a large T2 hangar, an unusual three-storey control tower modified while under construction, blast shelters, various huts, a pyrotechnics store, an electrical sub-station, a radio broadcasting house, various hard standings, and the perimeter track. Buildings were constructed in steel, colliery bricks from various Fife sources, and in cellular concrete, a wartime austerity material. Some buildings used metal windows to metric specifications. The station was used by various training, operational and maintenance units, and by Polish forces.