ARO61: Guardbridge, Fife: A multi-period settlement with a multi-vallate fort

By Maureen Kilpatrick, Jordan Barbour, Thomas Muir and Charlotte Hunter

With contributions by Torben Ballin, Beverley Ballin Smith, Gemma Cruickshanks, Derek Hamilton, Fraser Hunter, Matthew Knight, Carol Lang, Helen Mackay, Susan Ramsay, Catherine Smith and Bob Will

Illustrations by Jennifer Simonson, Gillian Sneddon, Eddie Perez Fernandez and Jordan Barbour

Archaeology spanning 12,000 years was discovered during excavations at Guardbridge. It included Late Upper Palaeolithic and late Mesolithic flint scatters, and evidence of early farming in Fife during the Neolithic. This was followed by a Bronze Age roundhouse settlement with evidence of metalworking during the late Bronze Age. A late Bronze Age multivallate fort was investigated that overlooked the Eden estuary. Later evidence included Medieval corn-drying kilns.

Key Words: Late Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Medieval, fort, lithics, prehistoric pottery, metalworking, kilns

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