Looking at Fort George, Scotland, Though Metal Artifacts

Author(s): Laura R Reed

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Military Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Built outside of Inverness, Scotland, Fort George’s construction was started shortly after the end of the last Jacobite Rebellion in 1746.  The massive show of force has never been engaged in any combat but has served as a barracks and training site for the British Army since it’s completion in 1769.  This paper looks at the construction and use of Fort George though an assemblage of metal artifacts.  Collected by a hobbyist detectorist from the fields surrounding the fort and donated to Treasure Trove Scotland.  The assemblage has a varied range of items, with the majority dated to after the construction on the fort was finished.

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Looking at Fort George, Scotland, Though Metal Artifacts. Laura R Reed. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449072)

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Keywords

General
assemblage Fort Metal

Geographic Keywords
United States of America

Temporal Keywords
1740s-present

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 173