Dr Kenny Brophy

  • Senior Lecturer (Archaeology)

telephone: 01413304339
email: Kenny.Brophy@glasgow.ac.uk

R317 Level 3, Archaeology, Molema Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2315-7110

Research interests

My current research and practice largely focus on the following areas:

The contemporary archaeology of prehistory

I am increasingly interested in the contemporary relevance of prehistory, and how prehistoric sites, ideas, and things are consumed and utilised in our contemporary society. In other words, my research focuses on the ways that prehistory matters to people today, and how we can use prehistory to explore better futures. In turn this can help with our narratives about the past because all our encounters with prehistory happen in the contemporary, and so we need to make sense of this context to help us to make sense of prehistoric things. So, for instance I am keen to explore the 20th and 21st century biographies of prehistoric sites and monuments. This research has included the development of a range of innovate methodologies using psychogeography, performance and other creative practices.

Since 2012 much of my research has come under the label urban prehistory. This and my Urban Prehistorian blog have allowed me to develop a range of practices, ideas and projects that focus on the different ways that prehistory presents itself today. The presence of prehistoric sites, traces, or things in urban places offers a powerful juxtaposition that is a starting point for conversations about the value and utility of the ancient past in the present. Working with communities who have prehistoric sites in their midst is the most obvious example, with my ongoing work around the Cochno Stone rock-art site, Faifley, West Dunbartonshire, an example of this. The traces of prehistory are all around us and open opportunities for public engagement wherever we find them.

However, prehistory also presents itself in different ways, and in recent years there has been a resurgence of prehistoric sites, ideas, and theories being co-opted into public and political discourse. This has been fuelled by the instability of Brexit, independence claims in Scotland, and the general political environment post the 2008-9 financial crash. Ideas about migration, borders, boundaries, nationalities, and identity have become increasingly bound up in prehistoric sites like Stonehenge and datasets such as ancient DNA with troubling implications. My work on the Brexit Hypothesis, and critiquing Stonehenge narratives are examples of my ongoing research in these areas, which call for archaeologists to become more vocal calling out, and pushing back against, political and archaeological arguments that use and abuse prehistory.

Yet there is clearly a more positive side to prehistory, with increasing trends in the construction of prehistoric style monuments evident. There are over 80 replica Stonehenges across the world for instance. In the UK there are more modern stone circles in roundabouts than were built in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, while since 2014 half a dozen long barrow columbaria have been constructed in England. My research in increasingly focused on researching these neo-Neolithic megalithic developments to explore what this resurgence in monumentality can tell us about society in the UK today, and explore the resilience of visions of prehistory.

My research into the contemporary archaeology of prehistory has led to other collaborations, for instance through a series of RSE funded workshops and an ongoing Network with the #3M_DO contemporary archaeology in Scotland collective for which I am co-investigator.

Engaged archaeology

A strong principal of all my research is that it should have a strong public engagement element and where possible ideas and activities should be co-produced with communities in whatever form they take. To this end, for instance, I will no longer carry out research excavations just for the sake of excavating something. Furthermore, I am committed to research and practice that allows us to demonstrate and deliver public benefit in all we do as archaeologists, as argued in this 2019 think piece.

I have an increasing engagement with schools, where I run classroom sessions and workshops, especially in relation to prehistoric rock-art. I am passionate about getting archaeology into schools in Scotland by working with teachers, not just providing resources, although I have done the latter as part of a Broad Education @University of Glasgow project. I have been working with schools across central Scotland to develop curriculum resources and teaching sessions, leading fieldtrips, and meeting lots of teachers and pupils in the classroom.

Other activities include the development of Build N Burn, a series of free to the public prehistoric fire festivals delivered with Gavin MacGregor of Northlight Heritage. These offer opportunities to work with community groups to explore prehistoric skills and crafts, and timber monument construction, culminating in a fiery conflagration at dusk. Four events of this type have been carried out to date and in each case, we have been able to mix soft experimental archaeology with engaging with the public, using a mix of hand-on skills sessions, and performance. Increasingly, these events have drawn on performance theory and practice, and we have built collaborations with a team of musicians, historians, and performers. This has more broadly led to activities exploring prehistoric Arran, including working with community groups and members.

Neolithic and early Bronze Age Scotland

I have over a quarter of a century of experience of researching, excavating, and writing about Scotland’s Neolithic and early Bronze Age. My main focus is mainland Scotland between 4000BC and 2000BC, and I have directed or supervised over 20 excavations relevant to this research strand since 1994.

The bulk of my fieldwork has taken place in Perth and Kinross. Since 2006 I have co-directed (with Stephen Driscoll, Ewan Campbell, Tessa Poller, Dene Wright and Gordon Noble) the Historic Environment Scotland funded Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (SERF) Project in Perth and Kinross. This internationally renowned project has a landscape and multi-period scale, and for my part work has focused on the massive prehistoric monument complexes of Forteviot and Leadketty, as well as a cairn at Millhaugh. These excavations made significant discoveries, such as a Bronze Age cist found at Forteviot Henge 1 in 2009 that contained the first direct evidence for flowers in a burial of this age in Britain, and the most complete Bronze Age fire-making kit found in Europe to date. Publications associated with the ongoing writing up include the Prehistoric Forteviot monograph (CBA, 2020) by Gordon Noble and I.

More generally I have an interest in Neolithic settlement traces, and sites revealed by cropmarks, and so I have written about pits, houses and settlement patterns, timber and earthwork cursus monuments, henge monuments, enclosures, and round barrows of Neolithic date in Scotland. This has included the publication of my book Reading between the lines: the Neolithic cursus monuments of Scotland (Routledge, 2015) and an edited volume The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland (EUP, 2016). Important excavations in this respect include at Claish timber hall (with Barclay and MacGregor) in 2000, Carsie Mains timber monuments (with Barclay) in 2001, and Brownsbank hengiform enclosure (with Noble in 2005-6). I have also, since the early 2000s, taken an interest in the multiple stone rows of northern Scotland, including excavations at Battle Moss in 2003 (with Pannett and Baines) although in a departure for me these are probably Bronze Age sites.

Since 2015, I have been conducting a series of excavations around rock-art panels at Faifley, including uncovering the Cochno Stone in 2015-16 and excavations at Auchnacraig and Whitehill in 2019. During this period, I have been on the Advisory Board of Scotland’s Rock-art Project.

I continue to work and research the Neolithic of Scotland, with ongoing writing up of excavations at some of the sites discussed above, research into the formation of the Neolithic record in Scotland, and ongoing work with cropmark archaeology.

Alternative archives

My interest in the development of archaeology in Scotland has led me to work with and research the archives of a series of researchers who have made significant contributions to archaeology in Scotland but are often regarded as being on the fringe of the discipline. This is because of the nature of their research, or the fact they were ‘amateurs’. Extensive archives of characters such as Ludovic McLellan Mann, Alexander Thom and Ronald Morris have all been helpful in my research into urban prehistory, multiple stone rows and rock-art respectively.

Each of these men has left a considerable archive of material which I have been working with over the past few years. In particular I have done a lot of work on the career and legacy of Ludovic Mann, most recently through the organisation of a conference in October 2019, The Mann the Myth, and the subsequent publication of a special edition of the Scottish Archaeological Journal in December 2020 with papers focusing on various aspects of Mann’s eclectic career. The cataloguing and use of these considerable archives will be a key focus of my research for the next few years.

Prehistoric Drumadoon Landscape and Cursus project, Isle of Arran, Scotland

 

Publications

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2024

Wilson, S., Tonner, P. and Brophy, K. (2024) Bringing archaeology into religious and moral education: a case study from Scotland. Journal of Archaeology and Education, 8(2), 1.

Brophy, K. (2024) From Footsteps to Geometry: an archaeological assessment of the veracity of Harry Bell’s Glasgow Network of Aligned Sites. In: Gardner, G. (ed.) Glasgow's Secret Geometry - The World of Harry Bell. Nielsen: Glasgow, pp. 336-374. ISBN 9781838046156

Ralston, I., Mearns, J. and Brophy, K. (2024) Archaeology in Scotland after the Second World War: The Glasgow Archaeological Society and John M Davidson. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 46(1), pp. 96-108. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2024.0201)

Brophy, K. (2024) Don’t look up: skyscapes and Atlantic rock art in Scotland. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 9(2), pp. 216-220. (doi: 10.1558/jsa.27574)

Brophy, K. (2024) The henge with the postcode: contemporary archaeology fieldtrips. In: Moshenska, G. (ed.) Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 81-100. ISBN 9781350335639

2023

Edensor, T. and Brophy, K. (2023) The potent urban prehistory of an ancient megalith: the Kempock Stone, Gourock, Scotland. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 29(1-2), pp. 81-96. (doi: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2172058)

2022

Brophy, K. (2022) Digging into the Ronald Morris archive: a Kilmartin Glen case-study. In: Frodsham, P. and Sharpe, K. (eds.) Abstractions Based on Circles. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 49-62. ISBN 9781803273167

Brophy, K. (2022) Green bling. In: Williams, H., Clague, S. and Reavill, P. (eds.) The Public Archaeology of Treasure. Series: Access archaeology. Archaeopresss: Oxford, pp. 186-196. ISBN 9781803273105

2021

Barclay, G. J. and Brophy, K. (2021) ‘A veritable chauvinism of prehistory’: nationalist prehistories and the ‘British’ late Neolithic mythos. Archaeological Journal, 178(2), pp. 330-360. (doi: 10.1080/00665983.2020.1769399)

Brophy, K. (2021) A forest of posts: Dunragit in the Neolithic. In: Bailie, W. (ed.) Dunragit – the Prehistoric Heart of Galloway. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 320-327.

Brophy, K. (2021) Teaching skyscapes: keeping our feet on the ground. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 6(2), pp. 268-272. (doi: 10.1558/jsa.19638)

Brophy, K. and Wright, D. (2021) Possible Neolithic ard marks and field boundaries at Wellhill and Cranberry, Perth and Kinross, and an evaluation of current physical evidence for Neolithic farming in Scotland. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 150, pp. 23-47. (doi: 10.9750/PSAS.150.1295)

2020

Brophy, K. (2020) The Ludovic technique: the painting of the Cochno Stone, West Dunbartonshire. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 42(2), pp. 85-100. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2020.0148)

Brophy, K. and Mearns, J. (2020) The Mann, the myth: an introduction. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 42(Supp.), pp. 1-6. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2020.0140)

Brophy, K. (2020) Hands across the border? Prehistory, cairns and Scotland's 2014 independence referendum. In: Gleave, K., Williams, H. and Clarke, P. (eds.) Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands. Series: Access Archaeology. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 55-73. ISBN 9781789698022

Brophy, K. and Noble, G. (2020) Prehistoric Forteviot: Excavations of a Ceremonial Complex in Eastern Scotland. Series: CBA Research Report, 176. Council for British Archaeology: York. ISBN 9781909990043 (doi: 10.5284/1082002)

2019

Brophy, K. and Sackett, H. (2019) Visualising heritage complexity: comic books, prehistoric rock-art and the Cochno Stone. In: Williams, H., Pudney, C. and Ezzeldin, A. (eds.) Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement. Series: Access archaeology. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd: Oxford, pp. 228-252. ISBN 9781789693737

Brophy, K. (2019) Urban prehistoric enclosures: empty spaces/busy places. In: Campbell, C. J., Giovine, A. and Keating, J. (eds.) Empty Spaces: Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History. Series: IHR conference series. Institute of Historical Research: London, pp. 179-200. ISBN 9781909646490

Brophy, K. (2019) Glasgow’s occult ancient geometry: the obsessions of Ludovic McLellan Mann and Harry Bell. In: Hing, R., Malkin, G., Silver, S. and Paciorek, A. (eds.) Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd 2: Spirits of Place. Wyrd Harvest Press, pp. 57-80. ISBN 9780244485368

2018

Brophy, K. (2018) The Brexit hypothesis and prehistory. Antiquity, 92(366), pp. 1650-1658. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2018.160)

Brophy, K. (2018) Countering the Brexit hypothesis through solidarity, advocacy and activism. Antiquity, 92(366), pp. 1669-1670. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2018.234)

Brophy, K. (2018) Scotland’s Neolithic / Neolithic Scotland. In: Campbell, L., Wright, D. and Hall, N. A. (eds.) Roots of Nationhood: the Archaeology and History of Scotland. Series: Archaeopress archaeology. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.: Oxford, pp. 35-53. ISBN 9781784919825

Brophy, K. and Watson, A. (2018) Perception and experience. In: López Varela, S. L. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley Blackwell: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA. ISBN 9780470674611 (doi: 10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0446)

Brophy, K. , MacGregor, G. and Noble, G. (2018) Warm air and glowing pyres: cremating bodies in the Late Neolithic of Scotland. In: Bickle, P. and Sibbesson, E. (eds.) Neolithic Bodies. Series: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers (15). Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 74-95. ISBN 9781785709012

Brophy, K. (2018) ‘The finest set of cup and ring marks in existence’: the story of the Cochno Stone, West Dunbartonshire. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 40(1), pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2018.0092)

Dalglish, C., Leslie, A., Brophy, K. and MacGregor, G. (2018) Justice, development and the land: the social context of Scotland’s energy transition. Landscape Research, 43(4), pp. 517-528. (doi: 10.1080/01426397.2017.1315386)

2017

Noble, G. and Brophy, K. (2017) Cremation practices and the creation of monument complexes: the Neolithic cremation cemetery at Forteviot, Strathearn, Perth & Kinross, Scotland, and its comparanda. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 83, pp. 213-245. (doi: 10.1017/ppr.2017.11)

Brophy, K. , Goeckeritz, C. and MacGregor, G. (2017) Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain. Archaeological Journal, 174(2), pp. 437-463. (doi: 10.1080/00665983.2017.1309950)

2016

Brophy, K. (2016) On ancient farms: neolithic settlement in mainland Scotland. In: Brophy, K., MacGregor, G. and Ralston, I. (eds.) The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 200-235. ISBN 9780748685738

Brophy, K. , MacGregor, G. and Ralston, I. (Eds.) (2016) The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748685738

2015

Brophy, K. and Millican, K. (2015) Wood and fire: Scotland’s timber cursus monuments. Archaeological Journal, 172(2), pp. 1-28. (doi: 10.1080/00665983.2015.1025589)

Brophy, K. (2015) Houses, halls and occupation in Britain and Ireland. In: Fowler, C., Harding, J. and Hoffman, D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 327-343. ISBN 9780199545841 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545841.013.077)

Brophy, K. (2015) Reading Between the Lines: The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138913516

2014

Brophy, K. (2014) From hard to soft: theory and Scotland's Neolithic. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 33, pp. 7-20. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2011.0021)

2012

Brophy, K. (2012) Pickering’s package: some thoughts on cursus monuments. AARGnews, 45, pp. 48-63.

Brophy, K. , Dalglish, C., Leslie, A. and MacGregor, G. (2012) Public participation: integrating the past, present and future landscape. In: Proceedings of the 16th International CEMAT Symposium and 12th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention. Council of Europe: Strasbourg.

2011

Brophy, K. and Noble, G. (2011) Within and beyond pits: deposition in lowland Neolithic Scotland. In: Anderson-Whymark, H. and Thomas, J. (eds.) Regional Perspectives on Neolithic Pit Deposition: Beyond the Mundane. Series: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers (12). Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 63-76. ISBN 9781842174685

Noble, G. and Brophy, K. (2011) Big enclosures: the later Neolithic palisaded enclosures of Scotland in their northwestern European context. European Journal of Archaeology, 14(1-2), pp. 60-87. (doi: 10.1179/146195711798369346)

Noble, G. and Brophy, K. (2011) Ritual and remembrance at a prehistoric ceremonial complex in central Scotland: excavations at Forteviot, Perth and Kinross. Antiquity, 85(329), pp. 787-804.

2010

Driscoll, S. , Brophy, K. and Noble, G. (2010) The Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot project (SERF). Antiquity, 84(323),

Brophy, K. (2010) ‘…a place where they tried their criminals’: Neolithic round mounds in Perth and Kinross. In: Darvill, T., Leary, J. and Field, D. (eds.) Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond. Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers (10). Oxbow: Oxford, pp. 10-27. ISBN 9781842174043

2009

Brophy, K. and Barclay, G. (Eds.) (2009) Defining a regional Neolithic: the evidence from Britain and Ireland. Series: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers. Oxbow Books: Oxford. ISBN 9781842173336

Brophy, K. (2009) The map trap: the depiction of regional geographies of the Neolithic. In: Brophy, K. and Barclay, G. (eds.) Defining a Regional Neolithic: the Evidence from Britain and Ireland. Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers (9). Oxbow: Oxford, pp. 5-25. ISBN 9781842173336

2008

Brophy, K. (2008) Digging cropmarks: the Forteviot cropmark complex, Perthshire, Scotland. Aerial Archaeology Research Group Newsletter, 37, pp. 42-46.

2007

Brophy, K. (2007) From big houses to cult houses: early Neolithic timber halls in Scotland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 73, pp. 75-96.

2006

Baines, A. and Brophy, K. (2006) Archaeology without –isms. Archaeological Dialogues, 13(1), pp. 69-91. (doi: 10.1017/S1380203806001826)

Brophy, K. (2006) Rethinking Scotland's Neolithic: combining circumstance and context. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 136, pp. 7-46.

2005

Brophy, K. and Cowley, D. (Eds.) (2005) From the Air: Understanding Aerial Archaeology. Series: Revealing history. Tempus: Stroud. ISBN 9780752431307

Brophy, K. (2005) Not my type: discourses in monumentality. In: Cummings, V. and Pannett, A. (eds.) Set in Stone: New Approaches to Neolithic Monuments in Scotland. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781842171431

Brophy, K. (2005) Subjectivity, bias and perception in aerial archaeology. In: Brophy, K. and Cowley, D. (eds.) From the Air: Understanding Aerial Archaeology. Tempus: Stroud, pp. 33-49. ISBN 9780752431307

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Articles

Wilson, S., Tonner, P. and Brophy, K. (2024) Bringing archaeology into religious and moral education: a case study from Scotland. Journal of Archaeology and Education, 8(2), 1.

Ralston, I., Mearns, J. and Brophy, K. (2024) Archaeology in Scotland after the Second World War: The Glasgow Archaeological Society and John M Davidson. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 46(1), pp. 96-108. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2024.0201)

Brophy, K. (2024) Don’t look up: skyscapes and Atlantic rock art in Scotland. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 9(2), pp. 216-220. (doi: 10.1558/jsa.27574)

Edensor, T. and Brophy, K. (2023) The potent urban prehistory of an ancient megalith: the Kempock Stone, Gourock, Scotland. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 29(1-2), pp. 81-96. (doi: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2172058)

Barclay, G. J. and Brophy, K. (2021) ‘A veritable chauvinism of prehistory’: nationalist prehistories and the ‘British’ late Neolithic mythos. Archaeological Journal, 178(2), pp. 330-360. (doi: 10.1080/00665983.2020.1769399)

Brophy, K. (2021) Teaching skyscapes: keeping our feet on the ground. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 6(2), pp. 268-272. (doi: 10.1558/jsa.19638)

Brophy, K. and Wright, D. (2021) Possible Neolithic ard marks and field boundaries at Wellhill and Cranberry, Perth and Kinross, and an evaluation of current physical evidence for Neolithic farming in Scotland. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 150, pp. 23-47. (doi: 10.9750/PSAS.150.1295)

Brophy, K. (2020) The Ludovic technique: the painting of the Cochno Stone, West Dunbartonshire. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 42(2), pp. 85-100. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2020.0148)

Brophy, K. and Mearns, J. (2020) The Mann, the myth: an introduction. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 42(Supp.), pp. 1-6. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2020.0140)

Brophy, K. (2018) The Brexit hypothesis and prehistory. Antiquity, 92(366), pp. 1650-1658. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2018.160)

Brophy, K. (2018) Countering the Brexit hypothesis through solidarity, advocacy and activism. Antiquity, 92(366), pp. 1669-1670. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2018.234)

Brophy, K. (2018) ‘The finest set of cup and ring marks in existence’: the story of the Cochno Stone, West Dunbartonshire. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 40(1), pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2018.0092)

Dalglish, C., Leslie, A., Brophy, K. and MacGregor, G. (2018) Justice, development and the land: the social context of Scotland’s energy transition. Landscape Research, 43(4), pp. 517-528. (doi: 10.1080/01426397.2017.1315386)

Noble, G. and Brophy, K. (2017) Cremation practices and the creation of monument complexes: the Neolithic cremation cemetery at Forteviot, Strathearn, Perth & Kinross, Scotland, and its comparanda. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 83, pp. 213-245. (doi: 10.1017/ppr.2017.11)

Brophy, K. , Goeckeritz, C. and MacGregor, G. (2017) Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain. Archaeological Journal, 174(2), pp. 437-463. (doi: 10.1080/00665983.2017.1309950)

Brophy, K. and Millican, K. (2015) Wood and fire: Scotland’s timber cursus monuments. Archaeological Journal, 172(2), pp. 1-28. (doi: 10.1080/00665983.2015.1025589)

Brophy, K. (2014) From hard to soft: theory and Scotland's Neolithic. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 33, pp. 7-20. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2011.0021)

Brophy, K. (2012) Pickering’s package: some thoughts on cursus monuments. AARGnews, 45, pp. 48-63.

Noble, G. and Brophy, K. (2011) Big enclosures: the later Neolithic palisaded enclosures of Scotland in their northwestern European context. European Journal of Archaeology, 14(1-2), pp. 60-87. (doi: 10.1179/146195711798369346)

Noble, G. and Brophy, K. (2011) Ritual and remembrance at a prehistoric ceremonial complex in central Scotland: excavations at Forteviot, Perth and Kinross. Antiquity, 85(329), pp. 787-804.

Driscoll, S. , Brophy, K. and Noble, G. (2010) The Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot project (SERF). Antiquity, 84(323),

Brophy, K. (2008) Digging cropmarks: the Forteviot cropmark complex, Perthshire, Scotland. Aerial Archaeology Research Group Newsletter, 37, pp. 42-46.

Brophy, K. (2007) From big houses to cult houses: early Neolithic timber halls in Scotland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 73, pp. 75-96.

Baines, A. and Brophy, K. (2006) Archaeology without –isms. Archaeological Dialogues, 13(1), pp. 69-91. (doi: 10.1017/S1380203806001826)

Brophy, K. (2006) Rethinking Scotland's Neolithic: combining circumstance and context. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 136, pp. 7-46.

Books

Brophy, K. and Noble, G. (2020) Prehistoric Forteviot: Excavations of a Ceremonial Complex in Eastern Scotland. Series: CBA Research Report, 176. Council for British Archaeology: York. ISBN 9781909990043 (doi: 10.5284/1082002)

Brophy, K. (2015) Reading Between the Lines: The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138913516

Book Sections

Brophy, K. (2024) From Footsteps to Geometry: an archaeological assessment of the veracity of Harry Bell’s Glasgow Network of Aligned Sites. In: Gardner, G. (ed.) Glasgow's Secret Geometry - The World of Harry Bell. Nielsen: Glasgow, pp. 336-374. ISBN 9781838046156

Brophy, K. (2024) The henge with the postcode: contemporary archaeology fieldtrips. In: Moshenska, G. (ed.) Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 81-100. ISBN 9781350335639

Brophy, K. (2022) Digging into the Ronald Morris archive: a Kilmartin Glen case-study. In: Frodsham, P. and Sharpe, K. (eds.) Abstractions Based on Circles. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 49-62. ISBN 9781803273167

Brophy, K. (2022) Green bling. In: Williams, H., Clague, S. and Reavill, P. (eds.) The Public Archaeology of Treasure. Series: Access archaeology. Archaeopresss: Oxford, pp. 186-196. ISBN 9781803273105

Brophy, K. (2021) A forest of posts: Dunragit in the Neolithic. In: Bailie, W. (ed.) Dunragit – the Prehistoric Heart of Galloway. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 320-327.

Brophy, K. (2020) Hands across the border? Prehistory, cairns and Scotland's 2014 independence referendum. In: Gleave, K., Williams, H. and Clarke, P. (eds.) Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands. Series: Access Archaeology. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 55-73. ISBN 9781789698022

Brophy, K. and Sackett, H. (2019) Visualising heritage complexity: comic books, prehistoric rock-art and the Cochno Stone. In: Williams, H., Pudney, C. and Ezzeldin, A. (eds.) Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement. Series: Access archaeology. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd: Oxford, pp. 228-252. ISBN 9781789693737

Brophy, K. (2019) Urban prehistoric enclosures: empty spaces/busy places. In: Campbell, C. J., Giovine, A. and Keating, J. (eds.) Empty Spaces: Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History. Series: IHR conference series. Institute of Historical Research: London, pp. 179-200. ISBN 9781909646490

Brophy, K. (2019) Glasgow’s occult ancient geometry: the obsessions of Ludovic McLellan Mann and Harry Bell. In: Hing, R., Malkin, G., Silver, S. and Paciorek, A. (eds.) Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd 2: Spirits of Place. Wyrd Harvest Press, pp. 57-80. ISBN 9780244485368

Brophy, K. (2018) Scotland’s Neolithic / Neolithic Scotland. In: Campbell, L., Wright, D. and Hall, N. A. (eds.) Roots of Nationhood: the Archaeology and History of Scotland. Series: Archaeopress archaeology. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.: Oxford, pp. 35-53. ISBN 9781784919825

Brophy, K. and Watson, A. (2018) Perception and experience. In: López Varela, S. L. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley Blackwell: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA. ISBN 9780470674611 (doi: 10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0446)

Brophy, K. , MacGregor, G. and Noble, G. (2018) Warm air and glowing pyres: cremating bodies in the Late Neolithic of Scotland. In: Bickle, P. and Sibbesson, E. (eds.) Neolithic Bodies. Series: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers (15). Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 74-95. ISBN 9781785709012

Brophy, K. (2016) On ancient farms: neolithic settlement in mainland Scotland. In: Brophy, K., MacGregor, G. and Ralston, I. (eds.) The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 200-235. ISBN 9780748685738

Brophy, K. (2015) Houses, halls and occupation in Britain and Ireland. In: Fowler, C., Harding, J. and Hoffman, D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 327-343. ISBN 9780199545841 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545841.013.077)

Brophy, K. , Dalglish, C., Leslie, A. and MacGregor, G. (2012) Public participation: integrating the past, present and future landscape. In: Proceedings of the 16th International CEMAT Symposium and 12th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention. Council of Europe: Strasbourg.

Brophy, K. and Noble, G. (2011) Within and beyond pits: deposition in lowland Neolithic Scotland. In: Anderson-Whymark, H. and Thomas, J. (eds.) Regional Perspectives on Neolithic Pit Deposition: Beyond the Mundane. Series: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers (12). Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 63-76. ISBN 9781842174685

Brophy, K. (2010) ‘…a place where they tried their criminals’: Neolithic round mounds in Perth and Kinross. In: Darvill, T., Leary, J. and Field, D. (eds.) Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond. Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers (10). Oxbow: Oxford, pp. 10-27. ISBN 9781842174043

Brophy, K. (2009) The map trap: the depiction of regional geographies of the Neolithic. In: Brophy, K. and Barclay, G. (eds.) Defining a Regional Neolithic: the Evidence from Britain and Ireland. Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers (9). Oxbow: Oxford, pp. 5-25. ISBN 9781842173336

Brophy, K. (2005) Not my type: discourses in monumentality. In: Cummings, V. and Pannett, A. (eds.) Set in Stone: New Approaches to Neolithic Monuments in Scotland. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781842171431

Brophy, K. (2005) Subjectivity, bias and perception in aerial archaeology. In: Brophy, K. and Cowley, D. (eds.) From the Air: Understanding Aerial Archaeology. Tempus: Stroud, pp. 33-49. ISBN 9780752431307

Edited Books

Brophy, K. , MacGregor, G. and Ralston, I. (Eds.) (2016) The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748685738

Brophy, K. and Barclay, G. (Eds.) (2009) Defining a regional Neolithic: the evidence from Britain and Ireland. Series: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers. Oxbow Books: Oxford. ISBN 9781842173336

Brophy, K. and Cowley, D. (Eds.) (2005) From the Air: Understanding Aerial Archaeology. Series: Revealing history. Tempus: Stroud. ISBN 9780752431307

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Grants

SERF (Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot Project)

2006-present: This longterm landscape fieldwork project has received grant support from a wide range of organisations since its inception in 2006, with major funders including Historic Scotland, the British Academy and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. I am co-PI for this project with my colleagues Steve Driscoll and Ewan Campbell, and between 2006-2012 with Gordon Noble (University of Glasgow). Grant capture for this project has to date amounted to some £325,000.

CLE (Sustainable Integration of the Rural Cultural Landscapes of Europe)

2012: AHRC European Proposal Support Fund grant (£9,510) to support development of a proposal for submission for European Commission FP7 funding. Development of the SIRCLE project was led by Chris Dalglish and I (University of Glasgow), Alan Leslie and Gavin MacGregor (Northlight Heritage) and Aphrodite Sorotou (Med-INA, Greece), and involved a further 12 partners in the UK, Greece, Spain, Italy and Malta.

Transforming Practice: inter-disciplinary research into the philosophies, methods and impacts of the ways in which we value landscape

2010-11: Research workshop series funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (£8,250), the Landscape Research Group (£1,530) and the University of Glasgow College of Arts Strategic Research Allocation (£800). This inter-disciplinary workshop series brought together some 60 participants from universities, professional practice, NGOs, government agencies and other public bodies to evaluate trends in landscape research, practice and policy. I co-organised the project with Chris Dalglish (University of Glasgow) and Alan Leslie and Gavin MacGregor of Northlight Heritage.

European Network for Archaeology & Integrated Landscape Research: Knowledge Exchange & Project Development Workshop

2013-14: funding from the University of Glasgow’s College of Arts Strategic Research Allocation and College of Arts Business Development Fund (total: £1,927) to support a three-day workshop. I am co-organising this workshop with Chris Dalglish (University of Glasgow) and Alan Leslie and Gavin MacGregor (Northlight Heritage), on behalf of the European Network for Archaeology & Integrated Landscape Research – a network of archaeologists and others from 11 countries, working in universities, research institutes, SMEs, NGOs, government agencies and other public bodies.

Reading between the lines: the Neolithic cursus monuments of Scotland

2010: A period of funded research leave in 2010, supported by the AHRC to match institutional study leave (PI, £27840), the outcome of this project was the culmination of over a decade of research into Scotland’s early Neolithic cursus monuments, with publication pending.

Supervision

I welcome proposals for postgraduate research in the following areas:

  • Scotland’s Neolithic and early Bronze Age
  • The contemporary archaeology / politics of prehistory
  • Public and engaged archaeology
  • Ludovic McLellan Mann
  • Cropmark archaeology

Current supervisees:

  • Bekesi, Anna
    Past in present soils: Leveraging development-led archaeological data to generate insights into urban soil development and soil health
  • Ford, Heather
    Appealing to the Past in Uncertain Times: an interdisciplinary study of the reuse and evocation of prehistoric standing stones in the monumental epigraphy of early medieval Scotland.
  • Kirk, Jenna
    Exploring the legacies of steel slag at Glengarnock, North Ayrshire: a situated interdisciplinary account of an anthropogenic geomaterial

Teaching

Level 1/2

Honours

I convene two Honours courses:

  • The British Neolithic
  • Contemporary and Future Archaeologies (convenor)

I also contribute teaching to the following Honours courses: Public Archaeology, Reflexive Archaeological Practice, and Theory and Interpretation in Archaeology

PGT

External engagement

Committee or working group involvement

  • 2018 (Concluded): Working group meeting to discuss future community benefits of the rock art around Faifley.

Consultations

  • 2017 (Concluded): Workshop on the future of the Cochno Stone.

Engagement with schools

  • 2016 (Concluded): Excavation fieldwork, with student volunteers and open to public with school visits.

Exhibition

  • 2017 (Concluded): Exhibition about Ludovic Mann and the Cochno Stone.

Festivals

  • 2015 (Concluded): The mysteries of prehistories (Caithness)
  • 2014 (Concluded): Walk with the Shaman (Arran)
  • 2013 (Concluded): Burning the Circle (Arran)

Media engagement

  • 2017 (Concluded): Excavation project was the subject of a documentary for the History Channel

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