James Brian Kenworthy
551 432
Description James Brian Kenworthy
Date 1975 to 1999
Collection James Brian Kenworthy
Catalogue Number 551 432
Category All Other
Scope and Content The collection comprises documentary archives from fieldwork projects by J B Kenworthy, including reports, field notes, drawings and photographs. The collection also includes photographs of archaeological sites taken by Kenworthy, with a particular focus on hillforts and early medieval sculpture.
Archive History The collection comprises several deposits from J B Kenworthy: unaccessioned, but catalogued, photographs of archaeological sites (see 432/7 and 432/8); Acc No 1996/570 (Corrary, Glenelg); Acc No 1999/112 (New Police Headquarters, Inverness, St Columba Campus, Sabhal Mor Ostaig); Acc No 2006/64 (Corrary, Glenelg). After Kenworthy’s death, further material, mostly comprising project archives, was presented by his literary executor, Jonathan Trigg: Acc No 2011/139, Acc No 2012/68; Acc No 2014/55, Acc No 2016/54 (Nethermills, Crathes). Additional material was presented by Marjorie Wilson: Acc No 2016/7, Acc No 2017/80.
System of Arrangement The collection is arranged by accession and by project.
Access Conditions There are no restrictions upon access.
Administrative History James Brian Kenworthy (d.2011), archaeologist and academic. A native of Aberdeen, Kenworthy was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, and from 1967, the University of Cardiff where he studied archaeology. In 1973 he gained a post as lecturer at the University of St Andrews: over the next few years he carried out urban excavations in the burgh, field surveys around Loch Tummel and Rannoch Moor, and erosion surveys of the Fife coast. Between 1978 and 1981 he carried out excavations of an important Mesolithic site at Nethermills, Crathes, published posthumously: http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/view/9848/9815. In later years he taught at the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester. Although he took early retirement in 1995, he returned to education in 2000, leading a Flexible Learning Degree in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen, and directing excavations around Lumsden and Kildrummy. He also worked with Cannich Archaeological Services as an independent field archaeologist, working mainly in the Highlands. For a full obituary see: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-herald-1130/20110416/282733403413983
Accruals No accruals are expected.
Accession Number 2011/139
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