Archaeology Notes

Event ID 738187

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27NE 110 27131 76195

St Mary's Star of the Sea [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2010.

See also:

NT27NE 1130 NT 27114 76259 Hall

NT27NE 1361 NT 27107 76207 Convent and Presbytery

NT 271 762 A watching brief was carried out during ground-breaking works on a new housing development behind St Mary's Star of the Sea Church Hall, during February 2006. The initial phase of work involved the demolition of annexes to the current building and a programme of ground reduction in order to excavate a ramp to c2m beneath the current road level in preparation for an underground car park.

The remains of a further two vaulted cellars which may be contemporaneous with the one identified during the evaluation were located. A displaced section of wall identified within earlier demolition deposits possibly represents a part of the former Balmerino House.

Sponsor: Gregor Properties Ltd.

Stuart Mitchell, Ross White and Bruce Glendinning, 2006.