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Excavation
Date April 1991 - May 1991
Event ID 1001447
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1001447
During April and May 1991 GUARD undertook a rescue excavation at St Michael's Churchyard, Inveresk in advance of the extension of the cemetery by East Lothian District Council, into the field immediately outside the cemetery wall at its western extremity. Richmond calculated that the western defences of the fort should run obliquely through this field, aligned roughly NE to SW. A trench measuring c25m by 20m and located contiguously just within the putative line of the fort defences was opened. The excavation uncovered a stretch of some 20m of the Via Praetoria, as it approached the W gate of the fort, together with its junction with the via sagularis and a distance of some 20m of that road. The well-laid cobbled sub-surface of the via praetoria ran across the full width of the trench, bordered in places by dressed kerb stones.
Information from A. Leslie (GUARD) 1993.
