Watching Brief
Date September 1998
Event ID 1001786
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1001786
NT 2644 7377 A watching brief was carried out in September 1998 on a hole excavated by contractors to insert a roof support beam in the kitchen area of Huntly House to the W of the pend of Bakehouse Close, Canongate. A subsoil of compact clayey sand with some flecks of coal and chips of whinstone was found at a depth of 0.3m below the floor surface (limit of excavation). This deposit appeared to overlie an outcrop of whinstone bedrock, and contained no datable finds.
Sponsor: Edinburgh City Museums.
D Henderson 1999