Excavation

Date January 2006 - April 2006

Event ID 1002288

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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A programme of site investigations along the route of the New Kincardine Crossing was undertaken between November and December 2005. As mitigation, two set-piece excavations were carried out between January and April 2006.

NS 9261 9012 The first programme of excavation and building recording was undertaken at the remains of the 17th-century laird's house and associated buildings at Garlet, Kilbagie. The initial evaluation identified archaeological remains that possibly pre-dated the existing house and associated structures, which were largely demolished in the 1960s. Upon further investigation however, it was evident that significant structural remains survived below ground. The buildings survey established a number of phases relating to the main house and later extensions and buildings that make up the building complex at Garlet. Further excavation in the vicinity of the house also established the presence of surfaces and structures associated with the main house but no archaeological remains that pre-dated the 17th-century house.

NS 928 904 The second excavation was at Meadowend Farm, near Clackmannan (NS99SW 115).

Archive to be deposited in NMRS.

Sponsor: Scottish Executive

Elizabeth Jones, 2006.