Watching Brief

Date 26 April 2007

Event ID 1003915

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1003915

Two shallow trenches (Tr-1 and Tr-2) were excavated parallel to each other on 26th April 2007 for construction of cairns to site interpretation panels. The work was watched by an archaeologist due to the proximity of the trenches to the medieval Bridge of Dee.

The two trenches were 1.6 x 1.6m in size and dug to a depth of 0.12m. No archaeological features were evident in either trench. The thin layer of material removed underneath the turf comprised a homogeneous dark grey/brown sandy-silt containing some late 20th-century rubbish (broken clay water pipes and a door hinge). There was no evidence of a developed soil matrix which implies that the material in both trenches was a recently landscaped overburden.

The depth achieved in these trenches did not disturb any archaeological remains.

S Buchanan 2007