Watching Brief

Date March 1997

Event ID 1012311

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1012311

Kirkdale Archaeology carried out a watching brief to monitor the installation of a new fire hydrant supply at the Palace of Hollyroodhouse. The trench required for the new services revealed a wall aligned N-S, at a point c 5.8m S of the junction between the SW tower and the S wall of the palace. It was of two periods of build, the earlier element with indications of moulding on its W side, and perhaps, therefore, part of the formal structures associated with either palace or abbey buildings.

However, the secondary wall was clearly of more rustic build, and together they appeared to reflect a form of crude outbuilding, nonetheless pre-dating the present 19th-century garden layout.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

G Ewart 1997