Watching Brief

Date 16 April 2013

Event ID 1013115

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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NT 258 733 A watching brief was carried out on 16 April 2013 on trial pits excavated around the foundations of the Royal Museum entrance steps. The trial pitting was carried out to inform a programme of repair to the steps, which were subsiding. The work established that the foundations were generally constructed on deposits likely to represent former

topsoil. However, in Trial Pit 4 the foundations were constructed over a brick wall and perpendicular stone wall topped by an iron girder. The form and function of these structures could not be established due to their limited exposure, although the stone wall may represent the continuation of a vaulted culvert exposed during previous monitoring.

Archive: RCAHMS. Report: CECAS

Funder: National Museums Scotland

Alistair Robertson – Headland Archaeology Ltd

(Source: DES)