Watching Brief

Date 30 June 2014

Event ID 1013652

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013652

NT 3699 5973 A watching brief was undertaken on 30 June 2014 during the ground-breaking work associated with a programme of drainage improvements around Borthwick Castle. The first stage of the works involved digging a 2m wide trench around the castle to a depth of c1.7m. This trench exposed the castle’s foundations and the outlets of refuse chutes and culverts leaving the castle. A buried topsoil, located below the modern ground surface in the area around the castle, was found to contain a range of artefacts of possible medieval date, including ceramic pottery fragments, pipe stems and animal bone.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Borthwick Castle

Nicholas Johnstone – AOC Archaeology Group

(Source: DES)