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Watching Brief
Date 1 July 2013 - 14 August 2014
Event ID 1013993
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013993
NO 14223 63276 (centred on) A watching brief was carried out during groundworks associated with the construction of a new bridge and new road realignments at the A93/B951 Lair Junction, Glenshee. The settlement of Lair appears on Timothy Pont’s map (17th century), and on Stobie 1783 and subsequent maps. Major Caulfeild’s military road passes through Glenshee, and was constructed by 1759. A part of the military road converges with the A93 at the southern tie-in with the new road. There are many prehistoric and early historic sites on higher ground to the W of the A93, but these are outwith the development area, and were not affected.
The watching brief took place at various times between 1 July 2013 and 14 August 2014 and was centred on the new bridge construction located at NO 14223 63276. The monitoring recorded natural spreads of stone and other natural deposits as well as some archaeological features such as a stone drain on the northern part of the site to take runoff from the old
military road into a field. Some modern finds, pottery and a horseshoe were recovered. Of particular interest was the cutting into the embankment of the old military road on the W side of the A93 at the southern end of the site where a 19th-century boot was recovered and the construction of the old military road embankment was recorded.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: I and H Brown Ltd
Ray Cachart - Alder Archaeology Ltd
(Source: DES)
