Watching Brief

Date 25 October 1999 - 29 October 1999

Event ID 1028410

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1028410

A watching brief was conducted in October 1999 during the excavation of a trench for an electric cable at the Earl’s Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney (HY 449107). The trench ran across the area between the kitchen and the re-entrant angle of the Great Hall range and the earl’s bedchamber block. The very shallow foundations of the palace were observed and the possible bottoming for a paved courtyard with a stone-capped drain. A small stone cannon ball was retrieved, but from a probable 20th-century context.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

Kirkdale Archaeology