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Excavation
Date 21 October 2000 - 25 October 2000
Event ID 1030206
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1030206
A minor excavation was carried out at Noltland Castle, Westray as part of a programme of installing underground electricity cables. The line of the cable followed an existing cable put in place in the 1980’s.
As predicted a plastic conduit pipe is already in place beneath the surface of the grass of the scheduled area W of the castle main structure. The excavation revealed it to be 0.5m below ground level in a trench presumed to be 650mm deep. The conduit seems to be in good condition. Ultimately the test pit might prove useful if running the new cable through the conduit proves difficult, in which case access holes will probably be dug by MCU on both sides of the castle wall. Nothing of archaeological significance was found.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
G Ewart and D Murray
Kirkdale Archaeology
