Trial Trench

Date 10 May 2001 - 16 May 2001

Event ID 1031791

Category Recording

Type Trial Trench

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1031791

Trial trenching was undertaken in May 2001 in an attempt to recover the line of an 18th-century sentry path believed to have existed along the inside face of the N curtain wall, where it runs between the Wallace Tower and the Argyll Battery. Remains of unmortared paving were found only at the W end of the wall; elsewhere the stones seem to have been removed. Various 17th to 20th-century midden deposits were found accumulated against the inner face of the curtain wall, while the wall itself was seen to sit on top of a lower wall, potentially an earlier perimeter.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

G Ewart and A Dunn 2001

Kirkdale Archaeology