Excavation

Date 19 January 2001

Event ID 1031803

Category Recording

Type Excavation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1031803

Kirkdale Archaeology was asked, under the terms of the call off contract, to monitor the excavation of a service trench at Linlithgow Palace. The work was undertaken on the 19th of January 2001, and involved the excavation of a trench 700mm wide and 1.7m long, running from the W side of the Palace, some 7.9 m N of its’ SW corner, to an existing pipe running parallel to the W wall. The W range of the Palace is thought to have been completed by 1504, and to have had formal gardens to the W.

The small area of this trench necessarily limited what could be determined from this excavation. At a depth of 450mm, a soil deposit banked up against the palace wall. This deposit may well relate to the formal gardens recorded from the area.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

G Ewart 2001

Kirkdale Archaeology