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Excavation
Date 3 March 2003 - 12 March 2003
Event ID 1034298
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1034298
NT 269 738 Further to the trial trenching and excavations in January and February larger scale excavation continued in March 2003 over the entire Board Pavement car park plus the adjacent area of grass to the SW.
It seems that a shallow, low lying depression at the base of the Crags became filled by a large volume (at least 250 x 40m) of sewage from the Canongate and Cowgate. This area then appears to have been cultivated before finally being sealed over and landscaped.
G Ewart 2003
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
Kirkdale Archaeology
