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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

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