Excavation

Date 1977

Event ID 1036293

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NT 191 767

Further excavation and enlargement of this site proved that it was part of the Roman "vicus". A number of linear ditches, representing timber buildings and containing quantities of burnt daub, were associated with several pits and a well some 3.5m deep. Amounts of leather suggested that leather-working and tanning had been carried out.

NT 191769

Excavations revealed a stone wall foundation, a clay floor surface and a number of pits on the S side of Cramond House. All but one pit contained exclusively Roman material. Late Roman pottery overlay the clay floor.

N.M.McQ. Holmes