Excavation

Date 6 June 1996 - 17 June 1996

Event ID 1084879

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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Further archaeological monitoring was undertaken in June 1996 during ground-breaking work in the gardens to the S and E, as well as in the street outside, to the W of the demolished S wing. A probable post-medieval garden soil was revealed along with a substantial E-W wall in the gardens, and evidence for the former W wall of the 1674 wing was uncovered, overlying a midden deposit containing leather offcuts. The latter was seen to overlay a possible earlier cobbled street surface. Features revealed during plaster removal in the house were also recorded.

G Ewart, P Sharman and D Murray 1996

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

Kirkdale Archaeology