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Excavation
Date 7 October 1996
Event ID 1084885
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084885
NT 1924 8547. The excavation of inspection pits in advance of wall stabilising measures was monitored by Kirkdale Archaeology on the N terraces of the 16th and 17th-century garden layout. The terraces comprised massive dumps of humic earth, with evidence for the method of terrace construction in the form of tip lines, suggesting that the terraces and their retaining walls were raised concurrently. A further trench was excavated on the S side of the doocot, where evidence for modern stabilising measures was revealed, in the form of a massive concrete support around the base of the wall.
G Ewart and A Dunn 1996
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
Kirkdale Archaeology
