Archaeological Evaluation

Date 9 April 2018 - 20 April 2018

Event ID 1086044

Category Recording

Type Archaeological Evaluation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1086044

NT 27936 74341 An evaluation was undertaken, 9 – 20 April 2018, as part of Phase 2 of development work. The evaluation primarily aimed to establish the presence and degree of preservation of the mid-19th-century St Margaret’s Station North British Railway Works and Locomotive Department and the early 15th-century St Margaret’s Well, which had been disturbed during the construction of the railway depot.

A total of seven trenches, covering an area of c1100m2, were excavated and significant remains belonging to the railway depot were uncovered in six trenches. The remains included sandstone walls, brick walls, railway track fittings, road surfaces and remains of both the original and later mid-20th-century locomotive ‘turning platform’. The presence of live services meant the cartographic position of St Margaret’s Well could not be trenched and no evidence for the well was found elsewhere.

The evaluation has shown the later 20th-century demolition and redevelopment of the railway depot ahead of the 1970 Commonwealth Games left substantial remains, including ground level surfaces and subsurface foundations.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: Thomas and Adamson

Lindsay Dunbar – AOC Archaeology Group

(Source: DES Vol 19)

OASIS ID: aocarcha1-347790