Stirling Castle - The Kings Old Building
Date 23 February 2018 - 27 February 2018
Event ID 1087582
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1087582
NS 78961 94073 A watching brief was carried out, 23–27
February 2018, during a programme of core sampling at
three locations across the ground floor of the building.
The cores were each 50mm in diameter and were taken
to investigate the nature of the wall footings in the three
locations. Each of the three trenches measured 600 x
400mm in plan, and all were dug to bedrock. This was
typically encountered at a depth of 300–450mm below the
present floor level.
The results of this work suggest that the elements of the
present King’s Old Building plan are in part derived from a
series of bedrock terraces which run N/S and E/W from a
high point somewhere at the northern end of the King’s Old
Building.
Archive: NRHE (intended)
Funder: Historic Environment Scotland
Gordon Ewart – Kirkdale Archaeology
(Source: DES Volume 19)