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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)

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