Watching Brief

Date 22 September 2009 - 24 September 2009

Event ID 1091491

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1091491

Under the terms of its PIC call‐off contract Kirkdale Archaeology was asked by Historic Scotland to monitor the excavation of a trench excavated in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh. The trench was located in the NW part of the park, at the base of the hill and directly across the road from the car park to the S of the Palace grounds. The excavation was for a new drain and to prevent flooding onto the adjacent cycle path.

There were six phases of activity discovered although most of these were thought to date to the last c 100 years, while the earliest features encountered were thought to be subsoil and hill wash. More recent features seen seemed to indicate large scale landscaping and the material used suggests a late 19th or early 20th‐century date.

G Ewart

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

Kirkdale Archaeology