Watching Brief

Date 27 January 2014 - June 2015

Event ID 1101404

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1101404

NT 27198 68989 (Centre): AOC Archaeology Group was commissioned by Cala Homes Ltd to undertake a detailed measured, written and photographic survey of the earlier remains of the Alnwickhill Waterworks in the suburb of Liberton, Edinburgh, as part of a planned large housing development on the site. The work was required as a condition of the City of Edinburgh

Council as a planning condition on the development.

The two main buildings that were the main subject of study consist of two small outlet houses for the reservoirs constructed in a Classical style, dating to the 1870s and late 1880s respectively.

An archaeological watching brief was carried out on three occasions where it was shown that there was no virgin ground within the development site.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: CALA Homes Ltd

Diana Sproat – AOC Archaeology Group