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Standing Building Recording
Date February 2020
Event ID 1127454
Category Recording
Type Standing Building Recording
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127454
NS 7925 9381 Building recording was carried out on the first floor of Argyll’s Lodging (PIC107), in February 2020, prior to the renovation of the fireplace and hearth. The fireplace and hearth comprised a series of sandstone flagstones overlying a modern screed layer. This in turn covered a series of cement-mortared bricks laid end to end. Supporting the brick-built hearth foundations were two wooden joists that had been half-lap jointed to a main floor joists on the underside using iron nails. One of the timbers had a peg hole at its tapered end suggesting it was re-used, probably from a stockpile. Arguably both timbers could be from the same piece that was cut in two.
The floor plan in which the two joists were recorded was previously dated to the mid-17th century by RCAHMS. The hearth base was considered modern (20th century) and the evidence of the modern frogged brickwork used as part of the hearth foundations indicates this date is accurate.
Archive: NRHE (intended). Reports lodged with Council HER
Funder: Historic Environment Scotland
Graeme Carruthers − CFA Archaeology Ltd
(Source: DES Volume 21)
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-387947
