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Watching Brief
Date 23 March 2008 - 27 July 2010
Event ID 1134086
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1134086
This trench was open cut under a watching brief for a distance of 420m and no archaeology was evident.
A possibly 13th Century carved sandstone capital column found in the re-deposited layer of cobble and stone in Trench 11. The front faces show relief carved and incised gothic scrollwork – each scroll measuring 0.17m in diameter – over two panels of the four that survive of the possible hexagonal column shaft fragment. Looking at the reverse, the possible hexagonal column shaft fragment has been hollowed out, creating an 'hourglass' shaped void, indicating likely re-use. Pecked decoration is visible on the side face of the carved scroll that sits above one of the four surviving panels of the column shaft. A simple cruciform pictogram has been incised onto the pane.
Information from OASIS ID: highland4-87335 (J Wood) 2010
