Watching Brief

Date 3 December 2019

Event ID 1138009

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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A watching brief was undertaken during drainage works in the floor of the 17th-century dining room at Dunnottar Castle. The dining room is at first floor level above barrel vaulted cellars. The floor make up, appeared to be a mixture of clay and topsoil brought in from elsewhere on the castle promontory. It yielded three sherds of ceramic ranging in date between a bowl fragment of 14th-15th-century date and a sherd of early 20th-century china, suggesting that this surface may have been laid during the 1920s restoration of the castle by the Pearson family.

Information from OASIS ID: mas1-410813 (H Murray) 2019