Excavation

Date 4 December 2007 - 10 December 2007

Event ID 1172457

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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Minor excavations were carried out in advance of construction work at Fort George, Ardersier.

Immediately inside the Principal gate there is a large parade ground at the W limit of which stand the Artillery block and Staff blocks to the S and N respectively. The two “U” shaped barrack blocks are in the middle of the Fort and enclose the Barrack Square. The W part of the Fort houses stores and, at the far W end, the Chapel.

Trench 1 of the current excavation was to the rear (W) of the NW corner of the artillery block within a walled courtyard, measuring 13.50m N‐S by 8.40m wide, where a cabin is to be erected. The trench was excavated to a depth great enough to allow the excavation of an area under the N wall to feed service ducts through.

N of the courtyard the trench was to continue to the N (Trench 2) to a service box and continue a short way N (Trench 3) finally turning E (Trench 4) to an existing servicebox.

Prior to and during the return visit on the 10th of December Trenches 2 and 3 were excavated but only the tarmac had been removed from the Eastern 6.15m of the long E‐W stretch at the S end of the excavation (Trench 4).

There were finds recovered both by the contractors and the archaeologist, these were photographed and listed but only the pottery sherds were retained.

Information from OASIS Id: kirkdale1-60209 (A Radley) 2007