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Watching Brief
Date 10 March 2009 - 11 March 2009
Event ID 1176845
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1176845
Kirkdale Archaeology was asked to undertake an archaeological watching brief in Stirling Castle while a floor was prepared to receive a new concrete base. The room is the westernmost on the S side of the transe running below James V’s Palace. The Vaults & Palace lie to the N, the Prince’s Tower to the E & there is an enclosing wall on both the N & W sides of this open-air space. Most recently, the space was used to house electricity & paint stores- these were of 20th Century date & were demolished recently. These sat against the S, W & E portions of V:15 while a concrete-floored passage skirted the doorways to the N. Prior to this, V:15 housed the army latrines, evidence of which is seen in the myriad of pipes criss-crossing the floor. After the removal of a tiled floor (within the building footprint), the rubble fill and brick service-boxes had to be reduced sufficiently to allow the new concrete floor to be installed. The one exception was wall stub 001 which remained in situ. The down-taking of the brick boxes was not watched as they were recent & would not have yielded any information about the space.
Information from OASIS Id: kirkdale1-504431 (D Murray) 2009
