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Excavation
Date July 2019
Event ID 1181204
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1181204
NT 34370 97107 As part of the archaeological excavations at the Wemyss Caves, a test-pitting exercise was undertaken on the long, narrow promontory which runs roughly north-south, immediately to the southwest of Macduff’s Castle. The work was undertaken to test the hypothesis that this promontory may have been the location of a defenced enclosure prior to the construction of Macduff’s Castle. Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society carried out a resistivity survey of the cleared area of the promontory in which the test pits were located.
No evidence of activity or material contemporary with the adjacent MacDuff’s Castle was recovered, suggesting the promontory may have been grazed or wooded during the occupation
of the Castle.
Information from J. Hamblby and E Graham - SCAPE Trust
OASIS ID: thescape1-50452
