Excavation

Date 2002

Event ID 546057

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NJ 796 005 The installation of a new lightning protection system at Drum Castle involved the hand excavation of nine trenches 70cm square by 70cm deep in April 2002. The trenches were located on the N, E and S of the 13th-century Tower of Drum and to the E, S and the W of the 1619 mansion. In Trench 4, located E of the SE corner of the E projecting tower of the 1619 mansion, the battered foundations of the tower were revealed. They extended to a depth of c 75cm from where the batter begins and c 60cm below ground level, and are c 90cm out from the wall face of the tower. Trench 7, located N of the N wall of the SW projecting tower of the 1619 mansion, uncovered a stone wall running N-S. Its function is uncertain but it could represent an enclosing barmkin wall associated with the tower.

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