Watching Brief

Date January 2005 - February 2005

Event ID 550301

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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NT 0044 7715 A watching brief was carried out in January and February 2005 as service trenches were hand dug. The trench was c 1m deep, 0.7m wide and c 10m long, parallel to that supervised in April 2004 (DES 2004, 131-2). The trench was located outside the garden wall and may have provided an opportunity to detect archaeological features that did not survive within the garden.

The excavation confirmed the observations of 2004. The area had been heavily disturbed by the insertion of a late 19th-century sewer at a depth of c 0.9m and an associated inspection cover. The disturbed material produced copious amounts of 19th-century pottery, pantile fragments, mortar and coal.

Report lodged with West Lothian SMR and NMRS.

Sponsor: Andell Architects.

G Geddes 2005