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Archaeological Evaluation
Date 25 March 2008 - 26 March 2008
Event ID 555819
Category Recording
Type Archaeological Evaluation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/555819
NT 3903 7475 In March 2008, we undertook an archaeological evaluation at 43 High Street, Prestonpans. Three evaluation trenches were excavated in advance of development, covering 5% of a site considered to be the location of the original Fowler’s Brewery. Foundations of two brewery buildings were recorded; historic maps suggest that these structures were standing in the mid to late 19th century, but an earlier origin is not impossible because the small scale and imprecision of earlier maps makes it difficult to establish if these structures are depicted. In addition, two phases of wall were recorded which may pre-date one of these buildings. A stone-lined well was also revealed, and a Rapid Buildings Appraisal identified the SW gable of one of the probable brewery buildings surviving in the SW boundary wall of the site.
Archive: RCAHMS
Funder: Developer
Richard Heawood (Abercorn Archaeology LLP), 2008
