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Watching Brief
Date 25 October 2007 - 26 October 2007
Event ID 555908
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/555908
NO 1560 9237 A watching brief was undertaken on 25-6 October 2007 during the excavation of two service trenches between the curtain wall and the N side of the castle. Braemar Castle was built in 1628 and burnt down in 1689. It remain a ruin until 1748 when it was rebuilt and used as a government garrison, and the star-shaped curtain wall was built. The stratigraphy observed during the watching brief appears to demonstrate that a well or cistern (which is depicted on a 1750 plan of the castle) within a salient of the wall was almost certainly built as part of the mid-18th-century renovations. A similar feature occurs at Corgaff Castle, also garrisoned at the same time.
Reports deposited with Aberdeenshire SMR and RCAHMS.
Funder: Aberdeenshire Council.
H K Murray and J C Murray, 2007.
