Watching Brief

Date 19 July 2007 - 19 September 2007

Event ID 556666

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/556666

NX 6815 5105 The Lily Pool in the garden of Broughton House was partially demolished and rebuilt in September 2007 because it was leaking, which Kirkdale Archaeology also monitored.

A survey of the pool took place on 19 July 2007 before the works, and during September the works were monitored. The survey revealed that the pool had two phases of construction and was not the single-phase feature it had previously been assumed to be. The watching brief confirmed the structural cracks that had caused the pool's failure and also revealed the methods used to construct the pool, and the features through which it had been cut, which included an earlier drain that was recycled during the initial construction of the pool.

Tom Whalley 2007

Sponsor: National Trust for Scotland

Kirkdale Archaeology