Trial Trench
Date 1990
Event ID 557541
Category Recording
Type Trial Trench
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/557541
Four trial trenches were opened in 1990 to determine whether there were any surviving traces of a barmkin wall, out-buildings or any other structures to the N and W of the castle's standing remains.
Although somewhat fragmentary in places, a compact layer of pebbles and gravel situated to the NW of the castle has been interpreted as part of a metalled road. Elsewhere, however, ploughing had penetrated as far as the subsoil, leaving no evidence of any structural remains.
J Lewis 1990f.
