Excavation

Date 18 June 2007 - 23 June 2007

Event ID 558779

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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Along the E rampart of the fort, a series of trial trenches were excavated between 18 June–23 June 2007 in order to confirm the locations of eight of the 18th-century gun platforms serving the E Battery. In addition, the archaeological potential of a range of other structures along the E rampart based on historic plan evidence , was checked. These included 18th-century earthworks and 20th-century huts. A total of eight trenches were excavated which successfully confirmed the sites of the gun platforms and some evidence , in terms of levelling and clearance activity of the hut sites. No upstanding evidence was found of the 18th-century

earthworks which once separated the gun platforms.

Archive to be deposited with RCAHMS.

Funder: Historic Scotland.

OASIS ID: kirkdale1-31069