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Archaeological Evaluation
Date 4 July 2007 - 6 July 2007
Event ID 558806
Category Recording
Type Archaeological Evaluation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/558806
NS 334 219 An archaeological evaluation was carried out on 4–6 July 2007 at a proposed development site at Citadel Place, Ayr, in what had been the SE corner of the Cromwellian Citadel.
The evaluation consisted of four trenches amounting to a 9.2% sample of the development area. Deep deposits of 18th- and 19th-century made ground and evidence of ground disturbance were identified at depths of between 1.0m and 2.5m beneath the current ground level. Possible faint traces of the Citadel moat and the robbed out Citadel wall were identified in the eastern part of the site, although analysis was limited due to the depth of the excavation.
Further traces of buried deposits lying under windblown sand were noted in the western parts of the site. Archaeological monitoring of test pits across the site found mortared sandstone features in three of them, and modern destruction layers in all four.
Archive to be deposited with RCAHMS. Report deposited with WoSAS SMR and RCAHMS.
Funder: Burns Project Management.
