Excavation

Date October 1974

Event ID 559735

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NS 588 718 In 1974, one year after completion of a pipe trench, improvement of sewage facilities for the brickworks resulted in the laying of a pipeline across Balmuildy Road. Several large undressed sandstone blocks, possible remnants of the Wall core, were located below the modern road-bottoming, in the fill of a trench dug to receive a tile drain was all that remained of the superstructure. The S edge of ditch was observed in section, and its S face followed to a depth of 2.15m. It was not possible to estimate the width. The investigations of October 1973 and October 1974 have shown that the stone base and ditch lie c.8m N of the line shown by Macdonald (1934, pl XXVIIB) and on OS maps.

L J F Keppie 1974; Keppie 1978 (No. 9); D R Wilson 1975.

NS 5878 7184 and NS 5889 7189 In 1973 several trenches were cut across the assumed line of the Wall base over a distance of c. 100m. In 1974 a pipe line trench revealed the Wall core and turfwork, and the S edge of the Ditch (Keppie 1978; No 9).