Excavation

Date March 1983 - April 1983

Event ID 571639

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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Redevelopment of no. 32 Castle Street, Montrose, allowed seven weeks for archaeological examination in March and April 1983. The front of the site produced two superimposed floor levels containing hearths and late 13th century pottery. A series of pits occupied the centre of the site whilst the rear of the site was covered with a series of midden deposits dating from the 13th to 15th centuries. The medieval deposits lay on wind-blown sand deposits which in turn lay on a fossil plough-soil which produced one sherd of prehistoric pot from its lower level.

The digging of foundations for an extension to no. 29 Bridge Street, showed that the midden deposit partly excavated at 32 Castle Street extended at least another 20m westwards. Amongst several sherds of medieval pottery recovered from the spoil of the foundation trenches

was one piece of Scarborough Ware.

J Sherriff 1983.