Excavation

Date 6 May 2008 - 16 May 2008

Event ID 577142

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NT 263 739 Work was undertaken 6–16 May 2008 prior to development of the Caltongate PA1 (B) site. The excavation revealed a number of bonded stone walls, areas of flagstone floor; two stone-capped drains running into a central sump and the remains of a multi-phase fireplace that incorporated areas of cobble flooring. Many of the features had been truncated by modern ceramic drains and more recent test pits. All the recorded features appeared above or cut into a layer of sterile sand that covered the underlying bedrock

and may relate to the 18th-century development of the site. All the features appear to date to the 18th and 19th centuries. A number of artefacts associated with the post-medieval / modern occupation of the site were recovered from the fills of various features. These included fragments of pottery, clay pipes and three small bone tools.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Mountgrange (Caltongate) Ltd

Donald Wilson (AOC Archaeology Group), 2008