Watching Brief

Date 9 May 2008 - 14 May 2008

Event ID 577143

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/577143

NT 264 739 A watching brief 9–14 May 2008 monitored the removal of a modern concrete floor and support pillars in the proposed PA1 (C) development, at the corner of Tolbooth Wynd and Calton Road. The work was carried out due to the previous discovery of human skeletal remains relating to the 17th-century use of the Canongate Church graveyard and deep post-medieval soil deposits. Sections of a stone wall relating to the poorhouse that occupied the site during the 18th and 19th centuries were revealed but these were left in situ. No other significant archaeological features or artefacts were encountered.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Mountgrange (Caltongate) Ltd

Donald Wilson (AOC Archaeology Group), 2008

OASIS -ID: aocarcha1-45010