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Watching Brief
Date February 2008
Event ID 577154
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/577154
NT 2531 7350 Monitoring of site investigation works was carried out in February 2008. The works included the excavation of seven test pits to examine the foundations of the Tattoo grandstands and 16 test pits at borehole locations, to investigate the depth and quality of the underlying bedrock. Deep deposits of made ground were encountered. Fragments of disarticulated human bone were also recovered from one test pit. In Princes Street Gardens made ground overlay either undated buried soils or concrete foundations for Raker supports for an earlier Esplanade Wall. Finds dating from the medieval period to the 20th century were recovered.
Archive: City of Edinburgh SMR and RCAHMS
Funder: Thomas and Adamson on behalf of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo Company
Ian Suddaby (CFA Archaeology Ltd), 2008
