Watching Brief
Date 27 February 2008 - 20 May 2008
Event ID 577211
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/577211
NT 24945 73462 A watching brief was undertaken, 27 February–20 May 2008, to monitor ground-breaking works as part of a project to landscape the entrance area to the Princes Street gardens. Excavation was carried out, to a minimum depth of 0.3m, on either side of the entrance, to 1.4m for drain pits on Kings Stables Road, to a depth of up to 1.4m into the raised earth bank, just inside the entrance to the gardens.
During the work the foundation of a 19th-century structure was exposed below the current road surface. Deposits containing 19th-century artefacts extended beyond the limit of excavation on both sides of the Princes Street gardens wall. All deposits related to the landscaping associated with the creation of the gardens and the raising of Kings Stables Road.
Archive: RCAHMS
Funder: Peter McGowan Associates
Edward Bailey (Headland Archaeology Ltd), 2008