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Watching Brief
Date 11 February 2008 - 4 August 2009
Event ID 605060
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/605060
NO 0995 9010 A watching brief was undertaken between 11 February 2008–4 August 2009 during the installation of a large subterranean water tank and associated service trenches. This installation within the Mar Lodge Estate was in the immediate vicinity of two 19th-century estate buildings (the old deer larder and former smithy), which lie a little to the E of the stable court by the main house. Other than relatively recent services no archaeological features or artefacts were recorded in the trench area.
The smithy building was also subject to building recording and analysis. The structure is of 19th-century date. Its rear (northern) chamber retains a cobbled floor and evidence for a forge in the form of a silhouette of the forge itself and a surviving flue. The southern part of the structure had originally consisted of three separately accessed bothies separated by wooden partitions. The bothies were subsequently formed into one building, with the entrance to the western bothy being blocked and the central doorway formed into a window. Part of the original interior wainscoting survives.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: The National Trust for Scotland
Kenneth Macfadyen, Tom Addyman and Amanda Gow – Addyman Archaeology
