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Watching Brief
Date 1 October 2008
Event ID 605186
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/605186
NN 1329 2760 A watching brief was maintained on 1 October 2008 in the basement of the tower house of the castle during the removal of soft deposits from the floor, ahead of the laying of a concrete skim. There was evidence suggesting that the N door was a later insertion and that the basement was originally accessed via another door, perhaps the SW doorway to the courtyard. Examination of the main build of the exterior NE wall of the tower provided further evidence for the later insertion of the N doorway. There was a clear cut around the inserted doorway and the masonry within it consisted of sub-rounded sandstone blocks spaced with
slivers of schist, which is comparable to the build of the late 17th-century barracks abutting the tower to the NW.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: Historic Scotland
Paul Fox – Kirkdale Archaeology
Information from OASIS ID: kirkdale1-249683
