Watching Brief

Date January 2009 - 21 September 2009

Event ID 606860

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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NS 805 789 A watching brief was maintained January – March 2009 during excavations to install a by-wash culvert on the S side of Lock 17. The work consisted of the machine excavation of three chambers and a pipe track. Lock 17 and the Underwood Lockhouse and Stables were constructed c1770. Some of the masonry of the lock chamber has been repaired and the lock gates were restored in 1982. Elements of lock furniture were recovered during the excavations indicating that ground to the E and W of the lock was at least partially made up.

On 21 September 2009 a watching brief was carried out during the machine excavation of two trial trenches in an area of spoil lying to the S of the canal, immediately E of the car park S of Lock 17. The spoil derived from work on Lock 17 in January to March and overlay elements of the nearby Antonine Wall.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: British Waterways Scotland

Gordon Ewart and Paul Fox – Kirkdale Archaeology