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Watching Brief
Date 17 September 2009
Event ID 609021
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/609021
NN 88919 31844 A watching brief was also carried out at the Newton Burn Bridge during the installation of a timberlined drain across the northern approach to the bridge on 17 September 2009. This revealed a metalled road surface of stones of 0.05–0.10m in diameter held in a matrix of medium orange brown silty-clay up to 0.25m in depth. Two lines of larger stones (c0.2m in diameter) running on a NW–SE alignment were found bordering this surface. The surviving road surface was 2.25m wide. There was no sign of the gravel layer or base layer of large boulders that is recorded in documentary sources and which has been found in previous
excavations of the 18th-century military road.
Archive: PKHT and RCAHMS
Funder: Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust and Heritage Lottery Fund
Lindsay Farquharson – Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust
