Watching Brief

Date February 2006 - March 2006

Event ID 611853

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/611853

NT 269 7381

In advance of the installation of new service tracks two trenches were excavated in the S garden area of the palace in February-March 2006. One trench (measuring 5 x 1m) lay immediately E of the present path, 33m S of the S wall of the palace block. The second trench (5 x 1m) lay 40m N of the South Gate. Both the trenches showed evidence of a sequence of up to three separate garden phases - each laid above the other and up to 1m deep in the S trench. The earliest garden featured clear planting holes and beds, possibly of 16th-century date, associated with the palace of James IV and V.

G Ewart and A Radley 2006