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Excavation
Date 23 February 2009 - 4 April 2009
Event ID 616931
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/616931
NT 252 734 (centred on)
A service trench was excavated 23 February–3 April 2009 in advance of the construction of a new ticket checking booth. The trench ran from the re-entrant angle between the Portcullis Gate and the curtain wall (fromthe existing manhole adjacent to the Audio Guide Kiosk, to the Server Room located on the N side of the Entrance Gateway). The trench measured c80m x 0.55m by 0.3m deep and cut across parts of the complex sequence of the eastern defences. However, the excavations only revealed levelling deposits beneath the present road, backfill and 19th- and 20th-century services.
G Ewart and A Radley 2009
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
Kirkdale Archaeology
