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Watching Brief
Date 6 October 2000
Event ID 633654
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
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Addyman and Kay undertook a watching brief in advance of the construction of a swimming pool adjacent to Somerset House, Inveresk. The deposits recorded during the watching brief indicated that the area had been heavily landscaped during the erection of the house, particularly further W where the natural slope falls awy and was consequentially built up to form the garden. A void encountered during the work was initially thought to relate to the underground aqueduct but the lack of constructional features and size did not bear this out. It is more likely the result of an engineer's borehole drilled in 1992-3.
Information from Addyman and Kay 2000, MS 1082/11
