Archaeology Notes

Event ID 689352

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO43SW 7 4069 3072.

(NO 4069 3072) East or Cowgate Port (NR)

OS 1:500 plan, Dundee, Forfarshire, (1871)

The present position of the East Port, one of the town gates, which was removed to this site from its original position at NO 4060 3058 in 1650. A plaque states that it was restored in 1877 and the battlemented parapet is modern.

A Maxwell 1884; I M Beatts 1878; Visited by OS (J L D) 17 April 1958.

Excavation, in 1989, around the foundations of the arch and walls adjacent to the south showed that the standing walls date to the late 18th century and later. However, these and 17th century foundations respect an earlier boundary, probably the line of the town wall. It seems the Wishart Arch is on an authentic site of the East Port.

Sponsor: Tayside Regional Council, SUAT.

D R Perry and D P Bowler.