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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 702098
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702098
NS56NE 62 598 650.
Excavation carried out in advance of housing development. The construction in 1878 of the basement of the station had removed archaeological deposits from a large part of the area, but in the SW corner of the site a large number of medieval and post-medieval features survived. These included the stone foundations of 17th and 18th century backland buildings. Evidence for wooden structures, and a large number of cess and rubbish pits. The line of the Old, or 'Stinking' Vennel was indicated by a 19th century drain which bisected the site, but the associated structural evidence was limited to a rectangular stone and clay lined pit, probably the cellar of a post-medieval building which has left no trace. Preservation of organic material was poor, but large quantities of pottery were recovered dating from the 13th to the 19th century.
J B Kerr 1984.
