Archaeology Notes

Event ID 708555

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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Only slight foundations remain.

Visited by OS 9 February 1973.

The Garlet is depicted on the OS 2nd Edition map (Clackmannanshire, sheet CXL, 1897). It has since been demolished.

Information from RCAHMS (HMLB), August 2002.

NS 8151 9011 Jacobs Babtie was commissioned to prepare a short report on the archaeological monitoring of selected boreholes and trial pits along the route of the Kincardine Crossing. This monitoring was designed to inform and assess on the implications of sedimentation in the alluvial deposits, primarily on the floodplain of the River Forth.

Boreholes - NS 9199 8857, NS 9214 8907, NS 9216 8931, NS 9222 8956, NS 9236 8985, NS 9255 9018.

Trial Pits - NS 9201 8857, NS 9209 8889, NS 9226 8895, NS 9224 8959, NS 9232 8981, NS 9250 9010.

Monitoring of the coring and the boreholes revealed a similar sequence of stratified deposits across the route of the Kincardine crossing where it crosses the floodplain from the north shore of the River Forth as far as the site of Gartlets House. A fairly uniform stratigraphy along the whole of the monitored section of the proposed route as far as the raised beach above the site of Gartlet was revealed during this progamme of Ground Investigation. A further aim of the fieldwork monitoring was to assess the site at Gartlet and the potential for survival of remains of the former Lairds House. It was noted during fieldwork that damaged enclosure walls survived and foundation deposits and other remains associated with the site of the former house probably survive.

Jacobs Babtie, 2005