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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713672

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/713672

NT27SE 312 2586 7361

Excavations in 1975-6 in some basement rooms of the building now in use as the Edinburgh Wax Museum took place in advance of the lowering of the floors. A complex arrangement of earlier stone walls and foundations was associated with a few sherds of 17th-century type, and in the southernmost cellar was a midden from which some 3000 sherds of pottery were recovered, apparently of 13th/14th-century type. Virtually no domestic refuse was found in this area, but the pottery deposit seems likely to have been connected with a shop or house. The midden clearly covered a much larger area than was available for excavation.

N M M Holmes 1976; A T Simpson, S Stevenson and N Holmes 1981.

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