Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713961

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 1.19 25007 73532

Sally Port and Guard House (NR) (Site of).

OS 1/1250 plan.

(NT 2501 7353). No remarks. No information contained in RCAHMS 1951. Visited by OS(JLD) 29 December 1953.

No further information

Visited by OS(SFS) 10 November 1975.

NT 250 735 Three small test pits were excavated, and the previously excavated sallyport guardhouse was re-examined, all located within the area of the western defences, as preparation for opening up this part of the castle to the public. Three test pits were all placed at the foot of flights of steps, in an attempt to find out if more stairs had ever existed. Both of the flights of steps examined which were parallel to the parapet wall did produce evidence for a robbed-out stair, while the base of the flight of three steps out of the sentry box did not.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

D Murray 1999