Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714315

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 377 25678 74154

NT 256 741 Refurbishment works to the Royal Bank of Scotland property at 35 St Andrew Square uncovered two previously unrecorded structures below the basement floors, a well and a flight of steps leading to a sub-basement chamber. A programme of recording was requested by the planning authority and carried out in February 2006.

The position of the well shaft suggests that it was built as an external feature to the original building (1769), and subsequently modified for use inside the later extension (1819). The sub-basement chamber and access passage were constructed before the rest of the original building. Nine storage compartments occupy one wall of the chamber and it is likely that the chamber was used for storage and relates to the original 1769 building.

Archive to be deposited in NMRS, including digital photographs. Report and digital photographs lodged with Edinburgh City Council.

Sponsor: Mace/Sharkey

George Geddes, 2006.