Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714327

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/714327

NT27NE 55 2717 7645.

The excavation located an extensive midden, laid down in the second half of the 15th century to reclaim an area previously below the tide-line of the Firth of Forth. Some contemporary and later structural evidence also survived. Finds included an important hoard of 15th-century billon pennies.

N M M Holmes 1985.