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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 729399

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/729399

NY17SE 50 Centred on NY 19345 74582

This two-storeyed house, now a museum, was the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle. It was built in 1791. Property of the National Trust for Scotland.

R Prentice 1976; SDD List 1964.

NY 1934 7457. Investigative trenching occurred within the ground floor of the property in advance of the laying of a damp-proof membrane. Indications of a straight-sided pit lying towards the middle of the kitchen area were revealed, the function of which could not be ascertained.

Sponsor: National Trust for Scotland

P Sharman and J Triscott 1998.

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