Archaeology Notes
Event ID 729399
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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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.