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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 738187
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/738187
NT27NE 110 27131 76195
St Mary's Star of the Sea [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2010.
See also:
NT27NE 1130 NT 27114 76259 Hall
NT27NE 1361 NT 27107 76207 Convent and Presbytery
NT 271 762 A watching brief was carried out during ground-breaking works on a new housing development behind St Mary's Star of the Sea Church Hall, during February 2006. The initial phase of work involved the demolition of annexes to the current building and a programme of ground reduction in order to excavate a ramp to c2m beneath the current road level in preparation for an underground car park.
The remains of a further two vaulted cellars which may be contemporaneous with the one identified during the evaluation were located. A displaced section of wall identified within earlier demolition deposits possibly represents a part of the former Balmerino House.
Sponsor: Gregor Properties Ltd.
Stuart Mitchell, Ross White and Bruce Glendinning, 2006.
