Archaeology Notes

Event ID 752371

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56NE 204 594 651.

An assessment was undertaken by GUARD of the site of the Sheriff Court on Ingram Street which was built between 1842 to 1892. The examination of documentary and cartographic sources revealed that tenement houses were being constructed on the plot by 1792. Prior to the laying of streets in 1790 the plot was part of the gardens of Hutchesons Hospital; the patrons of which having acquired arable lands for construction of the Hospital and its grounds in 1642.

The examination of test pits within the basement of the present building revealed the possibility of surviving deposits relating to late 18th or early 19th-century tenements.

Sponsors: Glasgow Development Agency, Sheriffhouse Limited, Sheriffhouse Limited Funders.

G MacGregor 1994a.