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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 794806
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/794806
NT27SW 243 24979 73915
NT27SW 443 24968 73906 35 Castle Street
NT 2494 7393 A desk-based assessment was carried out before the former Pearl Assurance Building on George Street and adjacent properties on Castle Street were redeveloped.
Early maps show nothing in the vicinity of the site before the construction of Edinburgh's New Town. Shop fronts were added to 31 and 33 Castle Street in the late 19th century and the Pearl Assurance Building, which began as Cleghorn's Department Store, replaced the Georgian arrangement in 1924-25. The rubble foundations of the original buildings were visible in the basement of the Pearl Assurance Building although the walls above had been replaced by partitions within a steel frame.
Sponsor: Henderson Investments.
R Murdoch 1999
