Archaeology Notes

Event ID 798349

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/798349

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NO 115 238 Archaeological investigations conducted in April and May 2002 in response to storm damage and subsidence at the W end of Perth Episcopal Cathedral recorded the presence of earlier structures on the site: namely the curtain wall of Perth Barracks (demolished between 1850-90), and the ropework which abutted the barracks to the SW. The ropework wall was the only construction to have been situated directly on where the W end of the cathedral now stands, just passing under the SW corner of the cathedral.

Subsidence of the foundations was also identified, in that the foundations had been forced down into the clay subsoil that occurs throughout the area of the cathedral.

A possible ditch was recorded, running E-W along the line of the cathedral's boundary with Atholl Street. Within the deposits were finds indicating a late medieval to early post-medieval date, suggesting that the boundary was of some permanence prior to the siting of the cathedral.

Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsor: St Ninian's Cathedral Vestry.

D Hind 2002.