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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 807554
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/807554
NJ90NW 218 943 064
Machine trench was dug and development observed over whole demolished warehouse site. Large amount (up to 1.20m deep) of garden soil, mainly undisturbed with small quantity of medieval pottery. Also undisturbed layer over natural containing heavily compacted organic remains. This seems consistent with an area which in the later 15th and 16th centuries may have been within the confines of the Franciscan friary (NJ90NW 26) and in the earlier medieval period was probably used for dumping, lying as it did at least 100m back from the Broad Street frontage. On this site in 1847 a hoard of coins of Mary Queen of Scots was found (NJ90NW 64).
A Cameron and B R White 1988.
The archive from Shoe Lane has been catalogued.
Historic Scotland Archive Project (FO) 1997.
