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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 822020
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/822020
NX97NE 514 c.968 762
NX 968 762 A watching brief on redevelopment of the land parcel to the N of Buccleuch Street and W of Charlotte Street confirmed the results of documentary research prior to development. Wood's map of 1819 records the earliest known industrial buildings in this area subsequent to the building of the New Bridge. By the time of the 1893 OS, the area was effectively built up. Service trenching across the site revealed the footings of the buildings shown on these maps and confirmed the alluvial nature of the underlying deposits. A stone culvert, probably dating to the late 18th century, cuts through the site and is likely to have been constructed to drain the land to the N prior to its development as an early suburban expansion of Dumfries.
Sponsor: Dumfries and Galloway Council.
J Brann 2001f
