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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 822087
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/822087
NT27SE 5184 280 726
NT 280 726 A watching brief was undertaken in June 2002 during the repair a broken power cable under the road between Duddingston Loch and Samson's Ribs. The route defined by the present road is potentially of some antiquity, and as such is most likely the exploitation of a natural terrace or contour at the base of the more precipitous sections of the crags in the area. However, any possible survival of early features or deposits appears to have been eradicated by the extent of the present road construction works.
Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.
Sponsor: HS
G Ewart (Kirkdale Archaeology) 2002
