Archaeology Notes

Event ID 849953

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/849953

NO42NW 120 40019 29912

St Andrew's RC Cathedral [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, April 2010.

A watching brief was carried out in January 2005 during alterations to the entrance of St Andrew's Cathedral on the Nethergate. These alterations involved the excavation of three trenches in front of the N wall and entrance of the building to a depth of 0.45m below the existing ground surface. This revealed two walls of probable post-medieval date, under mortar and rubble debris resulting from the construction of the cathedral. The coarse stone foundations for the N wall and buttresses of the cathedral were visible to a depth of up to 0.7m beneath the existing paved surface.

The post-medieval walls were aligned E-W and N-S and were probably associated with buildings that fronted onto the Nethergate. No artefacts were recovered.

Archive to be deposited in NMRS.

Sponsor: Alexander Oastler Ltd.

M Roy 2005.