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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 857455
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/857455
NT27NE 442 26259 75827
NT 262 758 A watching brief and evaluation took place within a proposed residential housing development, bounded by Bonnington Road Lane, Ashley Place, and Tinto Place, Edinburgh. A desk-based assessment revealed that the site lay on the interface between Leith and Edinburgh and comprised of gardens, orchards and fields during the 19th century. It was only developed in the later 20th century. A watching brief within the footprint of a modern warehouse in the east of the site revealed no archaeological remains and the warehouse had truncated the subsoil. The footprint of a second warehouse was evaluated by trial trenching comprised 106m squared. Under modern crushed concrete, a buried soil was preserved. This was cut by modern foundation trenches and a land drain. It sealed further land drains and a ditch, which may be represented on the First Edition map and on both Edinburgh and Leith Town Plans.
Sponsor: Miller Homes Ltd.
Ian Suddaby, 2007.
