Watching Brief

Date 1993

Event ID 883513

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/883513

Two small scale excavations (in 1987-88 and 1991) within the castle enclosure and a watching brief carried out in 1993 during the topsoil clearance, preceded the installation of a new car park some 100m east of the castle. Trenching to the immediate east of the postern revealed traces of what may have been an extension to the south range; and a possible robber trench, perhaps associated with the gatehouse, was uncovered just inside the modern entrance to the castle.

Sponsor : Historic Scotland

J Lewis 1997