Geophysical Survey

Date 1 September 2011 - 2 September 2011

Event ID 963449

Category Recording

Type Geophysical Survey

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/963449

NT 32692 72533 A ground resistance survey was carried out 1–2 September 2011. A total of 14 grids measuring 20 x 20m were surveyed, over the promontory bounded by Newhailes House to the SW and the ha-ha to the NE, in an attempt to locate the line of the 1696 driveway to the house. A slight linear high resistance was noted running just right of centre in a NE direction. This was obscured in places by probable later garden features. At the NE of the site there were diffuse high resistance anomalies, possibly associated with two surviving stone statue bases. A further partial grid to the W of the Shell Grotto located the line of the culvert under the site of the former pond.

Archive: East Lothian Council SMR, NTS and RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: The National Trust for Scotland, Archaeology Scotland and EAFS

Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society (EAFS) 2011