Drum Castle Drainage Pipe

Date 16 January 1996 - 18 January 1996

Event ID 976298

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/976298

Excavations for a drainage pipe beside the path leading to the chapel discovered a levelled surface that appeared to be of deliberate action. Its correspondence with the basement of the Jacobean mansion suggests that it reflects the clearance and levelling of the whole area down to bedrock, so that the construction of the house be based firmly upon granite. A shallow cut (F014) appears to be a drainage channel to take the water coming downslope away from the foundations of the building. Analysis of the finds, especially the bottle glass, pottery and clay pipes, may provide a date. It is tempting to interpret the 15 sherds of window glass as evidence for the Marquis of Argyll’s ransacking in 1644. This should be resisted pending the finds report.

Information from NTS (SCS) March 2014