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Watching Brief
Date 19 March 2012
Event ID 992948
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/992948
NT 2515 7351 A record was produced of a 5 x 1.9m area of deposits revealed during the removal of a series of stone steps near Mons Meg on 19 March 2012. The steps provided access to the E side of the battery presently occupied by the late medieval gun. The removal of the steps revealed aspects of the 1894 programme of landscaping (in terms of the residual evidence of the steps), by which time the northern part of the inner curtain wall had been demolished leaving a grassy slope above the cliff. However, a truncated platform may be considerably older. The platform (as depicted on an early 18th-century plan) may have been created by simply truncating and/or levelling the upper surface of an earlier earthwork, already in situ.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: Historic Scotland
Information from Gordon Ewart (Kirkdale Archaeology) March 2012.
OASIS ID - kirkdale1-310829
