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Watching Brief
Date 7 March 2012 - 11 April 2012
Event ID 993073
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993073
NS 319 391 A watching brief was undertaken 7 March – 11 April 2012 during repair and conservation of the building fabric of Seagate Castle and removal of vegetation. The stump removal works indicated that all the trees had been rooted in a mid-brown silty deposit. A single test pit excavated in the SE corner of Chamber A established that the silty deposit was 300mm deep and that it overlay a 100mm deep mortar-like deposit. The mortar-like deposit lay directly above the vaulted ceiling of the underlying pend. A single sherd of late 15th- to 16th-century medieval green glaze pottery was located adjacent to a small flight of stone steps uncovered in Chamber B.
Archive: RCAHMS. Report: Historic Scotland and WoSAS
Funder: Robert Potter and Partners LLP on behalf of North Ayrshire Council
Rebecca Shaw, Rebecca Shaw Archaeological Services
2012
