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Watching Brief
Date October 2012
Event ID 993811
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993811
NH 7625 5673 A watching brief was undertaken in October 2012 during the replacement of a wooden floor, in room G2 of the Highlanders Museum. The rotten floor joists and infill material were removed and foundation trenches for sleeper walls excavated.
No evidence was found of earlier buildings or major alterations. Natural beach sands were overlain in some areas by an uneven layer of lime mortar, probably the product of plastering or rendering rather than a deliberately laid floor. Joists had been laid directly over this and the spaces between them packed with imported rubble and debris, mostly similar to the natural underlying material but also including lime, sandstone and brick debris. The trenches for the new walls cut into the clean, natural material below.
Archive: HAS. Report: Highland HER
Funder: Highlanders Museum
Lynne McKeggie and John Wood, Highland Archaeology Services, 2013
(Source: DES)
