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Excavation
Date 23 February 2013 - 22 March 2013
Event ID 993834
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993834
NT 2509 7216 A programme of archaeological work was undertaken, 23 February – 22 March 2013, prior to and during redevelopment of the school. Deposits had been removed almost to bedrock across most of the site, and the area with the highest archaeological potential was a zone of raised ground close to the current school buildings. An excavation focusing on the ridge of higher ground recorded features relating to the 17th-century designed landscape surrounding the tower house of Bruntsfield House. These garden features consisted of a parallel pair of retaining walls, which would have formed a raised path/track and the base of a flowerbed. Set into one of the walls facing Bruntsfield House was a recessed niche or grotto. Preserved below the garden features was an earthen bank, part of an estate or field boundary. Underlying this was the badly truncated remains of a medieval structure comprising two walls along with pits cut into the natural subsoil.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: Services for Communities and The City of Edinburgh Council
Martin Cook, Jamie Humble, Hana Kdolska, AOC Archaeology Group, 2013
(Source: DES)
