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Watching Brief
Date 8 January 2013 - 16 July 2013
Event ID 993856
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993856
NT 2534 7350 A watching brief was carried out, 8 January – 16 July 2013, during the excavation of pipe trenches for a new central heating and power project. The development area was centred on the new energy centre at St John’s Hill, to the E of the Pleasance and involved the excavation of trenches along Drummond Street, Infirmary Street, Viewcraig Gardens and Holyrood Road.
In situ archaeological material was encountered in the High School Yards, where a tarmac car park had been laid over Georgian garden features. A structure was recorded on St John’s Hill, next to the Hutton Memorial Garden. This was thought to be the foundations of a school with associated outbuildings and yard surfaces.
A track was also excavated up to the remains of the Flodden Wall at the W end of Drummond Street. This work recorded several phases of rebuilding within the existing wall, and phases of made ground in the area around it.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: University of Edinburgh
Mike Roy, AOC Archaeology Group
Jake Streatfeild-James,
2013
