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Watching Brief

Date 28 January 2013 - 29 January 2013

Event ID 993861

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993861

HY 2829 1172 A watching brief was carried out, 28–29 January 2013, during the excavation of a narrow trench cut into the W-facing slope of the mound at Unstan Cairn. The work aimed to determine the depth and nature of deposits overlying the concrete cap sealing the monument’s original masonry, and to investigate the possibility of inserting some form of drainage. The excavation revealed that up to c1m of overburden had been placed above the concrete. A small part of what may have been original masonry was revealed and left undisturbed.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Historic Scotland

Andrew Hollinrake, Kirkdale Archaeology, 2013

(Source: DES)

OASIS ID: kirkdale1-311442

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