Watching Brief

Date 7 March 2013

Event ID 994302

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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NS 4000 7441 A watching brief was carried out on 7 March 2013 during excavations to expose existing drains in advance of the installation of new drains. The area lay immediately N of the inner (N) face of the 18th-century rampart and associated stone drainage channel.

The remains of a wall, probably representing an earlier version of the southern defences of the castle and predating the 1735 building campaign, were recorded. Although only revealed in a small trench, they appear to show the upper limits of a wall on a different alignment to the 18th-century layout. The masonry lies beyond the assumed limits of the 17th-century plan, and is probably part of the medieval defences associated with other known residual elements, such as the medieval gatehouse.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Historic Scotland

John Godbert, Kirkdale Archaeology, 2013

(Source: DES)