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Watching Brief
Date 18 July 2013
Event ID 997720
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/997720
An archaeological watching brief was undertaken during the replacement of a pole on an overhead power line near the village of Braco, Perthshire. The original intention was to monitor the replacement of two poles but only one was changed during this exercise. The refurbishment was carried out by Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) whose representative, Denise Harbut, commissioned the watching brief, undertaken by John Lewis of Scotia Archaeology on 18 July 2013.
Pole 1 was located at NN 84306 10602, in a gently undulating hay field which, unlike some neighbouring fields, had not been cropped at the time of the watching brief. The trench for the new pole was excavated to the immediate north-west of the existing one. It measured 1.5m north-west/south-east by 0.7m wide and 1.5m deep. It cut through 0.2m of red-brown ploughsoil, containing much gravel, and underlying glacial till of red-brown sand, gravel, pebbles and boulders.
No structures, features or deposits of archaeological significance were uncovered within this trench and no artefacts were retrieved from it.
