St Andrew's, 31 Market Street
No Class (Event)
Site Name St Andrew's, 31 Market Street
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 123727
Site Number NO51NW 289
NGR NO 510 167
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/123727
- Council Fife
- Parish St Andrews And St Leonards
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
Watching Brief (13 May 1997)
NO51NW 289 510 167
NO 510 167 A watching brief was carried out in May 1997 on a site being redeveloped as housing behind 29-31 Market Street. A brick building of relatively recent date previously stood on the site.
None of the exposed trenches revealed deposits of archaeological significance, but one test-pit, dug just by the W garden wall of the property, uncovered two wider base courses or foundations of older walls below the upstanding wall of mortared sandstone rubble: the upper of cut sandstone blocks, possibly salvaged from a building, the lower of unshaped sandstone rubble, an indicator of the persistence of property boundaries over time in Scotland?s older towns.
Sponsor: Mr J T Docherty.
N M Robertson 1997