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Jocelyn Square
Cellar(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century), Floor(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century), Wall(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Jocelyn Square
Classification Cellar(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century), Floor(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century), Wall(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 373528
Site Number NS56SE 2386
NGR NS 59446 64663
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/373528
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Archaeological Evaluation (March 2021)
NS 59446 64663 An evaluation was carried out at land off Jocelyn Square, in March 2021, in advance of the construction of student accommodation. The archaeological remains, which were identified during the evaluation, included sandstone and brick walls and a concrete floor surface, with examples of earlier flooring exposed beneath the concrete floor in two trenches. In all seven of the trenches, the natural subsoil was exposed and there was no evidence of any activity prior to the 19th-century re-development of the site.
The structural remains uncovered are interpreted as evidence of cellars or sub-ground level basement space and building foundations belonging to the former 19th- and early-20th-century buildings. The evaluation suggested that when the early-20th- century buildings were demolished in the 1990s, the basement level of the building was simply filled with between 2–2.5m of demolition debris, preserving the concrete floors and fragmentary remains of some of the walls. Most of these walls are lightweight brick partition walls, with only two possible fragments of sandstone structural walls. A combination of the map evidence and the results of the evaluation would suggest that the entire site is similar and that there is no potential for anything to survive on site below the recent building remains.
Archive: NRHE and Glasgow City Council SMR (intended)
Funder: Urbanite (Glasgow) Ltd
Gary Savory – CFA Archaeology Ltd
(Source: DES Vol 22)
