Broom

NS 542 571 A watching brief was undertaken 4–9 February 2009 during the excavation of an access track, approximately 110m long x 3m wide and 0.3–0.45m deep, in an area of open grassland to the N of Leslie Avenue. The work was considered necessary as the track was on the location of a late 18th- to early 19th-century Bleachfield site. The excavations did not go deep enough to penetrate beyond heavily mixed, built up

ground and therefore no archaeological features or deposits were uncovered.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended). Report: RCAHMS and WoSAS SMR

Funder: Scottish Water Solutions

David Sneddon – GUARD

NS 5438 5722 On N and S sides of the artificially straightened Broom Burn, at the confluence with the Capelrig Burn, is the site of Broom Bleachfield. The northern half has been redeveloped. In the southern half, the grid layout of the Bleachfield canals is visible after wet weather, corresponding with the National Archives of Scotland Register House Plan of 1797.

NS 5423 5713 Site of Boiling House disturbed by sewer laying (2005). Plan also shows site of Wash House and

Drying House.

Stuart Nisbet