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Edinburgh, St Mary's Street
No Class (Event)
Site Name Edinburgh, St Mary's Street
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 52326
Site Number NT27SE 300
NGR NT 26177 73579
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52326
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 300 2618 7358
A site extending northwards from Cowgate on the W side of St Mary's Street (centred NT 2618 7358) was investigated in 1974 in advance of redevelopment. Excavation located part of the Flodden Wall (NT27SE 14) which along this stretch had comprised the fortified facades of pre-existing houses. The remains of several superimposed stone buildings, ranging in date from early 16th to mid-20th century, were found along the St Mary's Street frontage of the site, but no archaeological levels survived elsewhere. The area along the Cowgate frontage had been totally destroyed by the construction of 19th-century cellars, and the interior of the site had comprised terraced gardens until the construction of a 20th-century printing works. No trace of medieval occupation was found apart from occasional small potsherds in disturbed levels.
N M M Holmes 1974; 1980; A T Simpson, S Stevenson and N Holmes 1981.
