Edinburgh, 140-142 High Street
No Class (Event)
Site Name Edinburgh, 140-142 High Street
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 52339
Site Number NT27SE 312
NGR NT 25869 73613
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52339
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 312 2586 7361
Excavations in 1975-6 in some basement rooms of the building now in use as the Edinburgh Wax Museum took place in advance of the lowering of the floors. A complex arrangement of earlier stone walls and foundations was associated with a few sherds of 17th-century type, and in the southernmost cellar was a midden from which some 3000 sherds of pottery were recovered, apparently of 13th/14th-century type. Virtually no domestic refuse was found in this area, but the pottery deposit seems likely to have been connected with a shop or house. The midden clearly covered a much larger area than was available for excavation.
N M M Holmes 1976; A T Simpson, S Stevenson and N Holmes 1981.
