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Whithorn, King's Road, Cinema
No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Whithorn, King's Road, Cinema
Classification No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 72591
Site Number NX44SW 51.01
NGR NX 4461 4018
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/72591
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Whithorn
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX44SW 51.01 4461 4018
See also NX44SW 53.01.
Below the demolition surface of the Cinema in King's Road (beneath the entrance-way of the cinema) a midden of 18th to 19th century wine bottle glass and stoneware pottery was exposed overlying a narrow N-S wall base, plastered on the W face, enclosing a stone and slate floor surface. Below this floor surface was a stone wall base aligned perpendivular to King's Road. What seems to have been disturbed here by the machine was an E end of an earlier building, the rest of which runs W under the back garden of 60 George Street. There was no evidence of earlier occupation below the thin layer of brown soil and stone spreading eastward contemporary with the midden and earlier building. All overlies natural red boulder clay and/or bedrock. There was also evidence of a cobbled surface, exposed in a small builders' trench cut into the tarmac of the S edge of King's Road, seemingly contemporary with the midden and earlier building. A further understanding of the frontage and S edge of King's Road may come to light in a builders' drain trench which has not yet been dug. Drawings have been made and photographs taken.
P Harrington 1992.
