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Kirkcudbright, Castle Street
No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kirkcudbright, Castle Street
Classification No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) St Cuthbert Street
Canmore ID 74201
Site Number NX65SE 102
NGR NX 683 509
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/74201
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkcudbright
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX65SE 102 683 509
1991 excavation by SUAT Ltd., on vacant ground to rear of 15 and 17 Castle Street. Trenches sited at NX 6831 5097 and 6833 5097.
Information from D Bowler (Deputy Director, SUAT) January 1992.
Two trial trenches were excavated by machine in land to the rear of Castle Street/St Cuthbert Street properties and revealed black garden soil c0.40m thick containing 19th century pottery sherds, over an orange silty clay. A trench close to the supposed town defences revealed a backfilled cut for a modern service trench and possibly an earlier, sloping cut. Re-deposited clay contained two medieval pottery sherds. The town defences were not positively identified but are possibly represented by the sloping cut.
Sponsors: SUAT, HS, Stewartry District Council.
R Cachart 1991c.
Trial Trench (1991)
Two trial trenches were excavated by machine in land to the rear of Castle Street/St Cuthbert Street properties and revealed black garden soil c0.40m thick containing 19th century pottery sherds, over an orange silty clay. A trench close to the supposed town defences revealed a backfilled cut for a modern service trench and possibly an earlier, sloping cut. Re-deposited clay contained two medieval pottery sherds. The town defences were not positively identified but are possibly represented by the sloping cut.
Sponsors: SUAT, HS, Stewartry District Council.
R Cachart 1991c.
