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Banff, Pennant's Mount
Garden Feature (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Banff, Pennant's Mount
Classification Garden Feature (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Mound (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Carmelite House Hotel; Low Street, Banff
Canmore ID 76061
Site Number NJ66SE 67
NGR NJ 690 638
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/76061
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Banff
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Banffshire
NJ66SE 27 690 638
This mound, situated in the rear of the Carmelite House Hotel, was roughly oval in shape and measured 15.8m N-S by 12.3m E-W and stood 2.3m high. A trench cut by SUAT into the west central side revealed a revetted sandy core covered with top soil over a base of silty loam. A sondage through the base revealed part of a cut feature with at least two fills. Pottery from the sondage and mound core dated the construction to the late Medieval period.
A watching brief was subsequently carried out during the removal of this mound in October 1989. It consisted of top soil overlying layers of sand and earth on the west side. A basal layer produced a few sherds of late medieval pottery. The east side had been cut into to form a small explosives dump.
Levelling was stopped just above the old ground surface.
The conclusion reached by both SUAT and GRC is that the mound was a possible garden feature built sometime between the late medieval period and the 17th and 18th centuries.
A full photographic record was made during removal of the mound and it, and SUAT's report are in Grampian regional Council's SMR.
Sponsors: SDD HBM, SUAT, GRC.
R Cachart 1989; M K Greig 1989.
Excavation (1989)
This mound, situated in the rear of the Carmelite House Hotel, was roughly oval in shape and measured 15.8m N-S by 12.3m E-W and stood 2.3m high. A trench cut by SUAT into the west central side revealed a revetted sandy core covered with top soil over a base of silty loam. A sondage through the base revealed part of a cut feature with at least two fills. Pottery from the sondage and mound core dated the construction to the late Medieval period.
A watching brief was subsequently carried out during the removal of this mound in October 1989. It consisted of top soil overlying layers of sand and earth on the west side. A basal layer produced a few sherds of late medieval pottery. The east side had been cut into to form a small explosives dump.
Levelling was stopped just above the old ground surface.
The conclusion reached by both SUAT and GRC is that the mound was a possible garden feature built sometime between the late medieval period and the 17th and 18th centuries.
A full photographic record was made during removal of the mound and it, and SUAT's report are in Grampian regional Council's SMR.
Sponsors: SDD HBM, SUAT, GRC.
R Cachart 1989; M K Greig 1989.
