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Forfar, Castle Street, Royal Hotel
Unidentified Pottery (Medieval)
Site Name Forfar, Castle Street, Royal Hotel
Classification Unidentified Pottery (Medieval)
Canmore ID 89910
Site Number NO45SE 137
NGR NO 455 506
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/89910
- Council Angus
- Parish Forfar
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO45SE 137 455 506.
Trial work was undertaken by SUAT in advance of an extension being built at the rear of the Royal Hotel. Four trenches were machine excavated. These revealed that below the car-park surface were the remains and demolition debris of a late 18th-century or early 19th-century building, probably the stable block attached to the hotel. The remains sealed a garden or cultivation soil about 0.40m thick, which contained medieval pottery. The excavations demonstrated that a medieval horizon of substantial thickness, which elsewhere may contain more tangible remains, still survives on this site.
Sponsor: Royal Hotel Ltd.
R Cachart 1994h.
Trial Trench (1994)
Trial work was undertaken by SUAT in advance of an extension being built at the rear of the Royal Hotel. Four trenches were machine excavated. These revealed that below the car-park surface were the remains and demolition debris of a late 18th-century or early 19th-century building, probably the stable block attached to the hotel. The remains sealed a garden or cultivation soil about 0.40m thick, which contained medieval pottery. The excavations demonstrated that a medieval horizon of substantial thickness, which elsewhere may contain more tangible remains, still survives on this site.
Sponsor: Royal Hotel Ltd.
R Cachart 1994h.
