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Montrose, Eastern Road, Chapel Works

No Class (Event)

Site Name Montrose, Eastern Road, Chapel Works

Classification No Class (Event)

Alternative Name(s) Paton's Lane

Canmore ID 167943

Site Number NO75NW 84.01

NGR NO 719 577

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Angus
  • Parish Montrose
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO75NW 84.01 719 577

NO 719 577. SUAT of Perth carried out an archaeological evaluation at the Chapel works site in Montrose in advance of the development of the site for housing. Seven trial trenches were opened over the site. The trenches were recorded and then back filled. None of the trenches presented any archaeological remains of great interest. Clean, wind-blown sand was found to cover most of the site to over a depth of 0.5m. However in trench three the excavators did uncover a natural beach sand deposit. A layer of garden soil contained pieces of 19th and 20th century ceramic and in several this silty sand soil was cut by pits and service trenches. There was also evidence of demolition activity with deposits of brick, rubble and mortar. The only notable features were a number of rubble-built and brick walls in trench one. These were most likely linked to the resent demolition of a building to the north of the site. The E/W stone foundation is probably linked to a building taken down at an earlier time. None of the features pre-date the 19th century and the report suggests that no further archaeological work is required in the development area.

Sponsor: Wellwood Leslie Architects for Hillcrest Housing Association and Servite Housing Association.

NMRS MS/1041/15 (SUAT Ltd. 6th September 2000)

NO 7190 5770 (centre) An archaeological evaluation of the Chapel Works site (NMRS NO75NW 84) was carried out in advance of the development of the site for housing. This former mill site lay to the E of the historic core of the burgh, in an area affected by wind-blown sands. Following a desk-based review, seven trial trenches were opened by machine and hand-excavation, each between 6.5m and 8m in length.

Clean, wind-blown sand deposits with a depth of over 0.5m were shown to exist over most of the site, with the exception of an area to the NW, where a natural beach sand deposit was encountered. Over the various sand deposits was a layer of garden soil, which contained 19th or 20th-century ceramic material. In several trenches this was cut by pits or service trenches. In trench 2, to the W, a thin clay surface covered by midden material lay over the garden soil. The clay may have represented an early 19th-century occupation surface. Into the midden material, or an overlying sand dump, had been cut the foundation trench for an E-W rubble-built wall, possibly a remnant of a now-demolished 19th-century building.

In the other trenches demolition deposits often overlay the garden soil. Along with these were encountered deposits containing slag and burnt material that may have been debris from industrial processes on the site. In trench 6, to the SE, a demolition deposit was covered by a thin mortar surface, the first in a succession of possible occupation surfaces in that trench. These included a thin coarse concrete spread, which lay under the make-up for a cobbled surface. The latter was a regular trackway, possibly running N-S between two former ponds that lay to the E of the mill site. It was similar in form to a cobbled surface seen at the top of trench 2, which acted as the road surface through the W entrance to the site.

Several rubble-built and brick walls were encountered in trench 1, to the NW. These were almost certainly associated with a recently demolished building to the N of the site.

Sponsors: Hillcrest Housing Association, Servite Housing Association.

M Roy 2000

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