Whithorn, 62 George Street

NX44SW 53.00 4457 4018

NX44SW 53.01 4457 4018 Whithorn, 62 George Street Millstones

For cross-slab found built into 62 George Street, see NX44SW 50.

The site of the demolition of a row of back sheds at 62 George Street in advance of redevelopment was looked on and photographed with drawings made and finds recovered. An early yellow mortared stone-lined well covered by a stone slab was found below the quarry tiled floor of the W shed joined with the back of the house. There were no finds from below the concrete and quarry tiled floors of the three sheds. These sheds may have had earth floors and thatched roofs originally. The earlier surface below the quarry tiles of the W shed joined to the back of the house was a dusty layer above the brown earth, seemingly a contemporary surface level with the top of the well in that shed.

The under floor rubble make-up layers above the natural red clay in each of the ground floor rooms of the house at no. 62 were excavated by the builders to a lower depth producing a collection of 18th to 19th century wine bottle glass and domestic pottery. A bone baby spoon and a silver coin of George III (c1816-18) were also found. In the section of the builders' wall trench below the floor of the middle room of the house there was evidence of earlier clay floor layers with immediate entrance from the S door of the house. There was no evidence of earlier occupation of this site below the clay floor surfaces and the under floor rubble make-up layers of the house.

The house was apparently built as a manse for the Free Kirk, which was destroyed in the redevelopment.

P Harrington 1992.