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Watching Brief

Date 1 May 2009 - 1 March 2010

Event ID 634019

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/634019

NT 2671 7388 A total of 11 test pits were monitored, 1 May 2009–1 March 2010, prior to and during the erection of security barriers and bollards around the Scottish Parliament. The test pits reached a depth of c1m and encountered modern made ground and services. A post-medieval loam/garden soil was recorded at Reid’s Close.

Archive: RCAHMS

Funder: Scottish Parliament

Ross Murray – Headland Archaeology Ltd

Information also reported in Oasis (headland1-78659) 16 April 2013

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