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