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Gladsmuir

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Site Name Gladsmuir

Classification No Class (Event)

Canmore ID 101306

Site Number NT47SE 30.02

NGR NT 458 735

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Gladsmuir
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District East Lothian
  • Former County East Lothian

Archaeology Notes

NT47SE 30.02 458 735

As part of an archaeological assessment undertaken by Scotia Archaeology Limited along the proposed new route of the A1 between Tranent and Haddington in 1994, a geophysical survey grid, measuring 100m by 20m, was set up on an elevated ridge that lay 150-200m north of the church at Gladsmuir - an area suggested as a likely location for the siting of a motte.

The survey revealed a rectangular anomaly, approximately 8m square and open on it's north-west side, perhaps representing the remains of a stone building or a small ditched enclosure and possibly represents the remains of a house within a bailey.

NMRS MS/733/117.

The putative sub-square feature identified in 1994 at NT 4585 7350 turned out, upon excavation, to be two rubble drains in close proximity.

NMRS MS/733/118.

Activities

Unspecified Geophysical Survey Technique (1994)

As part of an archaeological assessment undertaken by Scotia Archaeology Limited along the proposed new route of the A1 between Tranent and Haddington in 1994, a geophysical survey grid, measuring 100m by 20m, was set up on an elevated ridge that lay 150-200m north of the church at Gladsmuir - an area suggested as a likely location for the siting of a motte. The survey revealed a rectangular anomaly, approximately 8m square and open on it's north-west side, perhaps representing the remains of a stone building or a small ditched enclosure and possibly represents the remains of a house within a bailey.

NMRS MS/733/117.

Excavation (1994)

The putative sub-square feature identified in 1994 at NT 4585 7350 turned out, upon excavation, to be two rubble drains in close proximity.

NMRS MS/733/118.

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